Anybody else like classical music?

[Uke]

George Butterworth (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916)

George Butterworth - Wikipedia

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A what might have been composer. Part of the English Folk Music revival. Friend of Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams and contemporary of Delius.

Life taken, age 31, on 5 August 1916 at the Battle of the Somme.

Some suggest he might have eventually outshone his contemporaries had he lived.

I love this stuff -- along with Parry, Bridge and, of course, Vaughan Williams.

 

[Midnight Toker]

This thread continues to ignore classical GUITAR music. Fernando Sor:

So what would be the most celebrated classical guitar work? The Aranjuez?
(my father gave me his LP of this when I first started playing guitar...also w/ Narciso Yepes (but I think from a different performance)

 

[Uke]

So what would be the most celebrated classical guitar work? The Aranjuez?
(my father gave me his LP of this when I first started playing guitar...also w/ Narciso Yepes (but I think from a different performance)

Good question, and good suggestion. Miles Davis or the Modern Jazz Quartet would probably vote for Aranjuez .

 

[Brad Little]

So what would be the most celebrated classical guitar work? The Aranjuez?
(my father gave me his LP of this when I first started playing guitar...also w/ Narciso Yepes (but I think from a different performance)

For a while, probably 1980s, the Aranjuez was the most played 20th Century concerto in the US, that means of all concerti, not just those with guitar.

 

[Brad Little]

This thread continues to ignore classical GUITAR music. Fernando Sor:

I think probably because we assume many guitarists would listen to classical guitar but not the wider repertoire.

 

[Brad Little]

I'm sure there are many of you who can't hear this piece without thinking of spinning plates on the Ed Sullivan Show:

 

[Midnight Toker]

I have very wide taste in classical music. I was raised with it, and I have played classical music (on trumpet) all my life. I guess I'm least interested in baroque and early music and on the other hand very interested in pieces written from the 1700s until the early 1900s (great Russian composers of the era that is).

I've never learned any classical on guitar, and was not trained that way.

I'm not sure I can point to a favorite. I really adore when great music is adapted and used for the screen. Fantasia, for example. Looney Tunes cartoons. Etc. I have no real affection for most of Disney's work, but his choice of music was always great. At least back in the day, that is.

For trumpet, some of the most beautiful music to hear in an old cathedral is chamber music. One of the true trumpet masters is a man I’ve met many times. Prof Ludwig Güttler from the Leipzig Bach Collegium. These are the folks that are like the musical Supreme Court of all things Bach. Interpreted strictly according to…Bach!

Leipziger Bach-Collegium - Ludwig Güttler - Not only a Musician

Founded in 1976, the Leipzig Bach Collegium is the oldest ensemble created by Güttler

www.guettler.com

But it’s his performances of trumpet works by Telemann, Baldassari, Torelli, Albinoni, Stradella, Corelli, Gabrielli, etc that I find his most pleasing performances. The type of music that reminds me of springtime mornings, open windows, the smell of breakfast cooking and coffee in the air….because that’s exactly what I grew up w/. My Uncle in Germany was a Pastor that was the first to host East German classical musicians to tour West Germany. (Early 80’s) Ludwig Güttler and flautist Eckard Haupt were some of the biggest names he brought over. I’ve had dinner w/ both at my Uncle’s house several times and seen both live many times. I have several signed albums by both. My Uncle mainly worked w/ top classical masters from Leipzig and Dresden, and also was a major player in the rebuilding of the Dresden Frauenkirche (church that was destroyed in WWII) Members of the Leipzig Bach Collegium also played at my grandmother’s funeral! (Arranged by my uncle)

This stuff is just bliss to me.

 

[Rocky]

My Uncle....was a major player in the rebuilding of the Dresden Frauenkirche

I've been there. It's beautiful. Thank him for me.

 

[Midnight Toker]

I've been there. It's beautiful. Thank him for me.

I will be at my mother's house tomorrow to help her transfer and email pics from her recent visit to my uncle so I will pass it on. I have a watch with a piece of an original bombed part under the glass at the 9 o clock mark. It really is a gorgeous structure...and how they were able to identify every salvagable piece of the original and put it back in it;s place of the rebuilding was just extraordinary!



and a peek inside.


Johan Sebastian Bach himself regularly played on the original organ in the remains of this very (now rebuilt) church.

 

[Brad Little]

For trumpet, some of the most beautiful music to hear in an old cathedral is chamber music. One of the true trumpet masters is a man I’ve met many times. Prof Ludwig Güttler from the Leipzig Bach Collegium. These are the folks that are like the musical Supreme Court of all things Bach. Interpreted strictly according to…Bach!

There's a story, possibly apocryphal, that in the 1940s, in an attempt to "legitimize" the classical guitar, Segovia enlisted Mexican composer Manuel Maria Ponce to write a "new" prelude by Bach. When they tried to present it to the public, harpsichordist Wand Landowska, who was considered the authority on Bach in the first part of the 20th Century, said it was not by Bach. So they switched the source to Silvius Leopold Weiss. It was first published as a Weiss work, but subsequent issues it was rightly attributed to Ponce.

 

[Canard]

György sez, "Hey, Babe, take a walk on the outside."

One could imagine Zappa taking a solo somewhere in here, eh?

 

[Canard]

John Duarte, one of Englands foremost educators and composers for the guitar.

English Suite

johnwduarte.com

John W. Duarte - Biography

johnwduarte.com

 

[DrumBob]

Yes, very much so: Sibelius, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ives, Dvorak, Copeland, et. al.

 

[chazmo]

The Aranjuez?

I think that's a good answer. Such a beautiful piece.

 

[Brad Little]

John Duarte, one of Englands foremost educators and composers for the guitar.

English Suite

johnwduarte.com

John W. Duarte - Biography

johnwduarte.com

A few years before his death, I contacted him with a question about one of his early works, The Miniature Suite. I had to email him a copy because he didn't have one in his files, and, not surprisingly considering the volume of his output, he couldn't remember the piece. Very nice interaction. FWIW, over the years I've collected 17 of his pieces for solo guitar. Also, Ut Orpheus is releasing all of his works in conjunction with his son, I think both previously published and not published before.
On a slightly different tack, I played the Prelude from the English Suite before the wedding of a friend, probably '75 or '76.

 

[Canard]

Giuseppe Tartini, a Venetian virtuoso violinist, music theorist, and also-ran Baroque composer--his also-ran status is very much down to the vagaries of fame and popularity and to the general indifference of history and not to any lack of skill on his part.

According to Wikipedia, he is the first known owner of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari--he seems to have owned more than one--he liked a good axe.




From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Tartini

Musicans and Women​

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After his father's death in 1710, he married Elisabetta Premazore, a woman his father would have disapproved of because of her lower social class and age difference. Unfortunately, Elisabetta was a favorite of the powerful Cardinal Giorgio Cornaro, who promptly charged Tartini with abduction. Tartini fled Padua to go to the monastery of St. Francis in Assisi, where he could escape prosecution.​

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Woodshedding​

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Legend says when Tartini heard Francesco Maria Veracini's playing in 1716, he was impressed by it and dissatisfied with his own skill. He fled to Ancona and locked himself away in a room to practice, according to Charles Burney, "in order to study the use of the bow in more tranquility, and with more convenience than at Venice, as he had a place assigned him in the opera orchestra of that city". Tartini's skill improved tremendously...​

Some shred guitarists like (parts of) his Sonata G Minor, (old)nicknamed the Devil 's Trill Sonata because of the technical difficulties it presents a violinist.



With electric guitar below:

 

[Maguchi]

Sure! What's not to like?

 

[tonepoet]

Giuseppe Tartini, a Venetian virtuoso violinist, music theorist, and also-ran Baroque composer--his also-ran status is very much down to the vagaries of fame and popularity and to the general indifference of history and not to any lack of skill on his part.

According to Wikipedia, he is the first known owner of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari--he seems to have owned more than one--he liked a good axe.




From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Tartini

Musicans and Women​

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After his father's death in 1710, he married Elisabetta Premazore, a woman his father would have disapproved of because of her lower social class and age difference. Unfortunately, Elisabetta was a favorite of the powerful Cardinal Giorgio Cornaro, who promptly charged Tartini with abduction. Tartini fled Padua to go to the monastery of St. Francis in Assisi, where he could escape prosecution.​

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Woodshedding​

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Legend says when Tartini heard Francesco Maria Veracini's playing in 1716, he was impressed by it and dissatisfied with his own skill. He fled to Ancona and locked himself away in a room to practice, according to Charles Burney, "in order to study the use of the bow in more tranquility, and with more convenience than at Venice, as he had a place assigned him in the opera orchestra of that city". Tartini's skill improved tremendously...​

Some shred guitarists like (parts of) his Sonata G Minor, (old)nicknamed the Devil 's Trill Sonata because of the technical difficulties it presents a violinist.



With electric guitar below:

Love Tartini !!! First heard of him in a book on the history of the concerto. Grabbed the record shown in your first posing from a used record store.

 

[tonepoet]

This Tartini piece has been a favorite since I first heard it.

 

[Canard]

Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances



The wonderful lutenist, Paul ODette, scoured libraries looking for whatever Renaissance manuscripts survive from among Respighi's sources for the Ancient Airs and Dances suite and reverse engineered the music into a facsimile of its original form. His CD of the music was once available on Youtube, but I guess Hyperion or whoever owns the label's catalogue now has no come to a satisfactory royalty deal with Youtube.

Discogs

https://www.discogs.com/release/11857591-Paul-ODette-Rogers-Covey-Crump-Ancient-Airs-And-Dances

Marketing Site - CDs and Digital Downloads - Sample snippets available for listening.

Ancient Airs and Dances

Ancient Airs and Dances. Helios: CDH55146. Buy download online. Paul O’Dette (lutes) & Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)

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