The Classical Thread

[TickleHere]

I sometimes wonder if I have any real taste in music as I love so many different things. However, I return most frequently to the music of Bruckner. This says everything I could ever want to say...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rJra2_iBj0

 

[Bugman]

I sometimes wonder if I have any real taste in music as I love so many different things. However, I return most frequently to the music of Bruckner. This says everything I could ever want to say...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rJra2_iBj0

Nothing wrong with having wide ranging musical tastes. I do.

 

[FrenzyTickles]

OVERTURE, BIZET'S CARMEN, put to better use.

Just for the ENERGY, from childhood. The Overture from Bizet's Carmen,
in a much improved context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S20dnOWzMnA



Thank you, Matt62, I had no idea regarding Brahms'... lethally hot fingers.

 

[FrenzyTickles]

And then there's... 2020. Thank you, John Williams. I hope modern "classical" is acceptable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT7-JdKhzcU Duel of the Fates.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqHxxJkwXOw The Imperial Death March.
A wedding favorite.


Throwing this in for a light note, however Jazzy.... Hoping humanity has reason to celebrate soon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrWcFGlyKg Cantina Band. Danish Natl. Symphony Orch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHD-knhS6es "Original."

 

[BlasterMaster]

I recently heard this absolutely BEAUTIFUL Renaissance music that apparently dates back all the way to Europe's Dark/Middle Ages.

Apparently they would play/sing it at festivals. I heard it on NPR but I never learned the name of it. Gods I wish I could hear it again.

 

[BlasterMaster]

Also apparently there is a large restoration project that is still underway to repair and restore all the absolutely BEAUTIFUL classical music that was lost when Europe's cities were devastated by World War I and World War II (particularly the city of Dresden, Germany). They recently repaired and restored a symphony of an unknown composer that was stored in Dresden and played it on NPR and OMG it was BEAUTIFUL! Now I can't find it anymore and GODS I want to hear it AGAIN!

 

[FrenzyTickles]

Can't help the above, but this is perfect for Nov 2020.

 

[acousmatic]

I'm gonna be that guy and go with some contemporary concert music. Classical (lowercase c) music has a special place in my heart, and I studied it for 12 years as a music major, but around 2010 I just couldn't really do it anymore. I still enjoy selections, and I can sit down and have a discussion about the masterworks, the great composers of European western music, and basically anything from Leonin to Caroline Shaw, but it's the modernism, atonality, and experimentalism from the 1910s through today that really resonates with me. So here's a little bit

Boulez - Eclat (performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hZxInEtbzU

 

[chicago]

Gustav Holst - "The Planets" (full suite) - huge influence (or stolen?) for the score to Star Wars