Do you like classical music?

Nowadays so many people are into pop and rock music.

But do you know classical music?

Do you have any favourite composer, musician, instrument, piece of music…?

One of my favourite pieces is the Song Cycle "Four Shakespeare Songs" composed by Erich Korngold (1897-1957) sung by my favourite singer Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano) from Sweden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHT7WM2nsFk

I've added Shakespeare's lyrics, too.

Enjoy listening and reading!

Willow, Willow (Desdemona’s Song)

Verse 1
The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
Sing all a green willow;
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
Sing willow, willow, willow

Verse 2
The fresh streams ran by her, and mumur’d
her moans
"
Her salt tears fell from her, & soften’d the stones;
"
Chorus
Sing all a green willow must be my garland. 
Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,
I call’d my love false love; but what said he then?  If I If I If I court moe [more] women,
you'll couch with moe [more] men.  {PAUSE}

Coda
Sing willow, willow, willow {my add.}
Sing willow, willow, willow
Sing willow, willow, willow
Sing willow, willow, willow. 

(4.3. 42-63)
 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.

When birds do sing

It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

Between the acres of the rye,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
These pretty country folks would lie,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
How that life was but a flower
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

And, therefore, take the present time
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
For love is crown & graved with the prime
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

I love the 60s and 70s, too.

My favourite CD is

Tracklist:
01. Della Reese – I Got The Blues
02. The London Jazz Four – Things We Said Today
03. Mel Torme – Right Now
04. Diana Ross & The Supremes – He's My Sunny Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVn46zXp3sU
05. Barbara Acklin – Am I The Same Girl
06. Gordon Staples & The String Thing – Strung Out
07. Sugarpie Desanto – The Woo-pee
08. Marvin Holmes – Ooh Ooh The Dragon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swO0-Ax3La4
09. Steve Pepper & Sir Shree – Elephant's Trunk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Ie6O46ykA
10. Ambros Seelos – Mabusso
11. Rose Royce – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUhrqTir2RE
12. Coke Escovedo – I Wouldn't Change A Thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0UnZ5KuzI
13. Nolen & Crossley – Salsa Boogie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdD76lJ0bzY
14. Michel Camilo – On The Other Hand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM_-Mk1Q50E
15. Quartette Tres Bien – Boss Tres Bien http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-bjJJRsAA
16. Oscar Brown Jr. – Barra Limpa
17. Rosinha De Valenca – Tema Pro Luis
18. Puzzle – State Of Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le2jLGj2GAo
19. Gloria Scott – That's What You Say (Everytime You're Near Me)
20. Lexia – Lady Rain

Classical music is 真正(true) music.

I think so.

Suffiana Kalam is one of many types of classical musics that are sung in India and Pakistan. Shah Aeniat and Baba Bulleh Shah were founders of this type of classical music. In present times Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the master of this and he took this form of music to the world stag. I am very found of Suffiana Kalam.

Beethoven, Symphony No 7, II – Karajan, Berliner Phil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfNTO_o-3k

My favourite Beethoven Symphony! The remaining movements make me dance! But Karajan's way of conducting is

What do you think of this young man?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNFB213t5k

WOW! He is cute and really talented.

It's not ancient but how about the charango?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFI6722P0tI

Sounds nice but what the… is a charango?

Sviatoslav Richter playing Präludium and Fuge No.3 in C sharp major BWV 848 from the Well-Tempered Clavier by J. S. Bach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-c8WG2GTaI&feature=related

"Komm süsser Tod (Come sweet death)" BWV 478 by Bach adapted by Knut Nystedt into "Immortal Bach"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9TA5NWwxY 

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" lyrics by W.Shakespeare, music Nils Lindberg and sung by the Swedish Falu Kammarkör:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72kqSccCuI

15-year old Sarah Chang playing breathtakingly Mendelssohn's violin concerto with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCLxso5XDN4

I love music!

It's always so exiting to get to know new instruments and new beautiful pieces of music.

De Usuahia a la Quiaca – G. Santaolalla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2GgCFR2dw

I like the music and the pictures.

Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k

The Real Group (the best a capella group ever!) from Sweden sings

Gota

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gyj5RdcDSg

Impromptu Performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcRlBQF2AYc

A minute on your lips, a lifte time on your hips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJi8×3Xo20

Crazy guy this Tiny Tim!

Because you like the guitar so much here is some awsome guitar music for you:

Erik Mongrain plays Air Trap (Holy crap! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbndgwfG22k

Andy McKee plays Drifting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4&feature=fvst

Joscho "Django" Stephan (a nice guy from Germany) plays Mr. Sandman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPW3yYEqM1w

Paco De Lucia and Al Dimeola play Mediterranean Sundance (Friday Night in San Francisco)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl0HEUg6DD8&feature=PlayList&p=769C2316BA061A25&index=0

I am more into the Supremes

The Supremes singing A Lover's Concerto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA2hY7nhVWE

i like classical music and i love child of classical music – metal ^_

yes i adore classical music. and our classical singers are also very famous in whole world.

like Nusrat fateh ali khan, Rahat ali khan and abida parveen.they sung the songs of baba bulley shah , shah abdul latif (sufi poets) or in other words classical poets.