Classical Music

[Mazeppa]

um... dood no... Beethoven even studied with Bach for a bit... he was a transitional composer between the Baroque and Classical periods.
It's not often someone is so horribly wrong.

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685– 1750

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827

Beethoven was a transitional composer between the Classical and the Romantic eras aswell thanks.

[hatebreeder]

He might have gotten JC Bach mixed With JS.

[what]

It's not often someone is so horribly wrong.

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685? 1750

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 ? 1827

Beethoven was a transitional composer between the Classical and the Romantic eras aswell thanks.

uh sorry,

Beethoven studied with Haydn, not Bach and I confused Haendel with Haydn so I shifted the Classical period into the Baroque and got totally mixed up.

[what]

Wew, I completely missed this post. Assuming it's Yamashita, I'm gonna have a search for this version.

I can send all four movements to you if you want.

[JakeFloyd]

My favorite composer currently is Brahms. His music is just very rich.

However, right now (this past week or so) I have been obsessing with Mozart's Requiem. It is 14 pieces of extreme brilliance and perfection. Not a chord or note misplaced.

In case some of you didn't know, Mozart wrote them in his deathbed and died before fully completeing some of the masterpieces. I definately suggest everyone go out and hear every one of them (in the correct order).

Enjoy!

EDIT: I also enjoy the music of Khachaturian very much. He had a very distinct sound and feel to his compositions. Some of them were very powerful, and many of them (such as the Sabre Dance) are heard by everyone, but the composer remains unkown. Check some of his stuff out too, guys!

[LF96]

I can send all four movements to you if you want.
Yeah, that'd be appreciated, I've already took a small search but haven't come up with any result and my father doesn't have it either. My email is:

mcemmer@hotmail...

[the2stranger]

Could anyone recommend me some good Organ composers besides J.S Bach?

thank you :)

[Grant]

Could you send me Requiem? mahavishnugrantkelly@gmail.com

Stravinsky's Petrushka is a phenomenal piece, hard to believe people thought is was insanely dissonant on it's release.

[Mazeppa]

Could anyone recommend me some good Organ composers besides J.S Bach?

thank you :)
Julius Reubke!
Seriously, he may not be that famous and he died befrore he could compose many works, but his Sonata on the 94th Psalm for Organ is brilliant. Also check out Reger, a favourite of mine is his Symphonic Fantasy & Fugue Op.57 'The Inferno'.

[the2stranger]

^

Thank you, this 'Inferno' sounds espcially good!
I shall check it out.

[HitHardDrums55]

whats some dark/creepy classical songs? i just got into classical music and i came from rock, goth-pop, and goth-rock mostly, a lot more stuff too but mostly those...

i have In The Hall Of The Mountain King (my band is working on a weird experimental version of that), a few other Grieg pieces, and The Entertainer, but none of those are really dark or creepy sounding

[HitHardDrums55]

anybody...

[what]

Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Shostakovich has some, Prokofiev's Symphonies "Poem of Fire"... try Toru Takemitsu, well and Penderecki too.

[Det_Nosnip]

Hi All!
I am new to the forum but I agree with Zappa about being ignorant. The more pieces I listen to, the more I realize how little I have heard. Current favorite is Mahler but love Tchaikovsky as well as Bach (especially the fugues) and thoroughly enjoy most classical as well as film music, old rock and roll etc. :wave:

Mahler's music is amazing. The 9th Symphony blows my mind. :amaze:

[Det_Nosnip]

oh my goodness the Rachmanninov piano concertos are amazing.so beautiful yet powerful.

Agreed...they're incredible.

[HitHardDrums55]

anybody else like Grieg pieces?

[rockinbass17]

/bumpy-bump

So yea, Mozart's two and a half centuries old.

For an attempt at discussion, I just listened to The Four Seasons for the first time in a while. What's everybody's favorite part? Mine's Summer, particularly the first movement.

[Mazeppa]

I really enjoy listening to Winter most of the time, but I don't listen to it that often.

[Schyma]

I'm extremly ignorant to Classical Music but ever since I heard "Symphony No. 9" in it's full length a few weeks ago I've been obsessed with trying to obtain anything and everything Classical related. You guys should make a mailing list, I'd love to start it but my Classical works collection is so weak I'm embarrassed to even mention it and on top of that, my computer rejects anything and everything I try sending through YSI. I don't know I just think this thread could come back to life (and keep it going strong) and be a great place to get quality music if you guys would just start one. It's only a suggestion though....

I've read every single post in this thread and I hope to read much much more. :thumb:

[LF96]

I'm extremly ignorant to Classical Music but ever since I heard "Symphony No. 9" in it's full length a few weeks ago I've been obsessed with trying to obtain anything and everything Classical related.
Whose 9th symphony? There are quite a few 9th symphonys...

Anyway, I'm getting a lot into Dvorak and Mussorgsky right now. I dug up some old classical vinyl from my dad, and found some interesting stuff. Among it, Dvorak's Requiem, which is awesome. I hadn't heart from it before, but since I both liked Dvorak and Requiems in general I checked it out and wasn't disappointed at all. Good stuff.

[what]

I'm extremly ignorant to Classical Music but ever since I heard "Symphony No. 9" in it's full length a few weeks ago I've been obsessed with trying to obtain anything and everything Classical related. You guys should make a mailing list, I'd love to start it but my Classical works collection is so weak I'm embarrassed to even mention it and on top of that, my computer rejects anything and everything I try sending through YSI. I don't know I just think this thread could come back to life (and keep it going strong) and be a great place to get quality music if you guys would just start one. It's only a suggestion though....

I've read every single post in this thread and I hope to read much much more. :thumb:

i think its 'illegal' to upload anything fro dl'ing here

[Schyma]

Several other threads have been doing it...I don't see why you guys shouldn't give it a try at least.

[ariakkake]

um lemme think

maybe because we dont believe in ripping off artists

maybe the ppl in pop punk or rock and metal dont realy care becuz the artists r already makin enuff money

but it aint lik that in clasical music


gimme a break u can get almost any classical music on naxos label for about $7

classical music is ridiculously cheap compared to the rest so jus go out and buy some

[Zappa]

I'd better not see any YSI links to copyrighted material in here. It is against the forum-wide rules.

[IAJP]

I've been listening to a load of J.S. Bach recently, it''s so quirky and cool. I can't wait till PianoSociety has it's download thingies working again!

[Schyma]

I appologize I even mentioned it.

[rockinbass17]

I would have liked a classical mailing list. Ah well.

So, my all-state audition piece is going to be Dragonetti's Concerto in A Major. This guy wrote bass pieces on a whole new level. Very fast, the notes go up well into treble cleff. I play notes below the finger board.

[erock]

Nothin beats the brandenburg concerto's. Except mozart's reqiuem. which i am surprised is the top played mozart composition on last.fm.

p.s. Chaconne is overrated LOL

[ariakkake]

the bach chaconne is not overrated

wtf

[jazzlife]

hello evryone,

i'm new to this forum, and although my name suggests otherwise i am into classical music as well. I'm currently listening to Stravinsky's "Song of the Nightingale"...excellent. I'm really into all Russian and Eastern-European classical/romantic/neo-classical composers. Between Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Dvorak, Bartok, Prokovief,etc...Rachmaninof is definitly my favorite. I suggest his "Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini" its a great piece of music for the piano and orchestra. I especially like its marccato and pizzicato final movement. Russian and Eastern composers just have this immense depth in their works...this emotional intensity that creates a certain atomsphere. One of my favorite compilations are the Vespers of Rachmaninov...a set of orthodox choral works...immensly powerful, melodic and harmonious...just like all of Rachmaninov's works.

Now to you all: i see all of you enjoy the basic few composers...Mozart etc. For the one who said that he enjoyed Mozarts Requiem i suggest Mozarts other mass... the "Great Mass" in C minor...same style of course but in my eyes far better.

[jazzlife]

Could anyone recommend me some good Organ composers besides J.S Bach?

thank you :)

Dietrich Buxtehude is a great choral and organ composer. He was actually the one, JS Bach walked 200km to, for seeing a concert.

[what]

hello evryone,

i'm new to this forum, and although my name suggests otherwise i am into classical music as well. I'm currently listening to Stravinsky's "Song of the Nightingale"...excellent. I'm really into all Russian and Eastern-European classical/romantic/neo-classical composers. Between Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Dvorak, Bartok, Prokovief,etc...Rachmaninof is definitly my favorite. I suggest his "Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini" its a great piece of music for the piano and orchestra. I especially like its marccato and pizzicato final movement. Russian and Eastern composers just have this immense depth in their works...this emotional intensity that creates a certain atomsphere. One of my favorite compilations are the Vespers of Rachmaninov...a set of orthodox choral works...immensly powerful, melodic and harmonious...just like all of Rachmaninov's works.


yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees yweweeesssse yesssess

[joldaerath]

I love Dvorak's Slavonic Dance number 8 (opus 46). The bridge is just amazing. The whole song has dramatic harmonies with some nice melodic filigree on top. I don't really know that much classical music. Can anybody give me recommendations? I'm looking for symphonic songs with dramatic harmonies but fairly rhythmically structured.

[DizzyTS]

Nothin beats the brandenburg concerto's. Except mozart's reqiuem. which i am surprised is the top played mozart composition on last.fm.

p.s. Chaconne is overrated LOL

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[jazzlife]

is there anyone who can tell me some really good choral pieces/composers....
as said, i'm into the vespers of Rachmaninov, mozarts "great mass", etc...

[what]

Stravinsky has religious choral works I think.

Then, if you want something more "modern" go for Penderecki, he uses choirs really much, but sometimes his music freaks me out.

Also, check out Mihail Glinka, he used choirs a lot in his music too. Try the opera "Ivan Susanin".

[peabody]

New guy here too.
I prefer Beethoven over Mozart but still like them both.
I have just heard the Franz Liszt-Complete Etudes with this Claudio Arrau
playing the piano. Man, this is so emotional.
Any other Liszt I need to hear?

[ebv-dave]

hey, i was checking out some composers the other day, ones who i'd not heard of, and stumbled across "pendrecki" and a song called "threnody for the victims of hi", it was amazing, like, strangely gripping, and some of the chords sounded awful, but helped create atmosphere etc. it was a really interesting view of music.

if anyone knows any similar composers/songs can they inform me.

EDIT: (just read the post two up from here, so i guess pendrecki is well known)

[Mazeppa]

New guy here too.
I prefer Beethoven over Mozart but still like them both.
I have just heard the Franz Liszt-Complete Etudes with this Claudio Arrau
playing the piano. Man, this is so emotional.
Any other Liszt I need to hear?
For Liszt I would recommend his Hungarian Rhapsodies aswell as his two piano cocertos. Oh and don't forget his sonata either, one of his greatest works I think.

[rockinbass17]

^I have a CD of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, and I like most of it, but more and more it's been bothering me that sometimes there are random chromatic scales and other runs that don't do anything for the song, just there to show off. He's still emotional, though.

[CabbageStabbage]

hey, i was checking out some composers the other day, ones who i'd not heard of, and stumbled across "pendrecki" and a song called "threnody for the victims of hi", it was amazing, like, strangely gripping, and some of the chords sounded awful, but helped create atmosphere etc. it was a really interesting view of music.

if anyone knows any similar composers/songs can they inform me.

EDIT: (just read the post two up from here, so i guess pendrecki is well known)

Threnody freaks the crap out of me. It really makes me feel like a nuclear victim or something. I'm not usually one to find stuff hard to listen to, but it's so freaky!

Reminds me of some wierd japanese movie I saw. I really want to find out what it is. It's about some guys that go to the countryside outside Hiroshima. Then the grandmother tells the story of an eye she saw when the nuke went off.

[peabody]

For Liszt I would recommend his Hungarian Rhapsodies aswell as his two piano cocertos. Oh and don't forget his sonata either, one of his greatest works I think.

Thanks MG:thumb: :chug: cheers

[Biz]

Wagner-Elsas Procession to the Cathedral(from Lohengrin) is absolutely AMAZING! Anyone else think so? Also, anyone heard the 4 movement piece by Sousa called People Who Live in Glass Houses? That piece is one of the fiew pieces he wrote that wasn't a march. Or how about Thomas Knox Sea Songs? Thats a cool piece? Anyone else heard these?
-Biz

[kevbud187]

Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.

[Biz]

Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.
Planets is one of my fav. pieces ever. I think its mostly because I play euphonium, but still I think it is awesome!
-Biz

[Biz]

Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.
Planets is one of my fav. pieces ever. I think its mostly because I play euphonium, but still I think it is awesome!
-Biz

[rustcycle]

You might enjoy this...nuevo classical with a modern touch ;-)
http://cs.uccs.edu/~abjohnso/daisho/02_Reverse_I.mp3

[ThePatient]

If anyone could point me in the right direction to a recording of Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony, I'd greatly apprectiate it. Or maybe send it over AIM if someone has it? I just really don't feel like going to my school's library just to listen to one song tommorow when I don't have to go in for anything else...

[rustcycle]

If anyone could point me in the right direction to a recording of Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony, I'd greatly apprectiate it. Or maybe send it over AIM if someone has it? I just really don't feel like going to my school's library just to listen to one song tommorow when I don't have to go in for anything else...

I found some great public domain classical recordings off of Euro sites - If you find the right sites you can find Bach to Paganini...hope that helps!

[Manticore Guy]

Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.

Jupiter= the best:thumb:

[what]

Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.

um... no.

[periculosus]

I love classical music and opera as well and even though i'm not as literate in this field i have some general knowledge. I think it´s cool for a thread like this to exist in a site ruled by guitar music enthusiasts. keep on the goodwork.

my favorite pieces of clasical music and opera have to be: spring by vivaldi and vesti la giuba pagliaci as singed by pavaroti (since i havent heard another version for a while), I will also apreciate some help if any one has listenes to the red paintings song redneck whats the opening piece in that song i'm pretty much sure it is a classical piece. thanks in advance :thumb:

[rockinbass17]

I'm not too big on opera, more of a symphony/piano man myself, although i do enjoy lots of selections from Mozart's operas. The Overtures to Don Giovani and The Marriage of Figaro are some favorites of mine.

[what]

One of my favourite operas is Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk", it's really the best opera I've heard lately.

[Neoteric]

For some reason I dig classical music. I'm not big on operas and such but orchestral pieces are perfect for me.

[peabody]

You really have to experience the Opera live. You have to be in the audience and hear all the little things and see the little things that one can not experience with just an audio recording.

[rockinbass17]

My father has taken me to The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville. I liked them, probably becasue I am a Mozart fan, but they were quite long.

[Mmm Digital]

Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!

Have to say my favourite piece of all time would have to be rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 1 - everyone always yammers on about no.3 and no.2 but they always forget no.1 - it was basically the first piece he ever wrote! Its like op.2 or something - but the melodies in all three movements are so lovely and emotional and swelling. The second movement has one of the nicest little quiet jazz melodies ever - it makes me cry almost every time ! haha - sad i know :-P

Tom Race XXX
www.myspace.com/tomrace

[may]

Ok, I am new here. I like classical. Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovski, Handel, Carl Orff and some of the others' works as well. I also listen to Enya, Andrea Bocelli (spl.) etc....

[PianoDan]

Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!

Have to say my favourite piece of all time would have to be rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 1 - everyone always yammers on about no.3 and no.2 but they always forget no.1 - it was basically the first piece he ever wrote! Its like op.2 or something - but the melodies in all three movements are so lovely and emotional and swelling. The second movement has one of the nicest little quiet jazz melodies ever - it makes me cry almost every time ! haha - sad i know :-P

Tom Race XXX
www.myspace.com/tomrace
Yeah Piano Concerto no. 1 is underrated, though it's really not as good as 2 or 3. I like it a lot though. He was 18 when he wrote it but he seriously touched it up much later in life, I think really because it wasn't all that good at first.

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[what]

oh no :lol:

[Mazeppa]

Hahaha

Anyway thanks to school I'm going to go and hear the music to Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet performed, just without the ballet. That's next Friday I think, I'm looking forward.

[KuroTheBassist]

I while ago I saw Viktoria Mullova playing Bach, it was the most beautiful and intense music I've ever heard. Does anyone know where I can get a hold of it on CD? I've been looking everywhere, but with no joy so far.

Thanks.

[what]

Hahaha

Anyway thanks to school I'm going to go and hear the music to Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet performed, just without the ballet. That's next Friday I think, I'm looking forward.

oh god thats so awesome, I've never heard the suite live... damn Mantuegi and Capuletti is my favourite part. aah I've seen the ballet though... but on video. =/

[Mazeppa]

oh god thats so awesome, I've never heard the suite live... damn Mantuegi and Capuletti is my favourite part. aah I've seen the ballet though... but on video. =/
Well I went to that concert on Friday night, and it was great. Really wonderfull to hear that music properly at last.

NP:Moritz Moszkowski - Etude Op.72 No.2

[jazzlife]

Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!

Have to say my favourite piece of all time would have to be rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 1 - everyone always yammers on about no.3 and no.2 but they always forget no.1 - it was basically the first piece he ever wrote! Its like op.2 or something - but the melodies in all three movements are so lovely and emotional and swelling. The second movement has one of the nicest little quiet jazz melodies ever - it makes me cry almost every time ! haha - sad i know :-P

Tom Race XXX
www.myspace.com/tomrace

Hello again,...as said Rachmaninoff is my favorite composer in any way, and i just wanted to add that the 1st concerto was rachmaninoff's final exam piece for the Tschaikovsky Conservatory where he studied piano and composition (counterpoint)...just a random fact!! In fact Rachmaninoff himself wasn't that pleased with the work (as with many other of his works), although it is a very nice example of Rachmaninoff's music

[what]

Fun Fact:

Rachmaninov graduated from the Conservatory with the 1st place for piano, and Scriabin had 2nd.


...and counterpoint is just one of few things that are studied along with harmony, form etc.

[aria8789464]

no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.

[jazzlife]

no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.

That's what it sounded like in the biographies i read, i could off course be really mistaken...

anyways, the point is....

[what]

no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.

well maybe in australia :lol:

I have books on harmony that were printed in the end of the 19th century... 1890+

Rachmaninov was born somewhere in the 1870's and graduated in the mid 90's I think so yeah

hey man get on yahhoo

[Futuro]

Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!
I can't listen to it anymore :upset: I put it on, and all im thinking is "Hmm this song makes we want to buy a cadillac"

er...at least the beggining.

[Iai]

Alban Berg's Violin Concerto is fast becoming one of my all-time favourite pieces.

[telemore]

Sup classical thread?

I've been jonesin for some classical, so I tracked down my copies of Scheherazade (i think i spelled it right.) Some Mahler and the Planets. Sadly, that's most of what I've got, save for some brass quint stuff, which I'm listening to right now. It's Canadian Brass, playing the Beatles' songs. Indeed good listenings.

On my next outting, I'm gonna pick up some Puccini, maybe Tosca if I can find it. Opera really gets me going. I think that's a good starting point. Yes.

Ok.

Take care thread!

[PianoDan]

In fact Rachmaninoff himself wasn't that pleased with the work (as with many other of his works), although it is a very nice example of Rachmaninoff's music
It is - but he did a major rewrite much later in life (after the 2nd and 3rd).

I'd love to get a chance to hear some Berg, Schonberg, etc.; I've never heard any but I've read about them. I haven't had all that much exposure to a lot of 20th century "classical" music.

[what]

telemore - listen (and see if you can) Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"

PianoDan - if you have DC++, I have really much 20th century music, from late Scriabin to modern Avant-garde.

[aria8789464]

no im talking about worldwide mayb research it a bit more

up until about 1950s ppl didnt study "composition" they studied counterpoint

also if u have done ne study on counterpoint u will know that if u understand species counterpoint u understand harmony very well


even when schoenberg was teachin students includin webern and berg he had all his students study strict traditional counterpoint and nothing else for years

[aria8789464]

That's what it sounded like in the biographies i read, i could off course be really mistaken...

anyways, the point is....

yeah you are right

as i said composers in those days studied "counterpoint" not "composition"

[aria8789464]

Alban Berg's Violin Concerto is fast becoming one of my all-time favourite pieces.

yeah berg is probly my favourite composer right now

his violin concerto yeah thats a true masterpeice

but my favourite work of his at the moment is his opus 1 piano sonata

tru genius its surely the most amazing opus 1 ever written

[metalhead_matt]

hey, can any of u recommend some classical music thats sort of like dark and gloomy

[aria8789464]

yeuh Maurice Ravel - Bolero

[metalhead_matt]

yeah ive got that i think. any requiems, they dont tend to me on the happy side

[aria8789464]

yeuh wat about alban berg violin concerto that we were talking about earlier then

[metalhead_matt]

il check it out, thanks

[LF96]

So what do y'all think of contemporary classical music? This weekend I heard lots of contemporary music for percussion (mainly marimba) and I must say I'm not quite sure if I like it or not. Some pieces have an immensely beautiful basis but then it can all be ruined by a series a dissonant chords and stuff. Other songs are just dissonance all over...

[what]

no im talking about worldwide mayb research it a bit more

up until about 1950s ppl didnt study "composition" they studied counterpoint

also if u have done ne study on counterpoint u will know that if u understand species counterpoint u understand harmony very well


even when schoenberg was teachin students includin webern and berg he had all his students study strict traditional counterpoint and nothing else for years

well were talking about Rachmaninov... and he was in Russia...

what you want me to research? the print date of my book?

maybe what they studied was name "counterpoint" instead of "composition" but nevertheless, im pretty sure that the harmony book I have was printed for a reason, not to lie on shelves for 60 years.

[what]

man ftw u and i seem to be getting in argument everytime we see each other post

[Crumbumonkey5]

I remember the first piece of classical music I really got into was Pachelbel's Canon. It really is a true masterpiece.
My favourite piece is probabliy the 1st movement of Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz
It is truly incredible!

Don't you hate the way companies seem to sell classical masterpieces as spin-offs of Films and Pop songs!
I have compilation CD that merits Canon on being the inspiration for a Kylie Minogue song and one that merits Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on being the tune from the film 'Manhatten.'

[aria8789464]

yeuh and everytime i seem to win

like jus then

yeuh no doubt harmony books existed nobody argued against that i dont think but composers studied counterpoint prety strctily

i thought that was common knowledge obviously not

[what]

well... you know... nobody said that they didn't study counterpoint... all I said was they study harmony and form along with counterpoint...

"just then" is when?

u lose everytime cuz ur prisoner llaolaoalooal

[aria8789464]

u ok so u lose so u change ur argument ok

dood i pwn u everytime an im sure u know it

[what]

hhahahaa

i just realized that there is nothing to argue about... except how it was called... which isnt worth arguing because on every russian biography of his it says he studied composition with Taneev (the guy who wrote the book on counterpoint)

so yer

u never pwn lol

omg i c u on aim

[aria316]

ok so whats everyone been digging lately

ive just been listening to gustav holst - the planets today after not listening to it for a few months

yeuh its really good music

what about u guys

[Mazeppa]

Been listening to plenty of Liszt lately myself.

[guitrguy]

I have been really into Beethoven lately.

[as_seen_on_tv]

I don't know if any of the people that post on here have listened to Streetlight Manifesto at all,but in their song "If and When We Rise Again", they use Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 5",and very well at that, as the bridge of the song.There is no real point to me saying this,but give it a listen,it's good times.

[what]

Mostly Messiaen (20 regards sur l'enfant jesus and his quartet for the end of time) and Pendrecki (2nd symphony)... and Shostakovich his 13th symphony (Babij Yar)

[Lupus]

I like classical music, but I can only really get into it when thereis only one instrument playing solo, guitar especially, but also some piano.

[aria444]

yeuh that how i started

[Dave de Sylvia]

I've been getting into an album called Between Worlds by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin the last few days. He's a classically-trained pianist who's been working for the last few decades to find a way to fit the piano as a solo instrument into traditional Irish music, along the way incorporating other forms of folk music. It's a really compelling album, especially as the piano music has a completely alien dynamic to standard folk music.

[Turbonegro]

is there any chance anyone could mention a couple of artists/songs which are darker/minor key?

[what]

check out some Shostakovich, most of his music has a dark expressionistic atmosphere... as does Schoenberg's although theyre different

if you want something more traditional and but also overplayed there is Albinoni's Adagio... but man theres too much music...

[Samuel]

is there any chance anyone could mention a couple of artists/songs which are darker/minor key?
Prokofiev's 3rd Symphony is an interesting piece.

Schoenberg and Shostakovich, as mentioned, also have some excellent pieces that fall into a brooding type of sound. For Schoenberg, I particularly like Verklarte Night, especially when it's arranged for the full string orchestra. The Op.31 Variations are also very nice.

For Shostakovich, there are too many good pieces to name, but I'd probably reccomend the 6th and 12th symphonies.

Lutoslawski's 4th Symphony is a current favourite of mine.

Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony is also a current favourite.

All of those are quite "dark".


EDIT: Oh, yeah. Try Copland's Orchestral Variations too.

And Bartok's String Quartets are very, very cool. Try the 4th.

Man, What is right. There's just too much good music in the world.

[what]

man i finally bought Bartok's "Miaraculous Mandarin" on CD... now I have a full version of it instead of just random tracks on my pc... awesome

it alos has his "music for strings, percussion and celesta"

jdsalfjafkljdaf

I also want to buy Britten's War Requiem soon. Can't wait.

[Mazeppa]

My CD of Liszt's two concerto's plus the Totentanz arrived today, as played by Berezovsky. Listening to Concerto No.1 now and it's great. Good purchase indeed. It also has Liszt's Sonata, two Sonettos which are entirely new to me and Apres une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata "Dante Sonata". I'm not familiar with that work either so it'll be good to listen to.

[what]

Ive listened to Liszt very briefly... I actually listened to the whole romantic period very briefly... unfortunately... especially Schumann, Brahms, Wagner etc. Although I listened to a lot of Malher and Chopin

[rockinbass17]

I only enjoy a little bit from the Romantic Period. The piano composers from that time were unbelievable, but the symphonic composers (I feel) lacked. A lot of them were composing in odd keys and changing times signatures, which led to complex but rather boring songs. Self-indulgant, some would put it.
I'm playing a piece from Franck in my orcehstra, Symphony in D minor. It sucks.

[Cain]

Question I've posted in R+M's community thread...

Do any of you here like music and/or the operas of Richard Wagner? How is he considered in the classical community? My general impression is that his music is regarded as highly important and influential but also that his beliefs as a person are proportionately reprehensible, due to things like virulent anti-Semitism and belief in the superiority of Nordic peoples.

I just picked up the last two operas of his Ring des Nibelungen series (Götterdämmerung and Die Walküre) and I like them a lot, although it's hard to think of Wagner without thinking of him as Hitler's favorite composer. :-/

I really like his stuff though, the odd-tonality and really high drama in the compositions are very engaging to me. (I have actually been more interested in Romantic-era classical than some of you guys seem :)) It's just weird to think about Wagner as a person and how he inspired some of the worst men in history and then enjoy his music all the same. Anybody else have this problem?

[Samuel]

Question I've posted in R+M's community thread...

Do any of you here like music and/or the operas of Richard Wagner? How is he considered in the classical community? My general impression is that his music is regarded as highly important and influential but also that his beliefs as a person are proportionately reprehensible, due to things like virulent anti-Semitism and belief in the superiority of Nordic peoples.
Pretty much.

I'm not that much of a Wagnerian opera fan. His overtures and instrumental works are interesting, and I quite enjoy them. But I generally don't dig his vocal writing very much.

[what]

it doesnt bother me at all, and i dont see why it should bother. everyone has their own views even if theyre radical.
and if it inspired hitler... then ok. its not like I care

I only enjoy a little bit from the Romantic Period. The piano composers from that time were unbelievable, but the symphonic composers (I feel) lacked. A lot of them were composing in odd keys and changing times signatures, which led to complex but rather boring songs. Self-indulgant, some would put it.
I'm playing a piece from Franck in my orcehstra, Symphony in D minor. It sucks.

ok man... not to be mean and all but you obviously dont know what the **** youre talking about

[rockinbass17]

Hey, it's just my opinion. I've given composers like Franck and Berlioz a chance, and nothing about their music intrigues me. I find it unenjoyable.

[what]

i mean... what are odd keys? frequent changes of time signature isnt a signature part of the romantic period.

I don't like people who dismiss a whole period of music, it just annoys me.

There is Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Schubert gah

[Jimothy the 33rd]

I just got myself a cd of the planet suite and a selection of mozart and a classical fantasy cd with Rimski Korsikov (sp?) Tchaikovsky and others I can't remember.
I love Mozart, Grieg, Beethoven, Holst and composers such as those
Anything anyone recommends to look at next?

[what]

Rismky-Korsakov

Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Penderecki, Messiaen, Bartok, Mussorgsky, Dargomizskij, Prokofiev... yer

[rockinbass17]

I'm not dismissing the whole era. What I'm saying is that a lot of the symphonic music from the romantic period doesn't appeal to me, I just don't like the style that was used by many composers. I'm not putting every composer from that time in this category, for example I enjoy Schubert and Tchiakovsky, but most romantic composers I've listened to, the music just doesn't click with me.

[Mazeppa]

I'm not dismissing the whole era. What I'm saying is that a lot of the symphonic music from the romantic period doesn't appeal to me, I just don't like the style that was used by many composers. I'm not putting every composer from that time in this category, for example I enjoy Schubert and Tchiakovsky, but most romantic composers I've listened to, the music just doesn't click with me.
Well saying you don't enjoy it is ok, but saying it sucks doesn't really go.

[Ugoff]

I'm kind of a classical noob but I've really started likeing classical music. I'm a fan of Gustav Holst and his whole movement on the Planets. I've also downloaded some music from other classical artists.

[rockinbass17]

Well saying you don't enjoy it is ok, but saying it sucks doesn't really go.

I really just said that Franck sucks. Symphony in D really irritates me. But I never said that one who likes that type of music has a bad opinion or anything. In fact, I could see why someone would like it. I just happen to loathe it. Sorry for the confusion.

[Werny]

Nick Parnell came to my town the other day, do any other aussies know of him? He's a percussionist and played Chopin and Bach pieces on the vibraphone, excellent stuff.

There's a baroque concert in a few days but my Nan won't take me over to Albury to see it, she thinks it's too heavy. Damn!

So yeah, I'm not even a "noob", I don't own any classical. Can anyone reccomend some classic organ or harpsichord pieces?

[Mazeppa]

Bach is great for organ and harpsichord.

[what]

You can check out Messiaen for Organ... Haendel too...

[Nepenthe]

Bach is great for organ and harpsichord.

Toccata And Fugue On Organ is one of my favorite Bach pieces.

[Mazeppa]

Toccata And Fugue On Organ is one of my favorite Bach pieces.
Great piece. Last night I heard the 'Dorian' Toccata & Fugue performed which was brilliant, along with some works by more obscure composers whom I hadn't heard of before.

[Grant]

I just listened to Stravinsky's Firebird, it blows me away each time I hear it. What does everybody here think of ol' Igor?

[Samuel]

Love Stravinski, and Firebrird is one of my favourites. I really like the later Symphonies, and some of his sacred works, as well as the big three ballets.


What do you guys think of Henryk Gorecki? I'm listening to his 3rd symphony right now, and I quite like it.

[what]

Stravinsky is one of my favourite composers. For some reason, the composers which I like most, coincidentally (or not) are all Russian - Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

I like all of Stravinsky's ballets, from his Russian period - 'Rite of Spring', to his neo-classical 'Apollon Musagete' to the abstract 'Agon'.

I love his late period where he started getting interested in the 12-tone system - his first work the septet is great. Plus his Symphonies, string quartets bah, there's some much good music from him!

[Det_Nosnip]

Been listening to plenty of Liszt lately myself.

*glances at his own avatar*

Woohoo!!!

[DonMancini]

Anyone hear the 1812 overture version made for V for Vendetta? Hollllllllly shiiiiiiiiiiittt

Way better than other versions I heard (although it's shorter)

[Mazeppa]

*glances at his own avatar*

Woohoo!!!
Haha, good man.

[jazzlife]

I see that Messiaen was mentioned a few times already! I just listened to some of the "catalogue d'oiseaux". I think Messiaen is one of the best in interpreting and using natural sounds in his music. Although he hasn't 'brought' music anywhere (and that being the cause for ppl to dislike him), i like his music. Especially his 'weird' arrangments; eg. 3 flutes, 5 trumpets, 2 violings, 1 piano, 1 organist, etc.

[ariathe9th]

Nick Parnell came to my town the other day, do any other aussies know of him? He's a percussionist and played Chopin and Bach pieces on the vibraphone, excellent stuff.

There's a baroque concert in a few days but my Nan won't take me over to Albury to see it, she thinks it's too heavy. Damn!

So yeah, I'm not even a "noob", I don't own any classical. Can anyone reccomend some classic organ or harpsichord pieces?

ah yes hes recently finished studying at my school

amazing musician great guy

[Alt F4]

Does anyone like Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition? Well, I am not a classical music expert but I like symphonies and chorus parts of operas. I’ve also tried to find some of Mussorgsky’s themes transcribed to tablatures but it seems it can’t be seen on the web. Any guitar player who likes Pictures at an Exhibition?

[ariathe9th]

yeuh i play guitar yeuh i like it

[fingers mccoy]

Hey man Aria i'm learning a Leo Brouwer Sonata written for Julian Bream, i'm assuming you know it, i'd like to know what you think of it and be able to send you recordings for criticism, do you have msn or an email address?

Do you play it at all? What label is releasing your cd?

[ariathe9th]

lol my cd will not be on a label

i dont play the sonata
but im very familiar with it and would love to hear ur recordings
ive got some good recordings of it one that my good friend alex tsiboulski released which i thinks the best

ive got msn its benb3233@hotmail.com im pretty sure

yeuh looking forward to hearing u

its sucha beautiful piece probably brouwers best IMO
i have played thru the 2nd movement once but not realy seriously maybe one day ill play it properly

[JustWondering]

Hi, I was wondering how you classical musicians learn new songs. How many songs do you learn at once? Or how many could I possibly learn at once? I know that in writing music I never really get farther than 2 or 3 songs before, getting to far into one song makes me forget what ive learned about another. But really I am usually concentrating on one song and that makes me lose interest in another and i usually forget about it. Basically i want to learn the most amount of songs at a time, without slowing my progress. Because my reading skills suck pretty bad and it takes me a while to learn a song, its very tedious to learn just one song at a time. By the way the way i usually learn a song is to commit it to memory because my reading sucks, so there might be some extra limitations for me.

[Mazeppa]

You understand a question like that is difficult to answer, because it's almost completely dependant on your ability. Still, I only started piano a few months back so I tend to commit music to memory so that I can focus on playing it. I learn several pieces at a time, remembering different pieces isn't a problem for me and have help from my teacher. Again, it comes down to you really, I wouldn't say there's a hard rule you can follow.

[what]

I see that Messiaen was mentioned a few times already! I just listened to some of the "catalogue d'oiseaux". I think Messiaen is one of the best in interpreting and using natural sounds in his music. Although he hasn't 'brought' music anywhere (and that being the cause for ppl to dislike him), i like his music. Especially his 'weird' arrangments; eg. 3 flutes, 5 trumpets, 2 violings, 1 piano, 1 organist, etc.

What you mean he hasn't brought it anywhere? I hope you don't think he just imitated bird song for no reason? 'People' dislike Messiean for the same reason they don't like other contemporary composers - its "boring", "unmelodic" and "dissonant".

[Phunphone]

What you mean he hasn't brought it anywhere? I hope you don't think he just imitated bird song for no reason? 'People' dislike Messiean for the same reason they don't like other contemporary composers - its "boring", "unmelodic" and "dissonant".

Messiaen was definitely innovative and radical.

His discovery of modes of limited transcription is inventive enough. Moreover, he was the teacher of Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the likes. His influence on contemporary classical music is massive.

[Jaffa Cake]

I've started to really get into classical music, actually. I'm really liking Handel at the moment. Can someone reccomened me some of his greatest works, other than; Water Music, Zadok the Priest, Sarabande and the Hallelujah Chorus?

Also, what are some of Beethovens greatest works - other than his piano concerti and his 5th and 9th symphonies. Thanks.

[Nepenthe]

Well, other than the obvious Fur Elise, the Moonlight Sonata and Grosse Fugue are two of my favorite Beethoven works.

[Mazeppa]

Third Symphony. It's right up there with the Fifth and the Ninth. Nice to see that the Grosse Fugue was recommended too, that's a monumental string quartet.

[rockinbass17]

For Beethoven, I really enjoy his and 6th "Pastorale" Symphony and the 7th. I'd actually put the 6th up there as one of my favorite classical pieces.

[Nepenthe]

Grosse Fugue is extraordinary. One of my favorite pieces of music ever I'd venture to say.

[CaptainWaits]

I went to a book store tday, and in their music section they were loaded with Classical, and I found quite a bit of Bela Bartok, who I've been searching for every once in a while. So with that being said, what's a good album to pick up of his??

[Ad Absurdum]

I've started to really get into classical music, actually. I'm really liking Handel at the moment. Can someone reccomened me some of his greatest works, other than; Water Music, Zadok the Priest, Sarabande and the Hallelujah Chorus?Basically the whole of Messiah is pure genious, you should check out the whole thing rather than just the Hallelujah chorus from it. Also his organ concerti are good, such as 'The Cukoo And The Nightingale', and also the concerti grossi from op.6 are good. I haven't heard much of his stuff, and he wrote an awful lot. I won't give any recommendations on Beethoven, because you've already got plenty and everyone else probably knows more about him than me anyway.

NP: Dvorak - Symphony No. 4 (the third movement in this is orgasmic)

[Gunnie]

I'm new here, and you all are probably way out of my league with the music expertise, but I thought this might be a good place to turn you on to something different. Let me know if you like it. It's original pieces written by an artist named Rene Gruss. I originally heard a few of the titles on yahoo music and fell in love with it. I ordered the cd immediately and have been trying to make him famous ever since. He labels his genre as urban classical. Give him a listen, and tell me what you think:

http://www.renegruss.com/

[Nepenthe]

I'm new here, and you all are probably way out of my league with the music expertise, but I thought this might be a good place to turn you on to something different. Let me know if you like it. It's original pieces written by an artist named Rene Gruss. I originally heard a few of the titles on yahoo music and fell in love with it. I ordered the cd immediately and have been trying to make him famous ever since. He labels his genre as urban classical. Give him a listen, and tell me what you think:

http://www.renegruss.com/

Classic Cool Music :lol:

It did sound very good though, something I can definately see looking into further.

[Chrizzle fo' Shizzle]

I've been listening to a lot of the stuff Sam Spence did for NFL films

Very epic

[NymphetamineX]

Hey, I've recently been getting into classical and have found I really like the piano stuff. I haven't been able to listen to much yet, but I love Beethoven's Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata, and a couple nocturnes by Chopin, mostly just mellow piano peices. Can anyone direct me to anything else along those lines? I hardly know any termanology or composers yet, but I'm open to pretty much anything.

[XAsTheRootsUndoX]

i'm noticing a lack of love for Brahms here
i mean, his symphonies (especially the 1st), his cello concerti, all of it is gold

[masada]

Could anyone recommend a composer that is similar to Igor Stravinsky in really any way?

[Mazeppa]

Hey, I've recently been getting into classical and have found I really like the piano stuff. I haven't been able to listen to much yet, but I love Beethoven's Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata, and a couple nocturnes by Chopin, mostly just mellow piano peices. Can anyone direct me to anything else along those lines? I hardly know any termanology or composers yet, but I'm open to pretty much anything.
Try more Beethoven sonatas, perhaps Nos. 8, 23 and 26...they should fit the bill.
i'm noticing a lack of love for Brahms here
I really like his Variations of a Theme by Paganini, and his Rhapsodien Op.79. His 'Organ Symphony' is pretty cool too.

[DavidB92]

Does anyone like Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition? Well, I am not a classical music expert but I like symphonies and chorus parts of operas. I’ve also tried to find some of Mussorgsky’s themes transcribed to tablatures but it seems it can’t be seen on the web. Any guitar player who likes Pictures at an Exhibition?

Yeah, good bit of music.

[Grant]

What does everyone here think of minimalist composers? Guys like Steve Reich and Philip Glass, both have made some incredible music.

Could anyone recommend a composer that is similar to Igor Stravinsky in really any way?

Bela Bartok

[Samuel]

I like both quite a bit.

Reich's "The Dessert Music" is a really nice piece.

[DavidB92]

What does everyone here think of minimalist composers? Guys like Steve Reich and Philip Glass, both have made some incredible music.


I've listened to Glass, it was great music.

[bleep_bloop]

Could anyone suggest me some minimalist classical? I dig the likes of Glass and Arvo Pärt.

[CabbageStabbage]

Unfortunately the only encounter I've had with Philip Glass was his soundtrack to the movie Fog of War, which is about Macnamara (secretary of defence I think during the Vietnam war).

What I came in here for was to say that I listened recently to Beethoven's 9th symphony - it really made me want to drive agressively, especially the fast 3/4 part. Anyone else really dislike the Ode to Joy (4th movement)?

[Mazeppa]

Nonsense; I like the whole thing.

[margin0walker]

I'm wit bleep bloop. Suggestions pleaze.

[Det_Nosnip]

How can you dislike Ode to Joy, other than by the simple rationale that it's one of the few pieces of classical music most casual listeners would recognize? :rolleyes:

Anyways, I've been really into Liszt's Symphonic Poems lately. I'm somewhat of a Liszt fanboy to begin with, but it seriously feels like every single thing he did was brilliant.

[Mazeppa]

Liszt is great. I've been digging the Totentanz lately.

[gotheadbanger 642]

EDIT: And as for Studio Era conductors, I would say Robert Smith, who wrote "The Inferno" (Not the guy from The Cure)

Wow, what happened to this thread? Anyway, yeah, I love his music. I've been playing in my school band and over the summer for one year, and I've already played 4 of his songs, and I'll be playing one of them again this year.

[superpeer]

Ooh, I don't think I've posted in this.

Thanks to Mazeppa I now regularly listen to the piano brilliance that is Beethoven, Prokofiev, Chopin & Liszt.

[Amit]

stravinsky

/thread

[Rams]

I saw the CSO play Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Shostakovich's Symphony no. 10 in E minor. Matthias Goerne sang the Mahler piece. Mahler's piece was a bit boring, but the Shostakovich more than made up for it. I was a bit dissapointed in the violin section, a couple of them were off rhythm creating a trill effect.

[run don't walk]

What should be the first classical CD I get? I'm a total n00b to classical.

[CabbageStabbage]

Just go to your local library and pick up any classical CD you can find. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Wagner, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Mahler, etc.

[run don't walk]

Just go to your local library and pick up any classical CD you can find. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Wagner, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Mahler, etc.

My local library doesn't have CDs. The college library might have some I haven't looked yet.

[Mazeppa]

stravinsky

/thread

I've tried, but I just don't seem to get Stravinsky :\

Guess it might be time to break out The Rite of Spring and try again sometime.

[Samuel]

I've tried, but I just don't seem to get Stravinsky :\

Guess it might be time to break out The Rite of Spring and try again sometime.

Try The Firebird. I found it a bit easier to digest.

I love Stravinski. Agon, Symphony of The Psalms, The Symphony in C, Song Of the Nightingale. . .

Just too much good stuff to listen to.

[Joseph India]

Hey, I love Stravinsky.
Listen to his Piano Sonata, it is one of my favorite piano pieces. You will not me disappointed.
Symphony in 3 movements is great too.

And if you've never heard Agon, go to the library and find it now.

[CabbageStabbage]

Anyone heard Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto for big jazz band? It's... different. I heard it a while ago.

[Joseph India]

Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto is great if you're in the right mood for it.
Sometimes when I listen it doesn't really do anything for me and other times it is very moving.
I find it relaxing sometimes, but I can see how some people might think it's weird.

[Eliminator]

stravinsky is awesome

[Mazeppa]

Try The Firebird. I found it a bit easier to digest.
Yeah, I've listened to it. I found the suite to be a mix of good and boring.

Hey, I love Stravinsky.
Listen to his Piano Sonata, it is one of my favorite piano pieces. You will not me disappointed.
He composed a piano sonata? I'll track it down and listen to it for sure.

[Joseph India]

He composed a piano sonata? I'll track it down and listen to it for sure.
I forgot to mention that he composed 2. The one I love is known by different names - Sonata - Sonate - Sonata in C.
I dont mean the Sonata in F sharp minor, though that one is good, its not great by comparison.

[aria333]

stravinskys prety to listen to but tno that good if ur lookin for somethin trulyoriginal and interestin

[Joseph India]

stravinskys prety to listen to but tno that good if ur lookin for somethin trulyoriginal and interestin
What a confusing statement... is that a joke?
are you refering to his neo-classical stuff?
What is unoriginal about the Rite of Spring?
What is makes the Symphony of Psalms uninteresting?

[aria333]

no its nt a joke

[here comes the bird flu]

Mozart! Bach! Tchaikovsky!

[Surtr]

I've been searching for some good classical music lately, something to inspire me as I write some of my own stuff (Which obviously will pale in comparision, but it's all in good fun).

Any suggestions? I like alot of the darker sounding stuff, music with a really dark energy behind it. I also like alot of Eric Whitacre's stuff, so anything like that would be cool too. Also, if you have anything like this, I'd love it if you could upload it and send it to lightningstrikestwice_13@hotmail.com as I find it hard at times to find songs on LimeWire.

[Mazeppa]

I'll try and get something sent this evening.

[littlebob]

**** i hate cricket

[run don't walk]

I just listened to Chopin's piano concerto number two. That's some amazing stuff.

[CabbageStabbage]

I really love Beethoven's symphonies.

[ariathe22nd]

bump

[Aria.]

bump

[bleep_bloop]

could someone please suggest some minimalist classical? i really enjoy glass' work and i need more.

[gotheadbanger 642]

could someone please suggest some minimalist classical? i really enjoy glass' work and i need more.

Have you heard Phillip Glass' "Peru River" from the soundtrack to "Yes"? I love listening to that.

[Nissos]

could someone please suggest some minimalist classical? i really enjoy glass' work and i need more.

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

[Joseph India]

Terry Riley - In C

almost everything Steve Reich did

[fingers mccoy]

John Adams is one of my favourites in minimalism

[deathscreamingsheep]

I recently listened to a performance of Steve Reich's New York Counterpoint. An excellent piece.

[bleep_bloop]

thanks for all the cool suggestions guys

[bleep_bloop]

Have you heard Phillip Glass' "Peru River" from the soundtrack to "Yes"? I love listening to that.

no, but i will try to find it.

[deathscreamingsheep]

anyone here a fan of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?

I was in a performance of it a while ago and quite frankly it is one of the most epic sprawling, but at the same time powerful and subtle pieces of music ever. Pretty much the height of Romantic indulgence, but good nonetheless.

Busted out some of the old favourite Mozart Piano Sonato number 10 today as well. Classic stuff.

[Jawaharal]

1812 Overture is rockin my sox

[LF96]

Some other minimalist composers that are rather interesting:

Arvo Pärt (Für Alina and Spiegel Im Spiegel are his most famous works)
Wim Mertens (check out Close Cover and Struggle For Pleasure)

And yeah, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are essential stuff. You might like Goldmund's "Corduroy Road" as well, it's an album of mainly piano music and stunningly beautiful despite it's simplicity.

Anyone into Dvorak here? I love his New World Symphony.

[Iai]

anyone here a fan of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?

I was in a performance of it a while ago and quite frankly it is one of the most epic sprawling, but at the same time powerful and subtle pieces of music ever. Pretty much the height of Romantic indulgence, but good nonetheless.
Yes, it's my favourite symphony.

The guy who recommended 'any Steve Reich' is being silly. I'm amazed at just how much he's being mentioned on these forums just lately, and just how often I have to remind people - most of his work sucks! Have you actually tried listening to "It's Gonna Rain"? "Pendulum Music"? "Come Out"? "Clapping Music"?

[Eliminator]

yeah guys

most of his work sucks!

[McClain]

A friend of mine has recently been really into Four Seasons by Vivaldi, and im looking for a good recording to get her for Christmas. Anyone have any recommendations?

[Eliminator]

steve reich

[Joseph India]

The guy who recommended 'any Steve Reich' is being silly. I'm amazed at just how much he's being mentioned on these forums just lately, and just how often I have to remind people - most of his work sucks! Have you actually tried listening to "It's Gonna Rain"? "Pendulum Music"? "Come Out"? "Clapping Music"?
If you've actually listened to most of his stuff, you would know that most of it doesn't sound like the pieces you mentioned.
BTW, I actually said "almost everything"
and by that I pretty much meant everything except the pieces you mentioned and a few others.

[Iai]

I have listened to most of his stuff. I enjoyed maybe three pieces maximum.

[fingers mccoy]

Yeah i find the majority of reich's pieces completely redundant, incommunicative and irritating

i quite like different trains and some of his tape loop phase stuff but the counterpoint series was total rubbish

John adams i think is much better and more expressive

[ariathe22nd]

ok well if all these internet mesageboard vets dont like it then it must be bad

[Amit]

The guy who recommended 'any Steve Reich' is being silly. I'm amazed at just how much he's being mentioned on these forums just lately, and just how often I have to remind people - most of his work sucks! Have you actually tried listening to "It's Gonna Rain"? "Pendulum Music"? "Come Out"? "Clapping Music"?

opinions on the internets? lmaofayle

[Lydisk]

ne1 liek kurt weill? omgz?

[LF96]

I like Clapping Music. Not to listen to, it's too boring for that, but it's pretty cool to play (when you're with at least two people that is). Haven't heard the other songs that were mentioned though...

[Iai]

Actually, I've played "Clapping Music". It's an odd piece - either you have the hang of it or you don't, and if you do it's boring as sin, and if you don't there's no point.

[gotheadbanger 642]

Has anyone ever heard Holst's First Suite in Eb for military band?

[Sepstrup]

Edvard Grieg is awesome. I need to listen to more of his compositions.