{"id":216,"date":"2012-03-15T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:25:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:25:54","slug":"music-part-3-classical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/music-part-3-classical\/","title":{"rendered":"Music part 3: classical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a lot about classical music from music courses when I was in university. One course took place over a month in Vienna, where we went to concerts virtually every evening.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently renewed my interest in classical music, listening to music I haven&#8217;t listened to in years and also picking up some music I&#8217;d never listened to before.<\/p>\n<p>Artists I&#8217;ve seen live: DaCapo Chamber Choir (I also used to sing in this choir), Mark DuBois, and the Silk Road Ensemble (with Yo-Yo Ma). I&#8217;ve also seen the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, and the Vienna Symphony on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p>For the first three\u00a0lists, I&#8217;m mentioning names of pieces rather than album titles &#8212; I thought it would be easier to see what I was talking about (some album titles are vague).<\/p>\n<p>Composers I have multiple albums from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johann Sebastian Bach &#8212; Brandenburg Concertos, Violin Concertos, Mass in B Minor&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Ludwig van Beethoven &#8212; Symphonies No. 1 &#8211; 9, Piano Concertos No. 4 &amp; 5, Piano Sonatas&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>George Frideric Handel &#8212; Royal Fireworks, Water Music, Messiah, Larghetto from Xerxes&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Gustav Mahler &#8212; Symphonies No. 1 &#8211; 10<\/li>\n<li>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart &#8212; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphonies No. 31, 40 &amp; 41&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Sergei Prokofiev &#8212; Lieutenant Kij\u00e9 Suite, Romeo &amp; Juliet, Symphony No. 1&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Franz Shubert &#8212; Symphonies No. 5, 8 &amp; 9, Piano Quintet &#8220;Trout&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Composers I have one amazing album from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hector Berlioz &#8212; Symphonie Fantastique<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Copland &#8212; Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Fanfare For The Common Man<\/li>\n<li>Anton\u00edn Dvor\u00e1k &#8212; Symphony No. 9, Slavonic Dances, Stabat Mater<\/li>\n<li>Edward Elgar &#8212; Enigma Variations<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Enns &#8212; Logos, Missa Brevis, God was a child curled up, Three Motets&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>George Gershwin &#8212; Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Porgy &amp; Bess<\/li>\n<li>Franz Joseph Haydn &#8212; Symphonies No. 100 &#8211; 104<\/li>\n<li>Gustav Holst &#8212; The Planets<\/li>\n<li>Aram Khatchaturian &#8212; Gayne, Masquerade<\/li>\n<li>Modest Mussorgsky &#8212; Pictures at an Exhibition<\/li>\n<li>Imant Raminsh &#8212; Songs of the Lights, Magnificat, Ave Maria, And I think over again&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns &#8212; Carnival of the Animals<\/li>\n<li>Bedrich Smetana &#8212; My Country<\/li>\n<li>Igor Stravinsky &#8212; The Rite of Spring, The Firebird<\/li>\n<li>John Tavener &#8212; Song For Athene, Today the Virgin, The Lamb, Threnos, God Is With Us&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky &#8212; The Nutcracker, Serenade in C for Strings<\/li>\n<li>Ralph Vaughan Williams &#8212; Hodie<\/li>\n<li>Antonio Vivaldi &#8212; The Four Seasons, Concerto in A Minor for 2 Violins, Harpsichord Concerto in G<\/li>\n<li>Carol Ann Weaver &#8212; Otter Frolic, Out of the Quiet, Rites of Africa, Daughter of Olapa<\/li>\n<li>Eric Whitacre &#8212; Sleep, When David heard, Cloudburst, Water Night, Lux aurumque&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other composers worth mentioning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomaso Albinoni &#8212; Adagio in G Minor<\/li>\n<li>Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach &#8212; Symphony in E Minor<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Barber &#8212; Adagio for Strings<\/li>\n<li>B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k &#8212; Allegro Barbaro<\/li>\n<li>Luigi Boccherini &#8212; Menuet in A Major<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Borodin &#8212; Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances<\/li>\n<li>Johannes Brahms &#8212; Hungarian Dances No. 5 in G Minor &amp; No. 2 in D Minor<\/li>\n<li>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin &#8212; Prelude in D Flat, Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat, Waltz No. 6 in D Flat<\/li>\n<li>Claude Debussy &#8212; Prelude to the Afernoon of a Faun, Clair de Lune, R\u00eaverie for Piano<\/li>\n<li>Gaetano Donizette &amp; Salvatore Cammarano &#8212; Lucia di Lammermoor: &#8220;Il dolce suono&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Manuel de Falla &#8212; A Media Noche (Firedance)<\/li>\n<li>Mikhail Glinka &#8212; Overture from Ruslan and Ludmilla<\/li>\n<li>Edvard Grieg &#8212; Peer Gynt Suite No. 1<\/li>\n<li>Franz Liszt &#8212; Les Pr\u00e9ludes, Nocturne in A Flat<\/li>\n<li>Felix Mendelssohn &#8212; The Hebrides (Fingal&#8217;s Cave), Violin Concerto in E Minor, Spring Song<\/li>\n<li>Jacques Offenbach &#8212; Gait\u00e9 Parisienne: Can-Can No. 4<\/li>\n<li>Johann Pachelbel &#8212; Canon in D Major<\/li>\n<li>Giacomo Puccini &#8212; Turandot: Act III &#8211; &#8220;Nessun Dorma&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sergei Rachmaninoff &#8212; Rhapsody On a Theme By Paganini: Variation 18, Prelude in C Sharp Minor<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Ravel &#8212; Bolero<\/li>\n<li>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov &#8212; The Flight of the Bumblebee<\/li>\n<li>Gioachino Rossini &#8212; William Tell Overture, The Barber of Seville: Overture<\/li>\n<li>Robert Schumann &#8212; Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15: VII. Tr\u00e4umerei<\/li>\n<li>Jean Sibelius &#8212; Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela<\/li>\n<li>Johann Strauss, Jr. &#8212; The Beautiful Blue Danube<\/li>\n<li>Richard Strauss &#8212; Also Sprach Zarathustra<\/li>\n<li>Franz von Supp\u00e9 &#8212; Light Calvary: Overture<\/li>\n<li>Richard Wagner &#8212; Ride of the Valkyries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Albums where the focus is on the artist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DaCapo Chamber Choir &#8212; Still, Shadowland<\/li>\n<li>Mark DuBois &#8212; The Music Within Vol. 1<\/li>\n<li>Yo-Yo Ma &#8212; The Essential Yo-Yo Ma<\/li>\n<li>Paul Potts &#8212; One Chance<\/li>\n<li>The Silk Road Ensemble &#8212; Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Albums with multiple composers &amp; artists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>111 Classical Masterpieces<\/li>\n<li>300 Years of Classical Music (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern &amp; Opera)<\/li>\n<li>Notes Towards &#8212; music of Timothy Corlis, Heather Dawn Taves &amp; Leonard Enns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s more classical music that I want to listen to that I haven&#8217;t yet &#8212; including Bart\u00f3k, Brahms, Debussy, Liszt, Ravel, Shostakovich, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a lot about classical music from music courses when I was in university. One course took place over a month in Vienna, where we went to concerts virtually every evening. I&#8217;ve recently renewed my interest in classical music, listening to music I haven&#8217;t listened to in years and also picking up some music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[91,42,13],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-classical","tag-lists","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}