Classical music recommendations

[Melville]

I'm not all that familiar with classical music, but I really like it. Who can give me some recommendations? I think I prefer Romantic and Modern period stuff to Baroque and Classical period stuff, but it's all good. Right now I'm listening to Stravinsky's Firebird, which is awesome.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I was recommended Chopin's Noctures, which are amazing.

[Melville]

I was recommended Chopin's Noctures, which are amazing.
Yeah, I have a couple of those on one of those "all-time classical favorites" compilations. They are great; how many did he write?

His Minute Waltz is also almost impossibly perfect.

[SpaceOddity]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

*sniffs*

[Lucky]

If you're a fan of Romantic music (which is my favorite by far as well), then you can't go wrong with my top 3: Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Debussy.

Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #2 (my favorite piece of music)
Vocalise
Op. 39 Etude #5

Chopin
All his preludes
Ballade 1

Debussy
Clair De Lune
Reverie
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun


Other Romantic favorites:
Slavonic Dance #2 - Dvorak
Romanian Dances - Bartok
Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky

[Melville]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

*sniffs*
Awesome. I love her frenzy.

Lucky, thanks for the recommendations. I'll check those out.

[Benny Profane]

I just bought the complete Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach as well as The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. Recommended.

My favorite classical piece is Chopin's Impromptu #3.

[SpaceOddity]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GQLqF5lgTik

I attempted to thieve his violin when I was a kid. :D

[Melville]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GQLqF5lgTik

I attempted to thieve his violin when I was a kid. :D
Nice. Now where's your ranked list of books you read this year?

Does anybody have a recommendation for a Glenn Gould recording? I'm thinking of getting The Goldberg Variations, but I'm wondering if that's the best choice.

[Duncan]

I'm a big fan of Schubert. So melancholy. Death and the Maiden is a fantastic string quartet piece. And I'll never hesitate to recommend his Winterreise either. And I'm sure you've probably heard it before, but Mozart's Requiem is absolutely sublime. Maybe my favorite piece of music ever composed.

[Yxklyx]

Debussy's Nocturnes and La Mer.

Holst's The Planets

[Yxklyx]

Also, some of Bach's works are 200 years ahead of their time. I'd check out his Sonatas and partitas for solo violin.

[SpaceOddity]

Also, some of Bach's works are 200 years ahead of their time. I'd check out his Sonatas and partitas for solo violin.

*adores Hilary Hahn's interpretation of the D minor ciaccona*

[soitgoes...]

My favorite piece of music is the 4th movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony. Heart-wrenching. Berlioz's Symphonie fantasique and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov are a couple other faves.

[bac0n]

I taught sunday school for a time, and one of the lessons was on the concept of change, the main exercise of which was listening to pieces of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, in random order, and then trying to guess which season the particular passage was about.

I recommend you get your hands on that, and give it a try yourself. It's one of the best examples of musical imagery ever created.

[SpaceOddity]

Also, some of Bach's works are 200 years ahead of their time. I'd check out his Sonatas and partitas for solo violin.

Just curious, do you detest the piano transcriptions?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2fsekFC-pw8&feature=related

[SpaceOddity]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QiLOHWcwLVU

My fave violinist.
*worships*

[jesse]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QiLOHWcwLVU

My fave violinist.
*worships* Mine yoo. Yayayayayay.

Though my favorite: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Va7ez2m_HCA

[Melville]

Thanks to everybody for the recommendations. I have a lot of listening to do.

[Yxklyx]

Just curious, do you detest the piano transcriptions?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2fsekFC-pw8&feature=related

?. I could only listen to a minute of that.

[mindstream]

You might enjoy Shostakovich and Prokofiev if you liked Starvinsky, methinks.

[Qrazy]

Mahler. Haydn. Verdi.

[Izzy Black]

I'm not all that familiar with classical music, but I really like it. Who can give me some recommendations? I think I prefer Romantic and Modern period stuff to Baroque and Classical period stuff, but it's all good. Right now I'm listening to Stravinsky's Firebird, which is awesome.

Try Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, Mahler's 1st (next his 5th), Sibelius' 1st, Tchaikovsky's 6th, and if you are really adventurous, Bruckner's 9th. I also recommend Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 for some really lush romantic stuff.



http://youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

*sniffs*

Jacqueline du Pre is the reason I got into classical. This is a legendary recording. She is one of music's greatest artists and saddest losses.


I'm a big fan of Schubert. So melancholy. Death and the Maiden is a fantastic string quartet piece. And I'll never hesitate to recommend his Winterreise either. And I'm sure you've probably heard it before, but Mozart's Requiem is absolutely sublime. Maybe my favorite piece of music ever composed.

Indeed. Winterreise is sumblime. Although, even when Schubert is light he is great. His 'Trout Quintet' is as good as anything he wrote, and a very optimistic piece. Requiem is arguably my favorite as well.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Henry Purcell

[Russ]

Tomaso Albinoni, Adagio for Organ and Strings in G Minor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4

[Lucky]

Been listening to this a bunch recently:

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[Idioteque Stalker]

I'll second Mahler and Shostakovich.


In particular, I really like Shostakovich's String Quartet #8. The balance of Romantic feeling and Modern tonality is just right for me.

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[Spaceman Spiff]

Boring answer maybe, but Beethoven is the best for me.

Although lately I've been feeling a little melancholy, and no other piece of work evokes longing and acceptance more than Satie's Trois Gymnopédies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DBoiyBoJ8

[Lucky]

This is a popular finding on "most difficult piano pieces" lists...

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It's based on a poem about a water fairy trying to seduce a mortal man.