The Classical Music Thread

[ecthelion]

Hello ish

Like everyone knows classical music is the hip-hop of the glory days.. when there was no 9/11, no doomsday, no bush

Post your favorite composers and what you think are their best pieces (and why). I'm always on the lookout for some classical classical stuff..

I'm too lazy to lurk around YouTube to get some stuff for yall to listen to, but this is amazing anyway http://www.classicalarchives.com/comps/
Mine :

Johann Sebastian Bach : His style is pretty baroque, it has a very antique and european feel to it..

- Invention No.13 in A minor BWV 784
- Invention No.15 in B minor BWV 786
- Brandenburg concertos 3 (BWV 1048) and 5 (1050)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : His style feels royal, very very nice.. Mozart is boss

- Flute Concerto No.2, K.314 in D : Allegro
- Piano Sonata K.331 in A "Rondo alla Turca" : Allegretto
- Symphony No.41, K.551 in C "Jupiter-Symphonie" : Allegretto
- "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", K.525 in G : Allegro
- Piano Concerto No.21, K.467 in C : 1st and 2nd movements (allegro and andate)
- Symphony No.25, 1st movement

Ludwig van Beethoven : amazing structure

- Violin Concerto Op.61 in D : Rondo, Allegro
- Symphony No.5, Op.67 in C minor : Allegro
- Symphony No.6, Op.68 in F "Pastorale - Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande" : Allegro ma non troppo
- Symphony No.9, Op.125 in D minor "Chorale" : Molto vivace
- Symphony No.9, Op.125 in D minor "Chorale" : Presto, Allegro assai
- Piano Sonata No.14, Op.27-2 in C# minor "Mondschein-Sonate; Sonata quasi una Fantasia" : Adagio sostenuto
- Bagatelle No.25, WoO.59 in A minor "F

[ryantheporchkid]

I've had people who majored in music tell me that all music can be traced back to Mozart.

[Psileas]

Let's see: Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi and Strauss would be my favorite ones. Not a very big Mozart and Bach fan.

As for the best works, there are too many to pick, but let's say that 10 of my top-15/20 (unranked) would seem like this:

-Beethoven, symphony 5 (parts 1-2)--my favorite as a kid
-Beethoven, symphony 9 (last part)
-Beethoven, Moonlight sonata
-Wagner, (From the Ring): Ride of the Valkyries+Twilight of the Gods (the strong part in the funeral scene)
-Verdi: Aida
-Verdi: Dies Irae
-Orff: Carmina Burana
-Belioz: Symp.Fantastique (march to the scaffold)
-Khatchaturian: Sabre dance
-Elgar: Pomp and circumstance (regardless of the whole graduation thing)

And I still left some outside: Radetzki March, Orpheus in the Underworld (by far the most usual classical music piece used for entertainment in later eras :D) , the Dance of the knights, the opening of Finlandia, parts of the 1st and 2nd symphonies of Mahler...

[VCMVP1551]

Paganini is my favorite.

[LJJ]

I've had people who majored in music tell me that all music can be traced back to Mozart.

Those people would be stupid.

[Strangefruit]

I've had people who majored in music tell me that all music can be traced back to Mozart.

:rolleyes:

And Mozart can be traced back to Barroque music.

And Barroque music traced back to the Ars Nova in the Middle Ages.

And everything can be traced back to the first Peter Flinstone bashing his goat drum with a femur...

No cultural event ever appears in the middle of nothing; it's called "references", you know. And a reference does not nullify its heirs.

Me, I'm the kind of mystical guy who digs Erik Satie (Ah sweet melancholy), Madama Butterfly and Claude Debussy. Bach's sacred cantatas are cool too. And in my radical years I also developed a taste for Stravinsky that has a lot to do with my jazz affection...

But when it comes 18th to 19th century music... it just doesn't tell me that much.

[dawsey6]

Since my studies right now heavily includes traditional counterpoint, I've broadened my horizons with Bach.

[ukplayer4]

arvo part is my favorite composser recent times by far....


of alltime nobodys ****ing with bach/mozart.

[i seen hippos]

Mozart and Wagner.

I'll just listen to the entirety of Mozart's Requiem when I'm in the mood.

[Hawker]

Phuck string quartets.

I took a class over chamber music my first semester of college and I just couldnt take that class man. I could never understand the different parts of the song and what a coda or A B A C A BA form and all that was. It just couldnt register in my brain. I had to do a assignments of extra credit to pull a B in that class.

[ecthelion]

Phuck string quartets.

I took a class over chamber music my first semester of college and I just couldnt take that class man. I could never understand the different parts of the song and what a coda or A B A C A BA form and all that was. It just couldnt register in my brain. I had to do a assignments of extra credit to pull a B in that class.
*looks at thread title

and your point is...?

Could anybody suggest some monster pieces by the composers I posted so I can um broaden my horizons? cos I really liked their style.. Mozart and Beethoven were like 18 century Mobb Deep.. real stuff

[telarc]

As you may know, there are two brand new recordings of Boh

[gigantes]

i liked this...


okay, remember moonlight sonata? nice relaxing, meditative piece?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU


now listen to this section at a fast tempo... the way some music scholars are apparently suggesting that it was meant to be played:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s

[miller-time]

i liked this...


okay, remember moonlight sonata? nice relaxing, meditative piece?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU


now listen to this section at a fast tempo... the way some music scholars are apparently suggesting that it was meant to be played:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s

That is the 3rd movement. The first two are still slow, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHd8jwXBzXE In fact if you go to 8:04 in the first video you posted the 3rd movement starts there and is fast also.

[MightyWhitey]

I am a huge fan of Chopin. Take a listen to this absolute genius - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V60USaluxGA


Like everyone knows classical music is the hip-hop of the glory days.. when there was no 9/11, no doomsday, no bush

I think heavy metal or rock has much more in common with classical music than hip-hop. Certainly musically.

[LJJ]

i liked this...


okay, remember moonlight sonata? nice relaxing, meditative piece?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU


now listen to this section at a fast tempo... the way some music scholars are apparently suggesting that it was meant to be played:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s

:roll:

Friend.

With the "relaxing, meditative piece" you are referring to the first movement. With the fast temp piece you are referring to the third movement. Both of those are always played at that speed.

Even in your original link, starting with the first movement while the third movement starts at around 8 minutes in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU&t=8m4s

On a side note, Gilels plays this piece a lot better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKjazQjqi0

[gigantes]

thanks, LJJ, miller!

i totally got confused about that... only realised it as i was finishing off that post. tried to save myself a little, but i guess not, eh? :D

actually there really are some classical pieces that when played at a faster tempo and a little different instrumentation, turn in to whole new songs.

if you're familiar with wendi carlos' stuff, that's a popular theme of hers. also there were some really neat ones from an 80's punk film called "liquid sky." i can try to look them up if anyone's really interested.

[OhNoTimNoSho]

I can listen to this over and over


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEJLoawItU

[Dresta]

I'll add some that haven't been mentioned.

I love Beethoven's piano concerto 3 in c minor (this is a great recording - Richter is my favourite pianist):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEknV3D9VFM

Obviously there's tons of stuff by Mozart and Bach that is very good, but i'm quite partial to the German Romantics, in particular Schubert and Schumann. Schumann's piano concerto in A minor is brilliant as is his Piano quintet in e flat major, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73dhO1jzHSA

and here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iuKARQpzLk

(Richter again)

Also, check out Schubert's string quartet 'death and the maiden':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42GrmR4U2Y

And one of the first pieces that got me into classical music was Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto, of which Richter's interpretation is supreme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjPulEZj_m4

(this one's actually good quality for youtube)

[gigantes]

cool... will get listening to all these new links later in the day.


... And one of the first pieces that got me into classical music was Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto, of which Richter's interpretation is supreme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjPulEZj_m4
did you see "shine" (1996) about the piano prodigy who went insane trying to perform that difficult rachmaninoff piece?

[Dresta]

cool... will get listening to all these new links later in the day.


did you see "shine" (1996) about the piano prodigy who went insane trying to perform that difficult rachmaninoff piece?
No, i haven't, but would quite like to see it now. I remember seeing it in the video store and being put off by the cover image lol.

Just looked it up and it was actually his 3rd concerto that that film was about, and i will try to watch it when i get the chance. Rachmaninoff wrote a lot of difficult music because he had gigantic hands and could do things most pianists couldn't. I read once that Beethoven used to deliberately make the end of his piano compositions extremely difficult to embarrass the local pianists :oldlol: .

[gigantes]

haha, that's awesome. i love those kinds of stories. :cheers:


side note: i remember reading that there's an extended cut of amadeus out there. i really need to find that one of these days.

[LJJ]

I went to see Yuja Wang perform a while ago.

http://i.imgur.com/YsouN5H.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDfGBmbNbMw

She is fabulous. It's pretty neat to have a great symphony in your city, I get to hear a lot of essential stuff live at a rate of about $25 a ticket. Classical music sounds so different live. Pollini is coming this weekend.

[gigantes]

i think that i would not mind watching yuja wang perform!

(across multiple disciplines, preferably)

[Dresta]

Sexy bitch. Not a fan of Prokofiev though.

[Psileas]

haha, that's awesome. i love those kinds of stories. :cheers:


side note: i remember reading that there's an extended cut of amadeus out there. i really need to find that one of these days.

On classical music stories, how about some of the most famous piano duels?

http://listverse.com/2011/12/27/7-classical-piano-duels/
(IMO, #4 and 5 are the funniest, I suggest you leave them for the end)

[Overdrive]

My favs:

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 B Flat Minor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GaN_32qko

Dvorak's 9th - From A new World:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuqyfEyNXQo

Mozart's 40th in G Minor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HbMzu1aQW8

Some Arias/Duetts:

Barcarolle - Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Netrebko & Garanca:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdc2zNgJIpY

O mio Babbino caro - Puccini - Gianni Schicchi - Callas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkhtjpZAqQ

Un bel de vedremo - Puccini - La Madama Butterfly - Callas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9Dipgqdtw

Flower Duett - Debiles - Lakme - Netrebko & Garanca:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw

[eriX]

Chopin was my favourite composer because of the emotions that you can hear in his pieces, the sadness, the loneliness. If one knew what Chopin's life was like you would understand and only appreciate his pieces more.

These are the big hits of Chopin but there's a reason they are big, and no one plays chopin like Yundi Li does :cheers:
Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxS_bJ0yOU

Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvm2ZsRv3C8
The ease that he plays this piece is amazing, played this myself wasn't too bad myself but no where near how clean Yundi Li plays it.

Fr