Classical Music Association Thread

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Tchaikovsky: Dumka

Ferneyhough: Dum Transisset

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no
but its much misused

That's what I meant!

[barber olly]

Tchaikovsky: Dumka

Neil Sedaka: Breaking up is hard to do (Dum dum doodee do da wah!!!)

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Tippett: The Ice Break

[Pianorak]

Beethoven: Spring Sonata (violin and piano)

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J Strauss II: Frühlingsstimmen

[Flosshilde]

Tchaikovsky isn't "classical" music
it's not from the "Classical" period

Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

(this is the only work I could think of that contained a musical pedant )

(It's not meant as a contribution to the thread of associations, so please ignore it in that context)

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Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

(this is the only work I could think of that contained a musical pedant )

(It's not meant as a contribution to the thread of associations, so please ignore it in that context)

And they even named a WWII plane after the character - remember the Beckmesserschmitt?

Anyway, never mind Conrad Beck or Olivier Messiaen (whose 103rd birthday it is today), let's hear it for the magnificent Piano Quintet by Florent Schmitt

[Pianorak]

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring

[Flosshilde]

J Strauss II: Frühlingsstimmen

Mahler - Fruhlingsmorgen

Ed: Oops - missed the boat on that one. Carry on with the Rite of Spring

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Messiaen (to celebrate his aforementioned birthday): Livre du Saint Sacrament

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Mahler - Fruhlingsmorgen

Ed: Oops - missed the boat on that one. Carry on with the Rite of Spring

Why? J Strauss II again: Morgenblätter (not Welsh, Anna)

[Flosshilde]

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring

Tippett - Midsummer Marriage

Oops - I did it again!

[ahinton]

Tippett - Midsummer Marriage

REPETITION! (not deviation or hesitation); anyway, give poor old Michael his whole title - it's A Midsummer Marriage.

Now, what was that I said about Beckmesser? Nothing? OK. Then, since we've already had Finnissy's Midsummer Morn, we'll go instead for The Marriage of Figaro (can't remember who composed it now, but...)

[Roehre]

REPETITION! (not deviation or hesitation); anyway, give poor old Michael his whole title - it's A Midsummer Marriage.

Now, what was that I said about Beckmesser? Nothing? OK. Then, since we've already had Finnissy's Midsummer Morn, we'll go instead for The Marriage of Figaro (can't remember who composed it now, but...)

Liszt: Fantaisie über Themen aus Figaro und Don Giovanni