Classical Music

[4 Leaf Clover]

Im supprised noone started thread before. Im a classical music listener , which is hard not to be since i play piano. But i seem to enjoy only depressive and dramatic tunes

My fav piano composer is Franz Liszt , i think he is just genious , i cant believe few of his picks are created by human brain , they are far too complex and rich in sound ,they really take max out of instrument

[BAM]

Yeah I like classical music. If you enjoy dramatic, have you tried Bruckner?

My favourites at the moment - it always changes - are Scriabin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSsKJIzwapA), Khatchaturian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-RxlPq2-I), Alexander Mosolov's amazing The Iron Foundry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1-_UPwYSM), Beethoven's late string quartets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3HzEWQl0c&feature=related), Respighi (whose Nebbie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpW-s1lUqe4)is one of the most sublime things I have ever heard), the polyphony of Josquin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU9egDBAYp8) ...

those are just a few of the things I have been listening to lately.

[4 Leaf Clover]

i didnt mean dramatic in that sense , i mean more like melo-dramatic :D

anyway lately i returned to classics , the typical concert repertoire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4qiw8KK6Lw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8gffQg__qA&feature=related

oh btw did you watch this video in which woman massacres piano ?

i hadnt seen this technique in my life , camera cant catch the speed in later part of clip , like at 1:20 and so on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuP1BjbhAg&feature=fvst

[Communist]

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One classical composer I've been listening to for a long time is Havergal Brien (http://www.havergalbrian.org/) (1875-1972); his Symphony No. 1 in D minor for soloists, chorus, brass bands & (http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/288240.html)orchestra, "The Gothic" (http://avaxhome.ws/music/classical/Brian_gothic.html) is particularly outstanding.

Here's the beginning, all six movements are on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Havergal+Brian+-+Gothic+Symphony+%28Symphony+No.+1%29&aq=f).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgUmpSWB-fc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shMMBSYCTL4&feature=related

[brigadista]

de falla all the way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuo_1GRwum0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpG_wvdhkRM&feature=related

[4 Leaf Clover]

thanks for stuff , i otherwise always browse for hours before bumping into something i might like , esspecially when having no clue what to look for

oh , i would also like to share this quite famous tune from Chopin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEyEw-8Kuv8

enjoy listening :)

[4 Leaf Clover]

:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0QO26Q8OyU

[Apoi_Viitor]

This thread is dissapointingly small.

But anyways, I'm a huge classical music fan. Some of my favorites are Gyorgy Ligeti, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, Prokofiev, Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Iannis Xenakis.

[leftace53]

I enjoy Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov and a few others.

[ed miliband]

This thread is dissapointingly small.

But anyways, I'm a huge classical music fan. Some of my favorites are Gyorgy Ligeti, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, Prokofiev, Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Iannis Xenakis.

Solid list. I'd add Mahler to it.

[4 Leaf Clover]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBygW-3ffOY


bit too fast for my taste , but great performance , couldnt find better one

[DavidX]

I must say, among you revlefters there is most excellent taste! Classical Music today has to be taken back from the bourgeoisie before it is sterilized and commodified into oblivion.

I'd offer just one lesser known composer to your fine list
Kurt Atterberg!

I am a committed fan of Mahler also, and at such concerts, one cannot help but see the irony of the contrast between the universal emancipatory spirit of such music against the superficial elitist culture of most modern-day patrons who attend them.

[4 Leaf Clover]

welcome to the thread :D
please post your favourite tunes from Mahler , and Atterberg , i would like to see what you fancy :cool:

[Bonobo1917]

Schubert, some of his songs, his piano music and a chillingly beautuful string quintet, of which part of the first movement follows here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQxudcxf6LE&feature=related

[DavidX]

I'd love to share! I love sharing and I never get a chance to!

I played both Mahler 1 & 5 and my friend and I are total Mahler buffs! together we have 16-17 different versions of the 5th alone =) out of these I think probably the berlin phil with simon rattle gets me the most probably for sentimental reasons, it being my first ever mahler! =)

But two is the one that makes me cry and six is the one I listen to when I'm bitter and full of hate. well maybe that's too literal. mahler rather gets me a more stauch, stoic clenched teeth kind of going, while he flourishes and fakes with his scherzos and folk dances you know they can be the most bitter of all things...

Atterberg is an indulgence for me, all his symphonies and his violin/viola thingy however it's like an totally literal and "full-on" indulgence and not at all like the cringing indulgence of eating too many french fries. I totally identify with his unabashed romanticism, whereas in other particular romantic composers, like my friend put it, it's indeed like eating sugar cubes with syrup poured over them.

I would also totally die and be reborn as Samuel Barber. He's my earliest idol in music and is totally life-affirming, charming, innovative and all-round genius.

There! =)

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

Mahler's Titan has got to be my favorite classical work. Anything of Beethoven's is good too.

[Lyev]

This is pretty classical:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0

[I.Drink.Your.Milkshake]

I love listening to classical music, although i couldnt really talk about it in any depth. I love the sheer scale and ambition of much of it.

[Ehsivar]

I dig Bela Bartok, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. I'm definitely willing to learn about more composers, as I am not too versed in the genres of Classical, Romantic, Baroque, and others outside of pop and folk music.

[Davie zepeda]

You should list all the soviet composer's they were very good in in this arena

[BAM]

You should list all the soviet composer's they were very good in in this arena

I only really know Mosolov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Khatchaturian ... any others that are good?

[4 Leaf Clover]

well here you are titan :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIBFLGe-0s8

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Wagner, Beethoven, Tchakovsky.

[Il Medico]

My five favorites are probably Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, and Tchaikovsky.
Chopin- Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat Major:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-kaDxaVBFA

Mozart- Requiem Lacrimosa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs&feature=related

Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck&feature=related
(This was the first classical song I learned to play when I was learning Piano in my youth. [It was also the last I forgot.])

Vivaldi- Spring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kTei0XrCs

Tchaikovsky- The Overture of 1812
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgOGl_OWOqg
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW4C2h3lPac&feature=related

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7F4z8FV6ME

[ContrarianLemming]

Chopin

Raindrop Prelude. It's so manipulative, angry, soft, sort of like a spiteful lover, passive agressive at the listener, or pityful of you. I think it's a very deceptive peice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0597FooBEQ

[manic expression]

No one's mentioned Mendelssohn? Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is ridiculous. Here's the 3rd movement (the 1st is one of my favorites too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81bH4bLlIIE

Good stuff from everyone else. :thumbup1:

[fa2991]

I'm a sucker for Bach and Mozart myself, though there are no specific compositions I can point to as my favorites.

[anticap]

I wake up to classical every morning, but I know almost nothing about it except that I enjoy it.

I think I find it somewhat inaccessible because the pieces don't have 'normal' names like pop songs do. It's all symphony this, prelude that, movement the other, in key whatever. Anyway that's just laziness on my part for not making the effort to remember any of it.

[brigadista]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWpV7L4YHuU&feature=related




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyy34u7B4Zc&feature=related

[4 Leaf Clover]

i cant believe i didn't discover this pearl before
Horowitz's last public playing of rachmaninoff's piano concerto 3 , at age of 75 in New York

full 44 minutes of concerto so if you have time , you won't regret listening to this piano maraton :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5mxU_7BTRA

[Notorio]

I only really know Mosolov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Khatchaturian ... any others that are good?

Don't forget Alexander Alexandrov! He wrote the music to the anthem!


Speaking of composers, my favorites would have to be Joaquin Rodrigo, Gustav Holst, Tchaikovsky, Issac Albeniz, Mauro Guilliani, Fernando Sor, and the great Francisco Tarrega! The first three are my orchestral favorites, the rest have mixed orchestral work/group peices and solo peices.

[Notorio]

I only really know Mosolov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Khatchaturian ... any others that are good?

Don't forget Alexander Alexandrov, he should be credited solely on the aspect that he wrote the music to the soviet anthem! A great peice of msic in it's own right!

[EvilRedGuy]

Anything by Paul Anthony Romero, i LOVED the 'Heroes of Might and Magic' soundtracks. I like videogame classical music even if its electronically sampled.

[4 Leaf Clover]

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This thread is not dead :cool:

anyway , this is Martha Argerich playing Mozart's piano concerto no 20.

[4 Leaf Clover]

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holy shit , the size and appearance of organs is simply terrifying

[Milk Sheikh]

I don't want to upset anyone, but I don't really enjoy Chopin and Brahms (except, maybe, for his string quartets). I just don't like them at all!:( But I see everyone loving it - I just don't get it.

Anyway, one of my (Bach) favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesrqFeq9rU

[4 Leaf Clover]

I don't prefer Chopin as well. It's too much romanticist , way too over-emotional and soft

[Milk Sheikh]

I only really know Mosolov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Khatchaturian ... any others that are good?

Can you recommend the best of their compositions? I am only familiar with Mosolov's Zavod and first string quartet.:(

[Ligeia]

Love the energy of this performance:
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Other stuff:
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Listen to the whole of Sheherazade or watch the ballet, wonderful piece of music.
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And the slavonic dances.....beauty.
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Waltz of the snow flakes. :)
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Aida
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Barcarolle
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Carmen
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Madame Butterfly
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La wally
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swan lake
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Debussy
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Revueltas
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Villa-Lobos...you should listen to all of these suites.
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Manuel Ponce
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and so on... I don't want to saturate this page.
I'm not too knowledgeable of this music, so I'm probably mixing stuff here but I'd say some would consider this as classical music in its broadest meaning.
I know there's a distinction in Opera, intrumental....romantic, impressionistic, expressionistic, classical...etc. but I don't look at it that much.