Classical Music Thread

[JJLiautaud]

I genuinely think Martinu is my favorite 20th century composer I don't think any other matches the breadth or quality of his oeuvre.

 

[AnOminous]

People get really pissed at me liking Glenn Gould's Bach recordings.

Does anyone like Neville Mariner's conduction with the orchestra of St. Martin-in-the-Fields?

This is one of my favorite Bach cantatas.

So soothing, so literally just NICE.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

I've been listening to more classical music since watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Bolero has become a favourite.

 

[Space Police]

Does anyone like Neville Mariner's conduction with the orchestra of St. Martin-in-the-Fields?

I listened to a lot of his pieces when I was younger, so I do like his work.

I've been listening to more classical music since watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Bolero has become a favourite.

I liked Symphony from the New World. The Kaze to Ki no Uta soundtrack has quite a few classical pieces, including some great Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v75gJJx42IQ&list=PLkuX71eWjN8bVITI3ICHIJhvq6iKzDvey&index=1

 

[Positron]

Does anyone like Neville Mariner's conduction with the orchestra of St. Martin-in-the-Fields?

Their Mozart is done with great elegance and is absolutely top rate, as is their Vaughan Williams.

I genuinely think Martinu is my favorite 20th century composer I don't think any other match the breadth or quality of his oeuvre.

Martinů suffers from the "Ultra-Prolific Composer" syndrome. It is much easier to grapple with someone who wrote, say, little more than 9 symphonies than someone who wrote such volumes of music in almost every genre. I've posted it before but Martinů wrote a set of instrumental "madrigal stanzas" for Albert Einstein.

 

[Hepativore]

Rimksky-Korsakov - Procession of the Nobles

I always thought that this sounded like something from some sort of old Arabian Nights-style fantasy movie...like the Sinbad Trilogy or the Thief of Baghdad.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Martinů suffers from the "Ultra-Prolific Composer" syndrome. It is much easier to grapple with someone who wrote, say, little more than 9 symphonies than someone who wrote such volumes of music in almost every genre. I've posted it before but Martinů wrote a set of instrumental "madrigal stanzas" for Albert Einstein.

Looking his Catalogue he wrote 384 pieces of music which is insane for a 20th century composer shame he died so young with stomach cancer. And I still haven't listened to any of his symphonies, I really need to get on that.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Thanks to Hurwitz I found a really nice recording of Bohuslavs symphonies:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGo4zrhRzBlRBFzDcmMFdJYCFFqw-Qe98

 

[Positron]

Thanks to Hurwitz I found a really nice recording of Bohuslavs symphonies:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGo4zrhRzBlRBFzDcmMFdJYCFFqw-Qe98

The Belohlavek / BBC Symphony cycle won a Gramophone Award, and so probably is the definitive set to get at this moment. Belohlavek recorded Symphonies 1, 4 and 6 with Chandos but did not complete the cycle under that label.

 

[Broadside]

Anyone else use Spotify? It's amazing for classical and early music. I made a 106hr playlist for medieval/early music in particular if anyone's interested

Spoiler: Minor PL

 

[Hazel Motes]

Been listening to Vaughan Williams lately. Toward The Unknown Region and In The Fen Country are personal favourites.

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My wrapped had me in the top listeners of Michael Nyman, which I imagine isn't much of a feat.

 

[JJLiautaud]

The Belohlavek / BBC Symphony cycle won a Gramophone Award, and so probably is the definitive set to get at this moment. Belohlavek recorded Symphonies 1, 4 and 6 with Chandos but did not complete the cycle under that label.

Hurwitz says there's 7 he can't chose between and I'll eventually give them all a listen, but it is really good.

 

[AnOminous]

I listened to a lot of his pieces when I was younger, so I do like his work.

That's how I got interested. I worked a lot of night shifts and NPR's Music Through the Night program played him a lot.

 

[themanwhowalks]

"Tod und Verklärung" (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24, is a tone poem for large orchestra by Richard Strauss. Strauss began composition in the late summer of 1888 and completed the work on November 18, 1889. The work is dedicated to the composer's friend Friedrich Rosch. Unusual for a composer of 25 years of age, the music depicts the death of an artist. At Strauss's request, this was described in a poem by the composer's friend Alexander Ritter as an interpretation of Death and Transfiguration, after it was composed. As the man lies dying, thoughts of his life pass through his head: his childhood innocence, the struggles of his manhood, the attainment of his worldly goals; and at the end, he receives the longed-for transfiguration "from the infinite reaches of heaven". There are four parts (with Ritter's poetic thoughts condensed): 1. Largo (The sick man, near death) 2. Allegro molto agitato (The battle between life and death offers no respite to the man) 3. Meno mosso (The dying man's life passes before him) 4. Moderato (The sought-after transfiguration)

 

[JJLiautaud]

Martinu's later stuff is almost dreamlike.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Two video game tracks that came to be, via the inspiration of these pieces:

Why did the cunt editing time run out? It hasn't been an hour. Anywho, I'm gonna upload the rest of what I was on about:

 

[JJLiautaud]

What's your guys opinion on Beethovens metronome markings or playing him fast I like it and genuinely perfer him being played that fast. Also lol:

 

[Positron]

What's your guys opinion on Beethovens metronome markings or playing him fast I like it and genuinely perfer him being played that fast. Also lol:
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I'm not professionally trained in music and I don't particularly care about metronome markings. Yes, I do prefer Beethoven played brisk. This said, I enjoy Barenboim / Staatskapelle Berlin cycle of Beethoven Symphonies (Teldec). Barenboim took 6 very full discs without fillers, while most cycles take 5 discs, sometimes with an overture or two thrown in, so Barenboim was objectively very slow -- but it doesn't feel slow on listening.

 

[AnOminous]

Opinion call. Do people consider Iannis Xenakis classical? Or something else.

Not going to go into any detail since most people on this thread are vastly more musically literate than I am, but an example:

And in case you hate JewTube enough to avoid on the very sight of the usual "Video Unavailable Because You Are Not Shoving Us Pennies to Suck Our Tiny Circumcised Jew Dicks," it's Metastasis.

 

[themanwhowalks]

Opinion call. Do people consider Iannis Xenakis classical? Or something else.

IMO it mainly depends on how much you want to split hairs. Yes, his music is classical because it falls in the same European tradition of art music. Specifically it is avent-garde/modernist music. He is a highly experimental composer, but he is still considered to be classical composer.

Note: This is misattributed to Lully, the actual composer is Jean-Baptiste Loeillet

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