classical music

[In Dust and Ashes]

I've been craving some good classical music, but it's hard to find stuff that doesn't get boring fast.
so someone help me out. I do so love the piano.

[vaya con dios]

Grieg

and

Wagner

All you need really.

[Under Burning Stars]

Piano, try Rachmaninov or perhaps Chopin.
Do you like Radiohead? If so, try Christopher O'Riley who coverd some of their music with just piano. Purists may moan, but i find the melodies and structure of a lot of Radiohead songs to be beautiful, and he transposes them very well.

I really like Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, Holst's The Planets and Beethoven's 2nd movement of his 7th Symphony. Elgar's Nimrod is also pretty great.

I don't really know that much about Classical, but i like brooding, sadder sounding music, and some of these choices reflect that for me. :yes:

[Imploding Ed]

Come on man! Don't forget Tchaikovsky. Now in a handy drinkable Tchai Tea format.

[Herr Lipp]

I respect Classical music. But it's just naff, in a word. Sometimes it makes holding for someone on a phone more bearable though.

[In Dust and Ashes]

Originally posted by Imploding Ed
Come on man! Don't forget Tchaikovsky.

yes! that's the name I was looking for, but couldn't think of.

...um..do you think you could make some suggestions for him? cus I know I've heard his stuff, but I can't remember a thing about what it was. I seriously haven't listened or learned much about classical music since middle/early high school. :(

my jacket smells like smoke...

[Kris K]

I learned how to play the theme to Schindler's List on acoustic guitar recently. Nice tune.

[Nak Nak]

J.S. Bach
Vivaldi
Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky
Greig
Handel
Rachmaninov
Shostakovitch

[Imploding Ed]

Originally posted by hambakmeritru
yes! that's the name I was looking for, but couldn't think of.

...um..do you think you could make some suggestions for him? cus I know I've heard his stuff, but I can't remember a thing about what it was. I seriously haven't listened or learned much about classical music since middle/early high school. :(

my jacket smells like smoke...


The nutcracker suite is fun man. It's totally suite.
Try "Dance of the SugarPlum fairies". It'll no doubt be familiar. And it's gorgeous.

[In Dust and Ashes]

I used to have the entire ballet....
dont' anymore. :-/

what else does he do, though, cus I know theres at least one more peice of his that I used to love.

[In Dust and Ashes]

I looked up who wrote Night on Bald Mountain because it's one of my favorites (as a kid it gave me nightmares). and I found the composers picture which shall forever haunt me.

[In Dust and Ashes]

by the way, does anyone know the piece about the boy who goes on a wolf hunt with a bird and whatnot and each animal is represented by an instrument?
what is that piece? I can barely remember anything about it.

[TheImplodingVoice]

peter and the wolf by prokofiev

[In Dust and Ashes]

thanks Andres.
anything specfic you want to recomend? I'd highly appreciate your imput.

[TheImplodingVoice]

I must say that there's a tendency in this thread to treat classical music as background music. Any stuff I'd like to recommend would require atention etc. If you feel like it, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honneger, Stravinsky, Edgar Varése, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis are a good place to start.

[Kris K]

Hey Andres, who composed Spanish Romance? I think that's what it's called anyway. My guitar teacher taught me it a while back when I said I wanted to learn some classical.

[Ash]

Originally posted by ..i..
Hey Andres, who composed Spanish Romance? I think that's what it's called anyway. My guitar teacher taught me it a while back when I said I wanted to learn some classical.

Francisco Tarrega. But I could be wrong.

[In Dust and Ashes]

Originally posted by TheImplodingVoice
I must say that there's a tendency in this thread to treat classical music as background music. Any stuff I'd like to recommend would require atention etc. If you feel like it, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honneger, Stravinsky, Edgar Varése, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis are a good place to start.

I must say,I'd appreciate something that is a little more active that background music. classical music can be very powerful and exciting, but I seem to be caught in a rut of relaxing melodies for the elderly.
aside from contemporary styles such as the Trans-Siberian Orchestra or most movie soundtracks, I was looking for something that would capture me.

any specific pieces from these composers?

hey, guess what I found when looking up Peter and the Wolf! David Bowie narrated it in 1972! :) I thought that was cool. it excited me anyway.

[Nak Nak]

I wouldn't call any of my recommendations "background" music, andres.

[TheImplodingVoice]

Originally posted by Nak Nak
I wouldn't call any of my recommendations "background" music, andres.

me neither!, I was refering to fras' comment and some others

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by TheImplodingVoice
me neither!, I was refering to fras' comment and some others

[Intern Kate]

Originally posted by Imploding Ed
The nutcracker suite is fun man. It's totally suite.
Try "Dance of the SugarPlum fairies". It'll no doubt be familiar. And it's gorgeous.

i was generously given an ipod on Christmas and the Nutcracker Suite was one of the first things i put on it. today i was listening to it and got shocked, and my ipod has been frozen ever since. :D

[Intern Kate]

Originally posted by TheImplodingVoice
peter and the wolf by prokofiev

<3 my dad had my brother and i listen to this often when we were really young. i think we made up an accompanying dance routine! actually once we made up a synchronized swimming routine and brought out our grandparents to show them, but upon a spinning-dive entrance into the pool i scraped a huge chunk of skin off my knee and bled LOTS. EVERYWHERE.

[Kelly Kapowski]

Originally posted by TheImplodingVoice
I must say that there's a tendency in this thread to treat classical music as background music. Any stuff I'd like to recommend would require atention etc. If you feel like it, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honneger, Stravinsky, Edgar Varése, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis are a good place to start.
mmmmm, satie, debussy, stravinsky, so hot. I haven't heard tons of Varese, but man that certainly isn't background music :O


i quite like Bartok, George Crumb, Handel, Bach, Vivaldi...i need to learn a lot more, though.

[TheImplodingVoice]

Kate, your stories are so charming they make me tremble.
Bailey, all those guys are amazing too!

[Mark E. De Sade]

I'm listening to 'Amériques' by Varese, and trying to work, and it's doing a pretty good job at distracting me. And making me jump.