Classical Music

[white0walls]

anyone here enjoy classical music?

 

[hyprstorm]

i enjoy it, but i don't listen to it on the daily. I try and attend all the local orchestra events though.

 

[white0walls]

i enjoy it, but i don't listen to it on the daily. I try and attend all the local orchestra events though.

It's my go-to most of the time. I've been to a couple live concerts, but should probably try to attend more

 

[hyprstorm]

It's my go-to most of the time. I've been to a couple live concerts, but should probably try to attend more

for me, seeing a piece performed live is way better than just listening to it, so I always try and attend the local orchestra events. I had a yearly pass that let me attend all events up until recently, and now I just buy the individual tickets. but yeah, seeing it in-person is awesome.

 

[Kolph]

anyone here enjoy classical music?

No, fuck you

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Finally, a based thread.

I love classical musical. My favorite composer has to be Tchaikovsky, particularly his Marche Slave in B flat minor. I'm also a fan of Swan Lake and the traditional Ruskie ballet rendition. Franz Schubert's composition for Erlkonig really set my heart a blaze as a kid and I really love Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition (though he has a few pieces of particularly based work). I guess you could say I love Russian compositions a bit. Russian and Eastern European composers tend to use quite a bit of Brass compared to Western composers and I love the deep, powerful feel that brass adds as an undertone to the heavy strings typically found in Russian compositions too.

 

[Kolph]

I actually like classical music, I'm just being a cunt

 

[Moon-Watcher777]

anyone here enjoy classical music?

Absolutely love it. Sometimes I have a deep longing for something truly beautiful that only the classics can fill. Lately I have been listening to historic catholic choir hymns.

Pure Bliss.


View: https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0

 

[Hraelth]

I like the Baroque era the most. Bach is probably my favorite, but his teacher Pachelbel is really good too.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5VT9Dmsg8

 

[illautomatic]

Yes. For a couple of years in my 20s, it was essentially all I listened to. I was dating a girl in college that was studying piano at music school. I had never really been exposed to it growing up or in school, and she blew my mind wide open. Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Dvorak, Haydn, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Strauss, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Boulez, Elgar, Verdi, Wagner, de Falla, on and on and on. Couldn't get enough of it.

Here's some favorites:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x90mixfpMw



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFpfFsbshk



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMYUEvu5jzA



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fle2CP8gR0



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L47SRue0gt8

 

[white0walls]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJoB7y6Ncs


not really into the dancing, but ballet music is very nice

 

[Lemonade]

I've only really listened to Debussy tbh
and some Ravel

 

[footcut]

Open ended question: what does classical do better for you than other genres?

 

[0ur0b0r0s]

Finally, a based thread.

I love classical musical. My favorite composer has to be Tchaikovsky, particularly his Marche Slave in B flat minor. I'm also a fan of Swan Lake and the traditional Ruskie ballet rendition. Franz Schubert's composition for Erlkonig really set my heart a blaze as a kid and I really love Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition (though he has a few pieces of particularly based work). I guess you could say I love Russian compositions a bit. Russian and Eastern European composers tend to use quite a bit of Brass compared to Western composers and I love the deep, powerful feel that brass adds as an undertone to the heavy strings typically found in Russian compositions too.

I have been on a Tchaikovsky binge these past few months. Particularly his ballet suites. Definitely more brassy.

I usually listen to Beethoven and Mozart, and more usually their sonatas, but also other composers to a lesser extent (I like Liszt, Debussy). Bach's really good for non-sonata stuff, i.e. choir, organ, etc.

 

[shinobu]

Open ended question: what does classical do better for you than other genres?

I listen to a lot of classical (mostly piano works from Liszt, Czerny, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Rautavaara, etc., and some orchestral/ensemble works like Mussorgsky, Bartok and Jean Huré) but within classical there's the genre I like the most which is 18th century counterpoint as perfected by Bach. Specifically fugues, which are pieces of music in which 2 to 6 parts play individual melodies (there's no "left hand plays chord and right hand plays the melody"-type of things here) and they all have an interplay of harmony that can get really intense (specially when you get to a stretto part, where the main subject is played by overlapping voices).
Some modern composers use elements of counterpoint in their composition but almost none apply it as well and as naturally as Bach, so that's where you gotta go to get your fix.

Some examples of the good stuff are:
* BWV 1080 The art of fugue
* BWV 1079 The musical offering
* BWV 846–893 The Well-tempered clavier books 1 and 2
* BWV 903, BWV 542, BWV 578

 

[Caspar]

Personally, I really enjoy Dvorak, Brahms, Beethoven, Bruckner, Debussy, Wagner, and Mahler. I enjoy tidbits from other composers like Rossini, Arthur Duff, Karłowicz, Lyapunov, Strauss, and some others I'm probably not remembering right now. Perhaps funnily enough, a lot of new compositions and composers came to my attention thanks to 'Legend of the Galactic Heroes'.

Finally, a based thread.

I love classical musical. My favorite composer has to be Tchaikovsky, particularly his Marche Slave in B flat minor. I'm also a fan of Swan Lake and the traditional Ruskie ballet rendition. Franz Schubert's composition for Erlkonig really set my heart a blaze as a kid and I really love Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition (though he has a few pieces of particularly based work). I guess you could say I love Russian compositions a bit. Russian and Eastern European composers tend to use quite a bit of Brass compared to Western composers and I love the deep, powerful feel that brass adds as an undertone to the heavy strings typically found in Russian compositions too.

Have you ever listened to Sergey Lyapunov? I really enjoy his Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes. Karłowicz's Lithuanian Rhapsody and Rebirth Symphony are also quite something.

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Have you ever listened to Sergey Lyapunov? I really enjoy his Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes. Karłowicz's Lithuanian Rhapsody and Rebirth Symphony are also quite something.

I haven't (as far as I'm aware. Local radio station plays classical), but thank you for the recommendations! I'll have to give them a listen sometime.

 

[AllNightNippon]

I'm not sure if they necessarily count as classical, but I really love Frank Zappa's orchestral works.

View: https://youtu.be/LQgEj66WGaY

 

[I-330]

Not sure if it's old enough to be considered classical, but I love the works of Prokofiev. His music feels so powerful and emotional with classics like the Romeo and Juliet Ballet, Peter and the Wolf March, and my personal favorite Dance of the Knights.
I also really enjoy Vivaldi's 4 seasons, I often listen to the compositions while studying.

 

[jaedaen]

Oh hell yeah. This is my kind of thread. My dad got me in to it, he was in to classical since the 70s, he was an OG nerd for sure. I remember one time we were listening to classical radio and he couldn't place Beethoven's 7th and got embarrassed. I played 1st violin all through elementary to high school in orchestra. We played some awesome shit in high school, like this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRiLKSPbqc


and this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jOPAGJq-M


And other true notables that my old ass brain can't remember at the moment.


I took a couple of years of piano as well from a former student of this guy (Lev Oborin) who won the first Chopin competition in 1927. This is the best rendition of Chopin's Waltz in C Sharp Minor I've ever heard for sure. Too bad the quality is so poor. You can listen to my drunk ramblings on his interpretation of this piece in the comments there lol:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOj1iko5ak


They're not always classical sounding, but I also do orchestral remixes of video game music as well on my youtube channel (a few violin covers as well, though my skills have significantly deteriorated in 20 years). I have all of 37 subscribers so you know I'm ballin. This one is pretty popular, relative to my eternal obscurity:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6JXw_2CKE