It's probably nice everywhere, but this was about music!Rangtangtang wrote:Springtime in Germany.
Your favourite classical pieces
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- KVRAF
- 4738 posts since 20 Feb, 2004 from Gothenburg, Sweden
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- KVRAF
- 1651 posts since 2 Jun, 2003
My favorite pieces are all neo-classical.
1) Symphony #3 by Henryk Gorecki (just the first movement, really)
2) Adagio for strings by Samuel Barber
and 3) Fish Beach by Michael Nyman
Fish Beach may lack the compositional sophistication of well, any of the other pieces listed in this thread thusfar, but it is very moody and I loves me some moody music! It could be described as variations-on-a-progression (with Earth's simplest melody), but I prefer to think of it as classical-trance-in-3/4.
If you use a paid download service (I use musicnet from aol), you should check it out.
1) Symphony #3 by Henryk Gorecki (just the first movement, really)
2) Adagio for strings by Samuel Barber
and 3) Fish Beach by Michael Nyman
Fish Beach may lack the compositional sophistication of well, any of the other pieces listed in this thread thusfar, but it is very moody and I loves me some moody music! It could be described as variations-on-a-progression (with Earth's simplest melody), but I prefer to think of it as classical-trance-in-3/4.
If you use a paid download service (I use musicnet from aol), you should check it out.
If every KVR member wrote one review a year we'd have 1340 reviews each day!
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- KVRAF
- 1811 posts since 18 Jan, 2005 from Lost in the blinding whiteness of the tundra
Yes.Hovmod wrote:I go through periods...
One typical period will be Piano Concertos. Favourites:
Mozart 6, 21, 23
Yes!!! That one might well be my answer to the question in the subject. Also on a piano concerto tip, the Shostakovich second is very cool.Beethoven 4
*cough* Peter Grimes *cough*Britten (!)
See above...(I don't like opera,
Yes! Also Das Lied Von Der Erde.Mahler's symphonies (4 and 5 and 10 for starters, 1, 2 and 9 later on)
If you're into music at all, study Bach, IMO.If you're into logic at all, study Bach.
Given the OP's examples, my recommendations would be early Stravinsky ballet suites - Petroushka, Pulcinella, The Rite of Spring and the Firebird (he learned composition from Rimsky, and then took it 20 steps further), Ravel, Copeland, Shostakovich... actually, I could go on for days...
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- KVRian
- 672 posts since 28 Jul, 2004
Pictures at an Exhibition(Mussorgsky or the ELP version)
Meditations from the Thais(Massenet)
Does the Nutcracker count?(Tchaikovsky)
The 4 Seasons (Vivaldi)
G.
Meditations from the Thais(Massenet)
Does the Nutcracker count?(Tchaikovsky)
The 4 Seasons (Vivaldi)
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras
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- KVRian
- 1496 posts since 10 Nov, 2002 from Earth
I'm a sucker for pre-barocco music, so I have some Henry Purcell operas on CD at home. They're just gogeous. I also have Joan Sutherland recording of Delibe's "Lacme", but that's mostly for my missus:-))
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- KVRAF
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
I notice that a lot of romantic symphonic stuff gets mentioned. Check out more modern stuff in that vein: Charles Ives' 4th symphony (as well as Central Park in the Dark), or a whole bunch of stuff by Messiaen: his Turangalila symphony. If you like that, go on to his smaller works Quartet for the End of Time, various piano and organ works.
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- Banned
- 1842 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from just right here
You can only them on vynal
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 339 posts since 9 May, 2001 from Greece
Thanks for the suggestions so far! Some of them I've already listened to and I love (but had forgotten about them), like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition! Also some works by Debussy I used to listen to a lot.
There is/was a site called something like: the classical MIDI archive, or something like that. It has a huge collection of classical MIDI files (really good ones) and a few years back I downloaded tons of them for free.
I just found the address: http://www.classicalarchives.com/
I think they ask you to pay now before you download stuff. Most of the material is of great quality and I am sure it will be great to study the orchestration of many classical pieces.
Keep the suggestions coming.
There is/was a site called something like: the classical MIDI archive, or something like that. It has a huge collection of classical MIDI files (really good ones) and a few years back I downloaded tons of them for free.
I just found the address: http://www.classicalarchives.com/
I think they ask you to pay now before you download stuff. Most of the material is of great quality and I am sure it will be great to study the orchestration of many classical pieces.
Keep the suggestions coming.
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- Banned
- 1842 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from just right here
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
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- KVRian
- 604 posts since 7 Jul, 2004 from Somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions.
When I was a kid I heard Ennio Morricone's Chi Mai and for some reason thought that the composer must have been dead for centuries.
I think that in its day this was the very epitome of a 'modern classic'. Still love it.
I think that in its day this was the very epitome of a 'modern classic'. Still love it.
Analogue or digital – which is better? There's only one way to find out... FI-I-IGHT!!!
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- KVRian
- 1488 posts since 7 Jan, 2004
Am I the only genuine romanticist at KvR? 
Brahms:
* symphony nr. 3 - part 4
(and a lot more of Brahms)
Dvorák:
* serenade for strings
* symphony no. 8
* piano trios !
Elgar:
* symphony nr. 1 - part 4
Tchaikovski:
* symphony nr. 6 'Pathétique'
* Romeo and Juliet
Obviously it depends a lot on which orchestra performed. Like Brahms symphony nr. 4 of which I have two versions; one that does't do a lot to me and one that gives me goosebumps all over again and again.
Brahms:
* symphony nr. 3 - part 4
(and a lot more of Brahms)
Dvorák:
* serenade for strings
* symphony no. 8
* piano trios !
Elgar:
* symphony nr. 1 - part 4
Tchaikovski:
* symphony nr. 6 'Pathétique'
* Romeo and Juliet
Obviously it depends a lot on which orchestra performed. Like Brahms symphony nr. 4 of which I have two versions; one that does't do a lot to me and one that gives me goosebumps all over again and again.
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The more I hang around at KVR the less music I make.
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- KVRAF
- 2217 posts since 15 Jul, 2003
Mozart 39,40,41
but especially
the 6 string quartets
esp the one that's in a totally ambiguous key for the 1st 8 bars or so
with just 4 instruments I get a chance to really hear what's going on
the one in A is also very good
and one of them gets used in every stinking movie that needs a 'classical' but lightweight piece - still can't diminish the genius of these works
there are some pretty good Haydn quartets as well, but not up to this level
then there are the 6 Bartok string quartets -- really good, but you have to be in the mood
but especially
the 6 string quartets
esp the one that's in a totally ambiguous key for the 1st 8 bars or so
with just 4 instruments I get a chance to really hear what's going on
the one in A is also very good
and one of them gets used in every stinking movie that needs a 'classical' but lightweight piece - still can't diminish the genius of these works
there are some pretty good Haydn quartets as well, but not up to this level
then there are the 6 Bartok string quartets -- really good, but you have to be in the mood
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- KVRAF
- 6740 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from sheffield, england
Bach double violin concerto Its been a favorite since I was about 10 yrs old.. the slow movement is almost painfully beautiful. 
Its been a favorite since I was about 10 yrs old.. the slow movement is almost painfully beautiful.