The Town of Odyssey

Here's a great 2-CD set with music composed by Johann David Heinichen.

It is one of my most favorite albums I own.

I like Fielder and Copland the best. I'm also a fan of Handel's messiah.

I'll post the sheet music if you want ;-)

Speaking of sheet music, does anyone know where I can get a copy of the whole "Moonlight Sonata" the way Beethoven wrote it?

Not sure...

I like Copeland (!!!), Tchaikowsky (!!), Grieg, some Wagner and Bach and Beethoven, and many other composers who wrote soundtrack music, like Hans Zimmer and Howard Shore. I generally dislike composers from the Baroque Period, as their music seems too predictable. I also don't like Telemann...because he wrote the piece I have to play for auditions... >_<

How could I forget Howard Shore?! I love his work in Lord of the Rings.

What are everybody's thoughts on the Transiberean Orchestra? I haven't heard much of their work, but they play at least some classical music--with a combination of orchestra and rock instruments! Anybody else heard 'em?

Rachael wrote:How could I forget Howard Shore?! I love his work in Lord of the Rings.

Never EVER forget Howard Shore! I am dying to listen to all three soundtracks.

(Although I'm hysterical and in a flurry of emotion over the fact I'm seeing Narnia on Monday... the soundtracks get mixed up in my head... I have all the notes mixed up!! )

Kris Doyle wrote:What are everybody's thoughts on the Transiberean Orchestra? I haven't heard much of their work, but they play at least some classical music--with a combination of orchestra and rock instruments! Anybody else heard 'em?

My thoughts are that they rock and it wouldn't be Christmas without them

STRYPER wrote:

Kris Doyle wrote:What are everybody's thoughts on the Transiberean Orchestra? I haven't heard much of their work, but they play at least some classical music--with a combination of orchestra and rock instruments! Anybody else heard 'em?

My thoughts are that they rock and it wouldn't be Christmas without them

Did anyone see their music DVD called The Ghosts of Christmas Eve? I just saw it the other day, and it was great!

Jonathan wrote:

Kris Doyle wrote:Handel, yes. Hallelujah Chorus

An offtopic note here (pun intended), but that song is quite fun to play^_^

You really think so? I had to learn this song for the first time to play in church this Christmas, and I didn't really like playing the piece that well, though I love the sound of it. Of course, the problem was probably more that because of finals and the such, I was forced to wait to try and learn the piece until the night before... Believe me, I got sick of hearing that song after the first couple hours of practice...

Kris Doyle wrote:Did anyone see their music DVD called The Ghosts of Christmas Eve? I just saw it the other day, and it was great!

I have. They do indeed rock, and that DVD was an example of that.

My 2nd favorite CD by them (right after Christmas Eve and Other Stories which just can't be beat ) is Beethoven's Last Night, an album of theirs that doesn't get nearly as much attention as the Christmas work. It's packed with very dramatic renditions of classical favorites. When I saw them in concert and they performed their version of Beethoven's 5th from this album, the pyrotechnics were so intense that I had to physically cover my eyes to keep them from burning.

Handel can be both annoying and fun to play. I accompanied the choir on one of his pieces (I forget which one…I think it went “How lovely is Thy dwelling place” or something like that.) Sometimes I simply hated practicing it, with all of the movement and octaves. But it sounded pretty good when combined with the choir, and I enjoyed it once I'd gotten good at it.

Btw, all this talk about Handel (between talking about Trans-Siberian, which I egregiously misspeled earlier ) reminds me of Bach, since they lived at the same time. Didn't Bach dedicate all his music "to the glory of God alone"?