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Apr 20, 2009 - 8:17 PM
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You know, it was Me that did the very first FSM post on this subject, I think I titled it 'CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR FILM MUSIC FANS' or something like that? One of my rare forays into a long post where I waxed lyrical( ish  ) on VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, SHOSTAKOVITCH, PROKOFIEV, DEBUSSY, RAVEL, HOLST, and many others.
Unfortunately that thread was pre-2000 so doesn't exist anymore, at least as far as I know?
You never saved it did you Thor??
Sorry, no. If you posted it back in the "red-font tree-interface" days (98-99), it might be retrievable from internetarchive.org. However, if it was posted after that, in the interim board(s) between that and this, it's not. And I believe that is exactly when you became a member, if I remember correctly.
One should probably always keep one's long posts in a separate doc-format, especially someone like you who rarely do them in the first place.
Yeah, I became an active member in mid - late 1999 so you probably are right Thor...oh well. 
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Apr 22, 2009 - 8:33 AM
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antipodean
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People have mentioned entire lists of favourite classical works, but I'm surprised at the conspicuous omission of instrumental (esp piano works) as well as chamber music so far. Far more than symphonic music, I absolutely love chamber music, especially string quartet music and lieder.
I'm not an avowed pianophile, but I've also been attending piano recitals a couple of times each year. Last year alone - Angela Hewitt performed both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and also recitals by Konstantin Scherbakov, Jeno Jendo, the Micallef-Inanga Duo, Steven Osborne and Stephen Hough. (In all fairness, many of these artists I've known quite well from working in the arts, so it is as much an opportunity to hook up with them again when they visit these here parts.)
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Apr 22, 2009 - 9:30 AM
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Joe Brausam
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People have mentioned entire lists of favourite classical works, but I'm surprised at the conspicuous omission of instrumental (esp piano works) as well as chamber music so far. Far more than symphonic music, I absolutely love chamber music, especially string quartet music and lieder.
I'm not an avowed pianophile, but I've also been attending piano recitals a couple of times each year. Last year alone - Angela Hewitt performed both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and also recitals by Konstantin Scherbakov, Jeno Jendo, the Micallef-Inanga Duo, Steven Osborne and Stephen Hough. (In all fairness, many of these artists I've known quite well from working in the arts, so it is as much an opportunity to hook up with them again when they visit these here parts.)
The Bartok string quartets are amazing, probably among the most important entries to the literature.
Chamber music I like, piano concertos and sonatas too. But solo instrument concertos (even with orchestra) just get on my nerves. I can't stand the Mozart horn concertos and have managed to make it through 3 years of college so far without having to do them! They're so generic, interchangeable almost.
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Dec 13, 2014 - 10:05 PM
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I've been aggressively expanding my appreciation of classical for the last couple years, using recordings from Naxos and their online streaming library to try out anything and everything. My favorite composers are Vaughan Williams (his symphonies, anyway), Mahler, Prokofiev, Glass, Takemitsu, Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Barber, Bartok, Sibelius, Tviett, Wagner, etc. Been trying to get into Debussy and Messiaen due to my love of Takemitsu, but I find Debussy pleasant but dull, and I like Messiaen's organ works, the gorgeous L'Ascension and the Turangalila symphony, but otherwise he eludes me.
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