Give me classical music tips

[Krilons Resa]

Bela Bartok's String Quartets =

 

[Dev]

Shostakovich is the most metal composer. 4th and 8th Symphonies are masterpieces

 

[Dev]

I like Mozart's violin concerti (especially no.4 & 5), other good violin pieces to recommand ? I also love Bach's sonatas and partitas.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Check out George Enescu.

 

[Dev]

Got it.

 

[lurch70]

So I have a question for those of you well versed in classical music.

Why is it that for hundreds of years all we get is "cover versions" of the classics?
Has anything new come out in the last, i don't know, decade ... that's worth hearing? original compositions?

had some interesting conversation with someone that follows this stuff and they could not gey a straight answer besides the fact that, today's composers are just "not great".

it seems weird that world renowned names strive to be at best imitators.

 

[Ellestin]

There are A LOT of great composers in the present time (Thomas Ades, Pascal Dusapin, Arvo Pärt come to mind) but their work is less exposed to the public eye due to being less "listener-friendly" than the classics of centuries past. Also it is much, much easier for musicians, directors, labels etc. to get successful with the big names and/or big schools for obvious reasons. Well that's not quite true of Arvo Pärt who is extremely successful.
Keep in mind that recording Mozart's Requiem of Bach's Cantatas for the billionth time is not merely doing a "cover version", but entails (for anyone seriously involved anyway) huge upstream work in musical research, interpretation of the scores, planification, rehearsal, etc. Even the most famous stuff is still open for debate and fresh rendering. None of the old works is set in stone, every one of them keeps moving with the times.

Take these two versions of the Summer, both are true to Vivaldi's writing and notes, but they are almost two different pieces...



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-MIDDfckw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-MIDDfckw[/ame]

 

[dorian gray]

So I have a question for those of you well versed in classical music.

Why is it that for hundreds of years all we get is "cover versions" of the classics?
etc
etc

These have been my thoughts also, for quite some time

 

[lurch70]

entails (for anyone seriously involved anyway) huge upstream work in musical research, interpretation of the scores, planification, rehearsal, etc. Even the most famous stuff is still open for debate and fresh rendering. None of the old works is set in stone, every one of them keeps moving with the times.

ok, but why don't they take the same effort and write their own pieces? I mean we are not talking about the Iron Maidens caliber talent here?

 

[Krilons Resa]

http://www.talkclassical.com/11639-contemporary-composers-their-prime.html

 

[dorian gray]

I would think being really good at something extremely difficult like the stringed instruments or what-have-you would translate well to playing guitar haha
Seriously, how come not even a handful of these overeducated nerds aren't shredding like Jeff Loomis?

 

[dorian gray]

http://www.talkclassical.com/11639-contemporary-composers-their-prime.html

that post about the CD format fading away depressed me

 

[Krilons Resa]

that post about the CD format fading away depressed me

Ditto.

 

[lurch70]

http://www.talkclassical.com/11639-contemporary-composers-their-prime.html

thanks Classifer ...
are any of those worth seeking out?

 

[dorian gray]

Classifer haha

 

[Dick Sirloin]

What classifies something as being "classical" in the modern era? That it requires a traditional orchestra? A score?

 

[Ellestin]

insofar as "classical music" per se refers to the period between baroque music (rougly, after Bach) and romantic music (roughly, from Beethoven onwards), I really have no idea.

(I'd say a score, though, and being studied at the conservatoire)

 

[lurch70]

a client hooked me up with tickets to this on NYD

http://www.lincolncenter.org/show_events_list.asp?eventcode=26152

actually looking forward to it ...

 

[la666]

These are pretty intense and metal classical pieces:





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[dorian gray]

^Jerry fake account?