Baroque music

[308pirate]

OK, who else is into this ole timey stuff (like from 300 years ago old)

Some of my favorites in no particular order:
Music for the Royal Fireworks - Georg Friedrich Handel (Menuet II is my absolute favorite movement)
Water Music - Georg Friedrich Handel
Concerto Grosso Opus #6 - again Georg Friedrich Handel
All the Brandenburg concertos - Johann Sebastian Bach
Four Seasons concerto - Antonio Vivaldi
Violin concerto in A minor - Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for four violins in B minor - Antonio Vivaldi
The Triple Concertos - Georg Philip Telemann

And there's so much more.......

 

[EddieNFL]

A little newer, but my all time favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

 

[308pirate]

A little newer, but my all time favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

Very nice!

Here's a real good version:
Part 1


Part 2 (FF to 9:15 for the crescendo)

 

[BOLTRIPPER]

would this be baroque enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

 

[308pirate]

would this be baroque enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

LOL I don't know WTF I just watched but it was pretty cool

 

[QuickNDirty]

Every now and then I get an itch for the old things, but ultimately what gets my gears turning is that sinister shit. Especially when they get those cellos wailing like hell. Dunno of an instrument more capable of doing all the things that music can do than the cello. Accordions, trumpets, and banjos can get close, but that cello just knows exactly what my cochlea likes.

ETA: I seriously regret failing to make this chick fall in love with me when I was in HS. She was fucking magical with a cello, and still is. Ended up dating some faggot named Brady instead. I made that dude cry in 9th grade. I think that's probably what killed it for me, even though he started it by being a dick to her in front of me. She had some amount of class even though she was dirt fucking poor like me. If I could go back to the point I first met her, and lost first chair in orchestra to a girl, I'd have said something along the lines of "You're a nice girl and all, fairly attractive, but all I really want from you is what you do with that cello. I'll happily spend all of my money on you and your dreams for as long as that cello continues to pour that sad sad song for me and me alone."

 

[johnnycat]

If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it!

I use to study to the baroque classics - you named some really good ones. Handel is my favorite. I personally think Bach is overrated, but to each his own.

 

[Maggot]

would this be baroque enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

Those guys rock, Id love to see them in person.

Glad to see some others are into this. I almost posted something similar this morning but thought Tucker might move it to another thread.

Johan Sebastian was always my favorite because of his organ works, until I got into Ludwig van Beethoven. What a musical mind, so complex and diverse. Im working my way through all the 9 symphonies...then there are the shorter works like Moonlight Sonata and Fur Elise.

Vivaldi is another but compared to LVBeethoven he seems a bit one dimensional. I do love the Four Seasons. Cant forget one of the greats"The Messiah" and the Hallelujah Chorus."

Samuel Barber (Adagio for Strigs) and Aaron Copeland represent America well.

Then of course there is the 'Bad Boy' of classical, Nicolo Pagganini. My favorite of his...Moto perpetuo.

 

[Maggot]

If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it!

I use to study to the baroque classics - you named some really good ones. Handel is my favorite. I personally think Bach is overrated, but to each his own.

To really appreciate Bach you need to hear his work live or on a really great audio system.

 

[pmclaine]

Anything with violins, wind instruments and a kettle drum falls into the category Classical to me. I tend toward the "power classical" shit...

Wagner

https://youtu.be/GGU1P6lBW6Q

Orff

https://youtu.be/N4z2Ey4PYT4

Holst

https://youtu.be/Isic2Z2e2xs

Williams (a fan of Holst)

https://youtu.be/xe4ZuqZcoY4



and if I had to choose just one song to have to listen to for eternity Id probably choose

Ravel

https://youtu.be/dZDiaRZy0Ak


There used to be a short movie called "The String" set to Ravel's Bolero. I remember watching it as a kid and have been trying to find it for my kids to watch. Interesting video to me as a kid and it made me remember the music.

Listening to Bolero you kind of think of the ascendency of man and how things improve and get better over time because of the way the whole thing builds from one quiet instrument to the entire orchestra playing at full volume. Ignore it all coming crashing down at the end and just keep going with the build up - your heart will be beating out of your chest by the end.

 

[Veer_G]

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[Maggot]

Listening to Bolero you kind of think of the ascendency of man and how things improve and get better over time because of the way the whole thing builds from one quiet instrument to the entire orchestra playing at full volume. Ignore it all coming crashing down at the end and just keep going with the build up - your heart will be beating out of your chest by the end.

Listening to Bolero all I see is Bo Derek' beautifuly shapeed tits.

 

[Rthur]

Fellers, if it stirs the soul the date stamp needn't apply.
BTW I enjoyed several of the above choices.

R

 

[Maggot]

Anything with violins, wind instruments and a kettle drum falls into the category Classical to me. I tend toward the "power classical" shit...

Wagner

https://youtu.be/GGU1P6lBW6Q

Orff

https://youtu.be/N4z2Ey4PYT4

Holst

https://youtu.be/Isic2Z2e2xs

Williams (a fan of Holst)

https://youtu.be/xe4ZuqZcoY4



and if I had to choose just one song to have to listen to for eternity Id probably choose

Ravel

https://youtu.be/dZDiaRZy0Ak


There used to be a short movie called "The String" set to Ravel's Bolero. I remember watching it as a kid and have been trying to find it for my kids to watch. Interesting video to me as a kid and it made me remember the music.

Listening to Bolero you kind of think of the ascendency of man and how things improve and get better over time because of the way the whole thing builds from one quiet instrument to the entire orchestra playing at full volume. Ignore it all coming crashing down at the end and just keep going with the build up - your heart will be beating out of your chest by the end.

YOu like violins. I give you violin. this one blows me away.

 

[Strykervet]

Bach, Passacaglia in C Minor, that and Pachelbel's Canon are probably the two most important works of the period. I like the older stuff recorded by Richter and Biggs, etc. on the old organs. I have a Miller Kriesel subwoofer paired with Bose 901's that'll go lower than most and is great for organ music, so I get more out of it, but you gotta be in those old churches to truly appreciate some of it --the lower registers are felt, not heard.

I've got some other, more obscure baroque stuff too, lots of organ stuff, I really like powerful organ music. But I like Handel, Vivaldi and the rest too, I really like it all.

Not baroque, but Beethoven's 9th is probably my favorite piece alongside Passacaglia in C.

Today's shit can't even really be called music. Every great once in a while I'll hear something good, but it's rare, very rare.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

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[Veer_G]

Fellers, if it stirs the soul the date stamp needn't apply.
BTW I enjoyed several of the above choices.

R

But I thought you were only trying to get to Mary?

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[Strykervet]

Here's what I was talking about, this is (was) E. Power Biggs --one of the greatest organists of the 20th century if not THE best. It's a tossup between him and Karl Richter, but I they each have their own style. That's what makes baroque, classical and in general the "mathematical" musics so interesting.

 

[pmclaine]

You will find a lot of guys on here that play the organ.

 

[Maggot]

Here's what I was talking about, this is (was) E. Power Biggs --one of the greatest organists of the 20th century if not THE best. It's a tossup between him and Karl Richter, but I they each have their own style. That's what makes baroque, classical and in general the "mathematical" musics so interesting.

Stryker if you like big organs, pun intended, tho should check out the one at the Atlantic City Music Hall. It has 64' pipes which will play 6 hz notes, [h=3]Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ - Wikipedia[/h] en.wikipedia.org/.../Boardwalk_Hall_Auditorium_Organ
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Also check out this old Phillips organ tube amplifier.
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