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Title: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 30, 2008, 11:05:04 AM
I cannot write without music.  Music defines words for me and for the theme of my current work, I require classical music.  And I have nothing in my limited MP3/Zune library that really falls into this category.  I'm willing to take recommendations.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Cormacaroni on August 30, 2008, 11:07:07 AM
I hear that Mozart guy is pretty good.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 30, 2008, 11:13:21 AM
Anything that rhymes with KART is probably mediocre.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Akala on August 30, 2008, 11:17:44 AM
Bach - Concerto for 2 violins. Brandenburg concertos. <3 Bach.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Cormacaroni on August 30, 2008, 11:49:09 AM
Anything that rhymes with KART is probably mediocre.

No doubt future scholars of classical music will adopt this standard. In the meantime, I will continue to recommend Mozart. Mediocrity is not commonly cited as his principal failing.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 30, 2008, 11:53:35 AM
we just had this thread like a week ago.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 30, 2008, 12:07:50 PM
Muse
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 30, 2008, 12:21:02 PM
Dvorak's 9th and his Slavic Dances.
Beethoven's 7th and moonlight sonta
Bach's Brandenburg concertos   
Tchaikovsky's piano concetos
Chopin Nocturnes
Mahler's 5th
Mozart's 39th, 40th, 41st. 

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=24136.0
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 30, 2008, 01:05:24 PM
Beethoven.  Get the complete symphonies as recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Sir Georg Solti. (http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-The-Nine-Symphonies/dp/B0000041XV/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1220115363&sr=8-1)
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Post by: BlueTsunami on August 30, 2008, 01:23:36 PM
A common suggestion and I'm sure you probably already know the song but I like his rendition of it...

Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata mvt. 1
[youtube=425,350]O6txOvK-mAk[/youtube]

All the movements rock but the first and third movement are woah, especially the third one.

also some Tchaikovsky...

Ivry Gitlis plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 3rd movt
[youtube=425,350]pfTQFMm2fyI[/youtube]

The Violin :bow
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: demi on August 30, 2008, 04:37:19 PM
Play Eternal Sonata and just pick out what sounds good

Oh and make sure nobody else is in the room with you
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Post by: Joe Molotov on August 31, 2008, 01:32:35 AM
I like Dvorak's New World Symphony.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 31, 2008, 04:47:53 PM
Some of these recommendations are great and I nabbed a few.  Is there anything like Holst's The Planets, btw (don't say John Williams).

For what I'm doing, I've really preferred Dvorak, Holst, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.  Anything similar to those guys?
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 31, 2008, 05:46:36 PM
I found Mahler's 5th a like to some of Dvoraks stuff.

Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: Lucretius on September 01, 2008, 06:57:21 AM
Some of these recommendations are great and I nabbed a few.  Is there anything like Holst's The Planets, btw (don't say John Williams).

For what I'm doing, I've really preferred Dvorak, Holst, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.  Anything similar to those guys?

Check out Erich Korngold (not to be confused with Erik Korngold, the gay pornstar with the 11" hog).  EriCH Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian Jewish composer who later immigrated to America.  He lived during the first half of the 20th century.  And is primarily famous for his violin concerto, one of his operas, and his many film scores.  Try his violin concerto (get the recording with Gil Shaham on violin if you can). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFo2unEMwUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5gOF7Yc410&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjmAb_DA-qc&feature=related

Here's a lovely aria from one of his lesser known operas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0W6fQDy6uA

Also check out Richard Strauss (not to be confused with Johann Strauss II, the famous composer of waltzes).  You've surely heard the opening of his tone poem "Also Sprach Zarathustra" which most people associate with the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.  My favorite tone poem by him is Ein Heldenleben.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2APg0fEFio

One of the most amazing moments in all music history here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pO-zbfpXKc



Hope you like.
Title: Re: Recommend me some classical music, you old farts or pretentious youngsters!
Post by: The Innocent X on September 01, 2008, 09:46:48 AM
Carmina Burana. Very Epic.