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corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14776

Dreww wrote:

I think I love Puccini.

Really?

I never really pegged you as someone who would like Italian opera.

Dreww · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 5817

Me either. But I dooooooooooooooo.

john17 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:31 am

Puccini is one of the few composers that turned me on to opera at all.

thejew · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:28 am

I prefer Verdi to Puccini personally. Italian opera is probably tied with German opera for my favorite, not too big on French opera.

Krym · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:42 pm

Roberto Alagna sings "E Lucevan Le Stelle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6urNGBR95w
Sissel - O Mio Babbino Caro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQKQdwowbok

Dreww · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 5817

YUMMY

john17 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:37 am

I just got myself reobsessed with Brahms' Clarinet Quintet. So incredible on so many levels--I don't even know what to say about the piece.

Yngtchie Blacksteen · **Posted:** Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:02 pm

Pearlman's recording of Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin. I know Pearlman's not regarded as one of the great Bach interpretors, but this just brings a tear to my eye, it's so powerful. Currently listening to Partita #2 in D minor, this music transcends beauty!

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2361

nice, ill have to check those. the partita #2 in d minor is my favourite piece, always nice to hear a new rendition

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4166

better than sliced bread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2JFgfc7c70

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2361

that is brilliant

Hashbrowns · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:08 pm

john17 wrote:

I just got myself reobsessed with Brahms' Clarinet Quintet. So incredible on so many levels--I don't even know what to say about the piece.

This was beautiful.

:ninja:

john17 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:05 am

yeah, I'm definitely a fan. Do you know his two clarinet sonatas? Or the clarinet trio now that I mention it. They were all written right about the same time near the end of his life and each of them are my favorite piece ever.

Hashbrowns · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:06 pm

Brahms is someone I have heard very little of, or at least that I know that I've heard, I just recognize the name. During my last classical phase I was all about symphonies, but more and more I am much more intrigued by the quartets and quintets and all that stuff. I don't really write or talk about classical music a lot (and thus enough), but that was really good.

I'll check out the clarinet sonatas soon and get back to you about them.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5089

I'm slowly tackling Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Bernstein recording).

Also listening to a fair amount of Bartok these days, getting more familiar with his work. I have The Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta, and all of his string quartets.

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