Classical Music
Discussion
As I sit here listening to Bach's 'Air on the G-string' I'm thinking that there are plenty of rock threads on PH (a genre I'm most at home with0 but very few classical music threads..
I'll start will my favs:
Air on a G-string : J.S Bach
Moonlight Sonata : Beethoven(sp)
Adagio for strigs : Barber
Music from Romeo and Juliet : ??
I'll start will my favs:
Air on a G-string : J.S Bach
Moonlight Sonata : Beethoven(sp)
Adagio for strigs : Barber
Music from Romeo and Juliet : ??
Elgar's chello concerto and Dvorak's New World Symphony always get me.
There's a whole heap of really good classical music out there - one of my my biggest obstacles in life was getting over the fact that my father insisted on stuffing it down my throat at every available opportunity but seemed somewhat reluctant to appreciate the merrits of Black Sabbath.
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There's a whole heap of really good classical music out there - one of my my biggest obstacles in life was getting over the fact that my father insisted on stuffing it down my throat at every available opportunity but seemed somewhat reluctant to appreciate the merrits of Black Sabbath.
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Mussorgsky - Night on Cold Mountain is very cool
Saint Saens - Danse Macabre (Jonathan Creek them tune but still very good and moody)
Faure - Pavane
Borodin - Prince Igor
Orff - O Fortuna
Sorry, all the "popular" classics, but there's a reason for that.
>> Edited by Nevin on Friday 10th December 01:08
Saint Saens - Danse Macabre (Jonathan Creek them tune but still very good and moody)
Faure - Pavane
Borodin - Prince Igor
Orff - O Fortuna
Sorry, all the "popular" classics, but there's a reason for that.
>> Edited by Nevin on Friday 10th December 01:08
Where to start 
Actually, I really don't know! I love classical music, so much fantastic music!
Some of my favourite composers and some of their works that I love
Mozart - almost all of it is magical, so simple yet so clever.
Beethoven - Symphonies, particularly 3, 5, 7, and 9. The birth of Romanticism
Brahms - sublime, wonderful tunes, great orchestral writing. Again, symphonies worth checking out.
Musorgsky - big nationalist pieces (Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on a Bare Mountain)
Shostakovich - electrifying (Symphonies 5 & 10 especially, Cello Concerto)
Richard Strauss - king of big romantic music, lush orchestration, wonderful tunes (Rosenkavalier, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Alpine Symphony, Ein Heldenleben, etc.)
Wagner - The Ring cycle (4 operas) comes on 14 CDs - have seen it live over the course of 4 evening, a real marathon!
Mahler - late romantic symphonies
Bruckner - more of the same!
Igor Stravinsky - a master of late romanticism and 20th Century (Firebird, Rite of Spring - THE seminal 20th century work)
Prokoviev - fantastic, "wrong note" harmonies - Romeo & Juliet, Symphonies.
I'd better stop there or I'll go on all night. I can thoroughly recommend all of those pieces above. People often poo-poo classical music as being boring or inaccessible. You just need to find out what works for you, there is a wealth of incredible music out there.
What other job can you do where you can feel shivers running through your body and your hairs standing on end? Amazing stuff.
Actually, I really don't know! I love classical music, so much fantastic music!
Some of my favourite composers and some of their works that I love
Mozart - almost all of it is magical, so simple yet so clever.
Beethoven - Symphonies, particularly 3, 5, 7, and 9. The birth of Romanticism
Brahms - sublime, wonderful tunes, great orchestral writing. Again, symphonies worth checking out.
Musorgsky - big nationalist pieces (Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on a Bare Mountain)
Shostakovich - electrifying (Symphonies 5 & 10 especially, Cello Concerto)
Richard Strauss - king of big romantic music, lush orchestration, wonderful tunes (Rosenkavalier, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Alpine Symphony, Ein Heldenleben, etc.)
Wagner - The Ring cycle (4 operas) comes on 14 CDs - have seen it live over the course of 4 evening, a real marathon!
Mahler - late romantic symphonies
Bruckner - more of the same!
Igor Stravinsky - a master of late romanticism and 20th Century (Firebird, Rite of Spring - THE seminal 20th century work)
Prokoviev - fantastic, "wrong note" harmonies - Romeo & Juliet, Symphonies.
I'd better stop there or I'll go on all night. I can thoroughly recommend all of those pieces above. People often poo-poo classical music as being boring or inaccessible. You just need to find out what works for you, there is a wealth of incredible music out there.
What other job can you do where you can feel shivers running through your body and your hairs standing on end? Amazing stuff.
Nevin said:Better still the was a sight at zeroonefilms.com (their site has been down for months) but you used to be able to stream a whole heap of good stuff off there.
Dvorak's New World Symphony always get me.
Hurrah for the Hovis advert music
They had a copy of one of the early black and white frnakenstein movies - the sound track was this piece - fecking great - subtitles to a groovey filum - with Dvorak's New World.
Damn shame I never ripped it - like many good things on the interent - you just kind of assume it's gonna be there forever and then feel slightly dismayed when it disappears.
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nicecupoftea said:
Where to start
Actually, I really don't know! I love classical music, so much fantastic music!
Some of my favourite composers and some of their works that I love
Mozart - almost all of it is magical, so simple yet so clever.
Beethoven - Symphonies, particularly 3, 5, 7, and 9. The birth of Romanticism
Brahms - sublime, wonderful tunes, great orchestral writing. Again, symphonies worth checking out.
Musorgsky - big nationalist pieces (Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on a Bare Mountain)
Shostakovich - electrifying (Symphonies 5 & 10 especially, Cello Concerto)
Richard Strauss - king of big romantic music, lush orchestration, wonderful tunes (Rosenkavalier, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Alpine Symphony, Ein Heldenleben, etc.)
Wagner - The Ring cycle (4 operas) comes on 14 CDs - have seen it live over the course of 4 evening, a real marathon!
Mahler - late romantic symphonies
Bruckner - more of the same!
Igor Stravinsky - a master of late romanticism and 20th Century (Firebird, Rite of Spring - THE seminal 20th century work)
Prokoviev - fantastic, "wrong note" harmonies - Romeo & Juliet, Symphonies.
I'd better stop there or I'll go on all night. I can thoroughly recommend all of those pieces above. People often poo-poo classical music as being boring or inaccessible. You just need to find out what works for you, there is a wealth of incredible music out there.
What other job can you do where you can feel shivers running through your body and your hairs standing on end? Amazing stuff.
Now, there's a play list if I ever saw one
TheExcession said:
Now, there's a play list if I ever saw one
I've not even started yet!
Edited to say:
Possibly the easiest way into "classical" orchestral music is through film soundtracks:
John Williams (Star Wars, Superman, E.T., Schindlers List, Jaws, Jurassic Park, etc.)
Jerry Goldsmith (Alien, Star Trek, etc.)
James Horner (Titanic, Star Trek 2&3, Aliens, etc.)
David Arnold (Independance Day, last couple of Bond films)
Mostly influenced by a mixture of big romantic 19th century composers and also more modern ones - you can often hear bits that almost seem to have been lifted wholesale (Holst's Planets suite, especially Mars, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Mahler, Shostakovich, etc.). In fact many more recent classical composers wrote music for films themselves (Bernstein, Britten, Shostakovich, Walton)!
>> Edited by nicecupoftea on Friday 10th December 01:48
EmmaP said:
The Flight of the Valkeries (??) by Wagner is superb also.
Oh Yes My dad used to have a version of this plyed by "Sky4" - basically 4 electric guitars, and it sounded awesome. When he played it in his Big old Pimpmobile merc just prior to dispatchings chavs etc at the lights, it was so impressive EmmaP said:
Montagues and the Capulets (think that is correct
Loads of great suggestions...
Vivaldi - The four seasons but also some of his adagio's. Also, "Sposa son disprezzata"... tis a gorgeous piece of music.
Faure's Requiem - amazingly relaxing. Dimmed lights, good bottle of wine... :sigh:
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