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You Are A Werewolf posted:I have a few E. Power Biggs albums of Bach organ music. They’re dope. IIRC I scored like 30GB of ratio ripping the top one for a What.CD bounty like 14 years ago from a copy in a local library, so when I saw a copy at Value Village a couple months ago in mint condition for $1.00 I couldn't pass it up. Aside from that I'm partial to Herb V Karajan and have his version of Holst's Planets Suite on Decca, which is dope as hell in its original pressing midcentury album artwork.  When I die I want Jupiter played at my funeral.
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I also really enjoy original solo instrumental mallet performance (primarily vibraphone) but there is shockingly little recorded material available. I'm talking just mallet instruments, no piano accompaniment, no strings, no bongos, nothing else. Not that that's strictly "classical" per se, but then again neither are Debussy or Chopin if you want to get technical. I made my own spotify playlist a couple years ago with everything I could find that was even remotely in the ballpark and it was just a few minutes shy of 7 hours with a lot of caveat stuff that had accompaniments I wasn't entirely enthralled about. I should probably have another go at making that same playlist again though to see what's become newly available since then.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2Sti1Xx5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0qffO4dF0o
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I've often pondered the relationship between Ravel's Bolero and Ravel's progressive neuro-degenerative brain disorder that resulted in his death after watching this Nova documentary about it that I can only find this clip of here. I would urge anyone reading this to find it as it's very much worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT2hV8zh_7Y Again, the pedant in me has to qualify that Ravel isn't technically classical music, as he was a 20th century composer, but I feel the above worth mentioning in this thread because I will never not listen to Bolero if it presents itself. e: ^^^ 
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syntaxfunction posted:The definition of classical music is vague as hell anyway, given that a lot of the music self-identifying classical musicians play is from the romantic era, or baroque, along with classical and neoclassical/contemporary classical. Classical music just refers broadly to an orchestra based arrangement or a smaller arrangement of traditional orchestral instruments, playing in the style of. In popular lexicon, yes, “classical” music is a catch-all phrase to denote exactly what you’ve described here. However, I decided it would be a great idea* to get a bachelor of music degree to tell you that, apart from the popular lexical usage and in the context of formal study, classical music has a relatively set definition and is inclusive of something like the width and breadth of the European musical envelope of 18th Century and then a little bit more until Beethoven died, and then other compositional styles break off and develop their own lineages from there, but unless you know why it’s different then it might as well all be called classical music. I exist in a state of knowing but not knowing if the person I’m talking to knows or cares. I also wish I did not know or care. *It was decidedly not a great idea, and I would not recommend it.
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