What are you listening to?

[savedbyhim01]

I like to listen to classical, but am not into it enough to have big favorites. A lot of times I will listen to it when I want to block out other noises or go to sleep.

I also like to listen to Christian praise music.

[opainter]

Rockabilly Boogie - The Obscuritones

[ohjanet]

Music is a huge part of my life and listen to Pandora all day at work. I'd go insane if I had to do my job without music! Its strange, I've actually a very very nice person and love to help people, so it always surprises people when they find out what music I like. My favorite bands are Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Rage Against the Machine, and other assorted heavy alternative bands. I love techno too, like Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, and Ministry. If there are people around at work and I have to play "nice" music, I have a Coldplay station on Pandora that plays them, Incubus, and some other assorted mellower songs.

[MarkMark]

Charlie Parker today

[graemek]

Last night James Brown - King Heroin. Tonight the Foos, AGAIN!!!! A little Queen too, to liven things up a bit.

[Clive Green]

at the moment - Handel's Water Music played by the Prague Chamber Orchestra under MacKerras, was there ever a more elegant and less likely hornpipe
Last night I was carving some plaster to Segovia and then to Zappa.

[Yellow Ogre]

Damira Saetova from Bakishtartotstan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbq-j...eature=related

[brianvds]

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony no 5. Simply magnificent stuff. :-)

[opainter]

The Voodoo Jets LIVE at Don Hills (FEB 4th, 2005)

[stlukesguild]

The magnificent Zino Francescatti on violin with the New York Philharmonic and the home team: The Cleveland Orchestra (with George Szell) performing two of the most iconic works in the violin repertoire: Mendelssohn's and Tchaikovsky's violin concertos:

[brianvds]

Originally Posted by stlukesguild

The magnificent Zino Francescatti on violin with the New York Philharmonic and the home team: The Cleveland Orchestra (with George Szell) performing two of the most iconic works in the violin repertoire: Mendelssohn's and Tchaikovsky's violin concertos:

I have always found it kind of weird how many of the violin concertos nowadays universally acclaimed were unappreciated when they were first performed. Don't know about the Mendelssohn, but if memory serves, the Tchaikovsky was initially slammed by the critics. Same thing happened to the Beethoven one: it sank like a stone and was performed only once in his lifetime (and it is surely one of his most lyrical and easy-on-the-ear works!). And the Brahms one was accused by one critic of being a concerto "against the violin" rather than for it.

What is it with violin concertos that the great ones seem to be initially difficult to digest? :-)

[Yellow Ogre]

From the Wiki,

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto influenced the concertos of many other composers, who would use aspects of the concerto in their own.[12] This would lead to the concerto being regarded as one of the most plagiarised of all time.[1]

For example, the unusual placement of the cadenza before the recapitulation would inspire violin concertos by Tchaikovsky (where the cadenza is similarly placed) and Sibelius (where the cadenza serves to extend the development section).[9] Moreover, following this concerto it would be very rare for a composer to leave a cadenza unwritten, for the soloist to improvise, as in the days of Mozart and Beethoven.[12] The linking of the three movements would also influence other concertos, an example being Liszt's Second Piano Concerto.[9]

The concerto itself was an instant success, warmly received at its premiere and well received by contemporary critics.[16] By the end of the nineteenth century, the piece was already considered one of the greatest violin concertos in the repertoire.[9] It would become one of Mendelssohn's most popular pieces, and was still regularly performed, even when interest in his music declined in the early twentieth century.[6] In 1906, the year before his death, celebrated violinist Joseph Joachim told the guests at his 75th birthday party:[10]

“ The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven's. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart's jewel, is Mendelssohn's. ”

The work has developed a reputation as an essential work for all aspiring violin virtuosi to conquer.[17] This has led to the concerto becoming virtually ubiquitous in the discography of concert violinists, even including those who were only active at the very dawn of recorded sound and of whom very little recorded music exists, such as Eugène Ysaÿe.[18] Even so, the concerto is still technically challenging and is generally considered to be as difficult as many other famous counterparts.

[Yellow Ogre]

Please note that the Mendolssohn was the first concerto where the cadenza was written out.

Bach's music sank like a stone after his death and practically disappeared. When the Viennese buried Beethoven, his music style was considered "obsolete".

Music - and art - are fickle.

[davefriend]

Yesterday I used the 5 piano concertos of Beethoven as my background while I painted. Here is my favorite of those which is the Beethoven Piano Concerto #5 (Emperor) This is the 1st movement from You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gknWj2x_eYY

[opainter]

The Cardigans - Erase and Rewind