i LOVE that brahms piece @EulersBidentity , i dont know like any choral music bc ive never been huge into vocal stuff (probably because ive only ever played in bands and orchestras and dont have any choral experience :"D) so i am loving all the stuff with vocals that you're sharing and i have started going through the gr9 list that @Lily posted, here's easy-access listening to the first one, stravinsky's elegy for solo viola, it's dark and spooky and i love it (ftr the stuff on your list that i know already and Love A Lot and will probably posted at some point too is duckworth, the other shostakovich stuff, dvorak, rachmaninov, and vladigerov. . . and obv ive heard of like chopin and some other people on that list but i cant say ive listened to a lot of their work so ill have to look at those recs!!! i can tell you have good taste tho :ppp) eta: @Emma good stuff good stuff i am so about low brass
I just find him so obvious! I don't mean predictable, I mean, Handel's predictable as hell, and I love him. But there's something about Beethoven that just makes me roll my eyes - every grand Romantic swell, every over-egged cadence - I hear Beethoven and part of me thinks, "oh Christ, it's this asshole again." Anyway. He's a marvellous composer, and his music has touched millions of people. But for me, idk, he doesn't make me feel anything. I enjoy his music but in a superficial way, yanno? It could be that I think this because Beethoven did what he did so well that he irreversibly instilled his style into the Western classical tradition; i.e. I think his music is obvious because it was so hugely influential on the WCT and my own education that by the time I actually experienced his music it felt over-familiar. Does that make sense? Like when I read 1984 I thought "well that's a bit obvious." But in 1948 it was groundbreaking, and it was 1984's cultural influence that made its themes familiar to my generation. Or maybe I just have no taste. ;) Edit: put Lily's post at the top so peeps can see what I'm replying to.
also recently discovered that i actually do know of Good Music that doesnt have brass instruments in it!! i am Well Rounded dammit Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà - Les Beautés Du Diable
ok one more because im listening to classical stuff as i finish up a short story im writing saw chad lawson on tv the other day, decided to look him up, he released an album of chopin variations and i want it so bad, its all so relaxing x__x
@EulersBidentity I found this Handel choral piece by quite a well known Dutch boys choir that you might like :) It's religious, which is not my favourite, but that's all they seem to do really. :P ETA: And also this one, which is not Handel, but prettier, I think
Ooh, if you think Stanford's pretty, I've got a bunch of lovely Anglican-type choral music I can rec. Edit: dang, the boys sing that Stanford well.
I'm not super into choral music, to be honest. I prefer the sort of dark-ish (which is the only way I can describe it really) classical music like the prokofiev piece. I stumbled upon these two on youtube, and I had forgotten how much I like Grieg (at least the composition that this particular piece is from) This second one was sort of new to me, but I like it!
hall of the mountain king is a classic, i remember playing it a few years ago and the entire time my face was just like *w* reposting it bc that video seems to not work in america or something?
@Emma do you know Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre? Edit: Thinking of other stuff you might like if you're not already familiar with it: Holst anything orchestral, Brahms Hungarian Dances
@EulersBidentity I found it through the recommended videos feature youtube has :P I literally just listened to it XD
Beethoven, the first great composer of dissonance, unparalleled in his prolificness and virtuosity. Grieg to me sounds like a grandiose nationalist at times, but this seems simply to be ars poetica.
interrupting the classical string stuff to bring u all lord of the rings concert band stuff!!! and guess what, i am in this video, hell yes (the quality isnt the best, also because no one there is older than 16 there are some errors LOL so here is a hq version of this piece, it's symphony no. 1 gandalf of the lord of the rings by de meij)
also @EulersBidentity i am SO INTO that choral holst thing you posted, omg, this is it, im converted, gimme the good shit *____*
*looks wistfully at wind band* Whyyy did I never pick up a wind/brass instrument :( The LotR music is GOOD STUFF. YUS
Not classical--14th Century chant from the Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany. This is the Kyrie, but with a ton of ornamentation. You can hear the Kyrie (kyrie eleison, christe eleison) in the drone.
*comes out of work, reeking of choral music incense* Oh cool, really early. I can't match that; I'm not hugely familiar with pre-Ren music since for some reason* nobody ever wants me to sing it. I find the drone fascinating though: it reminds me of some folk songs I know which harmonise with a drone like that. I guess when polyphony sent the educated musicians wild, the hoi polloi stuck with the drone. Don't fix what's not broken etc. :D Not nearly as early as the Missa Orbis Factor setting, but a good while before Holst: *looks pointedly at uterus
The Gradual is really interesting because of the mixed voices. It comes from the abbey of Fontevrault, which was really two abbeys segregated by sex, so they had all sorts of voices available.
