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The best piece of "classical" music ever is The Planets by Gustav Holst. The entire suite is about 50 minutes long, which may seem like a lot at first- but it has seven movements, each with their own unique characteristics. The entire work is available online here for free, and although the playing isn't so great and the solos sometimes suck in this recording, it's pretty good overall.
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breaks posted:If you like big and dramatic, you might check out some of Mahler's symphonies. He was a late Romantic guy, about a hundred years after Mozart, and his work is nothing if not big and dramatic. For example, the end of his 2nd is awesomely over-the-top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsicaSxh7_Y Seconding that bit about the end of Mahler's 2nd Symphony. He calls for a group of brass players and percussionists to go off stage, and it creates this eerie distant effect that adds to the already ridiculous raucousness of the piece.
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Dec 24, 2010 06:27
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uXs posted:Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz Funny story about Bolero- some people think that the song was a product of some sort of dementia, and Ravel himself hated the piece. Also it's one of the few orchestral pieces ever to call for a sopranino saxophone.
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Dec 25, 2010 19:26
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Some website that does bigraphies posted:Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphonies, masses, and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Unlike other radicals, such as Wagner or Hugo Wolf who fit the enfant terrible mold, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. His works, the symphonies in particular, have detractors (especially in English-speaking countries) who point to their large size, their use of repetition, Bruckner's propensity to revise many of his works, often with the assistance of colleagues, and his apparent indecision about which versions he preferred. Anton Bruckner wrote quite a few symphonies. They're all very good, but one of my favorites is his Symphony No. 8, also known as The Apocalyptic. It's really long, running up to 103 minutes in some cases. Give it a listen though, and you'll fall in love with Bruckner. One thing about this work that separates it from a lot of other works during that era is the use of Wagner Tubas.
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Dec 27, 2010 20:00
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Jinnigan posted:Can you guys recommend me some classical music that's good for ear training and theory training? Bach. Bach Bach Bach Bach. Pretty much anything by him is going to have tons of examples of anything you could wish. I really like his inventions, the Well Tempered Clavier, and his fugues for organ. All of them are awesome.
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Jan 4, 2011 04:11
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If you want something completely out of character with the rest of the stuff in this thread, check out Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Granger. A masochist and a xenophobe, Granger at one point spent years travelling around collecting traditional English folk songs on wax cylinders. He set six of them for wind band, and Lincolnshire Posy was the result. It's one of the hardest pieces to play for a wind ensemble, and even professionals have trouble with it. Movement 1 Movement 2 Movement 3 Movement 4 Movement 5 Movement 6
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Jan 27, 2011 00:18
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A long time ago, I watched a video of an Eastern European or Russian cello soloist with piano accompaniment. The soloist was rather large, the girl turning the pianist's pages was mousy-looking, the music was atonal, and the whole atmosphere of the video was very dark. It's a long shot, but does anybody know what video I'm talking about?
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This tuba solo was supposedly written in one afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inD3o1Pt6ew
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