Classical music

I didn't find any thread about classical music, so I've decided to make one: wondering is there any classical music fans here in WATMM. Or ones who dig some pieces of classical music. Feel free to share your favorites here in this thread.

 

Myself, I listened two composers back in high school. And now sneakily coming back to them: Vivaldi and Beethoven. There was also much more of them, but I don't remember their names lol. Anyways, I've listened allmost everything on youtube and I'm happy to see that this channel is still standing: https://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONICO101/Please, do check the page. Great music with beautiful pictures on the videos.

 

Here's one of my favorites.

 

Somehow it's now easier to listen to classical than it was in high school. And it also sounds much better. I wonder if IDM have something to do with it.

Edited June 28, 2015 by kymppinetti

my friend just turned me back onto Chopin and i've been digging through his stuff. He has surprisingly high number of very catchy piano work compared to other composers.


this is probably one of my favorite piano pieces by Bartok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg7gkUD3DkI

Edited June 28, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

not being too familiar with chopin i dont even know what this one is called but 8:00 - 9:30 16:00 - 17:00

Edited June 28, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

Probably not the most Watmm approved but I've always been a fan of Bach.

 

Classic:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I42akKnvUw

 

Also Tschaikovsky

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfCPVUQZ-6g

 

Prokofiev

 

 

and of course

 

I was looking for a classical thread a while back so glad this was made.

 

Xenakis must be the most idm composer of all, and his works are fascinating to read about and listen to. For example, in Metastasis he experimented with drawing glissandi as straight lines, which then in mass form these apparent curved surfaces on the paper. He then went on to use the structures that the glissandi formed as the basis for the design of the Philips Pavilion in Brussels, cause he was an architect as well.

 

 

 

On the right is part of the score and on the left are some of the initial designs for the pavilion.

 

Oh and the actual building turned out like this:

 

 

 

 

My favorite Western classical composer is Ferruccio Busoni. His "Fantasia nach J.S. Bach" is my favorite piano piece ever. Unfortunately, the Geoffrey Douglas Madge performance of it isn't available to stream anywhere (as far as I'm aware). The John Ogden version, while more acclaimed, just doesn't feel as soulful to me.

 

Renaissance music is also great. Tallis made some of my favorite choral compositions, and Monteverdi's Magnificat is the best oratorio I've listened to (much more interesting than the later Baroque ones IMO). William Byrd's Pavane to the Earl of Salisbury is a lot of fun to play on guitar, as well.

 

If I had to recommend one piece of classical music to listen to, it definitely would be one of the two I mentioned by Busoni and Monteverdi. Anything between the Renaissance and Modern periods is significantly less interesting than those two.

 

Honorable mention goes to Leoš Janáček. I love what I've heard by him, but I haven't explored his music enough to judge him accurately.

 

 

 

Edited June 30, 2015 by drillkicker

I listened to a few things by this guy a bunch of years ago, and kind of forgot about him until recently. Very interesting stuff, gets a lot of of value out of very few ingredients:

 

stravinski is hard to beat:

 

i wonder do anyone uses samples from classical music? like blending classical into electronic music, mostly adding drums. the first thing what comes from my mind is 'royal astronomy', but there isn't really a samples from classical pieces in it.

  On 6/28/2015 at 10:49 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

my friend just turned me back onto Chopin and i've been digging through his stuff. He has surprisingly high number of very catchy piano work compared to other composers.

 

 

this is probably one of my favorite piano pieces by Bartok

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg7gkUD3DkI

 

this one's really good. specially the first one. reminds me of miyazakis movies. probably 'cos the movies are full of somewhat same happy sounding piano/classical.

 

hey check out this guy:

Edited June 30, 2015 by kymppinetti

  On 6/30/2015 at 4:57 PM, kymppinetti said:

i wonder do anyone uses samples from classical music? like blending classical into electronic music, mostly adding drums. the first thing what comes from my mind is 'royal astronomy', but there isn't really a samples from classical pieces in it.

 

Ever since someone on watmm pointed out the opera singer in tac lacora by autechre, it's become one of my favourite little details in the track. It's definitely a cool concept but i can't think of any other examples atm

there is a surprising amount of stuff out right now blending together classical and electronic sounds, so much of it that i have a hard time keeping track.

There are older fusions of classical and electronic that are worth checking out, the quality is variable though. Some of them definitly sound like gimmicky experiments like this Art of Noise album

https://youtu.be/TooRq3wfODQ

Orbital's soundtrack to Event Horizon was a much more interesting early attempt at fusing the two imo (this song has always been rad in my book)

whole score here:

but the stuff coming out now i think nails the fusion much better and i feel really dumb and unhelpful not to provide any examples of it. Someone played me this great string concerto record last week that had a bunch of really gnarly Pan Sonic like bass work going on underneath it. It was minimal but was a very nicely done mixture. ill find out what that was shortly. Im interested in hearing borderline avan-garde modern classical music with electronic elements, but in terms of music that processes and samples classical music for an electronic music, I cant recommend too many of those. People here seemed to really love this classical/drill&bass Venetian Snares record

but i always thought he should have done more stuff like this one

My Downfall, the opening 10 minutes is really great, especially the really fast violin track with no beats underneath Edited July 1, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

  On 6/30/2015 at 4:57 PM, kymppinetti said:

i wonder do anyone uses samples from classical music? like blending classical into electronic music, mostly adding drums. the first thing what comes from my mind is 'royal astronomy', but there isn't really a samples from classical pieces in it.

There's a song from the Current 93 album Swastikas For Noddy that does this. It isn't on any streaming web sites, but the song is called "Panzer Rune".

The greatest track that I've heard (so far), that combines classical and electronic music:

 

 

That whole album (Virtual Farmer) is just incredible. It might as well be the most "advanced" album released by Rephlex.

 

Back to the topic subject, my favourite composer in general is definitely Mussorgsky, without any doubt, and in particular his Pictures at an Exhibition:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5gSG_B2pk&list=PLE12CAB9C97D04FA4

 

Also this:

 

 

The other classical composer that I truly think is great is Prokofiev. I like these pieces mostly in particular:

 

 

 

Of course, I also like many other classical composers, but somehow these two stand above all the others in my opinion.

wow what the hell. those links you sended are f great. the art of noise sounds so fresh. and that mike dred / peter green is like dancy autechre with a hint of classical music. also that messy clarinet at the backround reminds me of so much of captain beefheart.

 

i'm glad that i make this thread. thanks!

  On 6/30/2015 at 2:34 AM, drillkicker said:

My favorite Western classical composer is Ferruccio Busoni. His "Fantasia nach J.S. Bach" is my favorite piano piece ever. Unfortunately, the Geoffrey Douglas Madge performance of it isn't available to stream anywhere (as far as I'm aware). The John Ogden version, while more acclaimed, just doesn't feel as soulful to me.

 

Renaissance music is also great. Tallis made some of my favorite choral compositions, and Monteverdi's Magnificat is the best oratorio I've listened to (much more interesting than the later Baroque ones IMO). William Byrd's Pavane to the Earl of Salisbury is a lot of fun to play on guitar, as well.

 

If I had to recommend one piece of classical music to listen to, it definitely would be one of the two I mentioned by Busoni and Monteverdi. Anything between the Renaissance and Modern periods is significantly less interesting than those two.

 

Honorable mention goes to Leoš Janáček. I love what I've heard by him, but I haven't explored his music enough to judge him accurately.

 

 

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I honestly tend to listen to Indian, Thai, and Khmer classical more often, though.

 

i've never heard of those names. to me, it's seems all i'm listening is the big ones. beethoven, mozart, vivaldi etc. but it seems there is much more under neat those. like william byrd, i would never heard of him, if you haven't said it. thanks a lot. :)

this is another classical one from rephlex, really beautiful track:

 

the strings sound far less gash than they do on the virtual farmer one, which makes that pretty unlistenable imho.

audio's a little rough at points, but i still love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbtmskCRUY

anybody else in the l.a. area listen to kusc?

Edited July 1, 2015 by Kilgore Trout

  On 6/30/2015 at 4:57 PM, kymppinetti said:

i wonder do anyone uses samples from classical music? like blending classical into electronic music, mostly adding drums. the first thing what comes from my mind is 'royal astronomy', but there isn't really a samples from classical pieces in it.

Igorr does it all the time:

 

(frederic chopin - etude op.10 allegro)

 

Surely you must've heard of this one:

 

(edward elgar - cello concerto in e Minor, Op. 85)

 

 

And dont tell me you never heard of Murcof either

 

(not sure about all the things sampled, but I'm sure he used Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke a lot)

 

 

This entire Biosphere album (besides the last two tracks) was made from various Claude Debussy pieces:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUh11EPGcM

okay, I have been tryong for years to get into classical music, to no avail.

 

the only composer I stil listen and apprecaiate are those who are able to relax:

no mozart, beethoven, bach for me. its too fast, complicated and eventually boring for me.

I like feeling, and often I find classical very pedagogic and cold.

 

I have to say though, I find most classical composer amazing and I always find myself amazed by some aprts of any composition, but often it takes too long to develop where I like it and then the parts I like dont get repeated enough. and then its another 5 mnutes of crazyness.

I particularly like the small calm movement from Mahler for example... until he goes back to full on orchestra and ruins everything imo :)

 

 

the one's I really like and still listen:

Chopin

Bartok

John Cage

mahler

 

however, modern classical is in full mode and constanly evolving:

ornald olafur

arve henriksen

are some of my favorite artist right now.

 

cheers

  On 6/30/2015 at 2:34 AM, drillkicker said:

My favorite Western classical composer is Ferruccio Busoni. His "Fantasia nach J.S. Bach" is my favorite piano piece ever. Unfortunately, the Geoffrey Douglas Madge performance of it isn't available to stream anywhere (as far as I'm aware). The John Ogden version, while more acclaimed, just doesn't feel as soulful to me.

 

Renaissance music is also great. Tallis made some of my favorite choral compositions, and Monteverdi's Magnificat is the best oratorio I've listened to (much more interesting than the later Baroque ones IMO). William Byrd's Pavane to the Earl of Salisbury is a lot of fun to play on guitar, as well.

 

If I had to recommend one piece of classical music to listen to, it definitely would be one of the two I mentioned by Busoni and Monteverdi. Anything between the Renaissance and Modern periods is significantly less interesting than those two.

 

Honorable mention goes to Leoš Janáček. I love what I've heard by him, but I haven't explored his music enough to judge him accurately.

 

 

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I honestly tend to listen to Indian, Thai, and Khmer classical more often, though.

 

thanks for that!!!! I appreciate the bach track by Busoni!

i like the cold stuff too murph. that bouncy-happy classical shit sucks most of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB3IokHelRk

that whole soundtrack is incredible, but that one is probably my favourite.

 

this is an astoundingly beautiful piece:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhrG82nV2c

  On 7/1/2015 at 11:54 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

  On 6/30/2015 at 2:34 AM, drillkicker said:

My favorite Western classical composer is Ferruccio Busoni. His "Fantasia nach J.S. Bach" is my favorite piano piece ever. Unfortunately, the Geoffrey Douglas Madge performance of it isn't available to stream anywhere (as far as I'm aware). The John Ogden version, while more acclaimed, just doesn't feel as soulful to me.

 

Renaissance music is also great. Tallis made some of my favorite choral compositions, and Monteverdi's Magnificat is the best oratorio I've listened to (much more interesting than the later Baroque ones IMO). William Byrd's Pavane to the Earl of Salisbury is a lot of fun to play on guitar, as well.

 

If I had to recommend one piece of classical music to listen to, it definitely would be one of the two I mentioned by Busoni and Monteverdi. Anything between the Renaissance and Modern periods is significantly less interesting than those two.

 

Honorable mention goes to Leoš Janáček. I love what I've heard by him, but I haven't explored his music enough to judge him accurately.

 

 

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I honestly tend to listen to Indian, Thai, and Khmer classical more often, though.

 

thanks for that!!!! I appreciate the bach track by Busoni!

It isn't actually a Bach song, it's just named after him because Busoni was a huge Bach fanboy (to the extent that he gave all of his compositions German names even though he himself was Italian).