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??

[quote=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?[/quote]Basically the whole of [I]Messiah[/I] 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 - [I]Symphony No. 4[/I] (the third movement in this is orgasmic)

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:

[url]http://www.renegruss.com/[/url]

[QUOTE=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:

[url]http://www.renegruss.com/[/url][/QUOTE]

Classic Cool Music :lol:

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

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

Very epic

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.

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

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

[QUOTE=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.[/QUOTE]
Try more Beethoven sonatas, perhaps Nos. 8, 23 and 26...they should fit the bill.
[QUOTE=XAsTheRootsUndoX]i'm noticing a lack of love for Brahms here[/QUOTE]
I really like his Variations of a Theme by Paganini, and his Rhapsodien Op.79. His 'Organ Symphony' is pretty cool too.

[QUOTE=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?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, good bit of music.

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

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

Bela Bartok

I like both quite a bit.

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

[QUOTE=Grant]What does everyone here think of minimalist composers? Guys like Steve Reich and Philip Glass, both have made some incredible music.
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I've listened to Glass, it was great music.

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

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)?

Nonsense; I like the whole thing.

I'm wit bleep bloop. Suggestions pleaze.

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.

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

[QUOTE=ZEROthirtythree;6606930]EDIT: And as for Studio Era conductors, I would say Robert Smith, who wrote "The Inferno" (Not the guy from The Cure)[/QUOTE]

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.

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.

stravinsky

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I saw the CSO play Mahler's [I]Des Knaben Wunderhorn[/I] and Shostakovich's [I]Symphony no. 10 in E minor[/I]. 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.

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

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.

[QUOTE=CabbageStabbage;13408451]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.[/QUOTE]

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

[QUOTE=Atman;13404412]stravinsky

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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.

[QUOTE=Mazeppa;13410102]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.[/QUOTE]

Try [I]The Firebird.[/I] 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.

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.

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