A Chronological History of Keyboard Music through 25 Composers.
If you were to reduce the history of keyboard music down to 25 composers (excluding Jazz) what would it look like? Who would you add and who would you remove and why? 1 1685 - 1750 Bach, Johann...
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Would people say D.Scarlatti was ahead of his time? When I listen to some of his harmonies and invention I do wonder if he had hit a golden vein of compositions that if he hadn't struck first someone...
View ArticleHow Broad is your Listening Experience?
Disclaimer: I would never accuse anyone here of lying, posturing, or puffery (To their faces:lol:) I've been thinking about this topic since the "100 Favorite Composers" thread a few months ago. I only...
View ArticleA . Scarlatti vs D . Scarlatti.
Which one is greater and why? discussion: Talk classical All the news about classical music and opera in press and media
View ArticleIf you bother to give the name of a composer piece at all, why change the name?
Alessandro Scarlatti: Recorder Sonata (Sinfonia) in G major: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0zgk5CMtDk Please just someone tell me what is this piece. Is it a sonata or a sinfonía? And where can I...
View ArticleTop ten favorite Baroque operas
Let's share which are our favorite operas from the Baroque period. Ten is just a number, a few less or a few more will do also. :) These are mine: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Handel) -...
View ArticleBaroque Abundance
When I got interested in classical music, about two years ago now, all I knew about baroque music was that I liked those really-nice-tunes by Bach, Handel & Vivaldi; and one or two by Purcell too....
View ArticleSome Scarlatti sonatas are so intriguingly bizarre!
Has anyone ever heard K 394? Give this one a listen all the way through and you'll see what I mean, particularly the section with the weird parallel fifths modulations. Its in this collection on piano:...
View ArticleRank the finest pianist for each composer...
Based on comments from this forum I've ranked "the best" (or favorite) pianists for each composer. As a newcomer I'd like your help in discovering the greatest pianists and their recordings. Let's have...
View ArticleHorowitz 1968 TV broadcast WOW!
Over the weekend, I watched the DVD of the Horowitz televised concert from 1968. I've never seen anything like it. The Chopin he opens the concert with is electrifying, and the Scarlatti brings out...
View ArticleFrançois Couperin and Johann Sebastian Bach - Champions of Keyboard Music
Bach When I started listening to classical music, I came upon innumerous recommendations to start with Bach's music - WTC and Goldberg Variations specifically. I did and oddly enough, I did not enjoy...
View ArticleScarlatti - Stabat Mater
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View ArticleScarlatti sonatas
Just one question : Is it possible, listening to a Scarlatti sonata, to guess its Kirkpatrick number ? discussion: Talk classical All the news about classical music and opera in press and media
View ArticleScarlatti and Bach
We all know that Bach, Scarlatti (Domenico) and Händel were born on the same year 1685. Scarlatti and Handel met in Italy and greatly appreciated each other, but Bach never met Handel nor Scarlatti....
View ArticleFavourite Composer by Country
Since Fugue Meister has done 'Who is the greatest French/Russian/etc composer' threads, I though I might just do a big one with several countries on it. Please choose only one or two from each country:...
View ArticleWhat is the music at the end of this video?
I've tried contacting the "Fun Theory" people about the music at the end of this video, but never got any response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw (music starts around 1:07) My guess is...
View ArticleYour own fictional composer and his/her story
How many of us day dreaming classical music aficionados have ever thought up a fictional composer from any time period? Maybe its the composer you feel you would be in your preferred era; maybe its...
View ArticleOther composers like D. Scarlatti
I know of several composers that wrote sonatas similar in style(in one way or another) to Domenico Scarlatti and I'll cite them. If you can think of more, fill me in. Carlos Seixas is one, a Portuguese...
View ArticleClassical music-effectively arranged for unusual or atypical instruments
I'm interested in this thread, in classical music that is typically played on the standard instruments of that genre, arranged for atypical or unusual instruments, in a manner you consider very...
View ArticleHurt/Heal Great Composers
Hello. This is just an idea a came up with. On a chess forum there was a thread called 'Hurt/Heal World Champions' (Steinitz lost and Fisher (!) was next, if you're interested), in which people could...
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