good classical music...

Easy Money wrote: Certif1ed wrote: 1. Messiaen's "Turangaglia Symphonie" 2. Rakhmaninov's Piano Concerti   3. Dvorak's Cello Concerto   4. Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima"   5. Vivaldi's "Gloria" (possibly the most perfect piece of choral music ever written, after the completed sections of Mozart's "Requiem").     Turangaglia Symphonie stands on its own as one odd piece of music and has some similarities to more adventurous progressive bands. It uses the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic keyboard that often sounds like something from an early science fiction movie, but more sophisticated than a theremin. It is one of those pieces that sounds "modern" in any era, sort of like those 60s synth lounge records only less kitschy.

well of course his classic 'Gymnopedies' series is famous and very beautiful..  but you can't really go wrong with Satie, though the pieces may get a bit repetitive.. remember it was mostly written as salon music, to be in the background..  kind of early ambient

  

pretty much anything by these 20th century rebels;  Honegger, Ives, Prokofiev, Barber, as well as earlier composers like Satie, Faure and Brahms 

I recently saw the movie "Copying Beethoven" and I think the 9th symphony of Beethoven is one of the greatest I ever heard...Great movie btw!

Slartibartfast wrote: And if you want go past the decomposing composers, there's Steve Reich and Philip Glass.  Though they'd probably not be considered classical by classical music purists.

Glass's "Pruitt Igoe" is one of my favorite classical pieces ever. I need to see Koyaanisqatsi.

no-one mentioned Gustav Mahler so far, so I will: his symphonies (especially the 9th), his "Kindertotenlieder", his "Lied von der Erde", the "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"; all of these are highly recommended.

another one that hasn't been mentioned: Robert Schumann. here I recommend his symphonies (especially his 3rd, the "Rheinische"), his "Dichterliebe" (a song cycle based on the lyrics of German poet Heinrich Heine), his a-minor piano concerto and "Manfred", a melodram based on the lyrics of Lord Byron. and since I am just listening to them on the radio: his 3 romances for clarinet and piano.

last but not least: Franz Schubert. here I recommend "Die Winterreise", a song cycle (try to get the version with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing), his trout quintet, the string quartet Nr. 14 ("Death and the Maiden"), "Die schöne Müllerin" (another song cycle), his "unfinished" symphony in B-minor and his C-Major symphony (by today's usual way of counting his 8th; there was and is a bit of confusion and complication about counting his symphonies) and his many, many Lieder (over 600)


Edited by BaldJean - October 10 2007 at 19:26

Certif1ed wrote: 1. Messiaen's "Turangaglia Symphonie" 2. Rakhmaninov's Piano Concerti   3. Dvorak's Cello Concerto   4. Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima"   5. Vivaldi's "Gloria" (possibly the most perfect piece of choral music ever written, after the completed sections of Mozart's "Requiem").

Turangaglia Symphonie stands on its own as one odd piece of music and has some similarities to more adventurous progressive bands. It uses the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic keyboard that often sounds like something from an early science fiction movie, but more sophisticated than a theremin.

It is one of those pieces that sounds "modern" in any era, sort of like those 60s synth lounge records only less kitschy.

Edited by Easy Money - October 10 2007 at 17:45

There's plenty of good classical music... where should I start from? I'll try to suggest something:

Edited by paolo.beenees - October 10 2007 at 16:39

proger wrote: I love also symphonys lihe "merkury" symphony by hyden. (sorrey about the mistakes...)

Symphonies like "Mercury" by Haydn?

I love also symphonys lihe "merkury" symphony by hyden.
(sorrey about the mistakes...)