Classical Music

[Guest]

Just put on an old Beethoven CD

Fourth Piano Concerto
Emil Gilels with the Philharmonia

damn it's easy to forget how good this stuff is!

crazy jazz modulation like something out of Coltrane
but so blissfully right!

wow

Gilels, Oistrakh, Solomon ... the Beethoven soloists in my book...

any other classical music fans out there?

(I know Fat Albert is an Oistrakh fan)

Namkha

 

[sproutco]

Bach - brandenburg concertos is probably my favorite classical music

 

[Jam Master Jaco]

Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain" is nothing but simply amazing. I'm a metal head and Night On Bald Mountain is as metal as it gets with an orchestra.

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

Namkha, Sproutco, awesome! Beethoven is the man, so is Bach, Bach is just far-out... i love Henry Purcell too... Chopin, Satie, Debussy, Heitor Villalobos, Leo Brouwer, Telemann, Bramhs, Liszt, Schoenberg!!!!... i have so much classical music i can go on forever... peace!

 

[Guest]

re. heavy - try Coriolan Overture, Beethoven (preferabkly the Fritz Reiner version)

also - Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 (pref. Solomon, or Gilels) - that is possibly one of the angriest pieces of classical music about

and of course - the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies!

awesome in a very real sense!

yeh PVR - Beethoven is indeed the man

Brahms and Mozart I also love
also Debussy and Ravel

 

[sproutco]

24 hour a day classical music stream through your computer: http://www.wabe.org/community/streams/

 

[BenKrishman]

Bach - brandenburg concertos is probably my favorite classical music

Brandenburg Concertos is good stuff, So is Art of Fugue.

You should also look into some Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Brahms. Great dark and intense stuff.

 

[sproutco]

You should also look into some Tchaikovsky

I have listened to some of his ballets I think. Interestingly:

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/tchaikovsky.html

"he could not accept his homosexuality...Tchaikovsky, however, saw marriage as a possible solution to his sexual problems; and when contacted by a young woman who admired his music he offered (after first rejecting her) immediate marriage. It was a disaster: he escaped from her almost at once, in a state of nervous collapse, attempted suicide and went abroad. This was however the time of two of his greatest works, the Fourth Symphony and Eugene Onegin."

 

[BenKrishman]

I have listened to some of his ballets I think. Interestingly:

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/tchaikovsky.html

"he could not accept his homosexuality...Tchaikovsky, however, saw marriage as a possible solution to his sexual problems; and when contacted by a young woman who admired his music he offered (after first rejecting her) immediate marriage. It was a disaster: he escaped from her almost at once, in a state of nervous collapse, attempted suicide and went abroad. This was however the time of two of his greatest works, the Fourth Symphony and Eugene Onegin."

Man, thats some pretty crazy shit. It always seems like the people with the most troubles compose the best music.

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

i wonder why would they say he was homosexual just because he did not want to marry or did not wanted to be with any girls? that'd make pretty much all ascetics very gay... anyway, anyone ever heard of Gesualdo?

 

[Haps]

Bach, Motzart, Beethovan, Handel, Brahms, Chopin, these chaps had soul. Music is math dancing.
H

 

[jaykush]

i like some classical, more away from the royal sounding stuff, also classical guitars songs are great. one guy zoran dukic is awsome. if anyone wants to give me good names to look for that would be cool. i see theres a few good ones already posted.

heres a good online radio station. they play good stuff all the time. streams 24/7

http://128.125.204.54:2345/kuscaudio96.mp3

 

[Fat Albert]

Just put on an old Beethoven CD

Fourth Piano Concerto
Emil Gilels with the Philharmonia

damn it's easy to forget how good this stuff is!

crazy jazz modulation like something out of Coltrane
but so blissfully right!

wow

Gilels, Oistrakh, Solomon ... the Beethoven soloists in my book...

any other classical music fans out there?

(I know Fat Albert is an Oistrakh fan)

Namkha

Most people prefer Beethoven's Fourth to the 'Emperor' (his fifth piano concerto), but I'm a sucker for E-flat major, so that wins it for me. There is a performance of the 'Emperor' with Alfred Brendel and the London Phil, Bernard Haitink conducting. 1976, I believe. Tremendous! On that disc there's a recording of Beethoven's Fantasia for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, op. 80. People write this piece off as a sketch of Schiller's 'Ode' in Beethoven's Ninth, but there is a different sort of lilting beauty in this Fantasia. Brendel delivers at the keys, as usual.

If I had to name a personal Number 1, I'd have to pick Mozart (duh. see my sig). There is an effortlessness and simplicity to his music that is deceptively light on the ear; many a music student (myself included) has thought at one point that he or she could write something equally simple and beautiful. Yeah, right. His operas are without compare; Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' has been argued to be the greatest piece of music ever written. Please get a copy of this, folks. It can change your life.

I have tremendous respect for J.S. Bach, althought G. F. Handel's oratorios make him my favorite Baroque composer. Overall I'm a bit cool on this era of music, as the notion of the 'doctrine of affections' came to limit the overall expressiveness of the music (this idea stated that pieces should stay in the same mood from beginning to end; hence why the first ten seconds of a Baroque piece can tell you all about it). I'm a Classicist/Romanticist. I also worship: Carl Maria von Weber (amazing writer for the clarinet), Franz Schubert, Franz Josef Haydn, Fryderyk Chopin (makes me proud to be a Pole), Brahms, Rossini, Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Ravel, and Stravinsky.

Let's keep this thread going!

Fat A

DISCLAIMER: If it seems like I know too much about classical music, I live/eat/breathe this stuff as a full-time music student and performer. I play clarinet, piano, percussion, and I sing bass.

 

[Fat Albert]

Music is math dancing.
H

Both music and mathematics, like art, seek an aesthetically pleasing ideal in the solutions these disciplines seek. There is as much beauty to
E=mc2 as there is to a Mozart symphony. The study of music combines various disparate skills like hand/eye coordination, teamwork, rigorous practice, appreciation of the aesthetics of music, etc. There's far more to the discipline than just sitting around and listening to CDs (which is what most people think I do all day). Anybody who has taken any higher-level music theory courses would probably agree.....

Cheers! Fat A

 

[ethereal]

amen

 

[Guest]

glad to hear so many people here naming Brahms

his symphonies are some of my favourite pieces of music - it was the First that caught me - Klemperer and the Philharmonia, with Dennis Brain

these days it is the Klemperer/Philharmonia version of the 2nd that I keep going back to

Fat Albert, have you heard Gilels playing the 4th, particularly the version I mentioned (on Testament)?

For the 5th I have a soft spot for the Michelangeli on DG

also - I think you Poles should make more noise about Chopin being Polish - I swear, I spent years of my life assuming he was French!

Chopin - totally brilliant... recently acquired the Rubinstein Waltzes (love the old Lipatti ones too) - totally amazing

the Rubinsteing/Szeryng Brahms violin sonatas are pretty good too


Namkha

 

[solrebl]

I play the piano and I must say for me Beethoven's "moonlight" sonata is pure delight. Saint-Saens (french composer) is also great... I think anyone that has good taste in music can learn to appreciate "classical" music.