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Classical stuff always seems to get overlooked in the regular music threads, so I've made one especially for it. All the usual questions/points of discussion apply.
To kick things off, here's some of my favourites:
Maurice Ravel Fyodor Tchaikovsky Alexander Borodin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig Van Beethoven Erik Satie John Williams (probably the best composer of the last 50 years or so IMO). Nobuo Uematsu (criminally overlooked by the mainstream due to being primarily a video game composer).
Sergey Prokofiev’s "Peter & the Wolf" Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" Holst's "Planets" suite
Claude Debussy - Girl with the Flaxen Hair Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue Arturo Marquez - Danzon #2 Clint Mansell - Death is the Road to Awe (from the "The Fountain" soundtrack). Yasushi Akutagawa – Allegro Gregorio Allegri – Miserere Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra Johann Strauss II - On the Beautiful Blue Danube Mussorgsky - St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain Mendelssohn – Fingal’s Cave
Mussorgsky and Mendelssohn are pretty recent finds for me, I've heard a couple of Mussorgsky's other pieces before somewhere and I remember liking them, so I'm looking forward to hearing more of his stuff in particular. I'd love to check out more of Marquez's work too, but it's proving really hard to find.
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DC : Good list!
John Williams : Wagner || Ennio Morricone : Puccini
Tchaikovsky : The Nutcracker Mozart : Sonatas Chopin : Etudes and Waltzes, Nocturnes and the Heroic Polonaise Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto, Etudes Puccini : Turandot (Nessun Dorma) Verdi : Aida Morricone : Just as good as John Williams, I think Pachelbel : Canon in D Vivaldi : Four Seasons Jean Joseph Mouret : Fanfare Bach : Two-Part Inventions, Fugues Beethoven : Sonatas also Bruckner : symphonies Kachaturian, Albeniz, Satie : pieces for piano Grieg : Peer Gynt
I know I'm forgetting some others... Will add to this later
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George Frideric Handel's "Messiah"! What a stunning work that is. "The Glory Of The Lord" has stood out to me as a work of heavenly power ever since I first heard the entire libretto performed live when I was about 7 or 8.
P.S. thank you to Crystaluniverse for putting down "Morning Mood" from Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt". In my top 10 for sure.
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Wow, I used to be a classical music major in bassoon who could never imagine myself doing anything else. This past season, six years later, I joined my first orchestra since quitting. And I'm even in the running to perform a concerto in the 2010/2011 season. Pretty scary considering I still don't consider myself a musician. I forget the names of most of my favourites over the years. Due to the following reasons, I've looked elsewhere for careers:
- insolvency - the harshest of musical self-judgment - lack of practice space & time management skills - equal hatred/fear of all auditions/self-promotion activity - inability to master faster passages -- my fingers just didn't move that fast - envy of other musicians that I deemed less -- or more -- talented - stagefright to the point of overeating; unintentional vomiting when I didn't overeat - thinking that I had the audacity to succeed without history or theory classes - reliance on antidepressants that were being overprescribed (with terrible side effects) or weren't working at all
. . . Let's try this again. I do love classical music, more than I can convey. I just want to stop equating that love with this horrible list once and for all. For now, one of my favourites:
Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Il giuoco delle coppie (Game of Pairs)
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Did a little digging into Mussorgsky and found this, and all I can say is Holy Motherf*ckin' Hand-Grenades!!
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Ah yes, 1:13 to 1:28 was myself and the lower strings. The loud, fast stuff was uncomfortable at the best back in the day.
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Music to disappear into.
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I also watched a documentary the other day on Gregori Allegri''s Miserere Mei, turns out the version we listen to today isn't what he originally wrote (he only wrote the piece for four voices, and it didn't have those high C's) and that we owe much of the modern version to Mozart and Mendelssohn.
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Erik Satie: Gymnopedies I (I have all of his work, but this song really relaxes me when I hear it)
I haven't been able to listen to the Gymnopedies or the Gnossiennes the same way since I watched "Le Feu Follet" (The Fire Within). Now instead of finding them relaxing I find them to be quite sad (not necessarily a bad thing though, sometimes I like sad music).
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DefectiveCreative wrote:
Been listening to a bit of later Mozart recently, and his Requiem really stood out to me.
I've played his requiem...with a huge choir and a symphony orchestra. I was a violinist....I wish i could have sung. But anyway, I agree it's a completely amazing work!
I'm too tired to list all the classical music I love, but a year or so ago, I saw one of the best violinists in Australia perform the Lark Ascending (live of course) and it was absolutely amazing.
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Managed to track down Marquez's "Danzon #1", it's not quite as good as the Danzon #2 (IMO) but it's still good stuff. Hopefully someone will get around to posting more of his stuff on youtube in the future.
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I liked that, it's got a similar feel to Mussorgsky's "Night on the Bare Mountain" and Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre".
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In keeping with the Christmas spirit, here's Prokofiev's Troika (a.k.a. one of my favourite pieces of classical Christmas-y music).
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Orypeci wrote:
Random: But I took everything on this page and played it at the same time, not bad.
That's pretty cool for the first few minutes, then it gets to be a bit much for me.
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