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

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!

I appologize I even mentioned it.

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.

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

the bach chaconne is not overrated

wtf

Russian/East-European composers
 

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.

[QUOTE=the2stranger]Could anyone recommend me some good Organ composers besides J.S Bach?

thank you :)[/QUOTE]

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

[QUOTE=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.
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yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees yweweeesssse yesssess

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.

[QUOTE=erock][B]Nothin beats the brandenburg concerto's[/B]. Except mozart's reqiuem. which i am surprised is the top played mozart composition on last.fm.

p.s. Chaconne is overrated LOL[/QUOTE]

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Choral works
 

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...

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".

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?

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)

[QUOTE=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?[/QUOTE]
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.

^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.

[QUOTE=metalhead-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)[/QUOTE]

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.

[QUOTE=metal guitar]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.[/QUOTE]

Thanks MG:thumb: :chug: cheers

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

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

[QUOTE=kevbud187]Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.[/QUOTE]
Planets is one of my fav. pieces ever. I think its mostly because I play euphonium, but still I think it is awesome!
-Biz

[QUOTE=kevbud187]Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.[/QUOTE]
Planets is one of my fav. pieces ever. I think its mostly because I play euphonium, but still I think it is awesome!
-Biz

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

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...

[QUOTE=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...[/QUOTE]

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!

[QUOTE=kevbud187]Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.[/QUOTE]

Jupiter= the best:thumb:

[QUOTE=kevbud187]Gustav Holst - THE PLANETS > anything in the past 100yrs.[/QUOTE]

um... no.

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:

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.