Classical Music?

[Lone Outlaw]

Does anyone know any good classical music peices?

 

I already have

 

Mozart - Piano Sonata No.11: Rondo Alla Turca

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.21: Andante

Mozart - Die Zauberflote: Der Holle Rache

Mozart - Requim: Confutatis and Lacrymosa

Mozart - Flute and Harp Concerto: Andantino

Mozart - Serenade No.13 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro

Mozart - Marriage of Figaro: Overture

Mozart - Symphony No.40: Molto Allegro

Mozart - Marriage of Figaro: Voi Che Sapete

Mozart - Symphony No.25: Allegro con brio

 

Chopin - Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.35:III. Marche Funebre Lento

Chopin - Nocturne No.20 In C sharp minor. Op. Posth.

Chopin - Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op.9 No.2

 

Handel - Suite No.4 in D minor Sarabande

Handel - Water Music Suite No.2 in G Major

 

Johann Sebastian Bach - I have everything, don't need anything.

 

Let me know of anything else. I don't need Hans Zimmer, Steven Jablonsky, Alan Silvestri, John Williams, Michael Nyman, Brad Fiedel, or Ennio Marricone, or any other movie composers as i have everything already. But if you know a good movie composer not mentioned then fire away =p

Edited July 24, 2012 by Lone Outlaw

[Cheese]

dat chops

 

ps get debussy

[Lone Outlaw]

Cool thanks

[Dav]

Holst - The plants

 

Absoulty fantasic!

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Amazon often has crazy good deals on huge mp3 collections. I have purchased a few for $1.99 or even 99 cents and they are "mega albums" that sometimes have 150 pieces or more.

Vivaldi: Flute Concertos, Haydn Symphonies, and others.

[Lone Outlaw]

For 99 cents that is a good deal, i'll look around. But amazon.ca sometimes lacks what amazon.com has, and as a canadian i can't buy downloadable music off of amazon.com. So i would need to buy actual CDs in that case. But hopefully amazon.ca has the downloadable music..

 

im kind of looking for 256 or greater kbit quality or VBR, if its 128 or 192, its not good enough.

Edited July 27, 2012 by Lone Outlaw

[Simulacrum]

First of all, grab Spotify or a similar service. You do not need to pay for it, but you need to have a way of sampling music instead of paying to try out shit you have no idea if you'll like.

 

Look for Monteverdi, L'Orfeo, specifically the recording by John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. What you are looking at is one of the first operas, the first that is still regularly performed. Play the ritornello, "Vi ricorda o bosch'ombrosi" (track 9 on the recording I recommended). If you like it, listen to some more. If you like this style of music, you like early music, at least in its opera form. Henry Purcell's The Fairy-Queen is another good option. It is in English and features quite possibly the most profound text in the operatic repertoire: "I'm drunk, drunk, as I live, boys, as I live boys, as I live, boys!" In general take a good look at early and Baroque opera. It doesn't get nearly as much attention nowadays as the big, fat Wagner and Puccini stuff, but it deserves it.

 

In a similar vein you need to look at early church music. Let's see… songs I'd recommend include William Byrd's "Ave verum corpus" and the Agnus Dei from his Mass for Four Voices. Tomás Luis de Victoria is widely recognized by scholars as "the shit," and you should check out his "O magnum mysterium" and the motet "Versa est in luctum" from his 1605 Requiem Mass. (Do not confuse this with Alonso Lobo's setting of the same text, which occurs together with the Victoria mass on a Tenebrae recording; no offense to Alonso Lobo, but Victoria's setting is devastating. Lobo's is just a song.) And Palestrina is the favorite of my friend, who knows more about this shit than I do. She recommends his Missa Papae Marcelli; if you listen to nothing else from that piece, listen to the Agnus Dei movement. And if you like any or all of this, holy shit there is a lot of early church music out there. Basically just look at this and find stuff that you enjoy. Other standout names on that list, besides ones that I've mentioned, include Ockeghem, Dufay, des Prez, and de Morales.

 

You say you already have everything Bach, so I'm just going to recommend in passing that you listen to it.

 

Mozart, you have some. If you are going to have bits of the Requiem, you really should have the first and second movements (Requiem and Kyrie). Add the other Queen of the Night aria from Die Zauberflöte, "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn." Absolutely add the overture and "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" from Don Giovanni; the latter is my favorite aria, ever, bar none.

 

Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia is a hit parade. Listen to the overture, "Largo al factotum della città," "La calunnia è un venticello," and "A un dottor della mia sorte." The first two will probably sound familiar.

 

Other opera would definitely include Puccini and Verdi. For Puccini, if nothing else get "Nessun dorma" from Turandot. Look for Pavarotti's recording, since it's the signature piece of one of the greatest singers in the history of larynges. Verdi has all kinds of shit. "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto is classic and "O patria mia" is one of those "Holy fuck how is she doing that?" sorts of things. And speaking of "Verdi" and "Holy fuck," check out his take on the Requiem Mass text. If you listen to the Mozart one you will hear the Dies irae movement, which is scary as shit. Well, Verdi's is scarier than shit. It is about the end of the world and I fully expect it to be playing in the background when the four horsemen actually roll around.

 

No babbling about opera would be complete without Wagner. Some love him some hate him, but at any rate there is no excuse not to have bits of him around. The prelude from Tristan und Isolde is groundbreaking; it's often paired with the final aria from that work, "Liebestod," so you might as well get that as well. You will certainly recognize "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre. And if you somehow find Wagnerian opera enjoyable, you have all of the 15 hours of the Ring cycle to choose from.

 

Brahms! His Ein Deutsches Requiem is classic, "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen" being my favorite movement. His Academic Festival Overture is also well-known, to break up the vocal music a bit.

 

This list has been heavily opera- and chorus-biased because that's the shit I know. One orchestral piece I would definitely recommend is Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. Please do not clap after the third movement.

 

Oh yeah, and if you aren't tired of listening to singing after all this, Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil is one of the finest articles ever crafted by human hands.

 

Finally in terms of modern/contemporary stuff, there's always John Adams. On the Transmigration of Souls is good if a bit of a downer (tribute to 9/11 victims). And I noticed you don't have Beethoven. For something a bit different, check out his Great Fugue.

 

Again I definitely recommend checking through a lot of this with Spotify instead of just downloading a ton of crap you might not like.