Classical music

Zinath

Zinath

Zinath

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I find myself appreciating classical music more as time goes on but I really know nothing about it. I'd like to get into it properly, so if anyone could recommend a good selection of things to listen to from different periods etc. it would be great. If you could recommend specific recordings as well that would be even better.

Thanks.
 
Hmmm. Hard question.

I think perhaps you need a way into what is essentially a massive, giagantic body of work...

Thsi may be cheesy, but I remember what started my interest in classica... it was the film "Shine", its full of excellent classical music. Check it out. None of the music is played in full, so you might wish to pick up a copy of the soundtrack as well
 
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker
Ravel - Bolero
Mendelsson - Vilolin Conerto in E major
Schubert - Symphony No.5
Holst - The Planets
Johann Strauss - Blue Danube
Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite
Beethoven - All Symphonies
J.S. Bach - Toccata & Fugue
Mozart Symphony No.40

Just a few of my favorites.
 
chrisd said:
A lot of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov is incredible.
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Quoted for truth!!

A few of my favourites are:

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky - 1812 overture
Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon
Berlioz - Roman Carnival
Elgar - Cockaigne
Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
 
Check out Rachel's. I got into them through post-rock recommendations, but they are effectively classical music. Music For Egon Schiele is an excellent album.
 
I'm trying to remember the name of the string quartet / quintet who would have got top of the classical charts, however they played on electric instruments and were not allowed in the charts!! I think they were an all girl group, anyone any ideas???
 
marc_howarth said:
I'm trying to remember the name of the string quartet / quintet who would have got top of the classical charts, however they played on electric instruments and were not allowed in the charts!! I think they were an all girl group, anyone any ideas???
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Bond?
 
You want to try some of the earlier baroque stuff that you've probably heard around like Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

Then there's some more recent composers like Grieg and his excellent Peer Gynt Suites..

Also check out some extreme Niccolò Paganini, heavily influenced a lot of todays rock/metal guitarists!

Sad as it is, I tend to stay away from the "mainstream" composers such as Beethoven, Brahms 'cause they are just too pomp'n'ceremony and I prefer more diverse music.
 
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