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Post by bassoonist88 on Jan 7, 2007 22:04:05 GMT -5
So, who do you all like to sit back and listen to?
I'm a big Shostakovich fan, he's probably my favorite composer overall. His symphony #5 is amazing. I love Bhrams as well, he wrote for bassoon and contrabassoon so nicely... lots of amazing parts in Bhrams, and I like dark, moody stuff on bassoon. For the same reason, I enjoy PLAYING Bach, however it can be a bit drab to listen to for long periods of time. I'm a fan of Stravinsky and Copland, Stravinsky for his cool bassoon solos and his amazing Firebird Suite and Copland for his Symphony #3 which I doubt I could ever hear too much of. Gershwin has always appealed to me as well with his unique style and his ingenuative writing.
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Post by Scott Benson II on Jan 7, 2007 22:43:36 GMT -5
It is SO hard to pick just one...or even just a few!
I am fond of Beethoven's symphonies. Mozart overtures are fun...and Rossini, too. People forget about the older stuff...I like some of the medieval and renaissance music as well (Palestrina, Weelkes, Byrd). There's just too much great music out there!
When you get down to it though, I haven't really come across a Tchaikovsky piece I didn't like, so he's right up there. Also Haydn.
In short, I don't know.
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Post by Bassoon4Life on Jan 8, 2007 0:06:37 GMT -5
I really love the Baroque composers (Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, etc.) but I also really like Beethoven and Mozart. Though I prefer Beethoven. XD
The bassoon solo at the beginning of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is amazing.
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Post by Tales From Band Camp on Jan 8, 2007 15:45:07 GMT -5
Debussy. I can get lost in his music.
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Post by Scott Benson II on Jan 8, 2007 17:40:21 GMT -5
Debussy. I can get lost in his music. I get lost too...searching for a theme!
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Post by SaxGirl on Jan 8, 2007 19:35:04 GMT -5
You guys are all naming older ones, but I've got to say I really adore Aaron Copland. There's a trillion more I could name that I love, too.
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Post by Trumpet1 on Jan 8, 2007 21:28:22 GMT -5
It changes from time to time, but most recently:
Gabriel Fauré Antonín Dvořák
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Post by brassdancer on Jan 9, 2007 16:04:53 GMT -5
It's got to be Samuel Hazo for me. He hasn't written anything I haven't liked.
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Post by stickshifty on Jan 9, 2007 20:31:42 GMT -5
Mussorgsky. Any brass player should kill to play the orchestration of "Pictures at an Exhibition." Usually in orchestras, violins get all the pretty dainty music, but in Pictures, it is all brass all the time with violins playing the whatnot part people don't really listen to.
And I love Rimsky-Korsakov and Rossini.
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Post by Scott Benson II on Jan 9, 2007 23:55:47 GMT -5
^ Not to mention the joy and wonder of 11-beat bars...
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Post by aznfiddle on Jan 11, 2007 22:12:02 GMT -5
Rimsky-Korsakov.... I am in love with "Scheherazade" and "Capriccio Espagnole" Hanson... no, not the boy band... "Symphony No.2 'Romantic'" Joaquin Rodrigo... "Concierto de Arenjuez" Holst... "The Planets" Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique" is a crazy mofo...
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Post by cosmicwonder on Jan 15, 2007 12:19:43 GMT -5
Dmitri Kabalevsky, without a doubt. I've played so many piano pieces by him and I've yet to find one I haven't loved.
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Post by Greenepony on Jan 15, 2007 20:11:38 GMT -5
It's got to be Samuel Hazo for me. He hasn't written anything I haven't liked. Oh I love his Olympiada Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique" is a crazy mofo... Oh goodness... as much as I hated marching it, it did sound pretty cool in a concert setting Robert W. Smith... all the pieces I've heard of his, I've loved
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Post by aznfiddle on Jan 16, 2007 16:30:19 GMT -5
I actually played Berlioz with my community symphony, and the violin parts are crazy!
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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 20, 2007 17:56:04 GMT -5
Mozart's concertos are amazing, but I like Alfred P. Zambarano's "Neapolitan Tarantella." Actually, I like concertos and tarantellas in general, but fugues are great--like Bach's in D minor. We played a concert arrangement of that, even though it was written for organ.
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