[QUOTE=Tabarnaco;30641308]The Maestro and Shostakovich, you should make a list of the recordings you like the best, that might be good to have for someone looking to get into the genres.[/QUOTE]
:aaa: Oh god that would be awesome but it would fill up at least 10 pages. I'll see what I can do.
The three classical albums I have are Beethoven's ninth played by ther Berliner Philharmoniker, Holst's the Planets played by the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, and Stravinsky's the Rite of Spring and the Freebird suite by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
I'll go searching for some, but I find early ragtime, slave songs, and minstrelries to be the most interesting of musics before 1910's. Slave songs and minstrelries especially.
ragtime kicks ass and I like OG jazz
In some cases the best recorded interpreter of the composition is the composer. Not always (a composer could create a piece he/she cannot actually play) does the composer actively record his/her own piece.
Example: Gershwin plays his Rhapsody in Blue...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc[/media]
This is also interesting because he plays it faster than any other recording I've ever heard. Most of the time the Rhapsody in Blue is a ~15-20 minute performance. He plays it in under 10.
[QUOTE=Tabarnaco;30641308]The Maestro and Shostakovich, you should make a list of the recordings you like the best, that might be good to have for someone looking to get into the genres.[/QUOTE]
That's a good idea, but sometimes I have multiple recordings of the same piece that I listen to based on how I'm feeling.
But if Shostakovich goes it with me I'm down for it.
Okay, these albums are really giving me a headache.
I have Bruno Walter's compilation of Brahms.
The songs all have long names and I have to call the album "Symphony No.1, Hadyn Variations & Academic Festival Overture (Columbia Symphony Orchestra) - Bruno Walter" for it to make any sense.
Trouble is... it's not listed ANYWHERE in the catalogue or on Last FM.
Why is Classical Music so balls'd up in this area. :smith:
[QUOTE=Tabarnaco;30647901][url]http://www.last.fm/music/Johannes+Brahms/Brahms%3A+Symphony+No.+1%2C+Haydn+Variations+%26+Academic+Festival+Overture[/url][/QUOTE]
Needs to have "(Columbia Symphony Orchestra)" in the name.
Well if you want to spell it differently than everybody else don't expect it to be on last.fm. I just searched it and that's how it's spelt on iTunes and Amazon.
[QUOTE=Tabarnaco;30648055]Well if you want to spell it differently than everybody else don't expect it to be on last.fm. I just searched it and that's how it's spelt on iTunes and Amazon.[/QUOTE]
Cool, it has the same album art too.
That's credited to "Bruno Walter & The Columbia Orchestra". :v:
I'll just personalise the albums for my library, no biggie.
He seems like a great enough conductor too, so I might look out for more albums of his.
I picked this record up from a thrift store in mint condish a few days ago.
[img]http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/b/berlioz-symphonie_fantastique.._l._bernstein._ny_philharmonic.jpg[/img]
It's my favorite symphony.
bernstein is a king
I saw the czech philharmonic not long ago, they did extracts from Grieg's peer gynt suite, Rachmaninoffs second piano concerto and Dvorak's 5th symphoney, great night :3
A favourite schumann piece
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alheFdIl8k0[/media]
My mum used to put on Classical FM on when I was trying to get a sleep at night when I was a toddler. So I remember quite a lot of classical songs but don't know the names to any of them.
Is this music medieval
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8[/media]
Listening to this album
[IMG]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o202/akayz_people/albumart.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nicolo_paganini/the_24_caprices__op__1__itzhak_perlman_/[/url]
Absolutely sublime playing... Indescribable. Recorded really well, surprising for a 1972 album. Really high caliber and worth getting.
[QUOTE=AK'z;30635672]Listening to this album
[img]http://cdn.hmvdigital.ca/static/img/sleeveart/00/002/197/0000219781_500.jpg[/img]
[url]http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/johann_sebastian_bach/solo_and_double_violin_concertos__manze_podger_academy_of_ancient_music_/[/url]
Sounds great.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrzczjF73w[/media][/QUOTE]
Ugh, my sister used to be in a quartet and they practiced this and a few others in my house all the time.
This song gets on my nerves now.
[QUOTE=AK'z;30656628]Listening to this album
[IMG]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o202/akayz_people/albumart.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nicolo_paganini/the_24_caprices__op__1__itzhak_perlman_/[/url]
Absolutely sublime playing... Indescribable. Recorded really well, surprising for a 1972 album. Really high caliber and worth getting.[/QUOTE]
paganini is the king of rock
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;30657529]paganini is the king of rock[/QUOTE]
Yeah what's the deal with that?
I like Renaissance music
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1QjkhENZg8[/media]
This is so my kind of thread.
Anyways, this is a selection of some of the classical music I like:
[B]Bach[/B] (the J.S): [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv94m_S3QDo[/media]
I think it's very serene, peacefull (and played by a brilliant pianist).
[B]Mahler[/B]: I love most of his symphonies, and in particular the third, fifth and sixth.
This is the famous trombone theme from his third, well executed by Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpN-GYEdKKs[/media]
As one might realise, when listening to Mahler he knew how to handle a large symphonic orchestra.
Also, he was almost despised by the press in his lifetime, but he rose to new heighst of popularity in the sixties, because of such conductors as Bernstein.
A famous qoute from Mahler regarding the purpose of a symphony:
"A symphony needs to be a world in itself, it must contain everything".
Apart from these two (very different) composer I like Rachmaninov (not sure i spelled that right), Prokofiev (another impossible russian name), Strauss, serialists such as Scönberg and Weber and post-modernists like Stockhausen.
Second Chopin album I have.
[IMG]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o202/akayz_people/albumartchopin.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/frederic_chopin/etudes_op_10_and_op_25__maurizio_pollini__f1/[/url]
Better than the other one imo, it's unbelievably good.
[QUOTE=AK'z;30677437]Second Chopin album I have.
[IMG]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o202/akayz_people/albumartchopin.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/frederic_chopin/etudes_op_10_and_op_25__maurizio_pollini__f1/[/url]
Better than the other one imo, it's unbelievably good.[/QUOTE]
I love live piano music, especially chopin, but I find it boring when recorded
You love piano concerts as compared to hearing it on a stereo?
Probably a given, I'd rather see the band play live too. :downs:
[QUOTE=AK'z;30677666]You love piano concerts as compared to hearing it on a stereo?
Probably a given, I'd rather see the band play live too. :downs:[/QUOTE]
It's a bigger difference, I still like to listen to recorded metal but I don't like listening to recorded piano pieces at all
[QUOTE=mynames2long;30677785]It's a bigger difference, I still like to listen to recorded metal but I don't like listening to recorded piano pieces at all[/QUOTE]
Yeah I get you, it's cool "watching" music being played.
However I don't see the big difference when it's just piano. Maybe that's just me.
Well, I'm sort of breaking the rules here, but here's an orchestral symphonic poem that I didn't know existed until a couple weeks ago:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZO2VkKKR7o[/media]
Sensemaya by Silvestre Revueltas in 1938.
It's awesome. Percussion in here is spectacular.
[QUOTE=AK'z;30677802]Yeah I get you, it's cool "watching" music being played.
However I don't see the big difference when it's just piano. Maybe that's just me.[/QUOTE]
Well, pianists can be very expressive :v:
Some make more faces than guitarists using a wah
[QUOTE=mynames2long;30678369]Well, pianists can be very expressive :v:
Some make more faces than guitarists using a wah[/QUOTE]
I beg to differ
[img]http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-page-main/ehow/images/a02/0q/rd/play-guitar-like-david-gilmour-800x800.jpg[/img]
:v:
[QUOTE=AK'z;30678383]I beg to differ
[img]http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-page-main/ehow/images/a02/0q/rd/play-guitar-like-david-gilmour-800x800.jpg[/img]
:v:[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.1000recordings.com/images/artist-g/gould-glenn-357-l.jpg[/img]
I think they look about the same.
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