classical music thread

listening to bach

the well tempered clavier

been deep into this one recently. pretty incredible, but not particularly emotional for me. more just mindboggling

also been listening to ravel - gaspard de la nuit. one of my favorites

having a bit of trouble appreciating mahler. find his music melodramatic

Youtube 'Raindrop Vladimir Horowitz'. Pretty much my favourite classical tune. Chopin made some amazing stuff and Horowitz was basically a genius at interpreting them.

I'm not a big follower of classical really, but I love that.

a friend suggested Gustav Mahler

steve reich - music for 18 musicians

I've always found Mahler difficult for beginners. Yes he is a god, but a difficult composer. Start with Shostakovich (the dork in my av). His fifth or ninth are great. Or even Richard Strass (Mahler's comtemporary, yet wrote more melodically and in a more 19th century style.) Also a fantastic introduction to Symphonic writing is Dvorak's 8th or 9th.

If you're an autechre fan, look absolutely no further than Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and the Rite of Spring. This man was doing just as complex poly-rhythms and interesting timbrel affects in the 20s and 30s. Both of those are really stunning.

Chax is dead on about the Reich.

more plz

currently in love with Concerto For Piano & Strings by Alfred Schnittke

Gotta love Pärt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqUbKEe5QxI

And Satie's nice too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVp05sEPhE

Ligeti is great:

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

As for older classical music, you should definitely check out Tchaikovsky.

i have to call up my grandma... fuck she knows her stuff... she be listening to quality classical all day every day.

Hi

hey, ur not classical. ur late 20th century.

I still say it's classical.

Like John Adams, or Arvo Part, or Debussy, or whatever... there is no rule.

*shrugs*

Philip Glass gets a bit of hate but he's written one of my favorite works: Music in Twelve Parts. amazing amazing amazing, my favorite minimalist composition, aside Music for 18 Musicians.

Alexander Scriabin's piano sonatas must be checked out

this isn't my favorite but it's an example of what's in store if you pick up the collection

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

this is gaspard de la nuit, ravel - one of my favorites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1s9JCzvQg

  On 9/9/2009 at 9:19 AM, vamos scorcho said:

listening to bach

 

the well tempered clavier

 

been deep into this one recently. pretty incredible, but not particularly emotional for me. more just mindboggling

 

also been listening to ravel - gaspard de la nuit. one of my favorites

 

having a bit of trouble appreciating mahler. find his music melodramatic

If you like Ravel, you should also check out Alkan; posted here is a video of Canadian pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin playing the last movement of Symphony for the Solo Piano (btw Hamelin has gone on the record stating he's really into V/Vm). Ravel is known to have extensively studied Alkan's works to learn about contrupunctal lines, which both use extensively in their works.

Also posted is the coolest video I've seen of somebody playing Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit. The pianist here (Perlemuter) is well into his 90s in the video, and he studied directly under Ravel.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ez1s9JCzvQg

Edit: Crazy, I just noticed you posted the same video of Ondine in a later post in the thread

Shostakovich is IDM

  On 9/10/2009 at 6:44 AM, Overand said:

Shostakovich is IDM

<------ Fuck yes.

Yeah shotakovish is awesome

I'm all about beethoven too

and satie

Stravinsky has to be the most IDM of all tho.

stravinsky was pretty idm but i think shostakovich one ups him in that dept. there is something very nihilistic/existentialist/empty to shostakovich's cold tunes (i've only really listened to his preludes and string quartets - they're all amazing but definitely calculated and severely depressing at times)

i've been recently listening to a great deal of ravel and debussy - specifically miroirs which is really blowing me away every night

also the chopin preludes which are wonderful

You want some good classical compositions then holler at Messaien, he seems to be a pretty good go-to guy for that stuff.

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

REAL TALK

Debussy's 5th etude (octaves) for piano is pretty IDM too.

The rite of spring is more interesting for its harmonies and orchestration than its rhythm (though I don't want to discount the rhythmic elements either, its just that although there are numerous instances of lines dividing the beat differently, for the most part they all have the same 'pulse' - you know?)

Unrelated, but 'Jeux' (Debussy) is awesome - everybody should listen to this. Many times. And then some.

i've been realizing mahler (9th symphony) is beyond words in emotion