OT Classical music suggestions?

muthafunka · Post by **muthafunka** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:06 am

Not so much the polite or the vocal but other than that pretty much anything mind-bending or wow-making in whatever way would be appreciated.
Cheers!

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:22 am

Ligeti. Bartok. Dvorak. Stockhausen. Stravinsky.

Ligeti will scare your pants off, to be honest. Brutal stuff

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:26 am

get the 2001: a space odyssey soundtrack.
The blue danube rocks

udp · Post by **udp** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:49 pm

For study of early "sampling" Stockhausen for sure, but also Varese, Cage, and early Reich. And if those don't strech your ear enough try Penderecki, Boulez, Gorecki, Andreissen, Meridith Monk, or anything in the Bang on a Can series. For study of form try Mozart, Messian, Cage or John Adams. How about world influenced classical: Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Debussey, or Ravel. Enjoy, these guys are really good!

borg · Post by **borg** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:11 pm

http://www.champdaction.be/cda.php?p=Biography

it doesn't have to be old... and a lot of max/msp in their projects...

also check out the italian composer Nono.

Spacerboy · Post by **Spacerboy** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:29 pm

Kancheli - > "Life Without Christmas"
Brahms as well
Schostakowitsch

check out www.kmf-badischl.com

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:07 pm

I second Bartok. Some of his compositions sort of swell and build out of the ether and grow into these huge crescendos, only to be suddenly jerked away to almost silence, and slowly they start gathering strength and build again.

The original breakbeat.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:50 pm

try this mofo...

beethovens 9th arranged to 24hrs long

http://mrtg.planetmirror.com/pub/9beetstretch/

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:52 pm

i second gorecki!!!!

my favorite is the symphony #3...builds and builds and builds...and wait til the voices kick in...wow!

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:04 pm

Chopin. By far, my favorite classical composer. I have many fond memories listening to his preludes shrooming out on my couch in my old college apartment.

The Benjamin · Post by **The Benjamin** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:41 am

A lot of people are recommending 20th century composers, which is cool, and by all means take a stab at the composers people are recommending (esp. Bartok, in my opinion) but you may find 20th century music a little inaccessible to start with--it's often very abstract, and even when it's not it tends to presuppose a certain familiarity with what came before.

Anyway, if you don't know your way around the canon a little already, I'd recommend starting with Beethoven. Compositional technique pivoted around his innovations, so an interesting way of getting into classical music is starting with him and moving forward and backward in time from there.

If you like symphonic music, all 9 of his symphonies are great. A good starting CD would be Syms 5 & 7 with Carlos Kleiber conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

If you like piano, all of his piano sonatas are at least very good. The named ones ("Pathetique" "Moonlight" "Waldsten" "Appassionata") are justly famous. A CD that changed my life was Emil Gilels playing the "Pathetique" and "Moonlight." (BTW Probably don't start with the sonatas Op. 90 and higher--they are incredible, but abstract and kind of difficult.)

So that's a couple of recommendations. Oh, and do yourself a favor and get some JS Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier or Goldberg Variations would be a reasonable place to start. Also, everyone in the entire world should know the 2nd partita for unaccompanied violin, since the final movement is the single greatest piece of music ever written ever. Seriously.

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:23 am

Chopin, Debussy, Satie, Gorecki, Bartok, Varese, Stravinsky, Prokoffieff, Ginastera, there are so many out there, and each one of them a cool source of musical inspiration.

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:16 am

Beethoven's fifth and others, as performed by by the Chicago Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting, recorded in "Living Stereo", circa mid 1950s. BMG puts out the revamped "Living Stereo" series CDs.

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/alb ... um_id=7198

It's almost like guy was conducting the orchestra to defy the dB range of the tape, but it's freaking wonderful.

Also, violin concerto No 1 in A minor, op. 77 by Shostakovich, really amazing.

missjade · Post by **missjade** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:03 am

you just inspired me to listen to some mahler! (check out symphony no. 4... stunning

) .... holy goosebumps.

chopin's moody melodies are absolutely amazing. my fav is waltz in c sharp minor which, when i was little, my mom would ask me to play while she was cooking

debussy's my favorite for impressionistic and sometimes whimsical sort of stuff (deux arabesques

)... rachmaninov=pure insanity... lizst... genius.

bach's inventions are technically mindblowing pieces.. check out no. 1 in c major.

have fun!

henry ford · Post by **henry ford** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:10 am

erik satie

OT Classical music suggestions?

OT Classical music suggestions?

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