[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.

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

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

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.

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.

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
[url]www.myspace.com/tomrace[/url]

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....

[QUOTE=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
[url]www.myspace.com/tomrace[/url][/QUOTE]
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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oh no :lol:

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.

requesting
 

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.

[QUOTE=metal guitar]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.[/QUOTE]

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. =/

[QUOTE=what]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. =/[/QUOTE]
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

Rachmaninoff
 

[QUOTE=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
[url]www.myspace.com/tomrace[/url][/QUOTE]

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

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.

no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.

[QUOTE=aria8789464]no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.[/QUOTE]

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

anyways, the point is....

[QUOTE=aria8789464]no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.[/QUOTE]

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

[QUOTE]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!
[/QUOTE]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.

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