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Igha 
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Posted: April 18 2006 at 16:38 |
I want to listen to moody classical music...something dark, sad and mad For example, I love Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, especially the first and last movements...the former being very sad and beautiful and the third extremely powerful,crazy and moving. I don't know much of the genre...but I would like something in that style. Im not very keen in the style that sounds...I don't know quite how to define it, but its comes to my mind what The Moody Blues did in Future Days Passed, I don't want that "kind" of classical music. Well, I hope somebody can help me even after my odd explanations  Thanks in advance! 
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BaldJean
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Posted: April 18 2006 at 17:00 |
Mussorgski: A Night on Bald Mountain
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
Ravel: La Valse
Debussy: Prelude d'une Apres-midi d'un Faun
Medelssohn-Bartholdy: E-minor violin concerto
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: April 21 2006 at 01:16 |
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Sergey Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" and "Scythian suite", also "Lemminkäinen suite" by Sibelius.
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Posted: April 21 2006 at 02:34 |
 BaldJean wrote:
Mussorgski: A Night on Bald MountainSaint-Saens: Danse MacabreRavel: La ValseDebussy: Prelude d'une Apres-midi d'un FaunMedelssohn-Bartholdy: E-minor violin concerto
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Excellent selection, but is it really dark?
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braindamage
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Posted: April 22 2006 at 06:29 |
The darkest music which I think is
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.9.
But this symphony is not easy to understand,so I recommends
Schubert's Winterreise.The song about a young man who had lost his love.
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MustShaveBeard
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 14:03 |
Rachmaninoff's "Isle of the Dead" is incredibly dark.
The Andante part of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" string quartet is pretty dark, too (I haven't heard the other parts)
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Certif1ed
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Posted: April 26 2006 at 05:03 |
Messaien "Turangaglia Symphonie" Schoenberg "Pierrot Lunaire" Stravinsky "The Rite of Spring" Mahler - practically anything, but especially #9 Beethoven - #5 ...and check out the Kronos Quartet
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arnold stirrup
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Posted: April 27 2006 at 00:03 |
Bela Bartok - Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
I'd recommend that this piece be on a disc coupled with Bartok's Concerto For Orchestra, another wonderfully dark piece. Go for Reiner's recording with the Chicago SO.
Edited by arnold stirrup - April 27 2006 at 23:59
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So much music. So little time.
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Explorer-eighth
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Posted: April 27 2006 at 18:21 |
I have got alot of dark classical music in my CD collection.
Mahler is my number one composer as there is so much variety and depth in his music. The most approachable of his works is the symphony no 4, but no 5 is darker and more fierce in places. The Adagietto from that symphony was used as the theme music for the film "Death in Venice".
For piano music, have you tried Chopin's nocturnes, or Debussy's Images? There is also Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor which has more loud passages in it. You need the right pianist otherwise it can ruin the music. I recommend either Rubinstein or Anievas for Chopin; Thibaudet for Debussy; and Leslie Howard for Liszt.
If you like Beethoven, try Missa Solemnis, but it is difficult music to get into. I started with his overtures like Egmont and Leonora number two and three.
Different again, there is Vaughan-Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica which is very dark and expressive.
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The music I enjoy is complex; varied; deep and well played.
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mystic fred
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Posted: April 28 2006 at 11:54 |
here's a reallly dark one........MARS THE BRINGER OF WAR!
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Nuke
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Posted: April 28 2006 at 19:26 |
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Heh, wrong sort of dark methinks, but if you like bombastic darkness like mars, try stravinski's rite of spring.
Beetoven makes really good dark music, just check out all of his stuff, I don't know of any of it being bad. The romantic period in general is good for emotional classical music, and there is plenty of dark to be found in it.
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Goldenavatar
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Posted: April 29 2006 at 18:59 |
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Here's a suggestion. This isn't actually classical music, it's Renaissance madrigals, but check out a dude named Carlo Gesualdo. He was apparently the Dracula of Italy. Once he caught his wife with another man, offed the dude, strung up his wife and disemboweled her. Then walked down the hall to his study and wrote a song about it. The guys music is characterised by ridiculously offensive dissonance, and FUNKY rhythms. I think his stuff is classified as Mannerism, which is a style in which the artist purposefully writes offensive music to evoke emotion.
Edited by Goldenavatar - April 29 2006 at 19:00
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Posted: May 01 2006 at 09:05 |
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JS Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor... and of course Mozart's Requiem.
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Nuke
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Posted: May 02 2006 at 23:10 |
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Oh yeah, forgot about that one ^^^ Highly reccommended
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Zoso
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Posted: May 03 2006 at 00:11 |
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Mahler and Brahms.
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