Enouraged by some of the other song treads out there and not wishing to impose this genre on those really good threads, each of which attempt to address a particular type and style, thought I'd start this thread for Waltz, Classical, melodic ... and the other genres that come close to those.

I dunno what shape this is going to take, but what the heck, it's Friday night(well, Saturday morning :P) and I have time to kill so here goes :)

Please feel free to add your picks as you wish.

Johann Strauss - Radetzky March Claudio Abbado - Wiener Philharmoniker
1991 Vienna New Year's Concert

Carmen overture perfomred here, as per Youtube, by "the German CJD Youth Orchestra at the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonie in Berlin (14 October 2006)".

Capt, :-)
I am keeping good as I do - a tad busy with life's other pressing priorities. Oh, had my spring break recently - spent the majority of the time outdoors, skiing and all that. Good to see you still firmly at the Sajha helm. :-)

Thanks for the two pieces - lovely.

Here's one of my most fav classical pieces ever: Adagietto from Mahler's 5th symphony.
Visconti has used this movement and other parts of the fifth in his film - Death in Venice, a film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel. The pic cuttings are from this film.

The fifth has got to be Mahler's master piece and this adagietto always moves me to the core - so hauntingly beautiful.

You have a good Sunday, old chap.
Carpe diem

From the Fifth again - with Berlin Phil Orchestra's Sir Simon Rattle.

Fanale to the Fifth.

Sandhusrt L -

Nice choices there - that is a really good piece of music. Came across this bit of trivia about the Adagietto: it was played at the funeral of Robert Kennedy (slain US presidential candidate) in 1968 at St Patrick's cathedral in NYC.

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And here is Beethoven's Für Elise - prolly the most played and over played work of Beethoven in many parts of the world:) I chose it because it often serves as the initiation into the world of classical music for many people - including myself. I guess that fact that it is a solo makes it a simple yet appealing piece that serves to remind people that this type of music is within the reach of anyone infront of a piano who has a desire to learn.

Performed here by Ivo Pogorelich





And this from wikipedia:

"Für Elise" (German for "For Elise") is the popular name of the "Bagatelle in A minor", WoO 59, a famous piece of music for solo piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, written in about 1810. Beethoven scholars and critics are not entirely certain who "Elise" was. The most reasonable theory is that Beethoven originally titled his work "Für Therese", Therese being Therese Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza (1792-1851), whom Beethoven intended to marry in 1810. Unfortunately, she declined Beethoven's proposal. In 1816 Therese Malfatti, who was the daughter of the Viennese merchant Jacob Malfatti von Rohrenbach (1769-1829), married the Austrian nobleman and state official Wilhelm von Droßdik (1771-1859). When the work was published in 1865, the discoverer of the piece Ludwig Nohl mistranscribed the title as "Für Elise". The autograph is lost.

How about Four seasons by Vivaldi?



Hey Captain - You read out my mind loud! I was thinking of coming up with a thread dedicated to classical musics a while ago, but never did. This is one good thread. i shall include Gregorian Chants too! :-)

Catch ya'll later.

Flips - Great choice there! :) Please keep them flowing.

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The Four Seasons (Spring) by Vivaldi.

Flip,
Lovely. Vivaldi is one of the two Baroque masters that I love - the other being Bach.

Let's hear it again - Spring - with the divine Anne Sophie Mutter. Movement 1



I will try and find Bach's Air on G String. ... wait out.

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Capt, ol chap,
Evening.

Hey SL, haven't seen u for a while..no visit to our Nautankiland?? :) Just dropped in to say hello to SL.. sorry Capt. saab..no contribution here..:)

Here it is: Juliun Llyod Webber.

Oh hello sndy,
Indeed you have not seen me for a while... have been so caught up with life and work. Kay garnay.. hope all is well with you..

Nautankiland?? Oh the thread? Will pop in in a mo, haita.

Take care.

Hey SL! Great Bach piece there, bud :).

Flips - Good one again :) That's gotta be my favorite (and most familiar) Vivaldi work.

That second Spring clipping was nice too SL.

Here's more Bach.

Brandenburg Concertos No.1 - i: Allegro Moderato



And this from wikipedia about Brandenburg Concerto No.1 , part of the 6-part Brandenburg Concertos, considered to be part of his best known orchestral works:

Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major, BWV 1046

Title on autograph score: Concerto 1mo à 2 Corni di Caccia, 2 Hautb: è Bassono, Violino Piccolo concertato, 2 Violini, una Viola è Violoncello, col Basso Conintuo.

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro
IV. Menuetto - Trio I - Menuetto - Polacca - Trio II - Menuetto

Solo instruments: violino piccolo, corni da caccia I/II, oboes I/II/III, bassoon

Orchestra: violins I and II, viola, cello, basso continuo.

This concerto is the only one in the collection with four movements. The last movement is the only example of a menuetto and trio or polacca in the Brandenburg concertos.

An earlier version of this concerto, without the third movement, survives as a sinfonia, BWV 1046a (used as the opening of cantata BWV 208). This version lacks the violono piccolo and the polonaise in the final movement. The first movement can also be found as the sinfonia of the cantata BWV 52, Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht. The third movement was used as the opening chorus of cantata BWV 20

One More Nice Music.

Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major, BWV 1047

Played here by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra:



This from wikipedia:


Title on autograph score: Concerto 2do à 1 Tromba, 1 Fiauto, 1 Hautbois, 1 Violino concertati, è 2 Violini, 1 Viola è Violone in Ripieno col Violoncello è Basso per il Cembalo.[1]

I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Allegro assai

Solo instruments: trumpet in F, recorder, oboe, violin

Orchestra: violins I and II, viola, cello, basso continuo.

This piece was probably written with the court trumpeter in Cöthen, Johann Ludwig Schreiber, in mind.[5] Even after the invention of valves, the trumpet part is still considered one of the most difficult in the entire repertoire, although many specialist trumpeters regularly play this piece on the valveless trumpet for which it was intended.

The trumpet is not used in the second movement. It was common in the baroque era for the trumpet to rest in the middle movement of a concerto to allow the player to recover.

Ha ha .. girl interrupted. Well, since many of his compositions are soothing, maybe that is the affect ..LOL! Most definitely worth a shot I'd say!

:)

Oh goodness, tired and studying :) Hmmm ... Here's Mozart rocking ... this might be the number then:

ha ha ha ....

Oh well, I suppose you can't argue with taste ... one man's meat is another man's poison :)

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To the rest of the folks out there, here is Johann Strauss Jr's Fledermaus Overture

The Blue Danube....let's waltz!