Any recommendations for classical music

[sakabatou]

[Archae]

1. Here's a good one.

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/podcast/theconcert.asp

[darkstar3]

2. Tchaikovsky.

Or, if you're feeling REALLY adventurous, try Apocolyptica. :evilgrin:

[Captain Hilts]

17. PT is The Beatles of classical. nt

[donheld]

3. Sarah Brightman

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Johann Sebastian Bach

Sonata for Viola da Gumba and Harpsichord in g minor -- preferably performed by Glenn Gould (at the piano) and Leonard Rose (on the cello).

Or, Concerto (#1) for Harpsichord (or Piano) in d minor-- preferably performed by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra (played on piano). It's a very powerful piece, especially the first and third movements.

Or, Concerto (#3) for Harpsichord (or Piano) in F Major

George Friedrich Handel-- Organ Concerto #6 (1st movement)-- very light, happy piece, especially if the organist (I recommend George Malcolm) can get the tempo right

Ludwig van Beethoven-- Symphony #4-- has an almost mystical opening, very underrated symphony.

[BurtWorm]

5. What sorts of music do you usually like?

What kinds of instruments? Do you like the sound of classical singing?

[sakabatou]

43. Singing, not so much

Orchestrated pieces I like

[BurtWorm]

44. Do you like full orchestras or chamber pieces, do you think?

Are you interested in more modern music? Music since Beethoven? Would you be interested to try older music, from the middle ages or the renaissance or the baroque period? Are there periods of history you're most interested? Certain countries more than others?

[sakabatou]

46. I'm more into full orchestras

Old or modern pieces are good.

[BurtWorm]

50. Which of these are most interesting to you?

Vivaldi - Chamber Concerto for Lute in D Major RV93

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9YC-CLTFI

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major Op 92. Allegretto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7F4z8FV6ME

Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, third movement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1meX6IC3eVI&feature=related

St. Saens' The Carnival of the Animals, The Aquarium:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsD0FDLOKGA

Mahler Symphony No. 5, fourth movement, adagietto (part 1):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUatY-id-xQ

Coda) excerpt from Igor Stravinsky - Apollo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x7S0fPckt8


Harry Partch's Daphne of the Dunes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv3S6eacR6U


Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich - Beginning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU23LqQ6LY4

Arvo Pärt. Fratres. Festina lente

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhGOrDjF7IA

[tjwmason]

6. Depends what you want it for.

Sorry to be less than helpful, but classical music is too broad a categorisation to pin much down within it without extra information.

[sakabatou]

42. I want it for myself to enjoy

[jmowreader]

7. Start with Zappa's classical experiments

A good one is "Greggery Peccary and Other Persuasions." It's like a full album's worth of "Lick My Love Pump"--good strong classical songs with really weird names. (One of them is entitled "Naval Aviation in Art?")

Then there is the very misnamed "Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra." No one who's truly in a low budget orchestra would have the chops to play it.

[Callalily]

8. If you like strings . . .

Erocia Trio

http://www.eroicatrio.com/


edit = spelling

[sarge43]

9. What BurtWorm said

You like dramatic, intense, soothing, playful, pictorial, romantic, abstract, sad, instrumental, vocal, etc? In the past four hundred years a lot of music was written.

You can never go wrong with Wolfie Mozart. The man was incapable of composing a sour note.

You might want to listen to http://www.vpr.net/listen/stream. Vermont Public Radio's classical feed is one of the best on the web, plus excellent insightful commentary.

[TicketyBoo]

10. I've always liked

Pachelbel's Canon in D and Beethoven's Füer Elise. Also, Bach's Jesu - Joy of Man's Desiring.

[sarge43]

12. Along with Joy, Sheep May Safely Graze.

Whoever said Bach was a dry abstract composer wasn't listening very closely.

[CBGLuthier]

11. Adagio in G minor by Albinoni

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4dpbk8YBs

wee bit of sad music.

[Orsino]

13. Watch Amadeus.

If that doesn't get you hunting down some Mozart, check your pulse.

[raccoon]

14. Smetlana's MOLDAU. nt

[Captain Hilts]

18. It's 'Smetana', which is Russian for sour cream. Really. But a good recommendation! nt

[raccoon]

25. Maybe I was confusing him with "Svetlana". :silly: but thanks for the info.nt

[Captain Hilts]

27. It's a weird word we just don't see in English. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. There's no right or wrong place to start.

Begin with the no-obligation, no-expense option of listening to a classical radio station.

Nowadays, all of them have playlists on their websites, so if you like something, you can find out what it is.

If there's no classical radio station in your area (and sad to say, there are only 38 in the entire country :cry: ), then try listening to one that streams online.

For example:

Minnesota Public Radio (three stations: classical, news, and The Current, which is like a college radio station) For classical, go to http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/cms/

KBPS Portland (http://www.allclassical.org)

Or if you're really adventurous, BBC3 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3), which has classical, jazz, world music, radio drama, and cultural talk.

Buy or download pieces that appeal to you. Don't worry about whether it's famous or an old cliché. As long as you like it, who's to say differently?

You'll eventually want to explore further. If there's a college in your area, they probably have a music department, and their students have to give graduation recitals. These are a low-cost (usually free), low-stress way of experiencing live performances. That was my prime means of music education when I was in college and graduate school.

If you can listen to NPR's Performance Today, you'll hear recordings of live concerts with discussions ABOUT the music, so you have some of the background of the pieces.

[Aristus]

16. If you're new to classical music, start with a book. This book: From Metal To Mozart

The Rock And Roll Guide To Classical Music.

It was written by a rock music writer for Rolling Stone who spent a whole year listening to nothing but classical music in order to discover classical music's influences on modern popular music. It's terrific, and a great way to start exploring classical.

After that, go crazy...

Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Shostakovitch, Grieg, Boccherini...

[sarge43]

20. Another must have book

Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works, Phil G Goulding.

That and much more: musical terminology, forms and periods, parts and history of the symphony orchestra, fun briefings on the 50's lives and works, recommended CDs of each composer's principal works, plus more if you dig him.

[Aristus]

49. And there's so MUCH of it, too...

Telemann alone wrote over 1,000 pieces!

Workaholic...

[Captain Hilts]

19. Warner Brothers Cartoons!

[sarge43]

21. Yup

After you've seen What's Opera, Doc?, you can never listen to Wagner in quite the same way again.

[Captain Hilts]

23. I was in Moscow at the Bolshoi opera for Barber of Seville and heard folks

talking about Bugs and Fudd!

Friends sitting at other seats heard the same thing!

[Capn Sunshine]

22. Yeah, and Disney ones

my love of Grofe' comes directly from hearing the "Grand Canyon Suite" in Disney productions.
.

Also, Holst, "The Planets". Was adapted to the film track of "The Right Stuff" Hard not to love.

[Captain Hilts]

24. LOVE the Planets!!! And, yes, Grand Canyon Suite. Good call!

[sarge43]

28. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Blue Danube: Story goes that one of Strauss's wives asked Brahms for his autograph. He wrote on her fan the opening bar of BD with the note, "I wish I had written that. J. Brahms"

Lux Aeterna, Legeti.

[Captain Hilts]

29. What a great story. Thanks!

[sarge43]

30. I like trotting out the story whenever someone sneers at "light classical". n/t

[Captain Hilts]

31. I hate that kind of snobbery. Where's Molly go? nt

[Swede]

26. Finlandia by Sibelius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJlvbFzo9fw

[UTUSN]

53. Symphony #5, SIBELIUS. But I was steeped in TCHAIKOVSKY

My classical music started with an orchestral version of BIZET's Carmen. The show stoppers get old after a lifetime of hearing them, but "Michaela's Prayer," a quiet, sweet piece with aching contrasts never fails to make me lose it.

Then I soaked in TCHAIKOVSKY---but some more than others: Sym. #6; the ballets; Cappriccio Italien, 1812, piano & violin concertos, Francesca di Rimini.

I was at such a saturation point that once I tuned in late to a Saturday radio concert & heard something without the introduction and immediately identified it as a TCHAIKOVSKY because of some characteristic riffs. It was HIS Sym. #5.

As for the SIBELIUS. I was on 30-days' leave between transfer from one ship to another in the Navy, on a plane, and there were earphones (are there those now?), and this SIBELIUS was playing. I guess they timed these things, because when the music got to the last movement, the music was SOARING, GLIDING, MAGNIFICENT-----------and we were over the Sawtooth Mountains. It was the ultimate, perfect match.

I couldn't find a pic taken from above:

[Zomby Woof]

32. Bartok, Debussy, Shostakovich, Boulez, and Zappa

Five to get you started. Not that I don't enjoy the powdered-wig guys like Mozart, etc., but for a 100 year span from the late 19th century to the late 20th century, there are plenty of gems to mine. Free your classical collection from the tyranny of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart! It's like discovering there is more to classic rock than Led Zeppelin or um, wait... do they play anything else on classic rock radio?

[mix]

33. .

Mozart - The Haydn Quartets
Bach - Cello Suites
Chopin - Nocturnes
Satie - all
Gorecki - Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich - symphonies and string quartets
Mahler - all symphonies
Wagner - Tristan und Isold
Beethoven - "late" string quartets
John Adams - all

:hi:

[Doc_Technical]

34. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es

[timtom]

35. A couple:

Try Bergman's film, The Magic Flute. There are only about 2 slow spot, but other than that, it cooks.

Get at least one Paganini violin concerto. Close your eyes and follow the music. When the violin kicks in, you will break your neck at its dizzying, yet alway melodic, peregrinations.

[arbusto_baboso]

36. Depends on the mood you're looking for.

Mendelssohn is great for quieter, more contemplative moods.

Rimsky-Korsakov is more energetic.

[Fire Walk With Me]

37. Academy of Ancient Music's "Four Seasons" and "Brandenburgs".

Christopher Hogwood conducts.

:hi:

[GoCubsGo]

38. Chopin...

Especially when played by Van Cliburn.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

39. Oh hell YES.

My all-time favorite classical music CD:

Jongen: Symphonie Concertante For Organ & Orchestra/Franck: Fantasie In A/Pastorale

http://www.amazon.com/Jongen-Symphonie-Concertante-Orchestra-Pastorale/dp/B000003CTA/

Full disclosure: I had a good friend in Massachusetts whose favorite musician was Franck. I saw this CD reviewed in a Classical Music magazine, with a "10" for performance. After listening, Jongen's "Symphonie Concertante" was what won me over.

:toast:

[DevonRex]

40. Bach and Chopin hands down. nt

[Captain Hilts]

45. A friend of mine runs a Bach Festival and I have to admit, one song is a marathon for me....

she plays the organ.

[lumpy]

41. Romanian Rhapsody- Georg Enesco- Excellent-Moving

When I was in highschool I awoke one night to this music my parents were listening to on the radio. Ecstacy.

[Alexander]

47. You could start at the beginning with Frescobaldi, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Vivaldi

and compare them to later classical composers to see how music evolved.

[friedgreentomatoes]

48. Ravel's Bolero..

And Chopin's Nocturne in G minor

[Captain Hilts]

55. I like Ravel's La Valse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmboDwY7Sas

[ashling]

51. The ultimate experience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rooyt3ptNco&feature=fvw

[redqueen]

52. How about some Messiaen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-GwxyJ2ZY


And of course you can't go wrong checking out all the most well-known composers... also if you like Mozart you might also like Arcangelo Corelli.

[alfredo]

54. Hillary Hahn and Natalie Zhu "Mozart Violin Sonatas" Two

outstanding musicians working together to make beautiful music. sometimes you need to step away from the orchestral works.

Although Hahn is the "start" Natalie Zhu will knock your socks off.

John Adams "Gnarly Buttons/John's Book of Alleged Dances"

Penderecki "Orchestral Works Vol 1"

Yo Yo Ma has a good collection of Bach Cello Suites.

If you have iTunes, look over the classical selections, read the reviews and listen to clips.

I love lute music. My grand father played one. He called it the Oud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnP-mdkeOPE&feature=related