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Although I never purchased any classical I always like listening to some once on a while. I heard some real good piano music recently but i have no idea what it was.
Can anyone suggest some Classical that I am sure to like?

― sej, Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

It was possibly Erik Satie. You can't go wrong there - his stuff always seems to appeal to the 'modern ear'. Btw, make sure you get an album with the Gymnopedies on it.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Second the Satie rec. Have heard the Gymnopedies done w/ piano and with strings - both are wonderful, but the piano is very moving.

Other recommendations - depends on what moves you. Mozart and Faure's "Requiem" works, Barber's "Adagio for Strings", Holst's "The
Planets", Satie, Bach's cello works, Beethoven, Gorecki's 3rd - all things I'd rebuy if I lost the ones I have.

Are you American? If so, join the BMG Classical Music Club. They have a "Get 12 for the Price of 1" - years ago, when it was 9 for 1, I joined from multiple family addresses, and with advice from mom, amassed a decent collection quickly. There's an Erik Satie "greatest hits" disc right there on the first page. Would assume there's a BMG branch/variant in the UK/Europe, too - not to be Ameri-centric.

You could also go on AllMusic and see who they namedrop in Satie reviews, and move on from there. The library's a good source for audio browsing.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

Franz Schubert's Impromptus are great: deceptively simple, deeply moving pieces of piano music. Maria João Pires has done a great job performing them on this album.

― willem (willem), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'll wave a flag for Arvo Part's Tabla Rasa and Alina. Hypnotic, austere, beautiful.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 15 April 2004 14:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

indie types tend to like arvo part and satie (not basing this on what's written above, just tends to be the case in my experience) -- make of this what you will. i'm ok with both but would ditch them in a second for any of the beethoven concerti, tchaikovsky concerti, or chopin's nocturnes or etudes or almost anything else he wrote.

rachmaninoff's 3 concerti are also extremely popular.

― common_person, Thursday, 15 April 2004 15:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

if you like satie, check out debussy

― common_person, Thursday, 15 April 2004 15:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

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― ..., Thursday, 15 April 2004 15:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

Satie's probably your man but here's some other things you might like:
Chopin's 'Etudes'
Dvorák's 'Slavonic Dances'
Schuman's 'Carnevale'
Saint_Saens' 'Carnival of the Animals'
de Falla's 'Three Cornered Hat'
Scriabin
Liszt 'Les Préludes', 'Hungarian Fantasy'

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 15 April 2004 15:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

if you like satie, check out debussy

Also, in the same vein: Poulenc & Faure. It's true what you say about indie types...maybe it works as follows: Indie=Satie, Rock=Beethoven...Dance=Tchaikovsky ;-)

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 16 April 2004 06:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

Have you ever heard anby of Ludovico Eunaudi?
he has a websute at
http://www.ludovicoeinaudi.com
Also I disovered a very young composer who plays a cross between Eunidi and Michael |Nyman at http://www.joshwiniberg.com
Hope ths helps youin your quest.

― Simon B, Friday, 16 April 2004 08:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

liszt = guitar god devotees
mahler = stadium rockers
italian opera = hair metal (!)

obv this is so very wrong

― common_person, Friday, 16 April 2004 14:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

also in a somewhat similar vein to debussy, et al. is ravel (natch). more modern and experimental. probably my fav out of the group, maybe out of all french composers.

― common_person, Friday, 16 April 2004 14:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5201584.ece

Gramophone critic survey produces Best Orchestras list

― gabbneb, Monday, 24 November 2008 19:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

The poll was... limited to modern romantic orchestras (so period bands such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment did not get a look in).

Exactly why this list is crap, cos at least half if not more of the whole classical repertoire is unfit to be performed by most of the orchs listed. Why give the impression that so much music doesn't matter?It's like listing the best jazz combos around today and not including anyone who doesn't have a synth player or electric instruments.

― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Monday, 24 November 2008 20:06 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
3 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
4 London Symphony Orchestra
5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6 Bavarian Radio Symphony
7 Cleveland Orchestra
8 Los Angeles Philharmonic
9 Budapest Festival Orchestra
10 Dresden Staatskapelle
11 Boston Symphony Orchestra
12 New York Philharmonic
13 San Francisco Symphony
14 Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
15 Russian National Orchestra
16 Leningrad Philharmonic
17 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
18 Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
19 Saito Kinen Symphony Orchestra
20 Czech Philharmonic

From what I know, this seems about right. A little surprised that Chicago beat out Cleveland, but other than that...

― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 24 November 2008 20:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

lololol. what a weird dude.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 12 June 2009 19:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

okay, i am pondering buying David Lang's 'Little Match Girl' thing, because even tho it is super-hyped etc., i am kind of in love with it after hearing it a couple weeks ago. worth it? $9 for the album.

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 01:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

What about Lully's Dies Irae

and Telemann's Don Quichotte?
(Telemann - Don Quichotte II)

Very fine music!

― ria zifkamp, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Does anyone else use the Ulysses' Classical App in Spotify?

It's basically like a blog that updates with big classical playlists...but it's kinda crazy, right now i'm listening to one that is EVERY mozart composition in chronological order.

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

Skip ahead to the K200s IMO.

― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

Paul Kroogman on why Arcade Fire is the new Classical Music:

Some commenters mentioned the passing of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who brought lieder to a wide audience (and my mother was a Fischer-Dieskau fanatic!); listen to Feist for a while, and you’ll realize that what she’s writing are art songs, in some sense very much in the same tradition. Arcade Fire are basically intellectual art-school types whose natural habitat is recitals in someone’s loft; if their collective genius turns that sensibility into anthems and laments that can fill arenas, all the better.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/musical-meta-self-indulgent/

― o. nate, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

rmde

― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

also WAHT DF-D died? That is huge

― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

I know! I looked for a RIP thread but didn't see one.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

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