hey all, recommend me some of your favorite composers, pianists and some great pieces. I like stuff with high energy, catchy melodies and that are "moving", can be classical or modern, thanks!
recommend pianists or composers
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Glenn Gould is my favorite classical pianist.
Composers Avant Gard try Ligeti, Messaien, Stockhausen, Arvo Part.
I enjoy Tchaichovsky, Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Pachelbel, Palestrina, Stravinsky, Holst.
I really am enjoying Mahlers Symphony No 8 (or symphony of a thousand) at present.
Composers Avant Gard try Ligeti, Messaien, Stockhausen, Arvo Part.
I enjoy Tchaichovsky, Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Pachelbel, Palestrina, Stravinsky, Holst.
I really am enjoying Mahlers Symphony No 8 (or symphony of a thousand) at present.
Griff7272
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go check out J.S. Bach's organ works. They were written to be played in church, but they sound so damn evil.
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Beethoven- Symphonies 5 and 9
Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique
Schumann- Symphonies 1 and 3, concerto for piano
Borodin- String quartet #2, symphony 2
JS Bach- Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ
Dvorak- Symphonies 8 and 9, concerto for cello
Mendelssohn- Symphony 4
R. Strauss- Also Sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel
Mussorgsky- Pictures at an Exhibition
Bruckner- Symphony 9
Sibelius- Finlandia, Symphony 2
Holst- Rig Veda
Wagner- Der Ring des Nibelungen
Vivaldi- Four Seasons
Haydn- Symphonies 94 and 101
Schubert- Symphony 9
Brahms- Symphonies 1, 3, 4 and Piano Concerto 2
Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique
Schumann- Symphonies 1 and 3, concerto for piano
Borodin- String quartet #2, symphony 2
JS Bach- Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ
Dvorak- Symphonies 8 and 9, concerto for cello
Mendelssohn- Symphony 4
R. Strauss- Also Sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel
Mussorgsky- Pictures at an Exhibition
Bruckner- Symphony 9
Sibelius- Finlandia, Symphony 2
Holst- Rig Veda
Wagner- Der Ring des Nibelungen
Vivaldi- Four Seasons
Haydn- Symphonies 94 and 101
Schubert- Symphony 9
Brahms- Symphonies 1, 3, 4 and Piano Concerto 2
Demiurge
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This is a good site. Sign up for their mailing list and you'll be given access to lots of music.
http://www.naxos.com/naxos/naxos_marco_polo.htm
http://www.naxos.com/naxos/naxos_marco_polo.htm
anonymousnick2001
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Whew. Good list. I'll just add a few.Demiurge said:
JS Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites
Holst - The Planets
Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Overture
Gershwin - Summertime, Rhapsody In Blue
Copland - Rodeo, Appalachian Spring
Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring, Petrushka, The Firebird Suite [NOTE: Beware. Lots of dissonance, so the melodies are hard to pick out.]
Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre
Mahler - Symphonies 5 and 8
Debussy - La Mer
Episteme
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Iannis Xenakis - Orestaiea
It's the only CD off him I got, and it's pretty good. It's supposed to be the soundtrack of a Greek play. He worked with Messiaen at some point in time. He dabbles around with electronics and other unconventional sounds while using calculus and probability to compose some tunes.
Arnold Schoenberg - Op 11, Op 19, Op 33a and 33b, Op 23, Op 25
This is really dissonant music. Weird chords all over the place and no real key being presented in the pieces. Schoenberg used dodecatonism, which he makes use of all 12 notes of the Western Chromatic Scale. Try it, it may not be the catchiest classical music you'll ever listen to but it's still good stuff.
It's the only CD off him I got, and it's pretty good. It's supposed to be the soundtrack of a Greek play. He worked with Messiaen at some point in time. He dabbles around with electronics and other unconventional sounds while using calculus and probability to compose some tunes.
Arnold Schoenberg - Op 11, Op 19, Op 33a and 33b, Op 23, Op 25
This is really dissonant music. Weird chords all over the place and no real key being presented in the pieces. Schoenberg used dodecatonism, which he makes use of all 12 notes of the Western Chromatic Scale. Try it, it may not be the catchiest classical music you'll ever listen to but it's still good stuff.
DiscipleOfPlato
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It doesn't seem like there's anything I can contribute that hasn't already been mentioned. These lists are more than comprehensive.
Still, I would like to second J.S. Bach's "Toccata & Fugue in D minor," and would also like to recommend Bach's "Triosonate in E flat major."
Beyond that, Mozart's "Requiem," and Beethoven's "9th Symphony."
In regards to the avantgarde variety, I would STRONGLY recommend Stockhausen's work.
Still, I would like to second J.S. Bach's "Toccata & Fugue in D minor," and would also like to recommend Bach's "Triosonate in E flat major."
Beyond that, Mozart's "Requiem," and Beethoven's "9th Symphony."
In regards to the avantgarde variety, I would STRONGLY recommend Stockhausen's work.
anonymousnick2001
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Schoenberg is awesome. Totally dissonant, yet strangely musical. People need to continue fooling with serialism to see if tonality can be alluded to as an aural illusion within the 12-tone atonal insanity.xxChaoticManifestoxx said:
MightyDrynwhyl
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Brahms' "A German Requiem" hasn't been recommended yet, surprisingly. The first movement is probably the most moving piece of music I've ever heard.
DE
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Int said:
Yep, good ol' Nikolai.
Russian classical music > *
Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Mussorsky etc etc.
Anonymousnick: isn't it "A Night on a Bare Mountain"? Tis what I've always heard it as anyroad.
DE
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http://grotesmurf.madscience.nl/music/kaleberg.htmDarkness Eternal said:
I love MIDIs.
I can't remember if it's "bald" or "bare". They both appear to be used virtually everywhere.
