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Originally posted by Trancefxs Not a classic music listener, however some of my favourite films soundtracks include recent interpretation of classical music, check the OST of Oldboy (Yeon Wook Jo, film directed by Park Chan Wook),

Brillant soundtrack

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Ok, I'm looking to expand my collection again. I've picked up a fair amount of Mahler, Bach, Copeland, Rachmaninoff and Glass since last posting. With the Mahler (particularly "Das Lied von der Erde") I've started to get into a little bit of operatic choral stuff as well, so those suggestions are welcome too.

Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 [Sample]

Debussy - "La Mer" [Sample]

You can hardly go wrong with Debussy. Pretty much everything he wrote is beautiful, at least what I've listened to (quite a bit) -- although some of the piano works are a little hard to get into at first.

Schoenberg - Verkl�rte Nacht [Sample]

Ravel - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte [Sample]

Ravel - String Quartet in F [Sample]

Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No. 2 [Sample]

If you like Romantic-era piano, Chopin is the guy to check out. Try getting a set of the Nocturnes. I think pretty much everybody enjoys those.

If you're into more modern stuff as well, you could try Milhaud's chamber music. [Sample]

Also, if you don't yet have Beethoven's Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth symphonies, you should get those (if not a full set of the symphonies). No classical music collection is complete without them.



So much to explore.

Lately... I've been really enjoying Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It is a suite of English choral works.

Otherwise, I've also been hitting piano works pretty hard; mostly pieces by Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

It's really too bad that Vivaldi has become so uniformly identified with the Four Seasons, because he has literally hundreds of other wonderful symphonic and choral pieces. If you enjoy Bach, it's worth it to explore Vivaldi. I think I could spend a few years, since I've only heard a fraction of his sum output.

(Alternatively, if you don't like Baroque, you may agree with a popular quote to the effect that "Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote the same concerto 400 times")

Haha, yeah Baroque isn't exactly my favorite. I don't have a real specific period preference, though there are a few composers that I do indeed enjoy.

Thanks for all of the suggestions in this thread! It's giving me a lot of samples to track down and listen to before my next library/iTunes visit.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 [Sample]

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Originally posted by Arraias

+2

i like debussy, i find him quite easy to ge into. most people would know clair de lune in particular (with it's being in oceans eleven at least). la mer in it's whole form is fucking gorgeous, same goes for Nocturnes. Pr�lude � l'apr�s-midi d'un faune is another masterpiece

and of course, you can never go wrong with phillip glass, koyonaqatsi floored me the first time i saw it.

for people who like the pianodriven compositions, satie would be another good example since he also has a couple of big 'hits'

I saw that Bart�k had gotten no mention in this thread, so I will plug his piano concertos that I finally listened to today:

http://www.amazon.com/Bartok-The-Pi...s/dp/B0006OS5YS

If you like composers who can play around with rhythm and keys in surprising ways, you might enjoy a lot of Bart�k's works.

I really enjoy the classical pieces that Oakenfold uses in his 94 Goa Essential Mix and Perfecto Fluoro mix... might want to check them out. If anyone has any suggestions similar to the classical artists featured in these mixes I'd appreciate any help

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I might as well list some of my favorites from the mixes

Wojciech Kilar - Love Remembered
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Little Buddha
Eric Serra - Cute Name
Zbigniew Preisner - Craven Leaves

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'm a big fan of Holst's Planet Suite. I'm not exactly an expert at classical, but that's probably my favourite classical "album".

WIN WIN WIN!!!

Holst was a genius at his craft.

Also, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D Major is ASTOUNDING! Seriously, go torrent that shit right now or something. I'll try and dig up the link where I got mine from.

I've been listening to this mixtape a lot lately:

http://www.discogs.com/groups/topic/146654

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1. Intro � includes segments from Beautumn � Blanket & Sigur Ros � Gong 2. Dustin O'Halloran - Opus 37 3. Aram Khachaturian - Gayane Ballet Suite 4. Angelo Badalamenti - Final Miles 5. Roger Eno - Elevation 6. Clint Mansell - Together We Will Live Forever 7. Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No 3 - II Lento E Largo - Tranquillissimo 8. David Darling - Beginning 9. Rachel's - Egon & Gertie 10. John Tavener - Fragments of a Prayer 11. Slowblow � Elegy 12. 12 Monkeys OST - Dreamers Awake 13. Sylvain Chauveau � Blanc 14. Steve Baker & Carmen Dave - For Whom the Bell Tolls 15. Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 16. Little Buddha OST � Evan�s Funeral 17. Talkdemonic - Veraison 18. Goldmund - Unbraiding the Sun 19. The Album Leaf � The Light

Any more recommendations like this ^ would be very welcome!

I also recently discovered Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks as well, but I must admit I haven't given it a good listen yet. Don't know if it completely fits the classical label, but a quick listen gave me the idea it might be liked by some of you nonetheless.

I've also been really enjoying an album of Final Fantasy music interpretted by Tour de Japon in concert. Original songs are composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

ahahaha HELL YEAH!

Final Fantasy has some of THE best music I've ever heard. There are some songs in Final Fantasy IX that basically define my life. Shit's too good!

I still have to check out some of the names mentioned here, but in the meantime I've given Divenire from Ludovico Einaudi a few listens. Very good album if you ask me.. Exactly the kind of classical I seem to like.

I couldn't really get into the Philip Glass stuff though, but it seems like I'm pretty much the only one.

Lately I've been very interested in the works of Gyorgy Ligeti, the guy in my avatar.

Ligeti was born in 1923 and died almost exactly three years ago in 2006. A lot of his work is very "modern" in the sense of departing from traditional sense of tonality and experimenting with instrumentation and form, although he wasn't doctrinaire "atonal" or "serialist" either, which means that his works often aren't quite as dense or difficult to approach as some other modern composers.

If you've seen the Stanley Kubrick films 2001, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Shut, you'll have heard some of his more famous pieces like "Lux Aeterna" (the choral piece from 2001), "Atmospheres," and "Musica Ricerta" (the unsettling piano piece in Eyes Wide Shut). I already had some of his piano music, but yesterday I ordered this box set from Amazon. Five CDs worth of Ligeti at $35, not bad at all.



Speaking of The Shining, someone on YouTube put up a performance of an amazing Bartok piece used a lot in that movie, the "Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfdubIhGqLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK4Y...re=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeKW...re=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7z...re=channel_page

Here's a fun piano piece by Ligeti, "L'escalier du Diable" ("The Devil's Staircase"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OxiM9ramHM

And here's the spooky "Atmospheres," featured in the opening of Kubrick's 2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXh07JJeA28

I really enjoy the early 20th century stuff.

Khachaturian
Kabalevsky
Bartok
Rachmaninoff
Debussy

Many of these have the repetition/hypnotic feel heard in tracks.

Romantic period is good too.

Chopin
Schubert
Schumann

This works for me since I enjoy warm deep house sounds.

If you're into music theory or a math type, then Bach is great. I've started to appreciate his music more and more after learning more about theory and you really begin to see genius behind his work.

Do many of you guys like opera? I've never been able to get into it because the style of singing strikes me as annoying and kind of absurd, with all the vibrato and drama. It's a shame, because there's some really beautiful music written for opera. I just can't get past the singing style, though. Like in the prelude to Wagner's Ring Cycle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiyoLa9z1ao&fmt=18

For me the music is so beautiful right up until the moment the singers burst in. Who knows, maybe I would change my mind about opera if I were ever to see some of it live or force myself to listen to an entire performance rather than just bits and pieces once in a while.

I'll second Pictures at an Exhibition, which I strangely also played on alto sax in my orchestra. Crank it for the Great Gate of Kiev.

In general I think that stuff from 1880 and on is probably more immediately enjoyable to someone who doesn't know too much about classical music. There were a group of composers called "The Five" (of which Mussorgsky was 20%) who I really enjoy.

Wikipedia solves my potential spelling holocaust:

Mily Balakirev (the leader), C�sar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Darius Milhaud

He's from my hometown, we have a lyrical festival where I've listened to almost all of his works. It's really incredible.

I love solo piano pieces.

Brian Crain he is great...if anyone know any similar sound. let me know thanks. and also Yiruma is good too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT9mGDlRjOA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_ebSseEq8

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Originally posted by dslim04 I love solo piano pieces. Brian Crain he is great...if anyone know any similar sound. let me know thanks. and also Yiruma is good too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT9mGDlRjOA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_ebSseEq8

Stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkzyyv0DuA

you mean?

moonlight sonata(3rd movement) 1st and 2nd good also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5D...feature=related

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