Classical music

[Led Zeppelin]

Lately I've been really into classical music, it soothes me and makes me feel relaxed, as opposed to rock and rap which makes me feel tense.

Anyway, this the stuff I've got so far:

Vivaldi - Four Seasons Winter

Vivaldi - Four Seasons Spring

Mozart - 7th Symphony

Mozart - Requiem

Mozart - Symphony No. 41 in C Major

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

I would really like something along those lines, Tchaikovsky is very good I heard, so I'm gonna check him out too.

[chimx]

I love Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring". the piece is polytonal and semi arythmic, which makes for this astonishling pagan, atmospheric song. when it was first perfomed it caused riots.

I'm also quite a fan of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".

You may also like modern minimalists. Definatly check out the vocal arangements done by Arvo Part. Amazon.com i know sells a great CD that samples a lot of his work.

[Led Zeppelin]

I listened to Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring", didn't really like it. Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" is a classic though.

[Ligeia]

I would recommend Baletmusic and folkdancemusic like from Tchaikovsky,Stravinsky,Ravel,Dvorak.

Ravel- Bolero

Dvorak-Slavonic Dances

Tchaikovsky- Swanlake,Nutcracker,Sleepin Beauty,Romeo and Julia..etc.

Stravinsky- the firebird,le sacre du printemps

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2006, 09:39 AM
I love Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring". the piece is polytonal and semi arythmic, which makes for this astonishling pagan, atmospheric song. when it was first perfomed it caused riots.

I live this music, it is one of my all-time favourite pieces and everyone should at least give it a go at high volume.

By classic I assume you mean orchestral music and not pre 1800 but post baroque only?

Anyway I would definitely recommend Rachmaninov (sp?) absolutely fantastic.

[chimx]

a lot of what you seem interested in has an underlying melancholy to it. plz skope out part!

i think you would also really like Max Richter. you can download "The Blue Notebook" pretty easily. Its very pretty, sad, and cinematic feeling.

The Threnody Ensemble does some great stuff. You can download some of their stuff here (http://www.threnodyensemble.com/html/index.php). its a little experimental, but not as much as the Neoclassicialsim of Igor Stravinsky (let alone the 20th century free dissonance movement. i'm glad i didn't suggest any Edgar Verese or any other of those later wackos!)

[anomaly]

Tchaikovsky--1812 overture...though I downloaded the Transiberian orchestra version...shorter and better in my opinion. This is the song from V for Vendetta when Parliament is exploding! :D

Beethoven--ode to joy

[ComradeRed]

Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major

Mozart - all Viola Quintets

Bach - anything

Verdi - Requiem, Triumphal March, etc.

Anything that is classical, baroque, or some romantic music ;)

[Fistful of Steel]

You might like some Bach, and be sure to delve further into Beethoven (a personal favourite of mine).

[chimx]

beethoven and johann got into a fight ending with wolfgang kicking johann down a flight of stairs... needless to say johann baroque his bach. OMG LOLZ.

[Floyd.]

This may be read as a joke by some but it is not.... resaerch Warner Bros cartoons, Just start by getting a Bugs Bunny musical DVD or Video out and write down the names of everything you like.

Other than taht listen to Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition and Jan Vaclav Stich-Punto one I can't remember the name of that involves a storm and a foxhunt or something are both good.

Classical is hardly a strong point for me though as it's never had huge appeal given it's similarities with prog and metal. Warner Bros cartoons worked really well as they were chosen for their dramatic qualities and ability to hold the attention of a simpleton/child. They introduced me toThe Blue Danube and The Barber (bunny) of Saville.

[ComradeRed]

Oddly enough I don't like Beethoven one bit. Some of his music is ok, but I prefer Mozart to Beethoven.

Bach is actually one of my favorite composers. His counterpoint is rather ingenius.

[Rockfan]

I've started studying the history of western music at school, from the renasince to jazz, it's quite intresting but I don't think I'll ever get into it much, apart from jazz (The Buddy Rich Big Band etc).

[Cult of Reason]

One of my favourites is Bach's Air. Another is Mozart's Birdcatcher's Song from The Magic Flute (I like the rest of that opera too). Another I could listen to for hours is Luigi Boccherini's String Quartet in E. Pachabel's Canon is also good for relaxation.

[Floyd.]

Yeah I forgot to mention the similarities to jazz. I'm pretty picky about my jazz as so much of it verges on/is wank.

Can somebody please tell me the name of the piece I don't know the name of in my above post? I tried googling it with keywords to no avail.

[Pickle-party]

Good choice in Vavaldi! He is wonderful, isn't he?

But of all time... my favorite song would have to be by Beetovahn (sp?) it's called Sonata #14, or Moonlight Sonata.. It's so amazing. I listen to it when I am stressed out and I just fall away from all of the world shit and lies.

[Comrade J]

Chopin, very good. Especially Nocturne in C# Minor, it's on The Pianist movie, it's amazing.
In fact you can watch Wladyslaw Szpilman playing it here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBE-snJlNYg), who is played by Adrien Brody in the film.

[Eleftherios]

I know this is a very old thread but I didn't want to start a knew one and get yelled by Janus so here it goes:

I really like Beethoven, especially his ninth symphony-now there's revolutionary music. Every time I hear the final movement to that piece, I truly feel that humanity will overcome all odds and that a brighter future is ahead of us. My whole body bursts with optimism and revolutionary fervor.
This is the piece I am talking about: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/226013
Make sure to listen to it at a high volume

I like other classical composers as well, but I will not name them all. I will just mention Tchaikovsky, who I am listening to these days. I really like the Swan Lake Ballet and Sleeping Beauty Ballet, very relaxing

Wow, I did not notice this before but I posted exactly one year after the previous post.

[CornetJoyce]

Bakunin said that "all things shall pass away but Beethoven's Ninth Symphony shall remain" and Lenin loved the Seventh, known as the Revolutionary Symphony. I agree with both but the Fifth - the Symphonie Populaire- the Eroica, and the great Violin Concerto are just as magnificent , and I've appreciated every recording I've heard from the Romantic and Revolutionary Orchestra. Some people like Brahms, some don't. Wagner is usually either idolized or hated. He was a crackpot (Tchaichovsky was a rightist too) was a but a great musician, I'd say. I'm fond of lots of stuff from Mozart, Bocherini, Schubert, Dvorak, Berlioz, Verdi, Mendelson, Lizst...Among the more obscure works I like is Schumann's March of the Davidsbunder.

[Rage]

Bachs Orchestral Suite #2 in B minor is beautiful!

/,,/
Rock on!

[Louis Pio]

You can never go wrong with Shostakovich, check him out.
It's a shame that people on this board are so illeterate musically that they didn't mention him. It seems people here lack some education ;)

[seraphim]

Orff's Carmina Burana.

[Random Precision]

Well, here's pretty much a basic guide to classical standards as well as pieces that are more obscure but that I just love for some reason, courtesy of my iTunes library. (Yes, classical is pretty much all I listen to).

Baroque Era:

- Vivaldi: "Four Seasons" violin concerto, "Gloria"
- Bach: Brandenburg Concerti, Goldberg Variations, Suites for Orchestra, Mass in B Minor, pretty much any choral works
- Scarlatti: Keyboard sonatas
- Handel: Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Organ Concerti, The Messiah

Classical Era:

- Mozart: The last four symphonies, Piano Concerti, Operas: "Figaro" and "Don Giovanni", Clarinet Concerto, Requiem, Posthorn Serenade, "Gran Partita" serenade
- Beethoven: Any symphony except #1, especially #3 "Eroica", #5, #7, and #9 "Choral", the string quartets, Violin Concerto, Piano Sonatas
- Haydn: The big named symphonies, String Quartets, Trumpet Concerto

Romantic Era:

- Schubert: Symphonies #8 and 9 (Unfinished), String Quartets, Piano Sonatas, Mass in G
- Chopin: Nocturnes for Piano, Piano Concerto #2, Cello Sonata
- Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Harold in Italy, Overtures, Requiem
- Bizet: Carmen
- Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 "Organ", Piano Concerto No. 2
- Schumann: Symphonies, especially #1 and 3
- Tchaikovsky: Ballets, 1812 Overture, Violin Concerto, but avoid his symphonies at all costs
- Dvorak: Symphonies, especially #9 "New World", String Quartets, Wind Quintet and Serenade, Slavonic Dances
- Grieg: Piano Concerto, Peer Gynt
- Brahms: Four symphonies, Ein Deutsches Requiem, Hungarian Dances, Piano Concert #2
- Borodin: Symphony #2, Polovtsian Dances
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole, Scheherazade
- Liszt: Piano Concerto #1, Hungarian Rhapsodies
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death, Khovanshchina, Boris Godunov
- Mendelssohn: Symphony #4, Midsummer Night's Dream, Andante and Rondo Capriccioso for Piano, Octet
- Granados: Piano music
- Wagner: "The Ring", "Tristan und Isidore"

20th Century:
- Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance, Enigma Variations
- Bernstein: Symphony #2, Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish", Candide
- Mahler: Symphonies #1, 2, 3, 9
- Debussy: Images for Piano, Images for Orchestra, La Mer, Nocturnes, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Piano Concerto #3, String Quartets #3 and 4, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Hungarian Sketches, Violin Concerto No. 2
- Copland: Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paginini, Symphonic Dances, Symphony #2, "The Bells" choral symphony
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite, Petrouchka
- Shostakovich: Symphonies #5, 7, 10, 11, String Quartet #8, Piano Trio No. 2, Cello Sonata
- Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Bolero
- Holst: The Planets
- Berg: Lyric Suite, Violin Concerto
- Britten: Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes", War Requiem
- Strauss: "Also Sprach Zarathustra", Don Juan, Ein Alpensymphonie, Til Eulenspiegel, Four Last Songs
- Gershwin: American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F
- Gorecki: Symphony #3
- Hanson: Symphony #2
- Ives: Three Places in New England
- Orff: "Carmina Burana"
- Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3, Symphony #5, "Romeo and Juliet"
- Respighi: Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome, Church Windows
- Sibelius: Symphonies #2 and 5, Violin Concerto, Four Legends from The Kalevela, Kerelia Suite, Finlandia
- Williams: Symphonies #2, 3, 5 and 6, Lark Ascending, Five Mystical Songs, Serenade to Music
- Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony, Quartet for the End of Time, L'Ascension

Modern Era: (Just a couple of recommendations, since it's very much a matter of individual taste)

- Crumb: Ancient Voices for Children
- Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, The Seasons
- Hovhaness: Symphonies, especially #2 "Mysterious Mountain", "God Created Great Whales"
- Part: Tabula Rasa, Fratres
- Ligeti: Atmospheres, Lotano, Continuum
- Shore: Lord of the Rings
- Rautavaara: Symphonies
- Stockhausen: Helicopter Quartet
- Varese: Deserts
- Glass: The Low Symphony, Koyannisquatsi, Akhenaten, Etudes for Piano, Music in 12 Parts
- Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, Tehillim

[whoknows]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30, 2006 07:38 am
Lately I've been really into classical music, it soothes me and makes me feel relaxed, as opposed to rock and rap which makes me feel tense.


When you listen more, it may not be so relaxing. There's alot of drive and passion going on in that music, and if you don't hear it so much, right now it is because you are use to what is esentaly dance music.
The great hearts will make you weep and moan, it's like having electric fire running through your veins and being picked up and throwen through glorified clouds.
Good listening.

[Axel1917]

I don't have much classical music, as I have just been getting into it, but I so far have all fifteen of Shostakovich's symphonies. Shostakovich is quite good.

[Mariam]

One of my faves is Orfeo de Euridice by Gluck...especially the part of the dance of the blessed spirits.
Amazing!

[Hit The North]

Originally posted by [email protected] 06, 2006 07:45 pm
Oddly enough I don't like Beethoven one bit. Some of his music is ok, but I prefer Mozart to Beethoven.

Bach is actually one of my favorite composers. His counterpoint is rather ingenius.
Maybe it's because you're a scientist and Bach and Mozart are more mathematical than Beethoven? Personally I love all three.

Some recommendations off the top of my head:

Rachmaninov's Sonata in G minor for Cello & Piano is sublime, as is Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D minor.

All 15 of Shostakovitch's string quartets are brooding, monumental masterpieces.

Spiegel Im Spiegel by Arvo Part is one of the most beautiful modern pieces I'm familiar with.

There's also loads of great opera, although I'm only just beginning to explore it. Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutti is astonishing. Beethoven's Fidelio is a political potboiler with a revolutionary heroine at its centre.

Anyone got any good opera recommendations?

[EwokUtopia]

Borodin's Polestvian Dance is great. Im really a fan of the Russian Classical.


Persian Classical music is great too, but quite different than European. Heres a radio site with some Persian Classical (http://www.radiodarvish.com/).

[Mariam]

Persian Classical music is great too, but quite different than European. Heres a radio site with some Persian Classical.

Oh boy sounds familiar and Sufi too!

[Mariam]

You might find this interesting

Farid Farjad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veS8QBb88V0&mode=related&search=)

[Genosse Kotze]

If you're lucky enough to find it, I'd reckomend Erwin Schulhoff's "the Communist Manifesto (Op.82(?))" That's right communist, classical muisc lovers! Sombody wrote a musical rendition of our favorite book...however, it's really difficult to find, but I wish you the best of luck in your search. If you are successful, please tell us about it and, if possible give us the link or some other sort of way we can all find it.

But my all time favortie is Mozart's "Requiem Mass in D minor K. 626." I'm sure lot's of people are at least familiar with some segments of it, seeing as it's often used as the background score in many films, but I think it's beautiful inspite of its abuse at the hands of Hollywood producers.

"Peter in the Wolf" by Prokofiev was what turned me on to classical a while ago and also, I'm kind of embarassed to say this, but....I really dig the Star Wars soundtrack by John Williams :blush:

[Genosse Kotze]

Originally posted by Citizen Zero+July 25, 2007 01:30 am--> (Citizen Zero @ July 25, 2007 01:30 am)
[email protected] 06, 2006 07:45 pm
Oddly enough I don't like Beethoven one bit. Some of his music is ok, but I prefer Mozart to Beethoven.

Bach is actually one of my favorite composers. His counterpoint is rather ingenius.
Maybe it's because you're a scientist and Bach and Mozart are more mathematical than Beethoven? Personally I love all three.

Some recommendations off the top of my head:

Rachmaninov's Sonata in G minor for Cello & Piano is sublime, as is Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D minor.

All 15 of Shostakovitch's string quartets are brooding, monumental masterpieces.

Spiegel Im Spiegel by Arvo Part is one of the most beautiful modern pieces I'm familiar with.

There's also loads of great opera, although I'm only just beginning to explore it. Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutti is astonishing. Beethoven's Fidelio is a political potboiler with a revolutionary heroine at its centre.

Anyone got any good opera recommendations? [/b]
Opera, hmmm... They made an operatic movie of La Traviata which is worth seeing. But I normally don't go for opera, although I know there was one that I really did enjoy, which I saw for my music history class but I can't for the life of me remember. If I do, I'll be sure to let you know.

[Mariam]

But my all time favortie is Mozart's "Requiem Mass in D minor K. 626." I'm sure lot's of people are at least familiar with some segments of it, seeing as it's often used as the background score in many films, but I think it's beautiful inspite of its abuse at the hands of Hollywood producers.


I remember having a professor who had taken part of a live performance here in Bahrain..shame i didn't go..spiritually touching i'd say.