QUOTE(Dr. Blofeld @ Wed 9th February 2011, 6:00am)
Well I learned classical piano from age of 7-14 I think. But I never learned to play without music until recently. Yeah I love Chopin, absolute genius. Easily my favourite composer. Ballade no.1 is possibly the most astounding piece I've ever heard in terms of technical quality. Who plays it best, mmm I'd say Zimmerman just edges Horowitz on that one. Liszt and Bach are also my favourites. Admittedly Mozart doesn't really do it for me, I prefer Beethoven. For somebody who never used to like classical and was solely a rock fan for many years I've come to appreciate it in recent times. A lot of classical music doesn't float my boat and a lot of jazz I find too avant garde. I generally like very melodic "emotional" sort of music.
Exactly my own taste. All you left out is Rachmaninoff and Brahms, but I suppose those are given if you like melody.
Harmony, melody-- if I can get those, I'm fine. That includes rock and roll and pop. I even absorbed the blues-y shock when Barry Gibb went falseto in 1975. (IMG:
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Rap and hip hop? Not music. If your tastes differ, fine. But for me: (IMG:
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Jazz is music, but as with you, not my favorite. Of course there is some old melodic jazz that I enjoy very much-- Gershwin, Cole Porter, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Nat King Cole, a lot of Louis Armstrong, and so on. None of this is considered very advanced, but the more advanced it is, the more I wish for something else. Coltrane excepted. (IMG:
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