Classical music discussion

[Checkers]

love me some ragtime

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWKJCSf_MA[/media]

[ThunderGod]

I've heard people say Liszt is a 'piano composer', but his Orchestral works are great too.

[Kentz]

[QUOTE=ThunderGod;31976792]I've heard people say Liszt is a 'piano composer', but his Orchestral works are great too.[/QUOTE]

Indeed, he did some wonderful choral works too.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wszi8KPuiOE[/media]

[AK'z]

I just passed this on VINYL LP for £1.49 at a charity shop...

[img]http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=10102&stc=1&d=1236712934[/img]
[url]http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/ludwig_van_beethoven___franz_schubert/symphony_no__6_pastoral___symphony_no__5__wiener_philharmoniker_karl_bohm_/[/url]

Am I stupid or what?

:smug:

[ThunderGod]

I bought a classic fm Beethoven collection today fully aware of how consistently bad classic fm's choice of performances are. I was dissapoint :(

[Shostakovich]

So I purchased Ashkenazy's Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances. YES!
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yVK5Mp23L._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img]
Good stuff, and I got Isle of the Dead as well. :smile:

[AK'z]

I don't even care I'm going to the charity shop I found and grabbing some LPs of classical music. If they're a pound each then it's a steal really.

Some on ebay fetch about £10+ depending on rarity.

[The Maestro]

Anyone here listen to Henry Purcell? Next to Bach he's probably my favorite Baroque composer.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWu0k5cMtE&feature=related[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1tK7pQdX0[/media]

[AK'z]

all of you should get this:
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/318PX98V0ZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img]

I need more things like it, same with Max Richter. Modern Classical at its best.

[editline]21st October 2011[/editline]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYHQD0-CqNE[/media]

[AK'z]

Need more modern classical artists, any others?

[editline]13th November 2011[/editline]

updated the OP a bit too.

[pie_is_good]

[QUOTE=AK'z;33261188]Need more modern classical artists, any others?[/QUOTE]

Like, 20th Century? These guys aren't the most obscure so I dunno if you've already got stuff by them, but eh there's probably stuff here you haven't checked out.

Steve Reich (Music for 18 Musicians; Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint), John Adams (Harmonium; The Death of Klinghoffer), Stravinsky (Rite of Spring; Firebird), Bartok(Six String Quartets; Concerto for Orchestra;Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celestta), Phil Glass (Einstein of the Beach;Koyanisqastii) , Shostakovich (Symphony No. 5; 15), Schoenberg (Gurrelieder; Transfigured Night), Berg(Wozzeck; Chamber Concerto)

[AK'z]

You, the man.
Anything youtubely you can provide?

[pie_is_good]

oh look it up yerself.

i'll give you this one though because i realy like this one.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2diuSD2pLic[/media]

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=pie_is_good;33261483]oh look it up yerself.
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but I don't like spending more time looking than listening. :)
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;33261483]
i'll give you this one though because i realy like this one.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2diuSD2pLic[/media][/QUOTE]
OI, FIDELITY MAAAAAAAN!! :pwn:
No camera phone classical music here :(

[pie_is_good]

that's the way classical music is meant to be heard!

[AK'z]

okay, this is pretty much what I'm after. thank you.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJKsF4JJ8U[/media]

:dance:

[pie_is_good]

If you like that one check out his [I]Harmonielehre[/I].

[The Maestro]

John Cage, Ligeti, Penderecki, Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Xenakis, Ornstein, Lyatoshynsky, Antheil, Stockhausen, Bartok, Scriabin(later pieces), Morton Feldman, Schnittke, Enno Poppe(Not a very well known figure, but he's one of my favorites!), John Adams.

That should do you for moderns, if you want recommendations please do specify which composer, currently I can't be assed to recommend pieces from all of them.

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=The Maestro;33267510]John Cage[/QUOTE]

Okay, I've listened to him before but not in the sense that I'd like. Know anywhere to start with that dude?

[The Maestro]

It depends. John Cage has a very eclectic compositional style.

Personally, I'm a fan of his earlier style(Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, Our Spring Will Come, Bacchanale, Mysterious Adventure), but his later more experimental style is good too(Tape Music, Imaginary Landscape(s)).

[JS_Bach]

[QUOTE=The Maestro;32875623]Anyone here listen to Henry Purcell? Next to Bach he's probably my favorite Baroque composer. [/QUOTE]

I adore Purcell, he is such a wonderful composer.. British too :D If you like Purcell you will love Croft. Purcell taught Croft everything he knew.. so their music is very similar. I recommend Suite No.3 in C minor. What a fantastic piece for Harpsichord.

[AK'z]

I have a good cello Bach album, but lacking in many others.

[Stizzles]

Are there any other interesting modern artists like Igorrr and World's End Girlfriend that mix classical music with other genres?
[video=youtube;z_xrSIZSDxE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_xrSIZSDxE[/video]
[video=youtube;JdWMH1XGX30]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdWMH1XGX30[/video]

[AK'z]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjxHZPIDbE[/media]
This is good.

also Clogs
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R0eIi6pqSo[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukHmdFRaEp0[/media]

[The Maestro]

Some Bach for you gents.

Performed by my favorite Bach interpreter, Karl Richter!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6-x9sdEYo[/media]

[AK'z]

So many Richters in classical music...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SduYfdbmiI8[/media]

makes sense.

[lil timmy]

[video=youtube;O8dduy2Aaqg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8dduy2Aaqg[/video]

composed by Louis Hardin AKA Moondog

[AK'z]

Can't go wrong with Moondog
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JdyrURA7JYI/SnYBD0Iow9I/AAAAAAAAAF4/JOGFiSPsAeA/s400/moondog.PNG[/img]

Badass album art.

[lil timmy]

if you look like a viking bard/storyteller you can plaster your image on most things and it'll look badass

[ThunderGod]

Figured this thread could be improved with some Scarlatti. Probably my favourite Baroque composer.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV3Avalm5KM[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrCDsxI5eQ[/media]

Oh and some Ramaeu on harp :3
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQUhMslxzw[/media]