I seem to be listening to more classical music of late, usually just in the car playing Classic FM. Recently though, it has really grabbed me and I just wondered if anyone had any recommendations or classical music that they really like and wanted to mention on here.
Currently downloading a 3CD version of the "Best of Classic FM" on Soulseek as I have no idea where to start, apart from Vivaldi as my mum used to play Nigel Kennedy's Four Seasons all the time when I was younger.
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Vivaldi has a reputation of being a genius. Because he was one.
Recommended.
Albinoni. A very early composer of the classic style. Brilliant moments.
Tannhäuser is the only opera by Wagner I think of as an enjoyable listen.
The rest of his work is p*sh to my ears.
If you like it more romantic style, Smetana's "Moldau"(scroll down the page a bit. I am not entirely sure what you Islanders call that concert..) is very nice.
Orfeo ed Euridicce by Gluck is a recomended, too.
J.S. Bach's "Brandenburgische Konzerte" are a great listen.
A thingy I heard on the radio when working for the towing service back then was Händel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" in a brass version, as some of the classic music mega geeks found a note somewhere that it originally got played like that. It apparently was good enough so that I still remember it. after some five years. May be worth a go.
Mozart's Requiem is a great *g*ff* piece of music worth a go.
Maybe you'll be luckier searching than I was: There was an opera on Arte (French/German TV station) a couple of years ago, I think it was called "Farfane" or similar. The music was W.O.N.D.E.R.F.U.L.L. and the staging just gorgeous. If you find it, try to get the Arte TV recording including the video. It was just GREAT!
..by now I had no luck when searching it, though.
That's about all I can think of at the moment
Recommended.
Albinoni. A very early composer of the classic style. Brilliant moments.
Tannhäuser is the only opera by Wagner I think of as an enjoyable listen.
The rest of his work is p*sh to my ears.
If you like it more romantic style, Smetana's "Moldau"(scroll down the page a bit. I am not entirely sure what you Islanders call that concert..) is very nice.
Orfeo ed Euridicce by Gluck is a recomended, too.
J.S. Bach's "Brandenburgische Konzerte" are a great listen.
A thingy I heard on the radio when working for the towing service back then was Händel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" in a brass version, as some of the classic music mega geeks found a note somewhere that it originally got played like that. It apparently was good enough so that I still remember it. after some five years. May be worth a go.
Mozart's Requiem is a great *g*ff* piece of music worth a go.
Maybe you'll be luckier searching than I was: There was an opera on Arte (French/German TV station) a couple of years ago, I think it was called "Farfane" or similar. The music was W.O.N.D.E.R.F.U.L.L. and the staging just gorgeous. If you find it, try to get the Arte TV recording including the video. It was just GREAT!
..by now I had no luck when searching it, though.
That's about all I can think of at the moment
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Thats quite a lot though! I have added it all to my list 
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Yes, early Genesis, Pink Floyd - That's What I Call Classical Music
but seriously folks, Pat did me a nice compilation, I'll dig it out and tell you what's on it
but seriously folks, Pat did me a nice compilation, I'll dig it out and tell you what's on it
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Samuel Barber - "Adagio for strings" (cf. Platoon)
Hector Berlioz - "Symphonie fantastique", op. 14
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony n°9, op. 95, "From the New World"
Edvard Grieg - "Peer Gynt", op. 23, esp. "In the hall of the mountain king"
Sergei Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé, op. 60 (among others)
Richard Strauss - "Also sprach Zarathustra", op. 30
Etc.
Berlioz's requiem isn't too bad either.
Hector Berlioz - "Symphonie fantastique", op. 14
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony n°9, op. 95, "From the New World"
Edvard Grieg - "Peer Gynt", op. 23, esp. "In the hall of the mountain king"
Sergei Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé, op. 60 (among others)
Richard Strauss - "Also sprach Zarathustra", op. 30
Etc.
eotunun wrote: Mozart's Requiem is a great *g*ff* piece of music worth a go.
Berlioz's requiem isn't too bad either.
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And rightly soJames Blast wrote:Yes, early Genesis, Pink Floyd - That's What I Call Classical Music
Rather like it too, have to have my Ring cycle at least once a year, and listen to modern classic stuff like Reich, LaMonte Young, Glass, Vaggione etc every now and then, but also the more classic classical things like Bartok, Gorecki, Heath, Ravel, Haendel, Bach, Mozart, and so on and so on
So much to discover
A mate of mine did me one or two rather splendid compilations some time ago, if you want, shout!
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*shouts*Obviousman wrote:
A mate of mine did me one or two rather splendid compilations some time ago, if you want, shout!
Regarding Glass, I heard an excellent violin piece on Classic FM of his and I totally missed the title
, wondered if you knew it at all?! It sounded like technical metal but played on violins, heavy as f**k \m/, really "chuggy" sounding...
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No, who/what is it?boudicca wrote:I mentioned Arvo Part, didn't I?
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Did anyone mention Holst's 'The Planets' yet?
For the rest, too many to mention.
For 'modern' classic, Philip Glass indeed, also Wim Mertens' minimalist classical compositions are worth checking out! (he's a Belgian so cannot be bad...)
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For the rest, too many to mention.
For 'modern' classic, Philip Glass indeed, also Wim Mertens' minimalist classical compositions are worth checking out!
(he's a Belgian so cannot be bad...)IZ.
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Most classical music bores all the will to live out of me. Though some of it is good for background music for reading, but that's about most i can do with any of it.
i was supposed to check out Philip Glass a few years ago but failed to find anything...maybe it's time to check a-gain.
i was supposed to check out Philip Glass a few years ago but failed to find anything...maybe it's time to check a-gain.
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Nothing personal, but, in its conventional sense, classical music covers 300 years of western culture. So such generalization hardly makes sense (except of course if you regard it as just one man's opinion, but then I dare say you should take a much deeper look).itnAklipse wrote:Most classical music bores all the will to live out of me. Though some of it is good for background music for reading, but that's about most i can do with any of it.
i was supposed to check out Philip Glass a few years ago but failed to find anything...maybe it's time to check a-gain.
As for Phil Glass, it's contemporary, not classical, music.
(And I do find most contemporary music utterly unbearable.)
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Philip Glass? Not that difficultitnAklipse wrote:i was supposed to check out Philip Glass a few years ago but failed to find anything...maybe it's time to check a-gain.
Check out that second track 'Koyaanisqatsi', it's from the classic documentary with the same name, filmed errr....the seventies?
Awesome track, one that dragged me right into Ambient Stuff!
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Top choons on that album - the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I hear I Vow To Thee My Country (Jupiter), although I'm hardly a nationalist.Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Did anyone mention Holst's 'The Planets' yet?
I likes me a bit of Beethoven when in the right mood (5th and 9th symphonies), Wagner ("The Teutonic reputation for cruelty is well-founded, Baldrick. Their operas last 4 or 5 days, and they have no word for 'fluffy' "), and the more baroque ends of things appeal to me. Oddly Vivaldi is the only protestant who wrote anything approaching baroquery - all of the others were Catholics.
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Is that odd, really? Baroque had such ties to the Counter-Reformation after all... everything about it yells catholicism to me. And I've had a lot of catholicism yelled to me over the years, I'm still recoveringEvilBastard wrote:Oddly Vivaldi is the only protestant who wrote anything approaching baroquery - all of the others were Catholics.
I should have mentioned Holst's Planet Suite, seeing as that's the very first piece of music I fell in love (or more accurately became obsessed) with, aged 7. I can still doo-doo-dee-dee-dum-dum every note of it in my head. Used to be Venus and Jupiter that were my favourites, now it's Saturn and Neptune and of course, Mars!
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The odd thing was that Vivaldi, as a prod, wrote baroque music, rather than most of the composers being mackeral-snappers. His Gloria in Excelsis Dei is top clobber, opening with strings before exploding in a massed choir singing "GLORIA!" (no, not the Laura Branigan number, you uncouth lot!), the vocals then dropping back for "in excelsis dei". Brilliant shagging music, for what it's worth.boudicca wrote:Is that odd, really? Baroque had such ties to the Counter-Reformation after all... everything about it yells catholicism to me. And I've had a lot of catholicism yelled to me over the years, I'm still recoveringEvilBastard wrote:Oddly Vivaldi is the only protestant who wrote anything approaching baroquery - all of the others were Catholics.
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EvilBastard wrote:Brilliant shagging music, for what it's worth.
There's a lot of really good stuff for that in the classical canon (oo-er)... I think Ode To Joy would be a sterling choice
Seriously, think about it
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Expertise speaking..boudicca wrote:EvilBastard wrote:Brilliant shagging music, for what it's worth.
There's a lot of really good stuff for that in the classical canon (oo-er)... I think Ode To Joy would be a sterling choice
Seriously, think about it
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Nawt as rocket-raising as 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' IMO...
Taaaaa.....taaaaaaaa....taaaaaaaaaa......
TA-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
*bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm*
waaaaayyy better than 'also sprach viagra'
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Taaaaa.....taaaaaaaa....taaaaaaaaaa......
TA-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
*bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm*
waaaaayyy better than 'also sprach viagra'
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Those Belgian girls really *are* adventurous...Izzy HaveMercy wrote:*bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum *
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We have the best drummersEvilBastard wrote:Those Belgian girls really *are* adventurous...Izzy HaveMercy wrote:*bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum *
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I Used To Post On HeartLand When It Was Still Undergroundboudicca wrote:HL - Raising the Highbrow Since 2002
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Oh now PLEASE someone tell us that 'arvo' means 'oranges' and that 'Ärvo' is just an ordinary first name!pikkrong wrote:a tiny funny detail - "Part" means in his native language "duck", while "Pärt" is just an archaic male name...boudicca wrote:I mentioned Arvo Part, didn't I?
(sorry, couldn't be arsed to find the umlaut)
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