Classical Music Thread

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Captain Cid said:
I've been listening to William Orbits's two Pieces in a Modern Style albums, electronic versions of classical music. It's really good, especially since there are some instrumental versions of a few opera pieces. Despite having been a music major, I never made any peace with operatic style singing.
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I'll have to take a look at that. What instrument did you study?
 
My recital program is set now, here it is:

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in F minor, K.466


Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10, No. 2 (I. Allegro/II. Allegretto/III. Presto)


Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116, No. 2


Scott Joplin - Bethena (A Concert Waltz)

(plenty of good videos/recordings of this, I can only have five attachments in a post)

Amy Beach - Scottish Legend, Op. 54, No. 1


Paul Ben-Haim - Intermezzo, Op.34, No. 2


Haven't set a particular order yet.
 
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Just got Heinz Hollinger's Scardanelli-Zyklus. This cycle, for various instruments and voices and based on the poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, has been widely praised by contemporary music circles. The version I had was by Atelier Schola Cantorum/Cadenza (and not the more famous version from ECM), and I find it absolutely marvelous. Listen to the haunting chorus of interwoven, fragmented syllables from "Winter III":

 
I don't know much about classical music, but I do know that most of what I like best seems to come from eastern Europe and Russia. One of my favorite composers is Aram Khachaturian, probably known best for composing "sabre dance". My personal pick from him is his Masquerade-Suite.

 

0:00 to 2:55 is my absolute favorite. When I think of Mozart's Requiem I automatically think of that part.

I also enjoy the music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
 
Captain Cid said:
I've been listening to William Orbits's two Pieces in a Modern Style albums, electronic versions of classical music. It's really good, especially since there are some instrumental versions of a few opera pieces. Despite having been a music major, I never made any peace with operatic style singing.
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It's pretty meh to me, and I'm not speaking as a classical buff. The Orbit "Strange Cargo" signature sound is not very much in evidence here, still I enjoy what he did to Ravel's Pavane. His rearrangement of Puccini's "Humming Chorus" from Madama Butterfly (from the album Hello Waveforms) is quite nice too.

Having been going through several versions of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues recently, as I'm going to hear it play by Alexander Melnikov in concert very soon. No rendition even comes close to Tatiana Nikolayeva (Hyperion) in the differentiation of moods.


I haven't yet unwrapped Melnikov's CDs soon, so we'll see...
 
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Is there at all a Requiem in classica music that isn't completely magnificient? Verdi's, for an example, is simply insane:

On another note are there any Ligeti or Penderecki fans here?
 
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Ligeti's Etudes are I think the most important works for the piano written during the 2nd half of the 20th century, and his "micropolyphony" orchestral works are justly celebrated. Not everything he did was gold though: the infantile humor of his opera Le Grand Macrabe, for example, is hard to justify.

I saw Penderecki in a public lecture last year. As for the man's work, I'd stick to his early radical works -- his recent stuff are a bit faceless, and the earlier stuff have better titles (Polymorphia, Kosmogony, Fluorescences) to boot.
 
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This might have been posted before but i love Beethoven's work,This piece in espcially i love at the 2:36 mark with the Brass section and how grand it sounds.


Also i think Salieri is a a very underrated composer,This song i love because of how powerful it sounds.
 
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Malcolm Arnold's 9th symphony. The final movement (Lento) is Mahlerian in length and Mahlerian in its fatalism and gloom -- save for a glimmer of hope in the end.

 
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