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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: sigtau on October 25, 2012, 12:48:10 am
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Dear Hard-Light, what's your favorite non-contemporary and non-film soundtrack music?
(Piano whore coming through, beware!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsGh2xYYQg - Pavane, op. 50, by Gabriel Faure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DBoiyBoJ8 - Trois Gymnopédies, by Erik Satie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4 - Allegreto (7th Symphony), 2nd Movement, by Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dPDO3Tfab0 - Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber
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if there's no guitar, it's not music.
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if there's no guitar, it's not music.
(http://www.viralchart.ru/Images1/Images/TITS_or_GTFO/15.jpg)
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dvorak's 9th
music to start a dictatorship to
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devorak's 9th
music to start a dictatorship to
Indeed. The fourth movement kicks so much ass...and happens to be one of the comparative few classical pieces I'm actually familiar with. :p
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Raindrop Prelude, Op 28, No. 15 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFHXmiZP38) - Frederic Chopin
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HQyXWkABo0) - Camille Saint-Saens (<3 Saint-Saens)
9th Symphony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI) (yes the whole thing) - Ludwig van Beethoven
The Great Gate of Kiev (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwrqAipON2w) - Modest Mussorgsky
O Fortuna, from Carmina Burana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiyKgeGWx0) - Carl Orff
Rhapsody in Blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSq_nwoG43s) - George Gershwin
That should do it for now. This thread makes me happy :D
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Youtube is acting up for me so I'll try post links later.
The Four Seasons, Winter - Antonio Vivaldi (Everyone I know seems to prefer Spring)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (unfortunately no recording can do this song justice. You really need to FEEL the notes. :D)
Habanera from Carmen - Georges Bizet
Rondo Alla Turca - Mozart
Libiamo from La Traviata - Verdi
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Oh man, where do I start... where do I start...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU - Moonlight Sonata (All Three Movements)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYejArVzId8 - Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957, Ständchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX1dYyvmig - Chopin: Funeral March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI - Debussy: Claire de Lune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8S2Mup2Ic - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Andante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I - Gustav Holst: Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BbT0E990IQ - Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Quite a few have already been mentioned by others
Orange texted ones are those I'm learning on the piano
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (unfortunately no recording can do this song justice. You really need to FEEL the notes. :D)
Organ or bust in my opinion
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Let's see quite a few already covered. I'll throw in a few:
Die Walküre - Wagner
Egmont, Op. 84_ Overture In F Minor - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 In E-Flat Major, Op. 55, ''Eroica'': II. Marcia Funébre: Adagio Assai - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor for Piano, Op. 27:2, "Moonlight Sonata": Adagio sostenuto - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Romeo And Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64c: Montagues And Capulets - Prokofiev
Danse Macabre, Op. 40 - Camille Saint-Saëns
Fantasy For Orchestra, ''A Night On The Bare Mountain'' - Modest Mussorgsky
Symphony No. 3 For Soprano And Orchestra, ''Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs'' : I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile - Henryk Górecki
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: In The Hall Of The Mountain King - Edvard Grieg
Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, K. 550: Allegro Molto - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carmina Burana (Cantiones Profanae), Fortuna Imperatrix - Carl Orff
Cavalleria rusticana: Symphonic Intermezzo - Pietro Mascagni
Messa da Requiem: Dies irae - Tuba mirum - Giuseppe Verdi
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The Four Seasons, Winter - Antonio Vivaldi (Everyone I know seems to prefer Spring)
Winter and summer are my favourite
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A lot of stuff I would have linked, especially by Beethoven and Dvořák, has already been linked :) That always leaves Wagner's Flying Dutchman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqezCR_XzaI). Thanks to a member of the family working in the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, I get access to free tickets and go to concerts quite a lot. They only performed the Flying Dutchman once, but you really need to hear this live - no recording does it justice. Especially when they get to the part when they simulate a storm (a lot of this part typically gets lost in a recording)..
Plus, I'll listen to anything by Dmitri Shostakovich at any time. That man was incapable of writing anything that's difficult or boring to listen to.
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Oh yes nearly forgot
Vassago's Dirge - Joel Reimer
(http://fi.somethingawful.com/safs/smilies/f/0/getin.001.gif)
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if there's no guitar, it's not music.
Also, if it's just the same four chords over and over it's not music. :p
Messa da Requiem: Dies irae - Tuba mirum - Giuseppe Verdi
Be sure to check out Berloiz's Requiem, his Tuba Mirum is particularly good as well.
Anyway, my 5 cents
- Symphony No. 3, 6th Movement - Mahler - I realize that many of Mahler's symphonies can just go on and on and on and that this movement itself is near 30 minutes, but trust me it is absolutely beautiful and glorious
- Lincolnshire Posy - Grainger - Folk suites may rub you the wrong way but this particular suite has been a staple in wind ensemble repertoire for a while. If you're familiar with Grainger and haven't listened to this, for shame, if not, expect the musical equivalent of being stabbed several times and being left for dead (in a good way)
- First Suite - Holst - Another big wind band piece, it pretty much kicked off the whole wind band thing. English military bands were tired of playing arrangements of orchestral pieces. His second suite is pretty good too, I think more commonly played but I prefer his first.
- String Quartet No. 8 - Shostakovich - DSCH all day erry day. Pretty wrenching piece, but in a different way than the Grainger I recommended.
- Concerto in F, 2nd movement - Gershwin - Pretty lighthearted and fun, moreso in comparison to the rest of these pieces I recommended.
I think everyone here is familiar with Rachmaninoff. If not, you should be.
inb4noneofthatisactuallyclassicaldumbass - **** you
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Avner Dorman - Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCbnBvKjLk - A contemporary piece by an awesome composer. Very energetic, and PercaDu's performance is superb! I wish the whole movement was available for viewing.
EDIT: And Xylophones! Vibraphones!
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Also, if it's just the same four chords over and over it's not music. :p
Absolutely agreed. There's way too much brain formatting junk passing as "music" these days.
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Avner Dorman - Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCbnBvKjLk - A contemporary piece by an awesome composer. Very energetic, and PercaDu's performance is superb! I wish the whole movement was available for viewing.
EDIT: And Xylophones! Vibraphones!
Actually, the link to the full concerto may be found here:
http://www.percadu.com/RightMenuPage.asp?CatalogID=12
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I know it's cliched these days, but I still love Barbers Adagio for Strings, did so long before Homeworld came out. It was written as a Eulogy to his Father and is just such a powerful piece of music.
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Gustav Holst: Mars, Bringer of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I)
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For a break from all the Classical Thunder, here is a great performance of an awesome Richard Strauss song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkc7VUxd7wQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkc7VUxd7wQ)
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Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427, Kyrie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hieCzEZwRw4)
J. S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos (all 6)
On the left sidebar of this page (http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/120020618/bachs-best-brandenburg-concertos) is a link to Concerto No. 5, First Movement. Might look for the rest later.
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
There's at least an excerpt from it reachable from the left sidebar of this page (http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/121255227/steve-reichs-maximum-minimalism).
EDIT:
Raindrop Prelude, Op 28, No. 15 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFHXmiZP38) - Frederic Chopin
:yes: I played that in high school. Love that piece.
EDIT 2:
I like this recording (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5yXhy11IVg) of it a bit more.
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Everybody's got all the famous and badass 19th century loud Romantic stuff pretty much covered. Here's some more pretty stuff I really enjoy (you might like it if you like the Barber Adagio). Picked the version of the Palestrina and the Mendelssohn concerto for the specific artists recording it, but the rest were just decent videos I found on youtube.
Missa Papae Marcelli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIcrgNtyX0U) - Giovanni Perluigi di Palestrina <--underrated but gorgeous, this is also my favorite recording (it's from 1980, but all the more modern ones I can find rush the hell out of this piece). Traditionally this was the piece that convinced the Council of Trent not to outlaw polyphony on the grounds of not being able to understand the words, and if you follow along with the Latin all the words are easily recognizable, unlike most Renaissance polyphony.
Fratres for String Orchestra and Percussion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em66qzGfC1I) - Arvo Pärt - it's serialism, so it's mostly mathematical, but it's awesome to listen to to see what kinds of phrase/melody patterns your brain INSISTS are there.
Cantus In Memory of Benjamin Britten (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUcazplAc58) - Arvo Pärt again, but a slightly different style.
And just because I think the world would be a better place with more Schubert and Mendelssohn:
Unfinished Symphony (1st mvt.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnrHf7p0jM) - Franz Schubert
Hebrides Overture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3MiETaBSnc) - Felix Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVNpkM7YPE) Violin Concerto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROTMd2DmC7E) - Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim (it's in two parts on youtube, but it's worth it for these two artists)
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Night on Bald Mountain - Mussogorsky - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8
The Sabre Dance - Aram Khachaturian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI
A couple of favourites that have stuck with me for decades ;)
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Ha, that reminds me...I recently saw the Sabre Dance appear on an album of "Sensual Classic Songs" for sale on Amazon. As someone in the comments put it, "...what type of sex are those people having?" :lol:
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Heh, almost forgot another one of my favourites, Canon in D by Pachelbel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80
Sadly over-used by the BBC for every gardening or antique show out there, but still a lovely piece of music :)
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but still a lovely piece of music :)
Unless you play the cello. :p
EDIT: And how could I forget my favorite piece of music ever written. This was one of the pieces that Joshua Bell played in the Washington subway during rush-hour a few years back.
Chaconne from Partita No. 1 in Dm for Solo Violin - Bach/Itzhak Perlman
Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVRTtcWmXI)
Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lPZWJu1QPI)
Who needs four violins for four part harmony when you have one violin with four strings?
Excerpts from Joshua Bell playing in Subway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myq8upzJDJc)
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but still a lovely piece of music :)
Unless you play the cello. :p
Heh, true, not the most musician-friendly tune out there ;) But then, look on the bright side, if you played flute, your hallmark is Flight of the Bumblebee ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI3wIHFQkAk
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I know it's cliched these days, but I still love Barbers Adagio for Strings, did so long before Homeworld came out. It was written as a Eulogy to his Father and is just such a powerful piece of music.
Damn, forgot to mention that one
Was listening to that song off the classical CD I have long before I knew how to do math
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Oh yes nearly forgot
Vassago's Dirge - Joel Reimer
(http://fi.somethingawful.com/safs/smilies/f/0/getin.001.gif)
Oh, you're much too kind! :o
There's just too much to list for me, so I'll try to list up some not mentioned so far (but I'll just give a repeated shout out to the entirety of Dvorak's 9th Symphony, which is super kewl).
Rachmaninov - 2nd and 3rd Piano Concertos (I don't need to explain myself there!)
Tchaikovsky - 1st Piano Concerto (especially that first movement!)
Mahler - Symphonies No 3 and 6
Ravel - Bolero
Nielsen - Symphony No 4
Berlioz - La damnation de Faust
And some more Piano specific ones
Beethoven - Moonlight and Pathetique Sonatas
Chopin - Nocturne in B major
Schubert - Piano Sonata No 16
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Ha, that reminds me...I recently saw the Sabre Dance appear on an album of "Sensual Classic Songs" for sale on Amazon. As someone in the comments put it, "...what type of sex are those people having?" :lol:
Wait for someone to Rule 34 that one.
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some years ago i downloaded a taped performance of wagner's ring cycle, complete with subtitles so i could follow the plot. that was the longest thing ive ever watched. though the experience was not entirely regrettable, i very much doubt il ever do it again.
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Here, have some Satie:
Gymnopedie No. 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkXnyXBAE2g)