Classical music

[SpaceCow]

Recommendation help for a noob?

Been listening to some Vivaldi, in particular "Four Seasons" and some of his flute concertos. Am quite enjoying them. Anyone know anything similar to this (baroque period/style preferably)? In particular anything relating to the flute?

I must admit a couple years ago I would have readily scoffed at the idea of listening to classical music but some of the stuff is actually quite enjoyable.

Thanks.

 

[smasha]

For something differant listen to Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition and then Listen to Emerson Lake And Palmers Prog Rock version that is a live recording from the early 70's. Awsome.

Another to check is The Nice's Five Bridges. The Nice was Emersons earlier band. It contains "covers" Sibelius Karelia Suite and also has the Brandenberg Concerto #6 and Dylans Country Pie combined as an
instrumental.

Some of you may have heard The Nice do an amazing version of Bernsteins America from West Side Story. Later Emerson Lake and Palmer "covered" Copelands Fanfare for the Cmmon Man which was used by 7 for the footy, many years back, with good effect.

Love The Nice.

Really underrated band but then again I was born in the 60s.

Anyone listened to Tales On Topographic Oceans by Yes?

Some real interesting stuff with classical influences on that album.

Beethoven symphony number 7 gets my juices flowing.

 

[Copernicus]

Recommendation help for a noob?

Been listening to some Vivaldi, in particular "Four Seasons" and some of his flute concertos. Am quite enjoying them. Anyone know anything similar to this (baroque period/style preferably)? In particular anything relating to the flute?

I must admit a couple years ago I would have readily scoffed at the idea of listening to classical music but some of the stuff is actually quite enjoyable.

Thanks.

There's a guy named Johann(?) Quantz who wrote exclusively for the flute during that time period. Not sure how widely available his music is, though. One to look for though.

Bach is from a similar period as Vivaldi, although the style is quite different. But be sure to try out some of his music, it can be captivating.

Some others to look for who wrote a lot of concerto-style works in Vivaldi's time would be Locatelli, Veracini, Tartini, Georg Telemann, and from the french I'd look for Marin Marais, Lully and any others who were associated with these guys if you do a bit of looking around.

Good luck, hope you find something you'll enjoy.

 

[Contra Mundum]

Had to bump this thread. Just listening to some Vivaldi Violin Concerti. Just incredible - so much more than the Four Seasons. All different sort of moods to - guy was a genius

 

[vonn]

Hey guys.

I know Chopin isn't technically classical, but I didn't really feel it was necessary to start a new thread.

Any pianists out there care to give me thoughts on his nocturne op. 72 no.1 in terms of how it should be played? Like beyond that of a personal interpretation, are their any basic things that he did (e.g. way of trills etc.) or just generic things like tone or something.

I am performing it as part of the last day of school concert on friday, and I'm not excatly some super good pianist even though I've been playing for at least ten years and I want to make it special for my peers etc. So any tips or anything would be great.... Thanks.

 

[Dan Moody]

Clair de Lune would have to be the finest 6 minutes of music ever written.
Been listening to it a lot in the car coming home from work after a tough day and it never fails to have me both in tears and feeling elated at the same time.
Also a big fan of Rhapsody in Blue, which I suppose can be technically called jazz.

 

[HARKER]

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Maybe not classical, but I have a personal interest.

 

[Copernicus]

Had to bump this thread. Just listening to some Vivaldi Violin Concerti. Just incredible - so much more than the Four Seasons. All different sort of moods to - guy was a genius

Contra - don't know if you have an alert set up for this, but if you like Vivaldi's concertos, I have a couple of recommendations; Giuliani Carmignola's two recordings of some of his later concertos, and Monica Huggett's recordings of 'La Cetra' Opus.