Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 / ...

Sends Shivers Down Your Spine!!!! (215 words)
by catatonic - written on 12/07/00, updated on 12/07/00 (Very useful, 118 readings)
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I'm not a classical person, I don't know any latin ( except what I read on the occasional packet of garden seeds!) I can't read music and couldn't tell my Brahms from my Orff ( well I probably could but I'm trying to make a point here!!) However Mozart's Requiem is enough to send shivers down the most heathen of spines!!! I rushed out and bought this cd after watching the film Amadeus on the tv. It cost next to nothing, there is probably a soundtrack that accompanies the film which you pay far more for but my copy just came from Woolworths classical range and is simply entitled Requiem, and I have listened to it more than any other cd I've ever ...

Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 / ...

The true Genius (112 words)
by traceyhand - written on 10/07/00, updated on 10/07/00 (Very useful, 79 readings)
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I couldn't even begin to write my opinion on Mozart in such a small space, I really need a whole website! Mozart's short life gave us some of the best music of his era and there is little I have listened to that affects me emotionally quite as much as his music. From the Clarinet Concerto to the piano sonatas, from quintets ...