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They are all excellent, but the fifteenth, Op. 132, especially the third movement is one of my very favorite pieces of music. It was written as a sort of thanksgiving after he had recovered from some illness, but it has always seemed to me like music written for a departed loved one who’d suffered from a long illness or something. To me it has this great sense of loss and sadness, but also an acceptance or solace within that loss. It moves from hauntingly sad to sort of triumphant and then back to a sadness of sorts. Sort of ‘I miss my friend horribly and hate for him to have died but I’m glad he’s not in pain anymore, but then back to I still miss him and wish he were here’ and ends sort of still a little sad. Like much of Beethoven, it makes me feel a lot of feelings.
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I think the overture to 'The Magic Flute' is one of the most delightful pieces of music-along with the rest of the opera-ever written and want to expand my opera listening beyond just Mozart. I really love Handel-I've been listening to the 'The Messiah' the past few nights-and someone told me once that he wrote some good operas. Any suggestions? Or just other good classical/18th century operas? Call me a philistine, but I just don't love romantic/post-Beethoven stuff so much.
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Oct 24, 2018 01:23
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Since there's like a hundred of them, what are some of the best/your favorite Haydn symphonies? And is there a good recording/collection of all of them?
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Dec 9, 2018 03:34
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Thanks for the suggestions! I ordered the Adam Fischer collection and I'll work my way through. There's a good complete set of Haydn's string quartets by the Emerson String Quartet that I love zenguitarman posted:Not always thrilled by Haydn but I recently performed the Harmoniemesse which has some nice moments in it. Some of those fugues are pretty wicked. Mederlock posted:I absolutely adore this recording of the so-called 'London symphonies'. George Szell is one of the greats of conducting, and the Cleveland Orchestra just knocks it out of the park. I can't recommend it enough! https://open.spotify.com/album/3FoSzbNV0RAKdO2OgiLALo?si=ElNdbESsR5KlReAgipfGTw
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Dec 13, 2018 02:32
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Goon Danton posted:I've been listening to the local classical station during my commutes, and I've learned enough through osmosis that I can tell when the station RDS is broken if it's playing Mozart and saying it's Wagner, but that's about the extent of my knowledge. Is there a good primer on how to listen to classical music? https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Guid...683169761&psc=1 And there's a few more of these Leonard Bernstein videos floating around that are great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt2zubHcER4 I mostly just sort of passively enjoy classical music and don't really know what theoretically/technically makes me like some of it and not like other things. I love Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Bach, and a bunch of random 18th c. Italians, but for whatever reason most of what comes after Beethoven-except Chopin and a few others-doesn't really do much for me.
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Jan 19, 2019 01:35
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Today's google doodle is kind of fun: https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-johann-sebastian-bach
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Mar 22, 2019 02:47
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It seems to be Messiah season and gosh does it sound just as good as ever.
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Nov 6, 2019 03:05
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zenguitarman posted:Yeah, it's real good. I wish I was a bass so I could sing all the bass arias.
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Nov 7, 2019 01:37
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Like a month late here because I forgot about this thread, but despite a huge budget and pretty decent ticket sales and donations, the Met is pretty much always in mediocre to terrible financial shape, and (like every house in NYC) very heavily union and those union employees are expensive af. Obviously I'm sympathetic to the people laid off, but I think for the continued financial viability of the met it was probably the right decision, especially since most of their patrons are old/at risk, and whenever theaters are allowed to reopen (and I imagine they will be among the very last places) I would imagine a whole lot of their usual patrons don't show up. A friend of mine works at the Goodman in Chicago and was telling me about their trials and tribulations, and I hadn't really processed the full impact of the 'rona on live theaters/the performing arts at all. They would love to stream past performances etc. to their season ticketholders and donors, but their agreement with Actor's Equity won't let them without paying royalties they can't really afford right now to the actors, who I am sure need them just as badly. They're trying to fund-raise with no season and 2 shows they've paid for but been unable to perform (and sell tickets too), no idea what/if their season is going to be next yr and oh yeah all their donors' stock portfolios just shrunk by 25%. It's always hard times for performing arts organizations, but it's really hard times now, so throw them some dollars for making the world a more beautiful and bearable place if you can! ...and that concludes the spring pledge drive here on WVXY, your local public radio and classical music station. Anyway, I'm listening to Beethoven's String Quartet no. 15 and it's one of my favorite pieces of music, and here is a really great and interesting Goldberg Variations by Sokolov that you can't gt a real damned recording of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWfJR31XwU&t=8s
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May 1, 2020 02:50
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There is an incredible recording of her playing something by Haydn? IIRC and it is the prettiest/saddest cello music ever, but I can't remember what it is 
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May 3, 2020 02:19
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I listened to some of Handel's operas today at work- 'Giulio Cesare' and 'Alcina'-and they were very pleasant. Any others in particular I should investigate?
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Aug 11, 2020 02:28
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I've been listening to some Mozart horn concertos and they are great. I could really just listen to Mozart for forever.
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Oct 30, 2020 02:13
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I accidently spent all afternoon with the Haydn trumpet concerto in E- flat on in the background and it was wonderful. I listen to NPR classical like Performance Today alot and I can occasionally get into more modern or romantic stuff, but really the 18th C. is my jam. I love Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and to a lesser extent Bach and Beethoven, but I really haven't listened to a ton besides them, and even within their work my knowledge is definitely not broad-mostly operas, symphonies and string quartets and quintets. What else should I check out? I've listened to a bit some Italians of the same period-Locatelli, Scarlatti and Veracini I think, and I think I've really liked stuff by one of Bach's sons but I can't remember which. Is there a good Great Courses or youtube or something on audible that's like a music history/appreciation/theory book/class/lecture I should know about, preferably with bits of the music in it? Like what makes Bach sound like Bach and Baroque and what makes Mozart sound like Mozart? It would be neat to understand why I like XYZ music so much.
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May 19, 2021 02:07
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Thanks for all the great recommendations-I'm checking a bunch of them out! I also found a 180hr long, complete works of Mozart playlist on spotify and that's been my jam lately, lol.
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May 22, 2021 16:19
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Why does spotify make trying to find classical music so difficult? Is there a better streaming thing for classical? It has lots of great recordings but makes them impossible to find because it doesn't distinguish between composer and performer
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Jul 6, 2021 02:04
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I just listen to all the pretty music and don’t really care about the plot. Mozart’s operas all have very nice music to listen to and are very accessible-the plots are mostly pretty silly anyway. Find a recording that cuts out all the spoken parts and just has the real music parts if that’s what you want to do. Most visual recordings of performances have subtitles, and live performances sometimes even have a translation projected in English somewhere.
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Aug 16, 2021 12:56
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I’m listening to Beethoven’s 5th symphony for the umpteenth time but really paying attention and he is such a loving tease in the third movement. Just keeps getting sooooo close to resolving all that tension but will not let you get there. You think finally this insane coda is gonna do it but nope, ends in weird funky chord that still doesn’t take you back home. Big thanks to whoever recommended that Robert Greenberg Great courses thing upthread! It’s really been amazing. I’m still on Mozart but having a little bit of an understanding of what a classical symphony is supposed to do has made me appreciate fir the first time how different Beethoven really is, at least by symphony #5. It’s…..definitely not classical anymore.
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Sep 27, 2021 01:02
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stealie72 posted:No, good suggestion, along with the other ones. Handel’s ‘Messiah’ isn’t really Christmas music per se, but I listen to it a lot this time of year. I like the London Symphony Orchestra’s recording with Sir Colin Davis and Susan Gritton et al. I like a lot of the lessons and carols recordings from various British cathedrals/schools too.
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Dec 13, 2021 03:08
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BWV posted:I've been making way through some Handel concerto grossi and trio sonatas (playing pocket scores on keyboard ) and I'm constantly amazed how deep his bag is. And what I like about it (as opposed to Bach or Corelli even) is he really really knows when he has a killer hook so he comes back to it 2-3 times and really milks it. Plus you can sorta tell in the slower movements how he's teasing out a future aria. Good poo poo !
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stealie72 posted:Perhaps a dumb question:
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BWV posted:One thing I adore about Mozart is the way you think you know where he's going with it but then he does something wonderfully clever and elegant that you never expected but makes complete sense. e: mozart is also really consistently good. I'm not super familiar with his early stuff, but pick basically any Mozart symphony and it's gonna be fantastic. Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Feb 26, 2023 |
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