On February 28 2010 10:23 boesthius wrote: i'm a classical guitar player - it's my major atm and i absolutely love Barrios' works. i'm working on La Catedral right now for my junior recital. the 3rd movement is a bitch, pure tremolo T_T
This song has been torturing me for months, but still absolutely beautiful. I would advice listening to John William's version. By far the best interpreter of Barrios.
On February 28 2010 10:23 boesthius wrote: i'm a classical guitar player - it's my major atm and i absolutely love Barrios' works. i'm working on La Catedral right now for my junior recital. the 3rd movement is a bitch, pure tremolo T_T
This song has been torturing me for months, but still absolutely beautiful. I would advice listening to John William's version. By far the best interpreter of Barrios.
ah it's shame... I rly need to play more guitar I'm still playing nub pieces hahhHa, I can't read notes, it takes me 1 minute to read a bar lolol
And cathedral is... very very beautiful, I don't think I can play it for another 3 years it's beyond me T_T
For anyone interested in Beethoven's piano sonatas, you can buy Friedrich Gulda's recording of all 32 sonatas + the Piano concertos for ~23€. Amazing value and definitely my favourite recording of the sonatas, this is what it looks like:
On February 28 2011 04:36 Rising_Phoenix wrote: NO MENTION OF STRAVINSKY!?!?!? HOW DARE YOU!!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention Rite of Spring, as most people would probably recognize it the most out of most of his pieces...
I play oboe, goin into college as an undergrad real soon, and I've just been looking around for good pieces... while I was look for a particular Britten piece, I came across something I'd never seen or heard before...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJQzwjKnu0Q It's just... so beautiful. I can't say that I like how the orchestra/oboist does it, it's probably a combination that the recording sounds kinda bad/old, among other things... but I think you can get an idea. I actually just got done playing this at a little concert.
I'm surprised that not that many people mentioned the Chopin Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23. It's one of my favorite pieces ever, up there with the Moonlight Sonata (1st and 3rd movements) and the Fantasie Impromptu. If it wasn't for university taking up all my time, I'd have spent some time picking up the rest of the G-minor Ballade. The Moonlight and Fantasie I had to play for a piano exam a few years ago. Still play them sometimes for fun.
One piece I always wanted to pick up was La Campanella by Liszt. Never could find the time, though.
Another piece which I find nice to listen to is the Yellow River Concerto 2nd movement.
On March 06 2011 09:54 Razz wrote: Agree!! But HOW DARE YOU NOT MENTION THE RITE? But you made me find this which is quite interesting: + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gZbMOq_Ge8
I'm just now starting to explore classical, it was pieces like this that got me interested: The Rite of Spring scene IV, Spring Rounds. Couldn't find this particular rendition anywhere but Grooveshark unfortunately. Most other versions don't get the tempo quite right in my opinion.. but it's an immense, moving song no matter what. Also on that link is Adagio for Strings and Agnus Dei, two more favorites.
For anyone interested in Beethoven's piano sonatas, you can buy Friedrich Gulda's recording of all 32 sonatas + the Piano concertos for ~23€. Amazing value and definitely my favourite recording of the sonatas, this is what it looks like:
I bought this for a slightly higher price because it was imported. Still excellent value.
Honestly I prefer Petroushka over the Rite of Spring, so I put that in there.
Though I do like this version of Rite of Spring on youtube as it had the original choreography.
Since we're in Ballet land, I'll through in some Debussy. Jeux. Not the best recording but at least it's with the choreography:
I saw Black Swan recently and I was kinda disappointed. The interpretation of Tchaik was WAY too fast and in general was pretty sloppy.
Apparently the Turn of the Screw by Britten was made into a movie and put on youtube. Here is part one! (I played this recently, Bb, Bass, and A clarinet). The opera doesn't actually start until about 7:20. I almost want to put NSFW on it, kind-a creepy. Which this opera is.
Brahms Symphony 2 (especially the 1st movement) is probably my favorite piece of music... Pure musical bliss right there.
A less-known piece by Hindemith is a favorite of mine as well. I played an arrangement of it in my high school band, and it was just a blast. Unfortunately the rest of the movements in the work kind of suck imo. I honestly thought that the band arrangement kind of worked better than the orchestra, because the final section of the piece has a really kickass horn part, and my high school band had an amazing 8-member horn section. Hearing them play that part gave me chills every time. Unfortunately, you can barely hear the horns in every recording I've ever heard.
I've looked quite hard to find a recording where the horns really play out at the end, but I've been unsuccessful
I haven't listened to much classical music since high school... I really need to start again. I feel like listening to classical music honestly makes me a better person, haha.
I love classical music, but I don't listen to much variety of it though. Haven't listened to it since I started liking dubstep, but here's my favorite ones:
For anyone interested in Beethoven's piano sonatas, you can buy Friedrich Gulda's recording of all 32 sonatas + the Piano concertos for ~23€. Amazing value and definitely my favourite recording of the sonatas, this is what it looks like:
I bought this for a slightly higher price because it was imported. Still excellent value.
cheap stuff. i think its in my top 5 cycles (or somewhere around there)
I didn't expect you to be a classic aficionado rabidch.
Pretty new to this but I remember reading how much value purchase it was so I bought it immediately when I saw it in Korea, along with Karajan 60s and Symphony Edition.
This, I love Stravinsky. Mad genious. I can also be found listening to Liszt, most recently "transcendental etudes" with Boris Berezovsky. [edit] Got the name wrong,
On February 28 2010 10:23 boesthius wrote: i'm a classical guitar player - it's my major atm and i absolutely love Barrios' works. i'm working on La Catedral right now for my junior recital. the 3rd movement is a bitch, pure tremolo T_T
This song has been torturing me for months, but still absolutely beautiful. I would advice listening to John William's version. By far the best interpreter of Barrios.
EPT
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