I'm bored of Tchaikovsky now.....
Can anyone recommend some classical music, nothing too obvious and catchy please i'm looking for long pieces involving strings and preferably the odd piano.
Thanks.
I'm bored of Tchaikovsky now.....
Hans Werner Henze - Voices/Symphony 2 or 3.
(the symphonies are obviously more stringy)
Scarlatti - Symphony 2
Sibelius - Symphony 7
Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmospheres (bit more freer, some strings somewhere)
Gorecki - Symphonies 2 and 3.
earlier than 20th century it's hard to find anything not obvious, it's all been exhumed really.
but i imagine you are/could become familiar with all those anyway.
(although henze is mid to late 20th century.
Try Erik Satie for solo piano (Gymnopédies and Gnossienne in particular). Or Haushcka's most recent one if you like it more modern.
As far as violin concertos go Philip Glass's and Jean Sibellius's are my favourites. Plus the strings in Vaughan William's 'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis' are incredible.
In terms of symphonies (although technically a tone poem) I've recently discovered Strauss's 'Alpine Symphony' which is incredible. You'd like it if you like Tchaikovsky. The storm section is amazing.
Does that help? Or have they all been visited?
Hauschka! So hard to spell...
of my favourite classical stuff. here you go:
1000 AD: http://open.spotify.com/user/peevee/playlist/1J1gg5W4ZG9yMYWLnHi5M9
Elgar's fucking great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9DPfp7-Ck
and obvs the Enigma variations
Stravinski's Rite of Spring.
Orn Magnusson is worth a look
Bach's chorales are pretty ace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3U5lovQp4
can do a lot worse than Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet etc
Ridiculous piece of music.
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
All Mahler symphonies.
All Richard Strauss tone poems.
Ravel - Introduction and Allegro.
Some twatty contemporary classical pieces would be appreciated. I'm going to give all of your suggestions above a listen, i'm studying you see so the more flowing and non catchy the better.
Rachmaninov or Mahler.
Ives - Central Park in the Dark & Unanswered Question
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
I'll have to give no7 a try next time, if it's as good as 2 i think i'll like it.
PC No2 - got
but i think i posted it at about 3am when no one was reading. it's just a general classical music playlist, i'm sure bits of it you'll know already.
having looked at it i can see that lots of it has been mentioned earlier and it includes some REALLY obvious classical music like moonlight sonata but anyway, have a look it you like, it's not all mahler/mozart/bach
http://open.spotify.com/user/iamwiggy/playlist/0ZQsS8iwii97Uz3IJGed86
Some nice string quartets and quintets.
but I just discovered Einaudi's new album, Nightbook. It's modern classical I suppose, with some electronic type stuff in. I really like it though.
http://open.spotify.com/album/0HzSDPNXHnL2YF5AwHpRoE
Also, Quartico Quartet for a bit of jazz? It's quite soothing, maybe not what you want.
http://open.spotify.com/album/2OueUTdd8hZTkF1lIGHxrZ
Arvo Part - Frates (definitely listen, sounds perfect)
The Ligeti, Gorecki and Henze aren't that catchy, might be ok, I would of thought.
Also, Debussy - Prelude a L'Apres-midi d'un Faun is really great but fairly well-known. As far as I know, not sold any cars though.
Messiaen - L'Ascension
Anton Webern - Pasacalgia, led to all the experiments but wasn't so weird in himself or Concerto for Nine Instruments
Arnold Bax - Symphony No.3 (kind of pastoral but also a bit ominous and moody)
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses (quite fast and upbeat for sections, but v. good).
Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (Japanese genius; very very good.)
Akira Ifukube - Sinfonia Tapkaara (composed the Godzilla soundtrack, very good, very under-rated)
Terry Riley - In C (if you can find a good version)
and some others probably, if those are all rubbish. to choose four though i'd listen to the Part, the Riley, the Takemitsu and the Ifuke pieces if you want modern stuff.
Danny Norbury's last album is grrreat.
... as you try to identify all the bits and bobs he's put into the piano in "preparing" it. But 'Room To Expand' (his third?) is great, as is 'Ferdorf'.
Nils Frahm's 'The Bells' is solo improvisational piano, and keeps my ears happy while my brain concentrates on other things.
Or for something a bit more Romantic, Faure's chamber music is beautiful - try the piano quartets.
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2
Bax - Symphony No. 6 (and then other stuff - lots of other symphonies and symphonic poems, Tintagel is the obvious one)
Max Bruch - Scottish Fantasy
Rautavaara - loads of stuff, Cantus Arcticus is the obvious one here but if you don't want birdsong included then go for Symphony No. 3
Tippett - Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole (might be a bit too "catchy"?)
Robert Simpson - Symphony No. 9
Alwyn - Sinfonietta for Strings
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6
Seconding Takemitsu and Sibelius.
along with palladio, and the max richter tracks. And night on bare mountain, epic!
All this is very non-catchy and i thoroughly enjoy studying to this music
Edgard Varèse - anything really but a good starting point is Amériques and Ionisation
Iannis Xenakis - again anything, but a good starting point is Dammerschein
Béla Bartók - lots of strings and piano pieces there
At this years proms i heard Xenakis' Nomos gamma and Ais, i think these (Ais in particular) had some funny time signatures going on (though may be confusing this with another). If the rest is along these lines i may leave that for a while.
Thanks, the other two, Bartok especially i'll have a listen to.
If so where else has that first one in the playlist been used, i can't place it?
is my favourite. It's on Spotify. 'Heimnat' is incredible.
which is well worth listening to also.
Not sure where else it's been used though, sorry!
Shostakovich - Piano Quintet
great piece of music
of modern classical music. It's really good:
http://open.spotify.com/user/xorn/playlist/4XXYXwpjXtNmQImZZsSj5s