Classical music...

[Krilons Resa]

I've had a boner for a lot of classical music lately. I enjoy getting lost in the vast amounts of atmospheres, textures, and layering. I've, for the most part, been listening to Vivaldi, Holst, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. Obviously I prefer the classical music of the dark variety. Anyone else share my enthusiasm for the classics and if so, any recommendations?

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Get The Trout Quintet in A Major by Franz Schubert.

EDIT

looking back I noticed that this post was pretty gay so I deleted the gay half of it.

 

[NAD]

Bach is my favorite, the Brandenburg Concertos give me wood. Stravinsky is another of my favorites.

I don't have nearly as much classical as I should.

 

[Black Winter Day]

my favorites:

Beethoven
Mozart
Vivaldi
Carl Orff
Lully
Bach
Handel

"The Four Seasons" is still the best piece of music ever composed by mortals.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I'd have to agree 100% with you on that BWD.

 

[neal]

have you heard the Uli Jon Roth - Metamorphosis Of Vivaldi's Four Seasons album? its interesting.
-neal

 

[HarmonyDies....]

Anything Russian.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

Death and the Maiden and String Quintet in C Major by Franz Schubert.

And String Quartet No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

I forgot Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem (mainly the Dies Irae) and Finlandia by Jean Sibelius.

 

[speed]

Cant go wrong with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Firebird
Orffs Carmina Burana, Mahlers Symphony No 8
Tchaikovsky No 6
Messiaen A quartet for the end of time
Ligeti - Gawriloff- or Le Grande Danse Macabre if you like operas
Ive always found Palestrina and Hildegard VanBingen's religious choral music to be quite dark yet meditative

You know if you like dark music try Dead Can Dance, a mixture of classical, synthesizers, electronic and ethnic music.

 

[spaffe]

been listening a lot to franz scubert's "winterreise" today, seriously good stuff, only piano and a tenor. anyone else who's heard it?

 

[speed]

Well I should add Mahlers Symphony No 8- huge huge chorus, amazing.

Schoenberg: Pierot Lunairre, Five pieces for orchestra- both are quite interesting.

Bartok COncerto for Orchestra- this is what you want, if you are interested in texture.

Ive been trying to find these choral pieces written by Tchaikovsky I heard once in an Italian cathedral- they were amazing, but I am never able to find a recording. If anyone knows, please help.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

I'll add Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 (although you already know this I think BSW), and Arnold Shoenberg's Verlärte Nacht.

 

[spaffe]

Ive been trying to find these choral pieces written by Tchaikovsky I heard once in an Italian cathedral- they were amazing, but I am never able to find a recording. If anyone knows, please help.

there are some choral pieces by tchaikovsky on one of the discs on an lp-box i own, haven't listened to it yet and i guess it's not something one finds in the stores, but perhaps i could give you a title for it if that's what you're after?

 

[speed]

Yeah if you wouldnt mind Spaffe, whenever you get a chance.

I keep forgetting to find some Gorecki.

 

[spaffe]

ständchen des don juan, op.38 nr. 1
tränen fliessen, op. 6 nr. 4
währent des rauschenden festes, op. 38 nr. 3

hm, i hadn't looked at the tracklisting when i wrote the previous post, i assume the tracks are called something else entirely in russian :|

 

[FauxPerspicacity]

I second the Gorecki-Symphony no. 3 for the nth time.

Yes Bartok's Conerto for Orchestra is good and his string quartets are interesting.

Dvorak's New World Sympony

Schubert/Shostakovich-String quartets

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I checked out Gorecki symphony no.3 recently and it made me hard. I'm interested in finding some late 19th c.- early 1900s style string quartet music that is melancholic and depressive. Any recommendations?

I'll try to look into the stuff that FauxPerspicacity just listed.

 

[NAD]

the Brandenburg Concertos give me wood.

Seriously. Shit fucking rules. God damn shitwhorepisssnatchcuntlicking beeeeeyoooooooootiful music.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I had the Brandenburg Concertos awhile back but I lost the CD. (before I started listening to metal I used to listen to classical music, although not much beyond Beethoven, Schubert and Bach. Kids at school made fun of me because of this. uncultured fags.)