Here are a few of my favorites. Ones that get played over and over right
along with Tsar, Oasis, Tommy Keene, or Quadrophenia... 

Beethoven's 9th Symphony - Get the 1977 version by Herbert Von Karajan and
the Berlin Philharmonic. This totally rocks, and I can't recommend it highly
enough turned up to 10 on a road trip.

Beethoven's Egmont Overture - The version by Joseph Silverstein and the Utah
Symphony really rocks if you can find it. At one point it was on a greatest
overtures collection called Roman Carnival.

Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is one that everyone likes, and the Sir
Neville Marriner with Academy of St martins is good. 

Pachelbel's Canon - Melancholic and beautiful. Marriner has a real nice
version of this on the same disc as Night Music above. 

Philip Glass - Mishima Soundtrack - Here is a guy that is still alive...
This just blows me away. Hypnotic waves of undulating violins with bells and
chimes. 

My love of classical music came from writing video games for the atari,
colecovision, and nintendo systems. For example, the Colecovision Smurfs
game used beethoven's 6th pastoral symphony for it's soundtrack. We called
it Beethoven's Smurf Symphony... Makes me wonder if anyone has collected
classical pieces that were popular in tv programs, movies, and arcade games
on a CD anywhere. 

Cheers,
Gary
 



-----Original Message-----
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JBrenneman@macdermid.com
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:26 AM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: classical music recommendations?





Could anyone recommend any classical composers? I've been interested in
listening to some classical music but I'm very ignorant of the genre.
Besides Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (which I love to listen to once every
2 years) and some guys called Mozart and that guy named after that dog
(Beethoven), I know nothing. Composer & composition recommendation are
welcome.

Is this the wrong place to ask for this?

-Jeff

P.S. Oh, Is the Dweezil & Lisa stuff worth seeking out (and I'm not talking
about their newest recipes!)?