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rotinegg
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Najda
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rotinegg
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chocolatebunny
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beethoven pieces are like the antithesis of mozart pieces. they are all very dramatic and stuff. yeah. that's just my two cents on two classical composers that you might want to listen to. Edit: oh sorry. i didn't know you wanted specific pieces. well i don't really have any at the top of my head right now :\ | ||
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hongster90
Korea (South)15 Posts
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jwp36
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
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Oboeman
Canada3980 Posts
Bach's chaconne in D minor for solo violin, part 1 part 2 Andante from Mahler's 6th Symphony, part 1 part 2 Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov it's got 5 parts but I won't bother linking them all, you can find them. Rather than go on listing everything I have ever listened to, I recommend looking up anything by composers like Dvorak or Mendelssohn. I find that pretty much everything they wrote is very accessible, but also very good, and often very stirring. Instead of giving you specific pieces of theirs that I like, you should just pick anything at random; there's a good shot you'll like it, but if not, try the next one. | ||
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aphorism
United States226 Posts
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rotinegg
United States1719 Posts
On November 15 2011 13:38 mrmin123 wrote: Chopinnnnnnnnn every korean loves a good chopin nocturne it seems haha | ||
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Crais
Canada2136 Posts
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
Not exactly classical, but my piano playlist is pretty good. | ||
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rotinegg
United States1719 Posts
On November 15 2011 13:44 Crais wrote: This is my All time favorite classical song. This is great, this is exactly the type of stuff I like T_T Thanks everybody else for your suggestions too, they have pretty much all been added to my playlist atm :D | ||
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PenguinWithNuke
250 Posts
Anything Dvorak really, it's all good stuff. Bach is pretty relaxing, so try listening to that. I'm not a huge Mozart fan. TBH, I get very pissed when I play a Mozart piece, because I can never do it right. The man is laughing at me from his grave, I swear...Mozart feels very stale and annoying to me. Oh well. | ||
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
On November 15 2011 13:42 rotinegg wrote: every korean loves a good chopin nocturne it seems haha I really love the Nocturnes too! My personal favorite interpretations of the Nocturnes are by Arrau, Pollini, or Moravec. I highly recommend them! | ||
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matthras
Australia32 Posts
Haydn has a rather optimistic and humorous style in most of his works and has written tons of Symphonies in which a portion have nicknames. Check out both his Cello concertos - the C major one is very straightforward, but the D major one has a little more flavour to it. Beethoven's works fall into the 'eccentric' category for me, and probably isn't much of a good fit for you. If you're willing to give him a go then you need to start with the Symphonies (now that I think about it, Symphony No. 1 is quite suitable). | ||
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iSometric
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Dubpace
United States251 Posts
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2 -- Listen to Mvts. 2 and 5 Tchaikovsky -- Symphony Nos. 4, 5 and 6 Bruckner -- Symphony Nos. 4 and 8 (In particular 8 last movement) Shostakovich -- Chamber Symphony, Symphony No. 5 Beethoven -- Symphony Nos. 5, 9 (Last movement of 9 is still amazing no matter how many times I hear it) Saint-Saens -- Symphony No. 3 Organ Symphony This is not at all what you are looking for in terms of "relaxing" classical music, because all of these are fully orchestrated and contains brass/percussion. They are incredible works though and staples of every classical musicians repertoire. Definitely give some of them a try. Even for me some of the baroque period stuff (Bach) and classical period (Mozart/Haydn) gets really dry and boring. Music becomes much more passionate and entrancing to me once you move more into the romantic period. Edit: To be fair I completely avoided your question, but I am trying to expand your ears a little bit here. I fell in love with music when I started listening to these works. | ||
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Iceman331
United States1306 Posts
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ArvickHero
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+ Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYbF-Yzdf0 Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 5 is an epic symphony, but also very long lol (5 mvmts but in one video) + Show Spoiler + Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings is also great, might be more of what you're looking for since it has the most coherent melody per movement w/ least amount of variation compared to the other two (four mvmts) + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RREjHDiGvMI&feature=related There's tons others but those are some off the top of my head (I've left out some of the more intense stuff like Shostakovich and Prokofiev lol) | ||
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mmp
United States2130 Posts
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mmp
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Suisen
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I would recommend No.20 to 24. Just pick one and listen. Then come back and tell me why it's not what you want and I will redirect you to something else. One coherent melody throughout the piece, if you really mean what I would interpret this to mean, can't be found in a full form classical piece. Classical music is all about form. development of harmony and transformation of melodies. Mahler, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Bruckner are all dissonant. Dubpace, he's trying to do exactly that. I could recommend him some of my favorite pieces like Busoni's piano concerto, Sorabji's toccata or even Bach's WTC and tell him to give Giulio Cesare a try. But you need to get into classical music by finding what you like. When I came to classical from the rock-blues-jazz axis instrumental mostly guitar oriented music, what I listened for classical music was very limited. You have to start with what you like, not what you want to like. Taste is an excuse to not like good music. But even realizing this doesn't change the fact that everyone is going to have taste that you need to break down first. As for dissonant meaning atonal. Maybe that's what he means but I can only assume he means that his words mean. Dissonance and atonal are completely different terms. On November 15 2011 13:44 Crais wrote: This is my All time favorite classical song. That's neither classical nur a song. | ||
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ArvickHero
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mmp
United States2130 Posts
On November 15 2011 15:14 ArvickHero wrote: When he says he dislikes dissonant music, I'm pretty sure he is actually referring to atonal/avant-garde type work. He'd probably still be able to enjoy any of the listed composers (to an extent) Yeah, there is a big difference between Modern and modern "Classical" music. | ||
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Dalguno
United States2446 Posts
Digging Liszt lately. Maybe a bit dissonant in part 1, but 2 and 3 you may like. + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiElvzlH4jY It's got dissonance throughout, but not too heavily... I hope. If so, listen to part 2. Edit 2: It's pretty dissonant. Only listen to #2 haha. | ||
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JFKWT
Singapore1442 Posts
His string quartets fit the "repetitive" and pleasant sounding genre | ||
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]343[
United States10328 Posts
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Xenocide_Knight
Korea (South)2625 Posts
(this is the abridged version from a movie iirc but it has a charm of it's own) | ||
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mmp
United States2130 Posts
On November 15 2011 15:30 ]343[ wrote: Rachmaninoff piano concerti! I also like Beethoven's 5th/6th symphonies. What? You're only allowed to like the odd-numbered symphonies. | ||
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JesusOurSaviour
United Arab Emirates1141 Posts
Jacquelin Du Pre Anything (in particular Dvorak) Kol Nidrei (composed by Max Bruch) so much. You're going to spend years listening to the most beautiful music written by mankind! | ||
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ArvickHero
10387 Posts
On November 15 2011 15:38 JesusOurSaviour wrote: Kol Nidrei (composed by Max Bruch) christ I hate that piece LOL | ||
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Jaxtyk
United States600 Posts
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tkRage
225 Posts
Symphony no. 6, Pathetique - the best. soooo good. | ||
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meowmeow-
Germany291 Posts
Basically you can listen to anything by Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg and so on. On a technical level, they are all pretty amazing, but I personally find Bach pretty lackluster. | ||
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Azera
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+ Show Spoiler + This is quite a dark piece, but is one of my favourites. Rather dark piece as well, but still very good. I think this piece has been used many times in movies as 'Epic Music' Yet again, another dark piece. It's very amazing and really invokes emotion from me. I remember when I first heard I completely froze up when the epic part started. This piece is rather relaxing and soulful, I think. Definitely can be considered as 'Thinking Music'. Ah! Marching music is always nice to listen to. Nothing much to say about this, except AMAZING. Quite a famous piece, known for it's use in 2001 : A Space Odyssey From 20001 : A Space Odyssey too. Epic as well! This piece makes me tear up sometimes =`). Hope you don't mind the singing. A famous piece, and for a good reason. When I listen to this, it just makes me want to lay down on some grass in the warm summer day and gaze at the passing clouds. Listen to this, and you will always remember the tune. The Tannhauser Overture by Wagner is definitely worth a listen if you have the time. Of course, the famous 'Carmen' Suite is fantastic as well! Now, on to my favourite composer of all time, Tchaikovsky! You CANNOT miss this piece. Listen to it to the very end and just savour the music. This is only the finale of my favourite overture of all time. It's just SO good. How do you not know the Nutracker Overture?! There, if you need anything more modern, like mash-ups of classical pieces just ask. | ||
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rotinegg
United States1719 Posts
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Orpheos
United States1663 Posts
my fav piece from him | ||
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Smetana: The Moldau Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Pathetique (Symphony No.6), 1812 Overture Basically these (well, maybe except Pathetique) you can listen to and just flow along with the background story. You can be actively engaged, maybe with the help of a video-version of these music, or just relax and enjoy the music. My background is with piano so I would recommend a ton of piano concertos, but maybe for now, you should start with the above =) | ||
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