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Do yall have any suggestions for me? I'm looking for something with a similar feel to prokofiev symphony no 5, especially the last movement? I really like the feel of it. Something neo-classical maybe, or another prokofiev work...

this video is beautiful, and so sad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YUIG3YgxQ Bernstein's narration--ahh

So I have listened to a decent share of 20th century composers by now--I mean the world of modern music is still quite vast though. Lots of Russian, Plenty of Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Charles Ives, Gershwin, Shosty, Scriabin, Ravel, and I have to say, out of all the big name neoclassical/that...

How often do you sit or lie down and just listen to a piece of music without doing anything else. I find that most of the time I am listening while working on the computer, doing work, or driving in the car where I am listening passively. I find in someways that its easier for me to take in the...

What is your favorite classical period concerto, for any instrument. There are so many fine ones to choose from and I would like to listen to any good ones. Although I haven't heard many of the numerous concertos. I'm a huge fan of mozart piano concertos. I love 21, 20, and 14.

In this thread tell us a work that you think is genius, but a work that isn't popularly thought of as a work of genius, for instance Mahler's second wouldn't apply. A work that is excellent in your opinion but perhaps few have listened to it or even heard of it. I have some extra listening time...

I was wondering if you organ players started playing before you went to college, or if you were taking piano lessons in highschool and then started learning the organ in college. I have to taken an organ lesson before when I was at my staying at my Grandma's in the summer, but other than that...

My project assignment for psychology was to learn something. Anything... So I asked if I could learn a classical music work. One that was not yet in my understanding/grasp. So I'm looking for a piece that is hard to understand at first listen, i.e. it takes many many listens to see the genius...

Have any of you heard of this Fugue by Buxtehude http://rhaplinks.real.com/rhaplink?rhapid=3031585&type=playlist&title=Playlist&from=real I heard this fugue once on a music education CD called music ace when I used to take piano at this studio... I really love this piece, is this common...

Does anyone have dreams or nightspells in which they are hearing amazing classical music. I've had many dreams where during the dream I am thinking of classical music in my head, but hearing it like a real symphony in my ears, or dreams in which there is a symphony and they are playing classical...

My viola teacher gave me his copy of the prokofiev piano conertos done by Andre Previn, and I've been listening to them a lot trying to understand them. They have been pretty difficult pieces for me. So far I have enjoyed the concerto no 4 for the left hand a lot, the last movement has some...

Hi, I just found this forum. I have listened to a giant spectrum of classical music and I love a lot of classical music. I have some favorites, like bach and gershwin, but there is a bunch of pieces out there that I love. I really hope to enrich this forum by relating some of the fantastic...