Classical music.
I've been listening to classical music more and more lately. I am a 26 year old and I stil enjoy other forms of music, but I recently discovered the appeal of classical and orchestral music. I think it's the relaxing atmosphere it brings. No vocals makes you appreciate the music for what it is.
My favorite instrument is the piano, but I am also partial to the violin. I downloaded some mp3's, mostly Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach, and some interpretations of these by some modern musicians. But, what does the AppleInsider community recommend? I'd like to get some more but have no idea what to search for either at the store or on the net (gnutella).
My favorite instrument is the piano, but I am also partial to the violin. I downloaded some mp3's, mostly Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach, and some interpretations of these by some modern musicians. But, what does the AppleInsider community recommend? I'd like to get some more but have no idea what to search for either at the store or on the net (gnutella).
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I bought it for the "Oh Fortuna" oft played part but love the rest of the songs. It has vocals but they are soothing and done very well(in another language...Latin?...so you don't worry about the lyrics).
Piano- I'm no Classical Buff but I do like Chopin.
If someone wants it, I can upload it somewhere.
Try Piano from Debussy too, it's so impressionist.
There is so many pieces of Piano, one of the greatest is the Goldberg variations of Bach played by Glenn Gould the 1981 version.
But one advice : go listen to live music in concert, Listen in real the Carmina burana from Carl Orff : a tremendeous experience, listen to piano live or better than the violin in live : the sound is far far better than in HIFI .
I use to go in classical concert with my wife when i live in a bigger town , i have eard famous artist : it was an enlightement. Now i am i n a small town, and it's the thing i regret the most.
Bach's art of the fugue and goldberg variations for piano (or harpsichord), sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin or cello.
Beethoven's piano sonatas, especially later ones.
Mozart's piano sonatas, too. You can buy all of Mozart's or Beethoven's piano sonatas on a couple CDs.
Chamber music by Schubert.
And if you like the pristine sound of instruments, howsbouts some vocal-only music? Great pure vocal early music by Josquin, Gesualdo, Tallis. It always gives me this kinda creepy feeling like I'm transported to a different time.
For orchestral stuff, I really love the Russians, like Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Any of those symphonies. Kinda modern sounding but not too outlandish like the Germans were doing at the time (I think the Russians would have been arrested if it was too outlandish.)
<strong>I don't remember where I got it, but I actually have an orchestral version of the Super Mario Brother's soundtrack (the original Nintendo one!) It's great!</strong><hr></blockquote>While it's certainly not Classical, I too have all five albums performed by the Tokyo philharmonic orchestra:
Orchestral Game Concert I
Orchestral Game Concert II
Orchestral Game Concert III
Orchestral Game Concert IV
Orchestral Game Concert V
and several symphonic game albums others including:
Actraiser Symphonic Suite
Final Fantasy Celtic Moon
Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale
Final Fantasy VIII Fithos Lusec Wicos Vinosec
Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time: Hyrule Symphony
...and I have many other non-orchestral game albums.
Join the Musical Heritage Society. You can find them online. It's been awhile since I let my membership lapse, so maybe it's different now. They never made me buy things, just stopped sending me the catalog if I didn't. They always had articles about the music and composers. It was worth sending the stamp each month just to learn from reading those. Now you can decline the featured selection online.
Beethoven piano is also great: I like Brendel but many people think he is sloppy, (he's also a good poet) and also Klein is good . . . but these guys (Bach & Beethoven) are obvious.
I also like Mahler's songs: they are grand, in the tradition of Romanticist music but not too grandios or kitschy. I listen to the last movement of his song, Das Lied Von Der Erde (the song of the earth) as often as possible... it is epic and also simply about the final parting of two life long friends.
Also good is his Das Klagendlieder (the song of lament(?)) this is slow and brooding and dramatic . . . these have vocals and in parts are a little difficult to accept (as is much orchestral classical music to today's movie saturated audiences) BUT the way Mahler treats the voice is subtle and varied. I think that the Boulez cunducted version of the latter peice is the best I have heard though I can't find it anywhere. . . I heard it on the radio . . I listen to some other second rate versions.
Debussy, Chopin even Satie all good piano works though they all are best when in a indulgently sentimental mood
I also like more contemporary classical music which is more difficult, not so sentimental and lyrical: such as Edgar Varese (Ionization), or Lutoslawski (his Streichquartet(sp?)) Penderecki and even, yes John Cage (music for prepared piano)
I try to avoid at all costs"
Hayden
Tchaikowsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
prokofief
swedish composers
For solo piano, I love Beethoven sonatas, Chopin etudes/mazurkas and *anything* by Debussy, Scriabin and Hindemith
For Orchestra: Mahler, Beethoven, Mozart symphonies; Beethoven, Mozart, Saint Saens, Prokofiev, Greig piano concertos; Elgar's cello concerto; Beethoven violin concertos;
Bartok string quartets....I love much of Stravinsky, Debussy, Bach, (Richard) Strauss, Ravel, Grainger, Ives, Adams, Bartok, Steve Reich, Crumb, Partch, Cowell, Messiaen, ..... Tomorrow, I could type out a different list..there's so much great stuff out there that will stand the test of time and will be listened to in the next century....
And at cdnow.com (and other online stores too I guess) you can listen to sound samples for every CD.
Mandricard
AppleOutsider
P.s. HMurchinson--You might try finding a translation of the Carmina Burana lyrics, which are indeed in Latin. You might be surprised...
I like "disturbed" classical music. Something like what Kubricks used in 2001 just when the space ship approach jupiter. The soundtrack for those really wild thoughts and imaginations you have when you have a high fever and can´t decide whether you are dreaming or awake (and those monkeys flying through your room is a natural part of the decoration). You know, that kind of music.
Could someone please tell me what I am looking for (beside the asylum for mentally disturbed people)?
i am a music teacher and am currently pursuing my Master's Degree. If there is anything i can help with let me know.
Some good composers to consider:
Renaissance: Josquin de Prez
Weelkes
Byrd
Baroque: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli
Classical: Mozart and Haydn
Classic/Romantic: Beethoven
Romantic: Brahms, Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky
Impressionist: Rachmaninoff, Debussy
Modern: Hindemith, Stravinsky, Copland
just a few
If you want to be moved to tears, listen to Puccini
If you want to be swept away, listen to Rachmaninov (symphonies and piano concertos)
If you want to find out about man's struggle, listen to Beethoven
But whatever you do, listen to Bach as much as you can, and as the doc said, do go to concerts: it's a totally different experience, in fact it is the only experience. I'd rather go to a concert, than buy a CD which is not to say that I don't buy CD's.
The above recommendtions are to be taken with a pinch of salt, but they are a good starting point.
- T.I.
Anders, Music for Airports, Music for Film and Apollo- Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno, these are all very soothing in a symphonic sort of way...
S.J.Ollendale, you are right on the money. Even with a T-1 line, any music you download is crippled sonically. Especially noticeable with classical and jazz if your accustomed to hearing live music or even a good high end(belt-drive turntable/moving-coil cartridge or CD player with seperate digital to analog converter) music system. I'm sure the resolution of downloaded music will increase with time.
Unfortunately, Classical music(and REAL Jazz) is becoming an Art that only the upper classes are enjoying as music programs get cut from the public schools and young people think the junk, um, err, music that they hear on MTV is it. Hey, I like junk food once in a while... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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