My girlfriend Wendy sweetly decided to make a shopping list of my “music interests” on Facebook, which is definitely a bad idea because my taste in music is rather pop. So, to try and justify some of the stuff I have listed there, for every artist on Facebook I’ll post the albums/tracks I like. If you’re lucky, I might even give some reasons! For the rest of the series, please see:

1. Classical music I like
2. Pop music I like

	Frédéric Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor, Fantasie Impromptu, and Nocturne For Violin And Piano. There’s not much more heavenly than Chopin’s piano music; at once simple and complex, it’s the kind of music that soothes and terrifies.
	Dmitri Shostakovich Any of his symphonies make great listening. I had the pleasure once of hearing the Borodin Quartet perform some of his work live at Cornell University.
	Eliot Fisk A classical guitarist, he is most famous for his translation of Paganini 24 Caprices into guitar pieces. Another great album is The Best of Eliot Fisk, his greatest hits.

	Andrew Lloyd Webber Think of Me, and the title theme from The Phantom of the Opera are my favorites, but this composer also did the theatre music for Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and others.
	John Williams The movie-theme scorer or the world-famous classical guitarist? We’ve had enough of the guitarists for this list–it’s Mr. Movies! My favorite work is the themes to the three original Star Wars movies–the Imperial March, the Cantina Song, the Rebel Theme. Dark, brooding, sometimes soft.
	Josh Groban Closer is the album I like. Good songs include My Confession, Si Volvieras a Mi, and The Prayer.

5 Responses to “Classical Music I Like”

1. Anita says:

   1/7/2007 at 8:11 pm

   Oops, didn’t realize you didn’t accept html links. Here’s the URL to Seth Kaufman’s The Blue Light:
   http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Seth-Kaufman/dp/B000A7HF4M

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2. Danielle says:

   1/7/2007 at 9:42 pm

   You forgot Josh Groban’s "You Raise Me Up" –> totally amazing!!

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3. Pop Music I Like by Elliott Back says:

   1/8/2007 at 10:50 pm

   [...] Classical music I like [...]

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4. Ignat Drozdov says:

   1/10/2007 at 3:55 pm

   Ahhh, Chopin…

   Somebody once said that listening to his music is to imagine a solitary hut among the rose garden, windows open and sunlight making its way inside. A crystal clear glass of water on a table absorbing the sunlight and on a bed nearby………….there’s a corpse.

   I have to say that Chopin’s music does indeed soothes and terrifies, but you should also add some Nocturnes to the list

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5. Wendy says:

   1/18/2007 at 3:00 pm

   ummm, where are you going to put Joe Satriani then? I was listening to his album ‘Is there love in space?’ just now. Following are my favorite songs in that one: If I could fly; Just Look Up; Bamboo,

   Also, I am totally with Danielle. I love Josh Groban’s ‘ You Raise Me Up’ =)

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