My first classical music playlist

I found out a very interesting gadget, which allowed me to add a playlist of my favorite classical music tracks to my blog. Now, you folks can listen to it online without leaving my site. The tracks that I have added here are:

1. Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
2. Ave Maria by Bach
3. Swan Lake, the last track by Tchaikovsky
4. 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky
5. Arabesque by Debussy

Moonlight Sonata and Ave Maria are clearly romantic tracks and can always be played in a romantic setting.

My Love For Classical Music

When I was younger, there was no one in my family who could appreciate classical music. There were no compact discs those days and the middle classes had to do with audio cassettes. The rich people had access to big LP records. My mother used to like some English songs such as Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin and some songs by Jim Reeves. She also liked some Beatles. Then she liked some old Hindi film songs such as those sung by Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and others. My father used to like Urdu ghazals such as those sung by Mallika Pukhraj, Bade Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, Habib Jalib and others. My younger brother, when he grew up, he used to like the Hindi film songs and when he reached his mid-teens and when he was close to ending his teens, he began professing a taste for Ken Rogers and Yanni. But there was no one who ever could understand or listen to the great symphonic music of the world.

The pocket money that I got was never sufficient enough for me to buy CDs, even though many years ago, my father had bought a CD player when he went abroad. CDs used to be costly those days. We got our first computer at home in 1997 when I was 26 years old. My younger brother was 22 at that time. Computers used to be so expensive that one had to plan before making a purchase. Those days, Indian banks used to give out loans to people so that they could buy personal computers. So, I used to listen to western classical music on the radio and these programmes would be relayed late at nights. There were no earphones, so, one had to listen to the music in pretty low volumes so that the others wouldn't wake up in the house or wouldn't complain that you were disturbing them.

Sometimes, when we rarely had classical music programmes during the day time and if I heard them on the radio, my family members often used to tell me that they 'got bored' and that 'such music was good for relaxation' or that 'such music is only good at night' etc and I knew that I had better put the radio on very low volumes.

Classical Music

This website is devoted to western classical music, its composers as well as tidbits regarding the great musicians.