What Classical Music are you listening to?
 

To quote the OP of the parallel thread in the Jazz section:

"We had one for just about everything else, might as well put one in this dead subforum."

Now I realise this genre is really unpopular so if there aren't too many posts that's fine by me: it'll, at worst, take the place of me making a journal (I'm generally too lazy to do much more than list what I'm listening to, and I feel like a journal requires more than that). Anyway, that's 'at worst': I'd definitely like it to flourish!

A typical day for me at present will include either one classical and one non-classical album, or two classical albums (that I own). Then at night before bed I generally wander through contemporary classical music channels on youtube until I get tired. I'll post the daily standouts here, starting with...

Raphael Cendo, a composer I hadn't heard of until last week but who has written some truly visceral and fascinating music: recommended for anyone who enjoys avant-garde music.



Today I also enjoyed a work by a composer I had shied away from because of his reputation for being impenetrable. This work, however, is very expressive and has me excited to explore more:



I will be posting a lot of the more traditional side of classical too, of course, but this is what was on the cards today!

I'm still delving into the wonders of Arnold Schoenberg.

I'm still new to his work, but I really like what I've heard so far. I don't really know any composer too well yet, but so far, Schoenberg is my favorite.

More Cendo!

Didn't notice you'd said this until now. I personally didn't start buying classical music until just last year. It's a slowly growing interest of mine, but just the 10 or so CD's that I have so far contain a LOT to absorb. I don't swing by this thread so often because I don't listen to classical so often. But when I'm in the mood, it's great. I might be a bit more active in here in a year or two... right now, I'm carefully feeling my way forward - one step at a time.

Gerard Grisey - Les Espaces Acoustiques

Pretty sure that this video has regional descriptions. It's this version
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"regional descriptions"?

It's like age descriptions, where they describe what age something is appropriate for.

*restriptions

My bad

Fair enough :) Of course, I only made the thread last week and you've been the most active poster other than me. It's interesting (and great) that you have taken to Schoenberg the most, as he's often considered to be quite difficult. Which works of his have you listened to?

There's just something about his music that grabs me. It really seems to come alive. I've got a CD with a work named Pelleas und Melisande. It's the only thing I've familiarized myself with so far, but I've owned this CD for quite a while by now. I'll definitely get some more Schöenberg when the opportunity presents itself (a local record store that I frequent has a large classical section that I skim now and then. It's unsorted, so I just get lucky and find something good now and then).

Ahh, Pelleas is from before his switch to atonality, which is the point when lots of people seem to lose interest: of course, it's their loss as those who do 'get' him tend to consider him to be one of the greatest composers, whether it's his tonal, atonal, or twelve-tone music. I'd suggest Verklärte Nacht and then Gurre-Lieder for the next Schoenberg to explore: they are just as good as the (fantastic) Pelleas, and from the same period of his life.

Beautiful piece.

I'm thinking I must have heard some of his later stuff already, but I'm not good with names on classical pieces.

Oh and a couple days ago I got two new CD's, so I've been listening to some Bartók (string quartets) and some Mussorgsky (Pictures at an exhibition plus various other, smaller piano pieces). Getting along with both really well so far :)

Great choices :beer:

Haha this is cool: a quartet for PS4 controllers...

My response to Liszt's Transcendental Etudes is quite typical of my response to this composer lately: I really like the music overall, but there's also quite a bit of frustration as I listen through them. Many of them have truly jaw-dropping and wonderful sections, but -even in my favourites- there's also a fair bit that strikes me as either lazy composition or flat out misjudgements.

Flawed, but highly enjoyable and extremely inventive for their time.

I listened to Trifonov's recording today and he's certainly among the best I've heard. There's no complete video on youtube, so here are my favourites from the set:

Harmonies du Soir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyR8iwWfWMA

Allegro Agitato Motlo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pgTXJPdaEI

Molto-Vivace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7kJJp-qkOY

Vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVJN5CwB6O0

Chasse-Neige: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwQsv1i3tCg

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Highlight:

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T̶h̶e̶ ̶F̶r̶i̶e̶d̶ ̶B̶r̶i̶d̶e̶
The Bartered Bride

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Good.

Brilliant.

Prokofiev's 'War Sonatas' are some of my favourite piano works, and this CD contains great recordings of two of them (usually regarded as the best two by those who know all three well, but the seventh is the most popular).

Mother****er just shredding the whole damn time.

I listen to piano music...and early renaissance stuff

Got this CD of a Danish choir, performed in their church. Sounds really good.

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Lush

Rachmaninov piano concertos played by Ashkenazy.

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Call me a plebe but every track is beautiful

Giulio Regondi's Fête Villageoise performed by Leif Christensen