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Post by ÈlTwo on Nov 25, 2013 20:41:21 GMT -5
Erich Kunzel and Frederick Fennell are going to give you a pretty good bang for your buck, especially if it's a Telarc recording.
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Post by Chuck Elliot on Nov 25, 2013 21:13:58 GMT -5
Thanks all......
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Post by SticknStones on Nov 25, 2013 23:00:18 GMT -5
Wow Chuck. Classical music may have more genres than rock with;
Baroque Classical Music (1600-1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Johann Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi and many folks made some great suggestions here.
“Classical” Music (1750-1820)
Johann Christian Bach, Ledwig van Beethoven, Franz Joseph haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Beethoven Symphony 7 Allegretto 2nd movement. I dig this piece. This video has a bar-graph score and you can tell when hell is gonna break loose and all the intensity.
Romantic Classical Music (1820-1915)
Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Frederic Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I will make some recommendations here as I did not notice any. Claude Debussy with the beautiful Claire De Lune and so much more.
Piano as it was written
Full Orchestra
This is Leo Delibes from the Lakme opera with the angelic Flower Duet. I cannot remember the French wording.
The heavy metal Mussorsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Early 20th-C. History
Debussy through Copland
Modern Classical Music (ca, 1915-Present)
Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Sergei Rachmaninoff
This is a modern Kronos Quartet and original release with Pieces of Africa.
Let us know what you like as you sample. I know when I started in Classical it was the Baroque era with Handel Water music, Vivaldi 4 seasons, Pachelbel's canon, and grew from there. If you want the heavy metal equivalent of classical try Mussorgsky but it is too heavy for me (I threw a sample up to give some variety to the other posts).
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Post by GreenKiwi on Nov 26, 2013 0:36:09 GMT -5
Mussorgsky - night on bald mountain
That's in fantasia, isn't it?
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Post by SticknStones on Nov 26, 2013 1:15:53 GMT -5
Mussorgsky - night on bald mountain That's in fantasia, isn't it? Yes it is.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 1:36:08 GMT -5
I would recommend any of the symphonies of Jean Sibelius a Finnish composer. His symphonies have lots of very lush sounds with especially unbelievable horn choruses.
Gustav Holst - The Planets Ottorino Resphigi - The Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, Festivals of Rome
Both of the last two are lush orchestral works also.
Any of the Deutshce Grammophon Recordings of Vladimir Horowitz.
Also Deutshce Grammophon recording of Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001 a Space Odyssy) conducted by Herbert Von Karajan (older recording fome 70's?). This has some of the best sounding orchestral strings I have ever heard in a recording.
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Post by yves on Nov 26, 2013 3:03:36 GMT -5
Don't forget to add Gustav Mahler to the list.
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Post by AudioHTIT on Nov 26, 2013 21:04:08 GMT -5
And for a 'Rock & Roll Child' there's Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 13:05:56 GMT -5
One of my fav's - Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Go for the orchestral version, although sometimes the piano solo is also included.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 13:09:11 GMT -5
Oh and see if you can find "Bachbusters" by Don Dorsey on Telarc. It's an old Synclavier interpretation of some of the more popular pieces. It's amazing, especially on a good system. A fun introduction to classical.
Also, just a suggestion, but you might want to pay attention to which periods the composers fall into ie Baroque, Classical, Romantic. Each of these periods have very specific styles, forms and characteristics. Knowing this you may prefer one period more than another (as I do) and therefore will be able to more easily narrow down the myriad of composers over time and focus your listening there.
I've studied classical music since a young age, so don't hesitate to shoot me a note if you have questions. Technically I'm a music theory nerd, but that discussion is for another forum.
Enjoy!
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