Friendly reminder that if you don't listen to classical,

>Friendly reminder that if you don't listen to classical, you're missing out on THE greatest music ever made. You are a pleb.

FTFY

>>74832613
most likely I am, does anyone have a list of classical artists that are essential? I know it's probably a plebby approach but I have no idea where to start but it's something I'm genuinely interest in.

>>74832613
This is how I feel about second wave post-rock. Don't get memed.

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Can you spell "classical" without "ass"? I'm not trying to meme, I'm being completely serious here

I picked up a Beethoven collection and I've been loving it for the last few months, where do I go after Beetee boi? I tried to do a spotify radio thing, but it all sounded way shittier

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>>74832694
Western Art Music

>>74832654
Start with the greeks

>>74832654
bach is the greatest technical composer on clavi(piano)forms. possibly followed by liszt. bach's contrapuntal bass is legendary. better than any funk groove or bruce dinosaur stomp.

yeah but ill like look a pretentious faggot if i listen to classical so it's not worth it

Why is early vocal music so good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3V2eRwoWEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDOENZediM8

>>74832818
op here
I take back what I said, you specifically are a pleb

>>74832654
I personally suggest Verdi, Edvard Grieg, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and while I know it's Opera and not technically Classical I suggest Carl Maria von Weber's Der Frieschutz.


I'll also leave one of my favorite compositions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM

Just started listening a few weeks ago, Beethoven and Dvoraks 9th pulled me in. Now I'm on Mahler the finale to his 2nd is dope.

>>74832738
This is pretty accessible, plus I'd fucking go to war with finale playing in the background. It's about a famous composers brief trip to America and his experience there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETNoPqYAIPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8z1_A-Zlbw

One of the best pieces of classical that I would recommend for new listeners is Mussorgsky's Picture's At An Exhibition. It works great for people used to the modern album format especially since you can more or less envision each segment as songs that together make up a ~30 minute concept album, with the recurring motifs and all.

I'd also recommend looking through the wikipedia page while listening so you can get background on the paintings that inspired it as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition

>>74832654
I assembled a great stereo system in 2006 and set off on a quest like this.. ten years on and I can say confidently I know what I like and have amassed a CD collection of great music.

I spent tons of hours on Amazon checking samples and reading reviews of CDs and buying them used.

protip.. the late 19th early 20th century chamber music (mostly French) is what I have found I like best

check into String Quartets my friend and you will have found something wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVVONYkivM

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>>74832613

Classical guitar teacher here. Here's some stuff I have been digging lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVL2U6G-W0
A lesser known Italian composer. Most of his compositions are on classical guitar which I like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmdGbUzv4SM
If you are new to classical music, just look up performances by Evgeny Kissin. He has a huge repertoire of greaty stuff. The composer of this piece "Scriabin" is a lesser-known composer in Russia, dude was a crazy occultist, but he wrote some very interesting stuff ahead of it's time. Some of it kinda sounds like dark modern jazz.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs
This is an American composer. He writes a lot of music as an ode to rural Americans or "average" people, which I like a lot. The composition kinda has a corny bluegrass/folk vibe to it, but it is a classic if you are an American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9DlMNnpPM
If you're new to Bach, you have to listen to this piece. By far one of the most insane pieces he ever composed. This is an arrangement by Busconi, he made it a little dreamier sounding. I really love the part beginning around 10:40 (you really gotta hear the whole thing in context tho). The piece was written after Bach's wife died. The beginning I think is supposed to be Bach acknowledging her death and embracing the sorrow, and then 2nd part is supposed to be her ascending to heaven, and the last part is him coming to the realization that he is still sad that she is dead despite going to heaven.

>>74832613
I seriously hope you don't consider Beethoven the defintion of Classic Music...


There is more colour, balance, and emotion in a simple march by Mozart than the entirety of Beethoven's life's work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quxTnEEETbo

I appreciate classical music, but I don't go out of my way to listen to it because it's never pleased my ears quite like a modern rock song.

>>74833736
Both are very good composers. They helped define and shape the Classical community for generations.
That being said Requiem is one of my all time favorite works. Even if it wasn't ENTIRELY Mozart.

>>74833655
Helene can kill me her Beethoven's PC 5 second movement has ruined this world for me. who can go on living?

https://youtu.be/FcTs9s89quM?t=118

all classical music sounds the same.
discuss.

>>74833803
all genres sound the same if you barely listen to them

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>>74833803
(You)

>>74833798
>>74833798
Never really liked Beethoven much, except this fucking piece right here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQn4Qfy_Bek

Look at the sweat dripping off of his face, hair literally falling out of his head all over the place. Fucking sweet.

I prefer Tchaikovsky to Beethoven for big emotional soundscapes tho. Tchaikovsky makes me want to cry so I just don't listen to him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWerj8FcprM

>>74833771
>never pleased my ears quite like a modern rock song
>modern rock

I didn't know such a thing existed

>>74833803
If you are not really into classical music, you have to start out by listening to soloists.

Big symphony movements can just sound like a wall of noise to noobs.

But yeah compare composers like Scriabin, Roland Dyens, Chopin, and Debussy, none of them sound similar at all.

If you can make it through this piece without feeling emotional, you are a robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRpAat5oz0

The beginning sounds weird and goofy, but after you get through the first chorus, it all makes sense.

>>74833961
>all of those shots of Europeans crying

>>74833961
Andre Rieu is plebeian as fuck. Classical for people who don't like Classical.

>>74833961
I have never encountered a piece that has made me cry.

This. This came very very close to making me.

>>74832654
just check the /classical/ op

>>74833875
>Tchaikovsky
was a fudge packer

Beethoven was a Genius

>>74834022
>Classical for people who don't like Classical.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Rieu
>as successful as some of the biggest global pop and rock music acts
>Few in his audiences are regular classical music attendees
>Rieu's focus is on highly accessible, enjoyable repertoire
KEK

>>74834022
Ok he may be a bit Plebeian, but that doesn't mean you can't admire the tone and composure of his music. I mean sure it may not be the most complex stuff, certainly not the most emotional, but it's still better than what some people in modern times can manage.

Let's try not to be elitist shall we? Music is still Music, and plus hey, some of the people in this thread have stated they're only just recently coming into Classical.

>>74832904
kek

>>74834022
Andre Rieu didn't write that piece, Astor Piazzolla id who is an absolute fucking legend.

Yeah I agree I don't like Andre much, but that is a great arrangement of Adios Nonino.

Let's pair up a classical artist with the mood of a modern artist. For instance, Penderecki was the Merzbow of his day.

>>74834129
John Cage = The Gerogerigegege

>>74834129
Nah, that's Xenakis.

Plebs listen Andre Rieu

Patricians listen to based Lang Lang


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWYmUZTYE78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYO9gTmCJTE

>>74834236
You guys understand that Astor Piazzolla wrote that piece, not Andre Rieu right?

Lang Lang is alright but I prefer Evgeny Kissin

Check out Yo Yo Ma playing another sick fucking Astor Piazzolla piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKOWtdyGM_c

>>74832654
Yo dawg, first check out some most heard names like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky yada yada the essential shit. You can just hit the most viewed stuff on youtube for starters.
Once you're in, lurk these two mad russians Rakhmaninov and Stravinsky. It's not "classical", rather just academic music but damn those two make some intense shit. Stravinsky is probably my goat composer atm.

Bela Bartok is the new hip thang. His approach to arranging strings is pretty fucking dope actually.

>>74834304
i can tell youre 14 by the way you type

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>>74834322
I can tell you're a faggot by the way you type.

>>74834304
*Rachmaninov

but on that note, this piece is by far one of my favorites by him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbtmskCRUY

>>74834387
Good shit senpai, but how about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXrQq2x2oNI

>>74834442
Excellent choice my nigga, great composition.

>>74832613
>listening to music
Oh gee let me just sit down for an extended period of time and HEAR SOUNDS. Lmao what a piss poor excuse for a hobby. Like oh what are some of you hobbies? I like to lay down and breath. I dont know, blinking is pretty fun. Like seriously guys?

I always imagine staring out of the window during heavy rain in 1930-1940 western europe while listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2i_QmgAJn0

It's kinda mixed feel of heroic melancholy if that makes any sense. Great piece

>>74834583
Holy shit Chopin is one of my favorite composers. His music has aged really well.

This is my favorite heroic-ish song he wrote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlyKTyFfrs

>>74832859
modes and god

>>74834617
I always liked this more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVsGf1ag6Us

And that his nocturne op 9 I think? Great nightly stuff

>>74832613
nah its gay af
Listen to airs, laments and stuff
https://m..com/watch?v=1tm9OdXsIg0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j43u2wZpxC0&itct=CBIQpDAYACITCMzY7ujh-9UCFUJYHAodIMgCJTIHcmVsYXRlZEjMhLfS8pOyjpwB
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jCsqPbHiU5g

>>74834660
Nice

>>74834691
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1tm9OdXsIg0
First link broke

>>74834554
Music is sound ya know?
You are meant to listen to it. Why what do you do?
Do you suck it up your arse and convert it into bullshit that comes out of your mouth?

>>74833187
Anyone know what the best version of this is on spotify?

>>74832654
Mozart is THE greatest composer of all time and his corpus is so vast that you pretty much do not need to listen to any other composer.

However, Mozart is really hard to get for most people.

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>>74834840
>listening to music
>not exclusively reading scores
lmao @ your life

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>>74835063
>sitting on a chair
>not exclusively reading the assembly instructions

>>74835084
Thanks for proving my point, chairs are quite literally degenerate.

Beethoven is some pleb shit. Listen to some of the 19th century Russian composers if you want real music.

>>74834304
Yeah but there's literally hundreds of performers doing Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart.

Are they literally all the same and worth listening too?

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>>74832904
>I take back what I said, you specifically are a pleb

>>74834995
No idea what is on cpotify but Kertész, Kubelik or Reiner are great.

CLASSICAL IS WACK SHIT YO!

>>74832654
>>74832772
Start with the polyphonic monks.

>>74834554
Really dumb bait? You're on a music board.

This kind of music isn't made anymore for good reason. Let it go already.

>>74837603
Actually it still is made, you fucking retard.

>>74837603
Way to oust yourself as a complete idiot so I didn't have to

>>74837624
Yawn. Nobody's listening.

>>74837648
>>74837603
work harder on your b8

>>74832613
I like Dmitri Shostakovich as a newcomer.
But I'll stick to my popular music.

>>74832613
>implying any single composer could come up with anything as interesting as the interplay of a group of excellent musicians

I like french/bach baroque, romantic and ballet music I like classical.
I think symphonies/mozart-beethoven-schubert etc are too difficult to understand and I don't like it.
I don't understand why they're so popular though ahaha. Maybe i'm just dumb.

>>74837648
Go be a retard somewhere else.

>>74837692
that's called jazz, anon

>>74837706
Radiohead isn't jazz.

>>74837695
This ain't your safespace, snowflake.

>>74837718
but you said excellent musicians

>>74837718
but you said interesting

>>74837718
BWAHAHAHAHA
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Please tell me you're falseflagging obnoxious dumb radiohead fanboys and not serious.

>>74837740
>>74837781
>>74837794
That was another anon.

>>74837603
And these are just the well known ones from the last 2 years, many more that didn't make these lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_classical_music#New_works

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_in_classical_music#New_works

Educate yourself

>>74837692
>Implying different musicians who actually have to be able to play their parts could attain the level of taste, complexity and coherency of a single composer who doesn't have to actually play the music, but merely write what he wants and get the best performers in the world to play it for the rest of time.

There's a reason bands don't write fugues - shit takes actual skill

>>74838013
Wrong but k.

>>74834387
*Rachmaninoff

>>74833771
You clearly need to listen to more music.

Does a compilation of Schoenberg's complete works exist?

>>74838297
Don't think so. There is an 11CD of Boulez conducting but it is missing much and two naxos boxes with much of the same by Craft but he is usually shit.

>>74832738
did it have any of his chamber music?

also Mozart, Brahms, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert for recs

>>74838297
(((schoenberg)))

I'm a big fan of string concertos, symphonies, and chamber pieces. Can anyone rec me some organ pieces.

>>74838445
Yeah, yeah, it's hilarious.

>>74838445
Jews make the best composers.

>>74838488
Organ symphonies from - Saint-Saens, Poulenc, Widor (particularly no. 5)
Organ concertos - Handel
Bach, Franck, Messiaen - various

>>74834129
who was the lil yachty of classical music?

OP obviously hasn't heard new Taylor Swift song