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I have never really exposed myself to classical music. I know that I like enya (I think she is New age but it sounds like its classical to me). Could anyone recommend some nice classical music that I could listen to that will fit the style of enya. This way I can get exposure without getting bored. I am interested in trying classical music because I understand that it helps students study better.

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I don't know about classical music that fits the style of Enya, but I can recommend some good places to start.

Go to your local public library, and see if they check out CDs. If they do, try to find some of these pieces.

Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach
Symphony no. 6 in F (Pastoral) by Beethovan

These are very gentle, beautiful pieces.

Another good way to learn about classical music is to use ITunes. You can use the radio feature on that to listen to some classical stations. With that, you can find out whether you like that type of music enough to learn more about it.

Finally, take a music appreciation class at your local junior college. You will learn a lot there about different styles.

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I love classical music as well as a variety of others. Bach is by far my favorite, violin concertos move me the most. There is another place you can go, try yahoo.com and go to their music section. They also have a radio area and you may pick the genres you like to listen to. There are other areas too that you may want to try out......*whispers*winmx and kazaa also offer some music if you would like to try it before you buy it on classical. I do recommend, if you like it, buy a cd, the quality in cd music for the genre is astronomically better than any download, with classical, it makes a big difference!

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Good to see the Bach fans are active out there! I'd take his music before all the rest put together. A businessman friend of mine once expressed his opinion on the subject in the words "Bach makes music sound like a well-balanced ledger book".
When I began listening to real music, as an emotional teenager, it was Dvorak's instrumental stuff which got me going first. I find it too contaminated with emotion to listen to very much nowadays (tho' his chamber works still grab my ear), but it's not a bad starting point.
(I must find out how to do Czech punctuation on this keyboard!)

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Wow, I didn't think anyone else listened to Anton Dvorak. I have several of his CD's but couldn't name a specific piece, I just like his style. I also like his operatic works as well. Vivaldi's four seasons is another specifically favorite piece of work I like.

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Actually, I'd like to call for a world-wide moratorium on performances of the "Four Seasons" of Vivaldi for ten years. Not that they're bad music, but I'm very tired of hearing them at every concert of Italian baroque music I attend. The man wrote an awful lot of other stuff too, and one never hears it in the concert hall. Try his cello concerti, or the flute music; they really deserve to be more widely played.

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My wife likes clasical music. For me it would nver be played unless I was participating in a dance festival as a church level where I would have to help teach steps to.

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As a musician, I've come to love a wide variety of music. Classical music was, for a long time, a kind of novelty for me. When it came up as a topic of conversation, I always said "Yeah, I like classical". Well...a few years ago my wife and I decided to buy season tickets to the Cleveland Orchestra (and they were NOT cheap, lemme tell ya). I left that first performance stunned. Truly. I've been playing music for over 15 years and have seen literally hundreds of concerts/bands, never before had I been so moved. Besides that the Cleveland Orchestra is world renowned as the best orchestra in existance (well number 2 if you're partial to the Berlin Philharmonic, but it's really a matter of region) their flawless performance and passionate, personal devotion to the music was almost tangible. It was a life altering experience. I now listen exclusively to my local NPR station when I'm on the road and have begun to expand our collection of classical works in earnest. This was all four years ago, and shows no sign of slowing. I do listen to modern music as well, I have to because one of my bands performs "cover songs" but when given the choice I go for the true "old school".

We had the fortune of seeing a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana with a huge choir and the full ensemble as written by Orff. It was amazing!