classical music

[Grotocult]

which is as good as Mozart's Requiem: go!

No Zorn. No "Kronos Quartet". No Schoenberg or Stockhausen. Classical.

[Mr John]

I like a lot of Mahler, Saint-Saens, Holst (Planets, of course) and Wagner. Used to live with a guy who said "he was glad to be born so he could listen to the music of Bach", but I'm more of a Beethoven man myself.

Moonlight Sonata, 5th Symphony, that kind of thing.

[Eviltoastman]

I love Scriabin's Sonatas...

Yevgeny Sudbin, Scriabin's Sonata No 9 Op. 68 'Black Mass'

[Grotocult]

OK thanks...

I love Scriabin's Sonatas...

Yevgeny Sudbin, Scriabin's Sonata No 9 Op. 68 'Black Mass'

This goes into "somebody grumbling into a piano" mode.

[BABY SHAKER]

stravinsky's rites of spring and symphony of psalms and bela bartok's cantata profana.

[Eviltoastman]

Back in 2003 people were here raving about Rites of Spring. I really felt it was insipid.

[BABY SHAKER]

I usually feel that way about things people rave about as well.
seems like the higher the level of raving climbs, the lower my expectation level drops.
if a person who really knows my tastes throws a recommendation my way, I get excited,
but if there are too many bees buzzing around the hive, it just ruins it for me.
it's almost as if I approach the recommendation with a "well alright... what is so damn "great"
about this thing?" outlook. in fact, often times I will put overly hyped items on the back burner
to let cool, only to approach at a later date aka once the parade has left town.

[Eviltoastman]

It wasn't that, it felt I was listening to classical by numbers.

[BABY SHAKER]

I love classical by numbers.
up next: the film music of akira kurosawa fingerpaint toga party.
this could get messy.

[SHARPPIE]

Penderecki

oh shit...that's probably more on the kronos/zorn side.




then, uh, err......Vivaldi.

yeah. I'm going with Vivaldi.

[clitty litter]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata #8 In C Minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique" - 2. Adagio Cantabile

[Mary Hinge]

Mendelssohn - Hebrides

also love requiem, although went to see it performed at the Opera house and they failed to crank it up anywhere near loud enough. Their priority was to have it absolutely note-perfect and passion-free, so I may as well have listened to it on my iPod.

Lots of other stuff that I have no idea what it's called

[Dress Barn]

I was going to make an opera thread but if you guys don't mind I'll slide it into this one's warm buns.

any favorite opera recomendations?

[clitty litter]

musicals i like better than operas. i cant deal with soprano singers or even high altos. makes me wanna run over a cat and use the carcass for sharkbait.

the music man
porgy and bess
annie get your gun
the Whiz (wizard of oz as a black musical wif Diana Ross & MJ)
fear of a black hat

[MONDO PAIN]

Secret Chiefs 3

[Dress Barn]

I love "the Whiz"
But my all time favorite is "Jesus Christ Superstar"
That whole album is on kareoke.

[clitty litter]

oh shit i forgot Jesus Christ Superstar. damn good shit.

oh and Tommy w/ the who
s'the only Who shit i truly lub. pete townsend is the mane.

[ReverseEngineer]

the Whiz (wizard of oz as a black musical wif Diana Ross & MJ)

do you really need to explain it?

[clitty litter]

i dont know mane to me, 99% of folks here dont know shit about the modern black existance
shit i'm wantin to be some pepper upin this sea of salt
yeah im callin u come cracka-ass crackas. so whut??

[Exactly13yearsofage]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAcAWWU_0mE

[MONDO PAIN]

Would sound better with some MIKE PATTON vocal melodies over it.

[Exactly13yearsofage]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY2wvRbyJrE