an attempt at a general "What are you currently digging re. classical music" thread

stockhausen

i should also say that number two on the list of classical that people who don't buy classical buy would be anything by glenn gould.

Rhapsody in Blue

Carmina Burana?

John Adams?

Gilbert and Sullivan?

Bach

haha! oh man if i could unload some gilbert & sullivan box-sets i would be a happy guy.

i wish it were bach too. i got so much great bach.

i assumed Sideshow Bob was representative

it's andré boucourechliev isn't it?

What's Lang Lang's latest? Are the Three Tenors still selling well?

scott said composer tho

Cage

Sousa

Got confused when he said second place was Glenn Gould.

John Williams

I mean, someone has to guess Beethoven or Mozart, right?

i can't work out if the answer is gonna be surprisingly kitsch or surprisingly modernist

it's satie

That would've been one of my guesses after flipping through my book of wedding piano music.

Rachmaninoff or Chopin

"it's satie"

bingo! winner by a mile.

Hah, and I'm sure they all only listen to that one thing, too.

there's a couple that people recognise i think

Bizarre.

Hah, and I'm sure they all only listen to that one thing, too.

― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:45 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bet they probably don't listen to it at all

satie and glenn gould, shit i'm that customer

"Well, it's not meat but I suppose I better buy some for appearances."

i think as a precursor of ambient music and huge film/TV earworm people might be able to handle listening to the rugged stylings of "Trois Gymnopedes"

OH GOD WHAT IS THIS SHIT TURN IT OFF I THOUGHT IT WOULD ROCK MORE

guys

IF IT FLOATES, WE KNOAWE IT'S A HIPSTERE

*wonders if xenakis is #3*

annnd i'm sorry for running in on that note, i love this thread but i never have anything to contribute. *sidesteps off*

Ha, I always thought of Satie as 'classical music for people who don't listen to classical music'.

satiesque is one of the worst reviewer-speak for "tinkly major key piano music" but none of the assholes writing "satiesque" music would've written something as weird as the "3 sonneries de la rose-croix"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOGPcD2A9g

one of the worst reviewer-speak buzzwords* rather

hating on people for wanting to hear some classical music they enjoyed in a movie is kinda the worst caricature of the classical music listener - I don't listen to lots of Satie but c'mon y'all drop the snob act, it's a bad look

i like when someone buys ANY classical. i ain't no snob. still think i should give out a free classical album with every purchase. but i don't even know if people would take them for free! i mean i sell classical but 99.9% goes to classical people. i'm always amazed by the lack of crossover. despite being a rockhead i ALWAYS bought classical records at thrift stores and elsewhere. for decades. and apparently this is really not that common. it really is a rarefied audience. in this case meaning the audience is rare to find. which isn't the meaning of rarefied at all.

Who was being snobby about Satie?? I like Satie fine. My comment wasn't a putdown.

yeah i don't think anybody here said otherwise?

I admit I intended my wedding piano music book to be a little bit snobbish.

i sell classical but 99.9% goes to classical people. i'm always amazed by the lack of crossover. despite being a rockhead i ALWAYS bought classical records at thrift stores and elsewhere. for decades. and apparently this is really not that common.

To generalize: much classical music, especially common practice repertoire, would seem to work pretty differently from pop/rock and emphasizes a different mode of listening from that used for music with relatively flat dynamics, a steady rhythm section, repeated cyclic chord progressions, and riff/motive-based melody. (Sure, CPP music works with motives but often does so in a different way, emphasizing e.g. transformation and development.) Many pop/rock listeners might not be in the habit of listening for the large-scale formal issues and developmental processes we find in CPP music? Satie's big 'hits', on the other hand, do work pretty similarly to how pop works!

Jazz is much closer to pop/rock in many ways.

classical might share an intimidation factor with jazz. like, where do you start? i have definitely had people ask me to recommend some jazz to them cuz they had no idea what was good/what they would like/etc. which is hard! a lot of people start with miles davis and never go on from there. i don't know what i would give people in the way of classical. to start with. maybe bach is the way to go. or come to think of it just some nice piano music! some debussy maybe. then i'd tell them that miles davis was a big debussy fan and sell them some miles davis.

And then you can sell them some Gil Evans, and then you can tell them how Gil was a big Delius fan, and then you can sell them some Delius!

Today is Kalevala Day so please listen to Kullervo or Pohjola's Daughter or something!

As if you people needed to be told!

I did need to be told! I'll be spinning Sibelius' 4 Legends (the Horst stein recording) and Amorphis' Silent Waters!

Good choices. You can stare at stuff like this at the same time: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Gallen_Kallela_The_Aino_Triptych.jpg

I adore Gallen-Kallela. Someday I'ma make it over there and get me an eyeful of him first-hand.