But my first love has always been classical -- Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler and the others. Back around 7 years ago, I did a retrospective of the music of Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Brahms at the Canteen.
By the way, you and Ms. B both have a weakness for the Moody Blues. Graeme Edge's poetry causes Ms. B to get faint.
Your music preferences are from a saner time in a number of ways.
The nice thing I’ve noticed on You Tube is that there are quite a few respectable “micropublishers” of music in a classical bent. Modern technology greatly eases what was a laborious effort for Beethoven et al. Though Beethoven himself expressed contempt for the “keyboard cowboy.” All I can do is grin back at Ludwig and say yeehaw, what one age says never to becomes the habit of the next. Also with MIDI has come “impossible toccatas.” See the score. Wish you had more fingers.
I don’t do that every year but have done it from time to time. The Moody’s albums span quite a bit of time and that’s a lot of changes in our lives to reflect on, isn’t it? One thing that hasn’t changed is the excellence of their music. Graeme’s poetry causes Ms. B to get faint and listening to Justin Hayward’s voice causes me to get faint. LOL!
My favorite classical composer has always been Mozart, though I enjoy all the others too. Hubby freaks out when I have classical playing because he knows my other musical tastes. He just doesn’t understand how one can go from one to the other I reckon. :-)