Has anyone here ever heard Domenico Dragonetti? I recently performed one of his pieces- Concerto in A Major- for my double bass NYSSMA solo. He writes some insane bass parts.
Anyway, does anyone know anything else from him? He's hard to find.

*Bump* Okay, this is a good thread to have around, I want to save it from being forgotton. Come on, show classical some love!

I'm listening to Beethoven's 6th "Pastoral" Sympohony right now. I personally think it's his best, better than even the 5th and the 9th, any opinions?

Steve Reich anyone?

So, at the moment on Radio 3's website Beethoven's symphonies No 6, 7, 8 and 9 are available for free download.

[URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.shtml]Link[/URL]

Just if anyone's interested.

bump.

[QUOTE=Neon Dub]Steve Reich anyone?[/QUOTE]
Another fan of contemporary classical! :thumb: Pachebel's been called the first one hit wonder. Can someone upload some LaMonte Young in a week from now, as I will be away soon? Thanks.

I like classical alot.

Ive got this collection with like 30 cd's. Need to start listening to it again. I normally dload my music, classical isnt easy to dload.

I like classical alot.

Ive got this collection with like 30 cd's. Need to start listening to it again. I normally dload my music, classical isnt easy to dload.

I've downloaded quite a bit of classical music but I like to buy the cds, which isn't a problem because classical cds are often pretty cheap.

My father has TONS of classical CD's lying around. I'm constantly finding new stuff to listen to. It's great. I just found a CD with alot of Chopin's Polonaises on it and it's really good stuff.

Canadian Brass is the way to go.

My dad doesn't like classical at all really, but my mum does. Too bad she doesn't have a big collection of classical :-/

[QUOTE=rockinbass17]My father has TONS of classical CD's lying around. I'm constantly finding new stuff to listen to. It's great. I just found a CD with alot of Chopin's Polonaises on it and it's really good stuff.[/QUOTE]
Chopin's Polonnaises are marvellous. I sadly only have two or three of them on CD! Anything by Chopin is pure gold.

I haven't counted them but I've got well over 100 classical CDs.

I'm listening to Polonaise in A right now.
I'm big on piano music. Chopin, Rachmaninov, Lizst (Scherzo is amazing), even Scott Joplin. I want to hear some other piano composers, though.

[QUOTE=PianoDan]The Brandenburg Concertos.[/QUOTE]

Cool, awesome! Thanks for responding to that one, I'll check 'em out.

[QUOTE=rockinbass17]I'm listening to Polonaise in A right now.
I'm big on piano music. Chopin, Rachmaninov, Lizst (Scherzo is amazing), even Scott Joplin. I want to hear some other piano composers, though.[/QUOTE]

Aye. I've been listening to Moonlight Sonata and all that jazz for days now. I listen to Rhapsody in Blue just for the piano fills sometimes.

[QUOTE=rockinbass17]I'm listening to Polonaise in A right now.
I'm big on piano music. Chopin, Rachmaninov, Lizst (Scherzo is amazing), even Scott Joplin. I want to hear some other piano composers, though.[/QUOTE]
Can't leave out Mozart and Beethoven, particularly Beethoven. His 32 Sonatas are all amazing. I'm currently listening to the Waldstein - my favourite of the 32, particularly the 3rd movement.....

But don't forget Debussy, if you're into more modern/impressionist piano stuff as well.

[quote=rockinbass17]I'm listening to Beethoven's 6th "Pastoral" Sympohony right now. I personally think it's his best, better than even the 5th and the 9th, any opinions?[/QUOTE]
Yep - I agree completely. Well not quite, the 7th has got to be very close. I can't decide between the 6th and the 7th. The second movement (Allegretto, the slow one) of the 7th is my favourite movement of any symphony.

For me, 6 = 7 > 5 > 9 > 3 > 8 > 4 > 1 = 2

Hm.

I'm looking for more pieces by Rimsky Korsakov. I have absolutely loved Scheherezade since I was a child, but I really can't find anything else by him. Any recommendations?

The Clockwork Soundtrack is impresive. The person who did that was Wendy (formally Walter) Carlos.

[QUOTE=Eggo]Hm.

I'm looking for more pieces by Rimsky Korsakov. I have absolutely loved Scheherezade since I was a child, but I really can't find anything else by him. Any recommendations?[/QUOTE]
Here you go, an upload. It's a very short bit of music, but it's great.

[URL= http://rapidshare.de/files/4280467/The_Flight_of_the_Bumble_Bee.mp3.html]Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee[/URL]

I tend to be a fan of composers from the romantic period and later.

Chopin is probably my favorite composer; almost all of his acknowledged works I like. Liszt I also really like, although he can get dull at times (while some of them are good, I'd hate to sit through a full rotation of his Hungarian Rhapsodies). I like Alkan's etudes quite a bit, too. Rachmaninov is probably my favorite after Chopin (possibly after Liszt, but I doubt it). I like a lot of his solo piano works and the third piano concerto (not the last movement, though; cool theme and stuff, but it's boring, in my opinion).

Prokofiev is really cool, although I admittedly really only know his piano sonatas and Toccata Op. 11 (the latter of which is a monster). Stravinsky is cool from what I've heard. Shostakovich is probably my favorite non-romantic composer; he's very contrapuntal with a romantic kind of framework; I like that. Also, Rzewski is pretty cool as far as contemporary composers go ("Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues").

Stuff outside of this time frame I like are Bach, Scarlatti, and Beethoven. I don't find Bach very fun to listen to, though; but his work is genius and I really enjoy playing it. Scarlatti is fun to listen to, as is Beethoven (I hate playing Beethoven, though). I was never a big Mozart fan, although I can see the value of his music. He's fun to play, though, but I don't get a whole lot out of his music even when I'm playing it.

EDIT: And guys, if you can't find good classical CDs or something, just go to the **** library. I used to go there every week and just pick out three CDs, then rip them when I get home. I got several CDs worth of MP3s out of it.

Classical CDs are pretty easy to find in my experience.

For ages now, my favourite composer has been Igor Stravinsky. There's something about The Firebird that's just...evil. Still, the man was a genius and probably the best composer of the 20th century.

I haven't listened to much music by Igor Stravinsky, I'll have to check out The Firebird sometime as I've heard so much about it.

[QUOTE=metal guitar]Here you go, an upload. It's a very short bit of music, but it's great.

[URL= http://rapidshare.de/files/4280467/The_Flight_of_the_Bumble_Bee.mp3.html]Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee[/URL][/QUOTE]

:lol:

Everyone's heard that. I'm looking for actual [B]music[/B].

I'm asking for something like Scheherezade...Beautiful, enchanting, romantic, epic, subtle, <insert adjective>.

arg. im super digging Mozart's O Fortuna.........

:p

I just got the new music from my orchestra- the Overture to Marriage of Figaro and Shubert's 8th (Unfinished). I'm not a big fan of opera, but the overture is a very good peice of work. Pretty hard bass parts. And the Unfinished Symphony is quite good as well.

[QUOTE=Delicate Genius]Chopin is probably my favorite composer; almost all of his acknowledged works I like. Liszt I also really like, although he can get dull at times (while some of them are good, I'd hate to sit through a full rotation of his Hungarian Rhapsodies). I like Alkan's etudes quite a bit, too. Rachmaninov is probably my favorite after Chopin (possibly after Liszt, but I doubt it). I like a lot of his solo piano works and the third piano concerto (not the last movement, though; cool theme and stuff, but it's boring, in my opinion).

Prokofiev is really cool, although I admittedly really only know his piano sonatas and Toccata Op. 11 (the latter of which is a monster). Stravinsky is cool from what I've heard. Shostakovich is probably my favorite non-romantic composer; he's very contrapuntal with a romantic kind of framework; I like that. Also, Rzewski is pretty cool as far as contemporary composers go ("Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues").[/QUOTE]
Not hugely into Liszt myself, excepting a few notable works. Anything, [i]anything[/i] by Chopin is geninus; Rachmaninov is good as well but I prefer Chopin.

What I've heard of Prokofiev sounds okay, though a tad modern for my liking; but I've been extending into more modern stuff lately. Stravinsky and Shostakovich are, unfortunately, not two composers I know a lot about.

[QUOTE=Delicate Genius]Stuff outside of this time frame I like are Bach, Scarlatti, and Beethoven. I don't find Bach very fun to listen to, though; but his work is genius and I really enjoy playing it. Scarlatti is fun to listen to, as is Beethoven (I hate playing Beethoven, though). I was never a big Mozart fan, although I can see the value of his music. He's fun to play, though, but I don't get a whole lot out of his music even when I'm playing it.[/QUOTE]
I used to be very much like that. Anything pre-Beethoven wasn't my thing, so much. But Mozart is now one of my favourites - his music is so relaxing, so good to unwind to - both for studying with, and for playing. I have been highly stressed recently but sitting down to a Mozart Sonata is like nothing else for relieving some tension. Bach has also grown on me recently; his music is more than just pure genius. The Brandenburg Concertos are beautiful. Handel has some great stuff. Vivaldi's seasons are brilliant. I'm in a Baroque phase at the moment. It was never my favourite but there's a beauty there so different to the Romantics that you'll discover if you listen to it enough.

My favourite classical work at the moment is Albinoni's Adagio in G minor - the most beautiful piece.... it's just amazing.

[QUOTE=PianoDan]Not hugely into Liszt myself, excepting a few notable works. Anything, [i]anything[/i] by Chopin is geninus; Rachmaninov is good as well but I prefer Chopin.
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Yeah, Liszt is largely fluff. Like, I love "Mazeppa" and everything, but there's this one chromatic run that's completely unnecessary. Liszt tended to make his work difficult whether he could do it with tact or not. This results in many pieces with beautiful virtuosic textures, but it also frequently results in obvious fluff. Still, though, excellent composer.

I agree about Chopin. Unlike Liszt, he was no fluff (but also unlike Liszt, he didn't seem as capable of creating impressive long works). Every note in his etudes counts completely.

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What I've heard of Prokofiev sounds okay, though a tad modern for my liking; but I've been extending into more modern stuff lately. Stravinsky and Shostakovich are, unfortunately, not two composers I know a lot about.
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If you haven't already, check out the Toccata by Prokofiev that I mentioned. That site [url]www.classiccat.com[/url] or whatever it's called has a free recording of Martha Argerich performing it (agreed to be the best performance of it by everyone I've talked to). It's more straight-up chromatic than a lot of his other stuff, which might make it appeal to your romantic side. Even then though, it's still a little 'modern,' I hated it at first, but after about three listens it stayed my favorite piece for months.

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I used to be very much like that. Anything pre-Beethoven wasn't my thing, so much. But Mozart is now one of my favourites - his music is so relaxing, so good to unwind to - both for studying with, and for playing. I have been highly stressed recently but sitting down to a Mozart Sonata is like nothing else for relieving some tension. Bach has also grown on me recently; his music is more than just pure genius. The Brandenburg Concertos are beautiful. Handel has some great stuff. Vivaldi's seasons are brilliant. I'm in a Baroque phase at the moment. It was never my favourite but there's a beauty there so different to the Romantics that you'll discover if you listen to it enough.
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My problem is that it just sounds so samey. That's the thing, though; Bach wasn't particularly innovative harmonically, he just took structure to a completely new level. So you kinda expect his stuff to sound samey harmonically, but have this really genius structures (which they do). This is why I have a hard time listening to him, because I'm not to the point of just hearing these big structures yet, all I hear are the samey harmonies. Playing the pieces, though, forces me to see the structure, so that's where I get most of my appreciation. I mainly just need to listen more, though, and develop an ear that can detect purely structure.

Mozart sounds extremely samey to me, too, except I appreciate his sense of structure less, as I enjoy linear compositions more than (non-linear?) more chordal compositions. It's not until Beethoven that everything stops sounding the same to me.

Is that the Toccata ELP covered? Just curious.