Classical Music Thread

[Quiproquo]

Macelaru has an excellent complete Saint-Saens symphonies cycle on warner with the french national orchestra, worth grabbing while it's still in print.

 

[Positron]

Macelaru has an excellent complete Saint-Saens cycle on warner with the french national orchestra, worth grabbing while it's still in print.

That's very good news. For far too long Jean Martinon (EMI) had that part of the market cornered and we need a modern recording. I also have one of the Soustrot/Malmö Symphony discs from Naxos that I've yet to listen to.

 

[PandaChai]

The aria I Know That My Redeemer Liveth from Händel's Messiah is already a very touching work, but to hear a blind woman sing "Yet in my flesh shall I see God" and see the smile on her face, that hit me.

 

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[Positron]

Franz Ignaz Beck pulls no punches in his Symphony in G Minor, Op. 3/3; right from the start he assaults you with stormy string tremolos. This is perhaps the reason the designer of the album cover chose the famous Henry Fuseli painting The Nightmare. Beck's Op.3 Symphonies were published in the 1760s, but you'd look in vain for such blatant evocation of terror, of things (fate?) beyond human control, in Haydn's Sturm und Drang symphonies of that time. For that you'll have to look to Beethoven almost 40 years later.

 

[Space Police]

I love this piece, and I love Perlman's performance. I love how it alternates between long, wistful notes and fast, rushing passages.

I'm a massive Vivaldi fan, and I think it's neat that he has a guitar concerto.

I played this in orchestra one year, and it's stuck with me since. I like how complex and intricate this piece is -- true beauty.

I haven't been able to find a version of this that doesn't use baroque tuning, but I still enjoy it. I'd be interested if there's a video or a CD of this piece that doesn't use baroque tuning.

 

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Kimberley Cole-Luevano's Cookbook is amazing and especially for being as obscure as it is. I only heard it because it was a composition I had to listen to for Music Appreciation in college.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoEu3e-RMRg&list=OLAK5uy_kZlTxd9fjdiZa0Fknv2e_8_G30eQ5SMV4&index=4&ab_channel=KimberlyCole-Luevano-Topic

I specifically like classical music that tries to convey a scene in a more literal way, like Impressionism did.

 

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[The Third Wright Brother]

I have a question for everyone in (and out) this thread. If you were the first person to bump into aliens on earth, which classical piece would you show them first? I know that I would choose something from Bach, more likely than not the opening chorus from Saint Matthews passion. It's one of his most moving works. I get chills down my spine every time I hear it.

 

[Space Police]

I have a question for everyone in (and out) this thread. If you were the first person to bump into aliens on earth, which classical piece would you show them first? I know that I would choose something from Bach, more likely than not the opening chorus from Saint Matthews passion. It's one of his most moving works. I get chills down my spine every time I hear it.

I'd also choose a Bach (or at least baroque) piece. Either Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Air on the G String, the concerto in D minor, or the concerto in A minor. I'd also maybe consider the Vivaldi concerto in E major (RV 265) or the Vivaldi guitar concerto in D major.

 

[The Third Wright Brother]

I'd also choose a Bach (or at least baroque) piece. Either Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Air on the G String, the concerto in D minor, or the concerto in A minor. I'd also maybe consider the Vivaldi concerto in E major (RV 265) or the Vivaldi guitar concerto in D major.

Any one of the Brandenburg's played on an Oboe would be more than enough in my opinion. There unique style in comparison to all of his other works.

 

[Positron]

I have a question for everyone in (and out) this thread. If you were the first person to bump into aliens on earth, which classical piece would you show them first?

Impossible question, although at this moment my answer is the Overture to Haydn's Creation.

 

[The Third Wright Brother]

Impossible question, although at this moment my answer is the Overture to Haydn's Creation.

Excellent choice!

 

[Positron]

Ligeti has three "mature" works for acapella choir: Lux Aeterna (1966. "The 2001 Space Odyssey music"), Three Fantasies after Hölderlin (1982) and Three Hungarian Etudes (1983), but some of his earlier works, written at one hand under the influence of Bartok and Kodaly, and on the other under Soviet censors, are even more astounding. Here are the 1955 pieces Éjszaka-Reggel (Night-Morning)

Night starts with a gradual ascent of volume, like ocean waves rushing ashore, revealing additional details as the dynamic mounts. After the big crescendo the music hangs on by a gossamer thread of low voices over which the sopranos declaims. The more folksy Morning sounds almost improvisatory, but is written in a strict canon. Compared with these two pieces, his "mature" acapella works sound a little faceless.

 

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