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General Category => Music => Topic started by: tarascon on January 17, 2013, 10:28:05 PM
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Post "classical" music favs here--anything from Medieval to 20th century avant garde. This is not limited to Western European "classical."
Anton Webern. Piano Variations, op 27.3
La Monte Young. The Well Tuned Piano
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I completely missed this thread?
I used to listen to classical as a kid, and again when I studied the Piano (not very successfully) as it helped to understand structure. I didn't really have favourites though as I tried to be as varied as possible with what I listened to.
That said, I cannot help feeling a great reverence for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, but then, who wouldn't?
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Thanks for posting! I figured this was a dead, dead, dead thread. :)
Erik Satie ~ Gnossiennes
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Another piece that I tended to be drawn to when putting something classical on, was Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17:
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Here's something for you young people to get your learning in.
What a loss. At least through the magic of youtube, I can see what I've missed. I never had the chance to see him play live.
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Classical Persian music by the Mehr Ensemble - Torino
Which had influenced the European Troubadours.
Listen to the first track (by Anon).
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Here's something for you young people to get your learning in.
What a loss. At least through the magic of youtube, I can see what I've missed. I never had the chance to see him play live.
;) :)
What can I say about the next one, really. It does things to my soul that I can put in words.
If you don't have time to watch/hear all of the next then skip to minute 2:50. I promise you won't regret.
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I've enjoyed classical music for a while, just never really bothered to delve deep into it. This little clip did have a big influence on my music though.
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When the world seems like an ugly place, it's good to remember that we are also capable of great beauty:
Richard Strauss - Im Abendrot from Vier Letzte Lieder
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Thanks for posting! I figured this was a dead, dead, dead thread. :)
Gonna commit the sin of double-posting just to jump-start this thread. :o
Olivier Messiaen: Oraison (1937)
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Elliott Carter: Enchanted Preludes
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Max Reger (Variations and Fugue in A Major on a theme by Mozart)
I bought this on vinyl when I was about 12.
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Gonna commit the sin of double-posting just to jump-start this thread. :o
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