classical music?

[Tony Varadero]

Don Giovanni has a great plot but is overly long and the music is tiresome. Act 3 is repetitive. Cosi fan Tutte is just plain awful and the Magic Flute is hardly entertainment. Wagner's operas are dramatic and gripping whilst Mozart's operas are dull and you wish they'd just finish. His non-operatic work is another matter.

Avvocato, as usual I respect people's opinions, but one's opinion is not an established fact.......in my opinion.... I still suggest one listens to it and then makes up one's own mind....again my ho.....

[Mpj]

Avvocato, as usual I respect people's opinions, but one's opinion is not an established fact.......in my opinion.... I still suggest one listens to it and then makes up one's own mind....again my ho.....

So you'll be coming with me to the Wagner next time rather than saying it's c**p?

[Stubbsie]

Classic FM, that's the best music for relaxing & driving in my opinion

[Tony Varadero]

So you'll be coming with me to the Wagner next time rather than saying it's c**p?

if u buy drinks to sooth the pain I'll consider it........we can always listen to Mozart after to cheer us up!

[Mpj]

if u buy drinks to sooth the pain I'll consider it........we can always listen to Mozart after to cheer us up!

Mela you've no soul if you can't appreciate Wagner

[Cabby]

Mela you've no soul if you can't appreciate Wagner

Win double for you innit M?....he was almost as right wing as you....

[Tony Varadero]

Mela you've no soul if you can't appreciate Wagner

I'd watch it...our former maty used to love Wagner and detested Mozart apparently...... anyway i'll stick to Vivaldi...a man for all seasons!

[Dee Duble Yuh]

... anyway i'll stick to Vivaldi...a man for all seasons!

Definitely! And who could possibly hate Mozart's piano concertos?!? In the UK I find Classic FM a great way to sample a reasonably wide variety of classical music. That's not much help to Moon though, unless you can listen in via Internet radio.

[Dee Duble Yuh]

Oh, and... (the penny drops more slowly these days) you could always try Spotify.

A world of music - Spotify - in English
A world of music - Spotify - in French

You need to install the Spotify player, but access to music is free. The free version lets you play any track up to five times, and there's a monthly limit, but it's great for sampling music to find out what you like and what you don't. You can buy individual tracks (I recommend building up a list of tracks to buy then buy 15 or 40 of them at a reduced rate).

Downloads - Spotify

Downloaded music is DRM-free, so you can copy it for personal use as much as you like. Want a track on your mp3 player and phone and laptop and desktop PC and a CD? No problem!

A search for "Beethoven" shows they have hundreds of tracks (though some of them were by Chuck Berry and the Electric Light Orchestra, LOL). There's a vast collection of music by all kinds of artists new and old.

[Whealie]

Well I went to Royal Festival Hall last night to see the good lady wife sing Handel's Messiah (she was the choir).

And, despite it being our wedding anniversary and me desperately wanting to like it - and it being technically brilliant and sounding awesome in the sense of the wonderfully powerful sound of hundreds of voices all working together - I can safely say I hated it.

Going to see Stiff Little Fingers at the end of the month. A bit of 35-year old punk rock. That's more my cup of tea.