Caught a little of Dennis Healey's Desert Island Discs on R4 this morning. He chose several Classical pieces and waxed lyrically about a certain Beethoven piece. I don't think I have ever blogged [in 3 years] anything to do with classical music. I do feel a real philistine where this genre is concerned, I know very little about it. We do have some positively classical genius's at the hospital radio station who just blow me away with their knowledge.
I listen to hardly any classical compositions. Just for the record it is not that I hate it or do not understand it, it's simple that it tears me to pieces as most of it is melancholy or dramatic and it takes me to places I don't really want to go to.
Saying that I have a few favourites:
Zadoc The Priest
Carmina Burana
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Vivaldi's The Seasons
Holst's Planet
Peer Gynt
Carmen Jones
.... all pretty lightweight really.
