NationStates Jolt Archive

Yes, it's true. After listening to the Classical station on XM in the car and the sporadic college radio classical shows almost constantly, I can't listen to anything else almost all the time.

Help feed this dangerous new interest by recommending me something excellent I can put on a CD (the hills and trees make XM a difficulty at times)!

I particularly enjoy the harpsichord, piano, and those lonely dark moody string pieces.

Beethoven's piano sonatas. That's a good place to start and you can get a boxed set.

Not all of them are awesome, but the good ones really are amazing.

The Elgar Concerto is one of the most beautiful cello pieces. You can find it on youtube. (I can provide a link if you want.)

Crank the Lamb of God. That should cure the illness in 4-5 minutes.

Crank the Lamb of God. That should cure the illness in 4-5 minutes.

Eww. If I want something I can't understand, I'll go host a death metal show again.

Which is quite fun, actually. Last time, it was my 16th birthday party, so I had a sort of anti sweet sixteen. I had 5 death metal bands play, cake with no forks or other utensils, someone poured bubbles all over the mosh pit floor (he was drunk), had a pinata (aluminum baseball bat FTW!), hosted it at my local fire station, and everyone was invited.

I wouldn't call it a disease....if it is I certainly have had it for several years now.

Piano music: Beethoven as mentioned, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin
Strings: Barber's Adagio (I guess you will already know this), Mahler's symphonies, Shostakovich's 5th (3rd mvt), Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht

I recommend some Dvorak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJp8cRLmqb0&mode=related&search=)

Crank the Lamb of God. That should cure the illness in 4-5 minutes.

um...looks like they do children's parties now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQYPn_en6OU)

I recommend some Dvorak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJp8cRLmqb0&mode=related&search=)



um...looks like they do children's parties now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQYPn_en6OU)

That's weird, I was just thinking of the slavonic dances. Have they been on the telly recently or something?

You're not a true classical snob until when someone says 'Classical' you blather on about how that only covers a short period of Western music even though you know full well what they meant. Then you're a snob.

I like modern stuff, but it might be too early for that. Mahler I don't think anyone has said yet. It's interesting to compare him with Richard Strauss, they were contemporaries and had very different approaches.

That's weird, I was just thinking of the slavonic dances. Have they been on the telly recently or something?

Civ IV :p

I recommend some Dvorak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJp8cRLmqb0&mode=related&search=)



um...looks like they do children's parties now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQYPn_en6OU)

Damn, their not in my phonebook...

Oooo~ another new classical lover ^_^ I really like the slow, somber stuff... Moonlight Sonata makes me shiver. Every. Single. Time.

The Elgar Concerto is one of the most beautiful cello pieces. You can find it on youtube. (I can provide a link if you want.)

That is very good. I'm pretty much in love with it.

I enjoy listening to the station around here that plays classical and jazz. It's FM tho. Actually I leave the station on (quiet level) for my pets. I think they like it too. :p

I wouldn't call it a disease....if it is I certainly have had it for several years now.

Piano music: Beethoven as mentioned, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin
Strings: Barber's Adagio (I guess you will already know this), Mahler's symphonies, Shostakovich's 5th (3rd mvt), Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht

I second all of these, but like Schumann in particular. I would recommend his Fantasiestücke especially.

You're not a true classical snob until when someone says 'Classical' you blather on about how that only covers a short period of Western music even though you know full well what they meant. Then you're a snob.

I like modern stuff, but it might be too early for that. Mahler I don't think anyone has said yet. It's interesting to compare him with Richard Strauss, they were contemporaries and had very different approaches.

True, so far, no one has recommended any real Classical music, just Romantic and Modern rubbish. :)

True, so far, no one has recommended any real Classical music, just Romantic

Depends on which period of Beethoven you're playing. But I take your point, for harpsichord we could easily recommend (J.S.) Bach's 48 and (D.) Scarlatti; and clearly Mozart for piano as well. String-wise, Bach again wrote some very good things, Brandenburgs, Passions, Bm mass, though those include other instruments; and Mozart and Haydn symphonies and string quartets clearly.

and Modern rubbish. :)

Oo, shouldn't be saying that around here...