Hello everybody. I have a decent collection of classical, but I am just getting started on my Hi-fi collection and I am replacing all of my 128k mp3 with flac material. I don't know much about the different types of classical music. What is Adagio, or Adante, etc, stuff like that. I picked up a good collection of Mozart, but the older music that I have, even though it is a horrible bit rate is superior to me. The new music that I have was possibly recorded by a smaller orchestra or something. I like more fluid transition in the music, I don't know how to describe this. It seems like this new cd collection that I picked up has less fluid transition between notes. Like the note is played, quickly, then fades quickly with a pause between notes. I really want to find recordings that have a more fluid transition between notes, also of high quality. If there is a post about the basics of classical music please point me in that direction, and anybody that has some specific recordings that might suit me please pass that along too. I was wondering about a song I like as well; Adagio for strings. I though for sure that I had listened to a rendition of this that had a much more say... higher peaking crecendo. Something like Hans Zimmer would write for a movie, or maybe John Williams. They seem to have very powerfull music that peaks very quickly.
For other music I know that I love Pachelbel, and I believe the other composer is Henkel... I need to study up a bit and start building my collection. I would buy the classical collection from Itunes but I really need to figure this out before spending too much there because I want to get better quality music than 128k AAC from Itunes. What other composers should I look at? I like strings the most, especially violin and cielo. I do have Mozart symphonys 1-9, I don't know how much work he did, if that is complete.
I am sorry for sounding like such a newb. I know I will look back at this post in a year or so and wonder how I could be so blind to the wealth of classical music, but I am just lost right now. I know that I love this music, I know that it moves me in a way that nothing else does. I bought a violin, thinking that I could somehow play this music and feel the way that I do when I listen to it, but no luck so far. I really just need to get some lessons :) Oh, I really like the soundtrak from Last of the Mohicans too, kind of a Celtic music type there I would guess.
Thanks for any help and direction.
Neil
