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Evening. I had to endure concerts etc as a small child but recently more and more I'm putting classical on when I'm in the car.
Not just for a few minutes but the entire journey.
Is it a sign of age?!
Classic FM for me in the car, chills me out on the way home from work.
Ditto, Wagner earlier tonight was awesome.
Wagner is not renowned as relaxation music.
Classical music is fantastic.
Philip Glass for me not classical but great for relaxing
No, not an age thing for me. Always liked classical music. Been to the bbc proms a few times. Lovely evening out.
Not an age thing for me, either.
Hora, I know taste is subjective, but I'd say checking out some of the following would be a good use of your time;
Appalachian Spring, by Copland
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, by Walton. Also, his Henry V is delicious.
Pretty much anything by Elgar.
Sorry, but can I just ask (and I may have missed an 'in joke') but WTF with this "evening" business at the start of all your posts lately?
Have you got brain damage from being ****ted around the head with a massive salmon after an altercation in the make-your-own pizza aisle in Asda, and you now think you're a 1960s police constable?
bearnecessities, U OK HUN?
Evening. Fine thanks.
Bon soir.
D'accord. @+
The greatest piece of classical music ever written.
Ninth symphony, 2nd movement. Real standing on mountains stuff.
Wagner is not renowned as relaxation music
Indeed
Big fan of Bach here but most of the stuff I listen to is classical guitar music
Its not age Hora its just you have an educated palate 😉
Cpt lets not mention the cricket 🙁
Classic FM plays OK selections (if a little cliched) - if only you could avoid the sickly syrup and patronising tone of the presenters.
"And here (speaking very slowly and smoothly) is a very nice piece from a composer who is really quiet good. His name is Mozart, see if you like it too."...AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
Where do you go to be trained to speak simpleton syrup?
Wife and I currently trying to study on piece a week. Play it on the commute and she prepares the study notes. Interesting to spend a week concentrating on one piece.
Interesting to spend a week concentrating on one piece
Clever approach that and I might also adopt it. There is just so much out there and I just get stuck listening to guitar stuff as I have so many albums that I dont always diversify
Ludovico Einaudi proper soul cleansing music.....
Hora,
Try these on for size, but not when driving ...you really have to listen to this music to fully appreciate it.
Eric Satie - Gnossienes and Gymnopedie
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila (bonkers!)
Steve Reich - contemporary classical but properly composed music, minimalist and very involving. Try out Music for 18 musicians or any of his 'phase' music
Michael Gordon - Industry, in particular the electric cello piece
Terry Riley - A rainbow in curved air
Radio 3 is the default setting chez nous.
Always listened to classical music. Grew up in a musical household, and so played it on various instruments, but also went to frequent symphonies and that sort of thing.
Can't stand Classic FM, though. Far prefer BBC Radio 3. They're much less smarmy-sounding on BBC, and more adventurous in what they play.
Classic FM, pfft, as per slowoldman R3 is where it's at.
I tend to the minimalist (see natanjada). But I recommend:
Miserere - Allegri
Violin concertos -JS Bach
Purcell
Proverb & Six Marimbas - Steve Reich
Goreckis third symphony
Weather - Michael Gordon
Bang on the can who play Eno's Music for Airports live,[i] on instruments[/i]...
Maia Baiser (a BOTC all star and pretty sure she features on Weather) esp Ancient Loops
And last but not least, Arvo Part. He's known for Speigel im Speigel and Tabula Rasa but my favourites are Kanon Pokajanen (Estonian choral work) and Symphony no. 4. oh and Frates. And Te Deum and Miserere... I'm a Part fanboi I guess....
ETA: I think this is a brilliant introduction to the world of the modern classical avant garde:
I still seem to dislike most of it tbh but when it's good, ahhhh. Quite often have classic fm or radio 3 on in the car just fishing for "new" stuff, does lead to awkward moments like raging at the dumbing down of classical music on the radio, WHY IS EVERYTHING HARRY POTTER AND LORD OF THE RINGS oh it's film music hour? I see.
I can appreciate a good cover, but a band playing a cover and being told how to play it?
Find it a bit boring to be honest.
Bach: violin concertos, cello suites (Yo-Yo Ma), Brandenburgs, Magnificat, St Matthew's Passion, harpsichord suites, etc etc there's a lifetime's worth of exploration and listening in Bach.
My traditional recommendation for classical music threads: the [url= http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/podcasts ]Isabella Stewart Gardner podcast[/url]. Free, with a decent variety, and includes an interesting introduction that lets you know a bit about the composer and the music you're going to listen to.
Try the Soundscapes BBC podcast, described as classical, contempary and electronica. Very relaxing and doesnt feel so much like your stuck in 1750.
My dad was very much into classical music, but it never really clicked until much later on (partly after listening to ELP and following that up). Hence maybe an interest in slavic music - Bartok, Janacek, Shostakovich e.g. - the muscular end (and folk rhythm based).
Hm, maybe similarities between that and whisky (in a good way). Taste now is pretty eclectic, Sibelius, Bach (lots) and Scarlatti for sure, and quite a bit of Mozart/Beethoven. Reich and Glass though my wife can't stand them. Wagner an acquired taste and I remain ambivalent - despite visiting Bayreuth.. Late to the party of liking Vaughan Williams and the like.
Don't overlook Beethoven's Ninth and its brilliant choral music originally entitled 'Ode to Freedom'. The length of a CD was determined by this piece because it was understood to be so popular.
I'm not a classical music fan but I've been listening to Ludovico Enaudi, Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds quite a lot recently. It's always good to find something different to listen to.
I've always tried to like Copland, but just didn't hit the spot.
Probably because I tend to like to more 'powerful, moving' pieces.
It's also good to know, that when I through on a bit of classical, in between some Jazz, and Led Zeplin, that the children still like it.
It might be a bit low rent (Holst reportedly thought them some of his poorest work later in life) but The Planets are my jam and then some.
Yeah age thing for me started enjoying it half a dozen ages ago and I agree about having it on in the car. Especially on a saturday afternoon with Radio 3 over Classic fm here too
But the best bit for me is that little pause.......... both stations give you after the musical piece stops and the Dj starts....... bliss
And try some Chopin
Oh I don't know, nowt wrong with the The Planets.
Copland too though - no it's not massively powerful but Appalachian Spring is a masterpiece.
I found my initial entrance to classical music was 20th century and I still feel that music written in the 20th/21st centuries has the most immediate impact on me, so I would suggest Mahler, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Shostakovich (definitely), Britten (absolutely) though some (arguably) more complex composers too such as Webern, Berg, Lutoslawski.
That doesn't stop me listening to a lot of early, baroque and classsical, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven in particular. Brahms for all his alleged greatness I find a bit meh (apart from a few very fine chamber works). The romantic period I don't find so interesting, things all got a bit over-wrought before the likes of Ravel and Debussy appeared on the scene.
Of course that's scratching the surface and it's not all old dead men. Pleasingly there are masses of living composers churning out great music.