Classical Music

[casem]

Well done Classique. I can add some more minimalists later when I have more time.

Lately I've been obsessed with Nico Muhly, a young composer who is basically living my dream life. He started with an internship with Philip Glass and has since worked with Bjork, Grizzly Bear, Antony and the Johnsons and just about every band I like. But, he's got the talent to back it up so he is deserving of his success. Here's a snippet:

[casem]

Some early hardcore minimalism:
Philip Glass, Music in Fifths:


Steve Reich, Piano Phase:


It's difficult to find good performances of these on youtube so forgive the imperfect renditions.

[mrbeuys]

Does this count? Doesn't get much more minimal:

http://www.youtube.com/v/hUJagb7hL0E&hl=en&fs=1

And Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten is just pure perfection.
Along with Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (Der Abschied) sung by Jessye Norman, which is too moving for words.

[klangspiel]

good thread. here are just some of my favourite classical music moments on the 'tube. :)
a random selection but by and large, post-serialist (mostly
in a chronological sense) in flavour with one or two others
thrown into the mix.

dumitrescu - black death and errors in construction

radulescu - das andere (i could watch and listen to this all day)

ives - 3 quarter tone pieces - allegro

crumb - black angels (still as brutal as ever)

christou - praxis for 12

ullmann - piano sonata #6

sorabji - fantaisie espagnole

sciarrino - piano sonata #3

scelsi - ko-tha i (amazing performance by this japanese chap)

haba - sonata for quarter-tone piano

kagel - siegfriedp (brilliantly performed by who else but herr palm)

lachenmann - wiegenmusik (performed by the master himself)

hindemith - piano sonata #3 (performed by mr gould)

feldman - palais de mari (performed by imo his best interpreter, john tilbury)

schnittke - concerto grosso #1 (fucking jaw-dropping ball-numbing amah-ziinnngg)

xenakis - synaphai (last but not least)

[Classique]

Casem - I like Nico Muhly orchestrating progressive music for the popular artists. As his derivative influeces: Philip Glass and the minimalist group forementioned; Work excellent in the context of avant-garde pop & indy rock. His classical compositions however, have pretty tone, but are irrelevant, for now. And his attempt at grand scale work with 'The Reader,' is the constantly cliché, romantic film score.

Josef - Arvö Part & Reich are drastically different. Reich should be compared with: Stockhausen or John Cage. Pretentiously mathematical in structured with exotic instrumentation. Percussion, tapes, etc... With classical references ranging from minimal to extreme. The music has a very abstract quality, too.

In contrast, Arvö Part is a sentimental minimalist, preoccupied by the beautiful. His instruments are timeless: Chamber strings, piano and voice predominantly. He is an intellectual with his repetition of notes / harmony. In details, every single note is crafted / selected to perfection. Silence..

[Classique]

My favorite Philip Glass...

"Heroes Symphony."

For, Bowie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOHy14MBVY

"Beauty And The Beast."

For, Cocteau...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZhVw3lI7_o

[Classique]

Baroque

J.S. Bach (Essential)

- Mass In B Minor
- St. Matthew Passion
- Goldberg Variations
- The Well-Tempered Clavier
- [6] Cello Suites
- Violin Concerto [1 + 2]
- Brandenburg Concertos
- Toccata & Fugue [+ Misc. Organ Work]

Classical: "Characterized by, or adhering to the well-ordered, chiefly homophonic musical style of the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries." Melody is dominant.

Franz Joseph Haydn

- London Symphonies
- [Quartets]

[josef_k]

i am quite aware that reich and pärt's styles differ, but I like Arvo's quote anyway, I feel that it implicates on a sense of state/being that some minimalists in general strive for.

but yeah, Arvo and Reich are hard to compare, but not impossible. :)

Have anyone mentioned Penderecki and György Ligeti? great guys.

Discovered Erwin Schulhoff yesterday, having a bit trouble finding works from him though. halp needed? :/

[Classique]

George Friedric Handel

- Messiah

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

- Don Giovanni
- Requiem
- Symphonies [40 + 41]
- Le Nozze Di Figaro
- Clarinet Concerto
- Piano Concerto[s]
- Piano Sonata[s]
- "Haydn," Quartets.
- Die Zauberflöte

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Critics argument; First 'Romantic,' or 'Last Classicist?'

- Symphonies [5 + 9]
- Fidelo
- Concerto No. 5 ["Emperor."]
- String Quartet[s]
- Piano Sonata[s]
- Violin Concerto

Romantic

Gioachino Rossini

- Il Barbiere Di Sivigla

Franz Schubert

- Symphonies [8 + 9]
- Quartet [13 + 14]
- Die Winterreise
- Lieder
- Piano Sonata [D958, D959 + D960]

Carl Maria Von Weber

- Der Freischütz

Vicenzo Bellini

- I Puritani
- Norma

Gaetano Donizetti

- Lucia Di Lammermoor

Frederic Chopin

- Nocturnes

Franz Liszt

- Faust Symphony
- Piano Work[s]

Hector Berlioz

- Symphony Fantastique

Robert Schumann

- Symphon[ies]
- Carnaval
- Fantasiestücke
- Piano Concerto

Richard Wagner

- The Ring [Cycle]
- Parsifal
- Tennhauser
- Lohengrin
- [Etc...]

[josef_k]

you know just a second ago I listened to mozart's requiem conducted by sergiu celibidache, just lovely.

we miss a bunch of great russian pianists :)

[Classique]

Johann Strauss [II]

- Waltz + Polka [Collection]

Giuseppe Verdi

- La Traviata
- Rigoletto
- Aida
- Requiem
- Otello
- [Etc...]

Cesar Franck

- Symphony
- Piano Quintet

Charles Gounod

- Faust
- Romeo et Juliette

Anton Bruckner

- Symphonies [7 + 8 + 9]

Camille Saint-Saens

- Symphony 3
- Danse Macabre
- Piano Concerto[s]

Antonin Dvorak

- Symphonies [7 + 8 + 9]

Felix Mendelssohn

- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Violin Concerto
- Symphon[ies]

Georges Bizet

- Carmen

Johannes Brahms

- Symphony [1 - 4]
- Piano Concerto[s]
- Ein Deutsches Requiem
- Piano Work[s]...

Modest Mussorgsky

- Pictures At An Exhibition
- Boris Godunov

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

- Scheherazade
- Capriccio Espagnol

Alexander Scriabin

- Piano Sonata[s]

Pyotr II'yich Tchaikovsky

- Swan Lake
- Sleeping Beauty
- The Nutcracker

Jules Massenet

- Werther

Richard Strauss

- Salome
- Also Sprach Zarathustra

Gabriel Faure

- Requiem
- Violin Sonata[s]
- Piano Work[s]...

Léo Delibes

- Lakme

[Classique]

Giacomo Puccini

- Tosca
- La Bohéme

Pietro Mascagni

- Cavalleria Rusticana

Jean Sibelius

- Symphon[ies]...

Sergey Rachmaninov

- Piano Concerto[s]
- Piano Work[s]...
- Sympho[nies]...

Impressionism / Post-Romantic / Modern...

Igor Stravinsky

- Firebird
- The Rite Of Spring

Gustav Mahler

- Symphonies [1 + 5 + 9]
- Des Lied Von De Erde

Claude Debussy

- La Mer
- Piano Work[s]...
- Peléas et Mélisande

Charles Ives

- Concord Sonata

Maurice Ravel

- Orchestral Work[s]...
- Piano Music...

Engelbert Humperdinck

- Hänsel And Gretel

Bella Bartok

- Concerto For Orchestra
- Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
- String Quartet[s]
- Bluebeard's Castle
- Piano Work[s]...

Sergey Prokofiev

- Sympho[nies]...
- Piano Concerto[s]...

Alban Berg

- Wozzeck

Dmitry Shostakovich

- Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk
- String Quartet[s]...

Edgard Varese

- Ameriques
- Arcana

Anton Von Webern

- Symphony
- Passacaglia

Bohuslav Martinu

- Symphon[ies]...
- Julietta

[Classique]

George Gershwin

- Rhapsody in Blue
- An American in Paris

Joaquin Rodrigo

- Concierto Andaluz
- Concierto Madrigal

Benjamin Britten

- War Requiem
- Peter Grimes

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

- Die Soldaten

Gyorgy Ligeti

- Atmospheres
- Chamber Concerto
- Requiem

Alfred Schnittke

- Symphon[ies]...
- Psalms Of Repentance
- Quartet[s]...

Krzysztof Penderecki

- Polish Requiem
- Devils Of Loudon
- St. Luke Passion
- Violin Concerto[s]

Henryk Gorecki

- Symphony No. 3
- String Quartet [1 + 2]

Morton Feldman

- Why Patterns?

Terry Riley

- Rainbow in Curved Air
- Riley in C

Gyorgy Kurtag

- Musik Fur Streichinstrumente

John Adams

- The Death Of Kinghoffer
- Harmonielehre
- Short Ride in a Fast Machine
- The Wound Dresser
- Fearful Symmetries
- Chamber Symphony

Osvaldo Golijov

- Youth Without Youth [Soundtrack]

The End. :)

[josef_k]

oh boy.

"I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have."

guess guess guess.

[klangspiel]

guess guess guess.