The Classical Revival Thread

So, sometimes it seems like you just have to make a thread on something because you can't take your mind off of it...

Classical music today is a dying art. Ask most people who Wagner is, or Shostakovitch, or even Handel, and chances are you'll get blank stares, or the occasional "wasn't he some old music guy?". We are losing a piece of our cultural heritage, and something has to be done. So, I've decided to make a thread dedicated to the celebration and preservation of classical music. Any classical styled music, from Bach to Gershwin, Mahler to Beethoven, even modern composers like Howard Shore or Hans Zimmer are welcome on this thread. I ask all of you to try and keep the music alive, and try to get your friends and family into it. Maybe go to the Symphony once in a while. See an opera. Or just download some music and play in your home, it doesn't matter. Kust post your favorite classical pieces and discuss. Let's start with some Wagner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4At9fe2De4Y

...I don't know what to say to you, because I acknowledge it might be a lost art in the future, as it is not a known art in the present. It will maintain its value as long as you appreciate it, because of music's nature as a fine art.

If you feel you don't want it to be like that, you can always make a change if you are strong-willed enough. Just think about what's the best way to get to people, don't force it but expose it in an attractive and sensual way, just as the music is. I have faith both in the new composers as in the people who still appreciate it.

Hideki Sakamoto because he is one of my still-alive favorites
http://www.mediafire.com/?49y16228x5fpn21

Mahler's 9th - 1st mov because Mahler
http://www.mediafire.com/?h7jy4rz72dxdjl2

Leo Brouwer makes some sick music. He composes for the guitar. I suggest his Concerto de Toronto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu0Fdw9AFPw

are there any good nowadays composers

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anymore like this

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i think as people will be less tv trash material people will go back to the intellectual spiritual relaxing good tastes

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Bask here, I wish I knew of more musicians like Brouwer.