Verklarte Nacht by Arnold Schoenberg Wildcard pick is Anthem by Jessie Montgomery
Chopin Nocturne no. 8 op. 27 no. 2 slaps
This piece is a trip. Classical music names are dumb af but what wold you call this piece? It’s beyond words. Fun annotated version here
I cannot thank you enough for these recommendations. Love classical music but don't venture much outside Bach these days. I miss going to see concerts dearly. Glad you love Yuja too, feel like she gets so much bizarre hate from the Classical Is Honorable and Proud crowd.
Totally agreed. There's a youth club thing for my local orchestra but it's full of a) people who just want video game/movie scores or b) people who want to be pretentious about how Classical is the Only Music and Hip Hop needs to Die. It sucks. I wish more of us loved classical music alongside other genres. It's just good music!
Love Adorno but his opinions on music (and specifically jazz) are uuuhhhhhhh Not Good.
Also agree. I think a lot of it comes down to repetitions of leitmotifs and instrumentation building on itself. Classical music proper (even for leitmotif heavy composers like Wagner) has a lot less "oh remember this sound!" Likewise, it's also OK with having quiet moments, whereas soundtracks are always Loud.
Same really, don't know people that will talk about this sort of stuff since my lessons with my piano teacher ended. Not like I can even get out to meet new people that like it either. /shrug
Probably a basic bitch answer, but Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Solo Piano: some well known, some not
- Impressionist Liszt is best Liszt but Funerailles is great. It was explicitly written in response to the failed 1848 Hungarian Revolution. His B minor piano sonata is also the best piano sonata
- Favorite Debussy is hard but its probably this, L'isle Joyeuse
- Pictures at Exhibition, my favorite recording is with Pletnev but it got taken off youtube so Kissin will do
- Some Spanish flare, Granados' Goyescas
- I generally prefer early Scriabin like his Fantasie but Vers la flamme is great
- When your parents tell you banging on the piano isn't music show them this, Three Irish Legends especially the last one you have to smash the piano with both arms
- Of course, the honorable mentions--all of Chopin and Rachmaninoff solo piano works
Everything else:
- Bach Chaconne the original violin, though the piano version is nice too. Contender for the best thing ever written
- All of Mahler (except 4) but especially the Adagietto of the 5th
- Schoenberg before he went into his serialism phase Verklärte Nacht
- Rach 3 I think is my favorite of his piano concertos but 2 is a very close second
- Don't usually like transcriptions of piano pieces but this one of the Chopin Etude op.25 no.7 is pretty dope
- More modern, Peteris Vasks Vientulais Engelis
- Can't pick an Arvo Part, listen to all of it
- Richter's Mercy is my current favorite of his though the one that was in Arrival, On the Nature of Daylight is probably the best
When it comes to banging on a piano I tend to think of the end of Rzewski's Cotton Mill Blues.
Also the carnival of animals is fantastic, especially Aquarium should be popular here :pete:
very popular / well known one, but In the Hall of the Mountain King is up there for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UctriMuXYS0 hehehheeh :mao-aggro-shining:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKUdA2AsgXQ heheHEhe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98d_GouBPQ HEHEHEH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5X2BvMS4yQ HehEHEHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJmGaBMQJ8 hahehe
Rachmaninoff's All-night Vigil is one of my all-time favorite choral pieces
I would say the first movement but that’s been spoiled for me somewhat since I’ve played an arrangement of it myself, so probably the third movement. I like the technicality of the part that’s about a minute into it.
Everyone loves 1812, but Tchaikovsky's Slave March is an absolute banger. Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade is also incredible.
Would highly recommend the Leif Segerstam recording of the Scheherezade, it's incredible: https://youtu.be/zY4w4_W30aQ?t=2687
Technically cheating since I'm not picking a specific piece, but Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is great.
Isle of the Dead remains possibly my favourite piece of music; the swaying as emphasis shifts between the 3rd and 4th beats never fails to suck me in entirely.
