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2012-06-14, 09:59:49
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I've only just realized how much I enjoy it and I don't really know where to begin. if only there was a beatport for this sort of thing
also recognized Frederic Chopin's 'Raindrops' at the end of Prometheus. was quite moving. |
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2012-06-25, 05:55:56
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Alrighty, where to begin? You've expressed an interest in piano works (it's what i gravitated towards first, too), so here's an assortment of short solo bits, from 1700 to a few years ago:
Bach's Prelude 21: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Zi9R4a0C4 Chopin's Waltz in B Minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQVngbDTAZ0 Philip Glass' Metamorphosis Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYhHsOiR_A0 Balakirev's Islamey (Frankly a ridiculous feat to actually play.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5raMK4Z9cop Erik Satie's Trois Gymnopedies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DBoiyBoJ8 Liszt/Paganini's La Campanellahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQULyGMhhWs Einaudi's Oltremare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8MzHqkNBwo Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableaux In C Minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET0iHSxEaW0 Piano ensembles: Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfGDqXEFkE Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody Number 2 (With the legendary video :D): Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0kXDMKiLg Mozart's Piano Concerto 21: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2uYb6bMKyI Brahms' Piano Concerto 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r5EAdsG1jU And for chamber/orchestral works, awesome starting places are unsurprisingly the fairly obvious ones: Vivaldi's Four Seasons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA (First movement of Winter is a bang0r.) Dvorak's Ninth Symphony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETNoPqYAIPI (See how many times you can find where John Williams has borrowed bits for Star Wars, Jaws etc ;)) Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PYYiQlD4o Shostakovich's Suite for Variety Orchestra (Less obvious, but Waltz 2 that was used in Eyes Wide Shut is Gangsta.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goJLC1WeHdM Some other stuff that's good to investigate: Chopin's Nocturnes and Waltzes, then the 24 Etudes. J.S Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, and the French Suites. Beethoven's 5th, 7th and 9th symphonies. Then the others. There's only 9 and they're all awesome. Anything by W.A Mozart. Far too many Piano Concertos and Sonatas, with an obscene consistency. I'm no where near through listening to the lot. Infuriating amounts of symphonies, too, with Jupiter being my favourite. Bizet's 'L'Arlessienne' suite. Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. Popular pianists that are worth looking out for are: Daniel Barenboim (Anything) Glenn Gould (Bach) Lang Lang (Liszt) Yuja Wang (Anything on youtube, she's hot as hell) Murray Perahia (Chopin, Etudes are excellent) Evgeny Kissin (Chopin Preludes, Mozart, Brahms) If there's much stuff you enjoy from that overview i could easily point you in the direction of similar things ;) The classical Beatport is probably Naxos. Good service, but if you have Spotify premium there isn't too much point. (I also am aware that i have written far too much, i've just quit smoking and it's all i can do to not headbutt the desk until i pass out.) Now this is how it started, my dreams all broken hearted yet i want you, baby. |
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2012-06-25, 06:32:39
Post: #3
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(2012-06-25 05:55:56)TempestDisco Wrote: Alrighty, where to begin? You've expressed an interest in piano works (it's what i gravitated towards first, too), so here's an assortment of short solo bits, from 1700 to a few years ago: thank you for this What was once a clean, respectable jazz club had turned into a drug-filled disco shithole - Frank Reynolds |
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2012-06-25, 19:40:17
Post: #4
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Top marks for Tempest there for most helpful post ever!
http://soundcloud.com/evangelink88 (2012-08-25 16:17:54)TempestDisco Wrote: BRWEEEEEEEEAGH BURR BURR BURR |
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2012-06-26, 03:07:36
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To be fair, you'd find it hard to outwit gravel -SSD o Twit Twoo o Soundcloud ^ New side project of mine ^ |
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2012-06-26, 08:10:37
Post: #6
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good guy tempest. you've given me a lot to go through - just what needed! much obliged ^_^
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2012-06-27, 23:11:54
Post: #7
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(2012-06-25 05:55:56)TempestDisco Wrote: Alrighty, where to begin? You've expressed an interest in piano works (it's what i gravitated towards first, too), so here's an assortment of short solo bits, from 1700 to a few years ago: HERO! |
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2012-06-30, 04:35:26
Post: #8
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I love pretty much anything by Gershwin. Not technically from a classical period, but great piano arrangements nonetheless, some with hints of jazz in them.
Edit: Also Zimerman is a top pianist, no matter what people say about his posture. |
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2012-07-10, 00:29:10
Post: #9
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I get to see the L.A. Philharmonic perform Beethoven's 7th and his Violin Concerto in August. The Allegretto in the 7th is maybe one of my favorite pieces of classical music.
Some of my other favorites: 1.) Bach's Orchestral Suite No.3 (Air) There's a video of Sarah cheng playing the "Air on the G String" adaptation on YouTube that's amazing. 2.) Bach's Goldberg Variation 3.2 (Aria) 3.) Bach's Chaconne from his Partita for Violin No. 2 Considered one of the most amazing violin pieces of all time. It's seriously mind blowing. "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind" - Brahms on Bach's Chaconne |
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