ILJ: Classical/orchestra Recs?

taylormemer 12.01.11	Depends what you are yearning for. There's many different styles (genres) that could interest you. Simply put, if you want a good initiation start with the more well known works and work your way through. Baroque - very metric, structured and tonal pieces Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (well known string quartet suite) Johann Sebastian Bach - Tocatta & Fugue (eclectic organ piece) Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni - Adagio in G minor (adagio for string orchestra) George Fredric Handel - Water Music, Music for Fireworks ------ Classical - Beethoven (and others) push the envelope to introduce intriguing layers of musical form, harmony and dissonance, thus acting as a bridge between the baroque and romantic. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony Nos. 39 & 40 Beethoven - Grosse Fuge (string quartet) you can also include his symphonies, piano sonata and string quartets Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 94 ------ Romantic - more emotion, more rubato, more dissonance Fredrick Chopin - Nocturnes (short piano pieces of "the night") Franz Liszt - Liebestraum (well known work for piano, most of his other work is also great) Richard Wagner - Ring Cycle (4 operas, showing Wagner's larger than life style) Gustrav Mahler - Symphony of a Thousand (title says it all) Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (well known piano suite), A Night on Bald Mountain (dark tone poem) Edvard Grieg - Piano Sonata No. 1 (A minor love) Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (tone poem) Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Syphony Nos. 5 & 6 (probably some of the best examples of the genre) Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 (well known symphonic piece written while he was visiting America) ------
taylormemer 12.01.11	20th Century - age of dissonance and twelve tone serialism Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring, The Firebird (ballets of major significance) Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concertos 2 & 3 (holy shiii) Gustav Holst - The Planets (epic orchestral suite) Eric Satie - Gymnopedies (little piano pieces that influenced later styles Alban Berg - Piano Sonata No. 1 (twelve tone piece) Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 (symphony) Henry Cowell - The Tides of Manaunaun (piano piece showing the first usage of tone clusters) Arthur Honegger - Pacific 231 (character piece using an orchestra to imitate a well known steam locomotive) Charles Ives - "Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord, Mass.)" (serial piano sonata) ------ Modern - minimalism, and electronic experimentations Philip Glass - Akhnaten (opera, minimalism) also his Etudes for piano and Symphony Nos. 3 and 8 Steve Reich - Clapping Music (phasing rhythms) Henryk Gorlecki - Symphony No. 3 (haunting symphony with the inclusion of a solo female voice) Michael Nyman - The Piano (soundtrack to the film) Alfred Scknittke - Gogol Suite (orchestral piece demonstrating "polystylism") Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mantra (piece for two pianos and electronics) So, so, so much more. That's enough for now, it's too expansive to go any further
InAbsentia 12.01.11	haha wow... That's a great post, taylormemer.
AngelofDeath 12.01.11	http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=284981&listid=72529#6
liledman 12.01.11	johann sebastian bach - cello suites, the goldberg variations george frederich handel - water music wolfgang amadeus mozart - requiem ludwig van beethoven - symphonies (any, or just 5 and 9 obv) johannes brahms - 2nd symphony richard wagner - tistan und isolde antonin dvorak - symphony no 9 anton bruckner - symphony no 8 claude debussy - preludes gustav mahler - 6th, 9th symphonies bela bartok - concerto for orchestra arnold schoenberg - string quartets sergei prokofiev - romeo and juliet igor stravinsky - rite of spring, firebird iannis xenakis - metastasis giacinto scelsi - quattro pezzi per orchestra roughly follows a timeline from baroque down to contemporary, mostly orchestral stuff. with classical its best to just pick out the names you recognise, and youtube them. find stuff you dig then hunt for the releases.
liledman 12.01.11	yeah just go with taylormemers recs.
liledman 12.01.11	but i have to pull you up on something... "Alban Berg - Piano Sonata No. 1 (twelve tone piece)" its not twelve tone, its in b minor (or supposed to be...)
vanderb0b 12.01.11	taylormemer and liledman pretty much covered everything that you need. Also try: Joaquin Rodrigo-Concierto De Aranjuez (A guitar concerto in the romantic style. The second movement is particularly good.)
Jethro42 12.01.11	I love that kind of list. Bookmarked.
Aphrodisiac 12.01.11	asking alexandria - reckless and relentless
Aphrodisiac 12.01.11	"Gustav Holst - The Planets" Pretty much the best thing ever
Tyrannic 12.01.11	olafur arnalds- living room songs
Aphrodisiac 12.01.11	Can't go wrong with some Ives either
taylormemer 12.01.11	"its not twelve tone, its in b minor (or supposed to be...)" I saw that after I posted, originally I had Anton Webern's Variations for Piano there, but I replaced it with Berg, not realising I had left the description. I can't edit it cause that will fuck up the formatting, oh well.
liledman 12.01.11	mmm solid choices either way, but bergs sonata is holy fuck good. have you got the mitsuko uchida recording of both those works which includes a few schoenberg piano pieces too? she never fails to impress.
ILJ 12.01.11	Well shit. That's a lot of recs. Thanks a bunch!
Aids 12.01.11	I'm pretty shit at this but I have a couple new classical albums you might dig: Max Richter - Infra Daniel Bjarnason - Processions for old stuff, Chopin is my favourite, but I'm not well-versed at all in that stuff. Chopin rules though, his Nocturnes are out of this world. Oh and yeah I second (or third or whatever) The Planets by Gustav Holt, so good. Also check out Le Sacre du Printemps by Stravinsky.
taylormemer 12.01.11	I don't have that recording ed. I'll have to check out where my CD containing the Variations is, but the Sonata I have on an ol' hand-me-down Deutsche Grammophon CD which also has his Chamber Concerto and 4 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano.
ApplicationToHeaven 12.01.11	Rachmaninoff's preludes are also amazing