Classical, anyone?

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:51 pm

Always liked a bit of piano music - CHOPIN, Schubert,
Rachmaninov, Brahms, Berg, Janacek, Arvo Part, etc..

nomorecomastep · Post by **nomorecomastep** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:28 pm

BlizzardMusic wrote:Classical?

Come on.

Can you become any more petty?

NEXT

If anything, you should worship classical composers. Some of whom were younger than you when they had already achieved world fame and fortune. Look into your past, my man. Respect your elders.

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:03 pm

NoMoreComaStep wrote:
BlizzardMusic wrote:Classical?

Come on.

Can you become any more petty?

NEXT
If anything, you should worship classical composers. Some of whom were younger than you when they had already achieved world fame and fortune. Look into your past, my man. Respect your elders.

agreed. it annoys me when people hate on classical. i mean when you think about it its a 'genre' thats lasted centuries. classical compositions are no doubt usually alot more intricate than your standard 'modern' tune. it especially annoys me when 'producers' hate on classical. remember, before computers, these notes,melodies and scored actually had to be composed/played by hand...

i think the general dislike or appreciation the youth show to classical is down to the lack of percussion/drums and constrained time signatures.

im sure Blizzard will learn eventually...after all...im pretty sure there was a st/age when most of us didnt like classic.

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:05 pm

+ music 'evolves' and can't 'evolve' without growing from previously layed out foundations

reinformpulse · Post by **reinformpulse** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:58 pm

I would highly recommend Chopin, especially his nocturnes... The best one out there (imho) is 'Pollini plays Chopin' (on Deutsche Grammophone) available from amazon.com.
Some of Rachmaninoff's stuff is pretty awesome too, particularly preludes.

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:20 pm

reinformpulse wrote:I would highly recommend Chopin, especially his nocturnes...

And Sonata no.2!!

rojparody · Post by **rojparody** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:25 pm

I love some classical pieces, although I admit I'm not as "in" to it as I probably should be.

One of my all time favourite pieces of music is In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Edvard Greig from Peer Gynt.

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:07 am

If I was in a position to be raping, I would rape on some contemporary asian cinema...they have some amazing sparce, dissonant sounding, light darkness.

Here is one..The Scent of Green Papaya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swyE32jpUEY

shaft · Post by **shaft** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:25 am

Peoplehookedonharpsichord should check out Bach's Brandenburg concertos, as well as John Bulls Doctor bull's good night (

)
Into Shostacovich anyone - or is he still "too trendy"?

I posted a new thread about a trio, which (again) tries to do a classical+jazz+hiphop melt - maybe people who also enjoy classical will like that...

sinc_vision · Post by **sinc_vision** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:53 pm

dTruk wrote:
NoMoreComaStep wrote:
If anything, you should worship classical composers. Some of whom were younger than you when they had already achieved world fame and fortune. Look into your past, my man. Respect your elders.
agreed. it annoys me when people hate on classical. i mean when you think about it its a 'genre' thats lasted centuries. classical compositions are no doubt usually alot more intricate than your standard 'modern' tune. it especially annoys me when 'producers' hate on classical. remember, before computers, these notes,melodies and scored actually had to be composed/played by hand...

i think the general dislike or appreciation the youth show to classical is down to the lack of percussion/drums and constrained time signatures.

im sure Blizzard will learn eventually...after all...im pretty sure there was a st/age when most of us didnt like classic.

Doubley agreeing with the above points. Also the ability to actually read and write music adds to the whole skill and depth of classical composition. I wish like mad that i never gave up playing the flute, i`d have mad skills by now and would still be able to read music, now it all just looks like lines, dots and squiggles

Have been living by orchestrated music for the past 10 years or so. It makes me feel emotion and take me on journeys that no other genre can even come close to. One of my percys is `Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis` by Vaughan Williams. Ecstatic business.

Out to my classical/orchestrated tunage loving crew.

contakt · Post by **contakt** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:04 pm

reinformpulse wrote:I would highly recommend Chopin, especially his nocturnes... The best one out there (imho) is 'Pollini plays Chopin' (on Deutsche Grammophone) available from amazon.com.
Some of Rachmaninoff's stuff is pretty awesome too, particularly preludes.

If you like Chopin's Nocturnes, check out those by Debussy. Brilliant stuff.

z.u.bee · Post by **z.u.bee** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:38 am

BlizzardMusic wrote:Classical?

Come on.

Can you become any more petty?

NEXT

roots my young friend,
you shall never become a jedi master without roots....

z.u.bee · Post by **z.u.bee** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:40 am

debussy is a don,

nuff said....

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:08 am

I'm a bit of a classical geek, played (double bass, badly) in orchestras and everything. Fantastic stuff, such a deep experience when you start really getting into it. One tip for all you turntable owners is that second hand classical vinyl can be had for next to nothing from charity shops, although it can be a bit of a mission to find modern or obscure stuff and a lot of it tends to be iffy recordings or scratched to buggery. But at 99p for a Beethoven symphony it's worth digging a bit.

Baron_von_Carlton wrote:I really like Classical.However i have no idea where to look for composers i like.Im into the really dark apocalyptic sounding stuff.Anyone got any suggestion of pieces or composers to look for?

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring, like someone said. Particularly obvious other suggestions would be Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Verdi - Requiem, Mozart - Requiem, Orff - Carmina Burana, Holst - The Planets.

Also worth a look (I could go on all day here) would be
Shostakovich - Symphony no 5, piano trio no 2
Beethoven - Symphonies 5, 7, 9, Piano Concerto no 3, 4, pretty much everything else
Messaien - Turangalila (this is bat fuck insane), quartet for the end of time
Mahler - Symphony no 5, Das Lied Von Der Erde
Wagner - lots of 17 hour operas
Varese - loads of random clanging noises
Steve Reich - Different Trains, Six Marimbas
Debussy - La Mer
etc etc

syntax · Post by **syntax** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:43 am

i love classical because it's classical. Mozart & Chaikovsky favorite composers.

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:57 pm

Slothrop wrote:Orff - Carmina Burana

thats THE one.

darkside monster!

the wiggle baron · Post by **the wiggle baron** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:10 pm

£10 Bag wrote:i like classical, i don't know that much about it but i like handel and tchaikovsky. nothing is funnier than playing classical music to people on a comedown...apart from maybe 'playing' the accordion to them

You play the accordion? Good lad

Im currently teaching myself from a few books i bought, and jesus its one hell of a hard instrument to get yer head round! Getting the hang of it mind.

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:53 am

I'd check the Firebird Suite by Stravinsky too - theres one movement that's like Metallica heavy.

Debussy definitely, and some of Ravel's stuff is amazingly deep (it's not all Bolero) and check Saint-Saens for beautiful minimal compositions.

Strictly speaking, classical was only used as a term for orchestral music made between the 18th and 19th century wasn't it?

benj b · Post by **benj b** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:09 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNXaQFP5amE

mae · Post by **mae** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:18 am

not really big on classical, BUT Ryuichi Sakamoto is next level... real simple and minimal but real emotional and effective

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