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| 20th Century Classical?
Where's the Sputnik love for classical? Since the summer I've really become fond of early 20th century classical composers. Really made me look at music differently. Here are some of my favorite pieces, I wish Sputnik paid more attention to this type of stuff. | | 1 |  | Igor Stravinsky
Le Sacre du printemps
My favorite 'song' of all time. It would require pages upon pages to explain how I feel about the Rite of Spring. Majestic, primal, cerebral, cinematic, technical, nightmarish, labyrinthine, exotic, oriental, tense, flowing, sharp, jagged, orgasmic, I could sit here writing adjectives forever. | | 2 |  | Igor Stravinsky
Les Noces III (The Wedding)
An underrated Stravinsky ballet (?). People always talk of the Firebird (and of course the Rite) but I enjoy Les Noces far more. Minimalistic and very sharp sounding. | | 3 |  | Olivier Messiaen
Turangalîla-Symphonie
Such a fantastic piece of music. Johnny Greenwood turned me on to this. So masterfully crafted. | | 4 |  | Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I/22
If you haven't heard this, simply look up the story behind it. One of the most foreboding pieces I have ever heard. | | 5 |  | Steve Reich
Music for 18 Musicians
Minimalism can be kind of gimmicky IMO, and I do think artists like Phillip Glass and Reich and Cage were almost 'lazy' with their music. However, this vast orchestral piece is basically the STANDARD for beauty through repetition. Fantastic. | | 6 |  | Gyorgy Ligeti
Requiem
Thanks Stanley Kubrick! | | 7 |  | Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86
Debussy's catalog is so great that I feel bad only including one piece, but at the same time I don't want to feature too many. Clair De Lune, the Arabesques, Engulfed Cathedral, fetes, and La Mer are all amazing examples of Debussy's innovation and emotion. | | 8 |  | Karlheinz Stockhausen
Gesang der Junglinge
Spooky stuff. I'm not sure who I enjoy more, Stockhausen or Ligeti. They both made really weird shit during their careers. | | 9 |  | Krzysztof Penderecki
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
If you don't know this for some reason I strongly suggest looking it up. It used to scare the shit out of me but now I recognize it more for its brilliant use of extended technique. | | 10 |  | George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Fantastic piece. No description really needed. | | 11 |  | Dmitri Shostakovich
24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87
The specific fugue I'm referring to here is the no. 7 in A minor. Shostakovich, known for rebelliously adding dissonance to his music, makes a piece where the only melodies exist over the current major chord. No dissonance whatsoever. | | 12 |  | Gyorgy Ligeti
Lux Aeterna
Again: thanks Kubrick! | | 13 |  | John Cage
4'33'' | |
Archelirion
02.22.16 | Damn I love 9. Checked out the whole of Matrix 5 a few days back, absolutely terrifying stuff of the highest order. But yeah, as a compositional wonder it's up there. I'd recommend checking some of Kazimierz Serocki's stuff if you haven't already :] | Snowdog808
02.22.16 | I recently heard Bartok's 6 string quartets. They certainly sounded awkward and wonderful at the same time. | forkliftjones
02.22.16 | 1 rules.
Bought a CD of 11 a short time ago, but haven't listened to it yet. | basikchanL
02.22.16 | scelsi
schoenberg
webern
berg
feldman
gubadulina
cerha
lachenmann
ferneyhough
radulescu
ustvolskaya
bartok
| MO
02.22.16 | for 11, check out his Symphony #10. it's simply amazing and one of my favourite pieces of classical music ever. dark as fuck and just riffs so hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKhSca8CS1c | joshpayne
02.22.16 | No Holst?
1 and 7 are the only ones I know actually. Been meaning to get into more classical. | Onirium
02.23.16 | Prokofiev (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TyQ97Jcr0), Bartok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m129k5YcQnU), Schoenberg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-pVz2LTakM), Mussorgsky, Ravel, Satie and Saint-Saens are composers from the first half of the century that you'd probably like
There's also a nice selection of more contemporary composers here; in the idea of Stockhausen and peculiar, unsettling music: Varèse, Xenakis and Chou Wen-chung are personal favorites | BenThatsMyJamin
02.23.16 | No Vaughan Williams? |
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