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Nevalo wrote:Brahms in general was a g. everything ive heard from him has been brilliant.

but this has to be one of the most beautifully painfull pieces of music ive ever heard.

I prefer Satie's Gnossiennes to the Gymnopedies

murky21 wrote:can anyone recommend any super sombre/ mournful bits in the mould of Adagio for strings, enigma variations? string lead orchestral or quartet shit? has to be depressing or epic

I guess you are looking for something like beethovens 14. String quartet.
But what i really recomend you is bachs concert for two violins in minor re ( bwv 1043)

particle-jim wrote: I prefer Satie's Gnossiennes to the Gymnopedies

that was the first piece of music i heard from satie (the Gnossiennes) and i was intreged by the sound, it was so beautiful.... but personaly i found the others to be more moving emotionaly.

I like Chopin at times, it's mood music though...you need to be in the zone for it.

Nocturnes, Gnossiennes, Gymnopedies = snooze music.

Shum wrote:Nocturnes, Gnossiennes, Gymnopedies = snooze music.

its deep, its dark, its minimal.

no bassweight doe

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a preview of one of my (current) albums of the year.

thats the best part.

nah satie was a gee, brought a whole new sound to the minimal classical genre. no parrring.

its true, satie was a badman. a book of collected writings "a mammal's notebook" is well worth checking out imo.

Ravels piano concerto in g major is a percy


but this one, this gets the feels

murky21 wrote:can anyone recommend any super sombre/ mournful bits in the mould of Adagio for strings, enigma variations? string lead orchestral or quartet shit? has to be depressing or epic

Not quite what you are after but still

Had a nice evening last night... a friend's company sponsor the Orpheus Orchestra (a 'young persons' Orchestra - most seemed in their early 20s) and as a thankyou, they put on a free show for employees and guests last night at St Georges. A sort of whistlestop guide to classical music starting with Bach's Air On A G String and going through Handel's Fireworks, Beethoven's 5th, Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet, a Mozart piece I'd somehow never heard before, Mahler's Adagietto and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Really fantastic.

Then they kind of ruined it by wimping out and finishing on three movie scores to please the novice crowd, I guess... ET, Schindler's List and Back To The Future. I like John Williams style scores, but they're better with a blockbuster movie in front of them... they could've mixed it up a bit more and done some Mansell or even Baber.

magma wrote:Had a nice evening last night... a friend's company sponsor the Orpheus Orchestra (a 'young persons' Orchestra - most seemed in their early 20s) and as a thankyou, they put on a free show for employees and guests last night at St Georges. A sort of whistlestop guide to classical music starting with Bach's Air On A G String and going through Handel's Fireworks, Beethoven's 5th, Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet, a Mozart piece I'd somehow never heard before, Mahler's Adagietto and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Really fantastic.

Then they kind of ruined it by wimping out and finishing on three movie scores to please the novice crowd, I guess... ET, Schindler's List and Back To The Future. I like John Williams style scores, but they're better with a blockbuster movie in front of them... they could've mixed it up a bit more and done some Mansell or even Baber.

Quite.

Randomly bought The Planets done by the sanfransico symphony orchestra for 50p yesterday haha

A demanding piece by a contemporary of Debussy, performed by a man who did a Plastician on the classical music world and left in disgust over its supposed elitism a few years ago.

Nice^

Yesterday i went to a cello concert in a church of a guy of my age that did bach and granados plus he did a last minute chnge and performed a more experimental piece of a russian composer. Amazing!

Wait for the drop

percy

Not really sure how easy it is to get your hands on them these days but be on the lookout for Chopin recordings in the Arthur Rubenstein Collection (there's like 80 CDs worth ) on RCA Red Seal (now published by Sony), though be wary of the older recordings which sound very scratchy even after a remaster (or two). Tbf Martha Argerich ain't no slouch when it comes to the piano but Rubenstein is the Chopin master.

I would want some of Chopins stuff if I knew where to look and who your supposed ot look for playing it. Will check out what youve suggested!