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dschbach
12th August 2008, 20:18
Now then!
By no way am I a total authority, but from Haydn to Khachaturian, I hope to discuss much music.
Though I am new here and intend to stay, I wish to produce a list and receive one from everyone, of all of the classical music you wish to recommend to other users, it's a good cultural exercise, considering that classical music is owned by the bouregois bastards, we need to take it back, compose our own classical music and show those fools that classical music can have a working class basis (see Voloshinov and Vygotsky for their convergent although different ideas on art, class, language and culture - all of which are one and the same) - so I have composed a list of classical music, that which I feel is worth listening to to date, though for time and attention, I will limit myself:
Alkan - Preludes
Alkan - Concerto/Symphony for solo piano (How can anyone perform this?!!?!?!? Utterly beautiful)
Bach - Passacaglia und Fuge in C min (The key to all modern music)
Bach - Goldberg Variationen (The key to all modern music)
Bach - Das Wohltempierte Klavier (The key, quite literally , to all modern music)
Bach - Violinkonzerte, Werke fuer Violinsolo, Flautsolo od. Flaute mit Klavier
Bach - ALL of his cantatas, religous and secular (These are the only potential things that may convert me to christianity)
Bach - Everything by Bach is good.
Bruckner - Every single Symphony and Mass by Bruckner is gorgeous, without him, we would be lacking the unexpected modulation in most popular rock songs - Symponies "nullte"-9 in completion + Helgoland cantata. Bruckner as a genius, led to the genius that was Mahler, no matter what he thought of himself for being a "lesser Wagner", which was unsubstantiated - I felt more emotion in Bruckner than Wagner -, he composed equally fascinating and heartstopping music.
Chopin - Nocturnes, I cannot begin to comprehend the feelings these invoke when people insist that it is "background music", they are high tragedy.
Chopin - Polonaises, though a dance written for courtiers, the emotions invoked in the "tragic" polonaise.
Delius - his songs
(list a minor work in progress....)

This alphabetism is getting annoying! to classical music! I haven't even gotten to Mahler and I feel tired! Comrades! I hope the following resource may be useful:
"imslp.org" for having been down for a year "Feldmahler" has reopened the page following a needless legal pursuit.

***Move to other forum of which I was unaware*** (The gaudy interface of this site is difficult to navigate)

Mujer Libre
13th August 2008, 09:41
Moved.:)

RHIZOMES
13th August 2008, 11:12
Check out Philip Glass, he is the man. Particularly his Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack, Akhnaten and best of all - 1000 Airplanes on a Roof.

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Random Precision
16th August 2008, 19:42
My favorite composers are Beethoven, Mahler, Strauss (Richard), Sibelius and Shostakovich. Most of the music I listen to is from the early twentieth century, with an emphasis on the Middle and Late Romantics, Early Moderns, Impressionists and Twentieth Century Avant-Garde.

A "couple" of my favorite pieces:

G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, The Messiah
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, Peter Grimes
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 3 "Organ"
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes, La Mer
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Oliver Messaien: Quartet for the End of Time, From the Canyons to the Stars
Edgard Varese: Deserts
Ottarino Respighi: Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome
W.A. Mozart: Requiem, Don Giovanni
Ludwig van Beethoven: Emperor Concerto, Hammerklavier Sonata, Appasionata Sonata, Symphonies 3, 5, 7, and 9
Anton Bruckner: Symphonies 7, 8, 9
Gustav Mahler: Symphonies 1 "Titan", 2 "Resurrection", 5, 8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Don Juan, Four Last Songs
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Alban Berg: Lyric Suite
Karlheinz Stockhausen: "Helicopter" String Quartet
Antonin Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World", Serenade for Strings, Serenade for Winds
Leos Janáček: Mládí, The Cunning Little Vixen, From the House of the Dead, Gagliotic Mass
Bela Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Hungarian Sketches, Violin Concerto No. 2
Gyorgy Ligeti: Atmospheres, Lontano, Lux Aeterna
Frideric Chopin: Nocturnes for Piano, Cello Sonata
P.I. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 6
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration), Boris Gudonov, Songs and Dances of Death (Shostakovich Orchestration)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Capriccio Espagnole
Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 2, The Bells, Isle of the Dead
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, Petrouchka, the Rite of Spring, Symphony of Psalms
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies 5, 7 "Leningrad, 10, 11 "The Year 1905", Festive Overture, Piano Trio No. 2, Cello Sonata, String Quartet No. 8
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, Violin Concerto No. 2
Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus, Symphony No. 2
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Symphony No. 2, Lemminkainen Suite, Violin Concerto
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Piano Concerto in F
Charles Ives: Three Places in New England
John Cage: The Seasons
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach, Violin Concerto, Etudes for Piano
John Adams: Nixon in China, Harmonium, On the Transmigration of Souls
Douglas Lilburn: Aotearoa Overture, Song of the Forests


Everything by Bach is good.

As much as I love classical music (it being most of what I listen to, and I work with several orchestras) I just can't stand Bach and don't know why anyone listens to him. I guess it's true that he pretty much invented western music, but that doesn't mean I have to enjoy his stuff. To me, listening to Bach is like listening to a math problem- and more often than not, the same math problem, over and over. I suppose it's much the same with most Baroque composers, although I have enjoyed what Handel I've listened to.

But take or leave the Bach, it's good to have another classical music fan on here. Please stick around. Clever name btw.

KrazyRabidSheep
17th August 2008, 01:53
Forgive me if these were posted already, but I didn't see Antonio Vivaldi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi#Works) or Antonio Salieri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri#Works) (pardon me for posting links to wikipedia, but I don't feel like listing individual works.)