[stone monkey]

Technically it's baroque and not classical, but I do rather love the 2nd movement of Vivaldi's Flautino Concerto in C major

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 17 August 2011 - 07:47 PM

[Use Of Weapons]

Technically, it's classical baroque :-P. Let's not confuse the punters with period-specific terminology, eh?

[Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy]

Beethoven's Violin Sonatas played by Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer. Unearthly beauty.

This post has been edited by Miss Savage: 18 August 2011 - 11:18 AM

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Miss Savage, on 18 August 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:

Beethoven's Violin Sonatas played by Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer. Unearthly beauty.

I'm a big fan of Anne-Sophie Mutter in this repertoire. She has a complete set of the sonatas with Orkis, great feeling throughout!

[QuickTidal]

UseOfWeapons, on 18 August 2011 - 01:33 PM, said:

Miss Savage, on 18 August 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:

Beethoven's Violin Sonatas played by Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer. Unearthly beauty.

I'm a big fan of Anne-Sophie Mutter in this repertoire. She has a complete set of the sonatas with Orkis, great feeling throughout!

I just went and listened to this...Wow, VERY impressive.

I'm not a big fan of Brahms, but I do like that.

This post has been edited by King Kazma: 18 August 2011 - 03:01 PM

[QuickTidal]

*fistpump*

Tickets went on sale this morning for the forthcoming season of the TSO! I've been waiting all summer for this.



Tickets to Mozart's REQUIEM?! Oh hells yeah, I'll be going to that. Purchased.

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QuickTidal, on 18 August 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

I'm not a big fan of Brahms, but I do like that.

Allow me to correct your impression of Brahms

Two Songs Op.91 for Voice, Viola and Piano
No. 1 'Gestillte Sehnsucht' http://www.youtube.c...h?v=K0U4LdHncds (Stilled Longing)
No. 2 'Geistliches Wiegenlied' http://www.youtube.c...h?v=WwbA9WIMQKk (Spritual Lullaby)

Two Rhapsodies Op.79 for Piano
No. 1 in B minor http://www.youtube.c...h?v=B2Dd_6ko4Wc
No. 2 in G minor http://www.youtube.c...h?v=wu9q6_Qswf8 (This piece is the reason I started playing the piano.)

Clarinet Sonata Op. 120 No. 1 in F minor
1. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=bei1SIfEO-k
2. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=kYWN4p3gQrU (This has such a ravishing melody, and a real sense of wistful melancholy.)
3. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=d1OLOs7r5RM
4. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Qnz742bzrrk (Just a hell of a lot of fun -- and I can almost play it, too :-D)

Sonatensatz from the F.A.E. Sonata: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=XChoMdWN6CI (arranged for clarinet instead of violin)


To really know if you like a composer, I think you really have to listen to their chamber music.

[Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy]

Brahms played by Kremer- beautiful too. And I simply adore Argerich. She is in my (not relevant to anybody else's) opinion the best pianist. Ever. And going back to Beethoven: the opening of the Kreutzer Sonata, when Kremer makes his Violin cry- I cry. And then the piano starts- that's me gone.

This post has been edited by Miss Savage: 08 September 2011 - 12:14 PM

[QuickTidal]

going to see Mahler's 8th Symphony (Symphony Of A Thousand) early next summer at the TSO.

I am SO pumped, haven't ever seen any Mahler before and to see something so entirely EPIC live...going to be amazing!

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QuickTidal, on 08 September 2011 - 07:30 PM, said:

going to see Mahler's 8th Symphony (Symphony Of A Thousand) early next summer at the TSO.

I am SO pumped, haven't ever seen any Mahler before and to see something so entirely EPIC live...going to be amazing!

It's fantastic! I was in the Proms performance last year, which is available on Youtube, and it was an amazing experience. Unforgettable!

[Use Of Weapons]

Just wait til that first chord hits you

[QuickTidal]

I've seen the YouTube vid of the PROMS performance. Yeah, that looked incredible.

Really can't wait.

[Use Of Weapons]

At choir we were encouraged to make repertoire suggestions, and I came up with a list. Here is that list: some amazing choral goodness! I've removed all the entries that I didn't have video links for.

FAURÉ, Gabriel
- Les Djinns (choir & piano). Video available at http://www.youtube.c...h?v=CYMh3rtvttc Text: Victor Hugo
- Madrigal (Inhumaines) (choir & piano). Video available at http://www.youtube.c...h?v=D996G0eyLOs Text: Armand Silvestre


STRAUSS, Richard
- Der Abend (double choir) : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=XKs5S7Cl0T0
Big and lushly romantic.


FINZI, Gerald
- Seven Poems of Robert Bridges (choir a capella)
No.1 "I praise the tender flower" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=XzXp6MW3z68
No.2 "I have loved flowers that fade" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ErMvd459vhI
No.3 "My spirit sang all day" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Gn2U-FPvM-8
No.4 "Clear and gentle stream" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-1lmQvkRHDM
No.5 "Nightingales" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=W5i2PZ6vF3s
No.6 "Haste on, my joys" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=LNnZbkmRv4Y
No.7 "Wherefore tonight so full of care?" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=P-jQ3hsNC_s
I have a real soft spot for these songs, as they're some of the very first music I ever sang with a choir.

- "Thou didst delight my eyes", Op. 32 : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=BpC5Aad2LPM


BRITTEN, Benjamin
- Choral Dances from "Gloriana" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ousvpJAFzGo (choir a capella, alternatively choir and tenor solo with harp)
- A Boy Was Born (choir a capella)
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=vFC5wEBvbII
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=VAHjeHTHMHY
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=KH9xNTX7lAw
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=e82Os8bpavM


WALTON, William
- A Litany (Drop, drop slow tears) (choir a capella) : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=SPZQXg1U4GA
Just listen to that opening.


POULENC, Francis
- Figure Humaine (double choir) : Text by Paul Eluard
No.1 "De tous les printemps du monde" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=A04BzES-xRY
No.2 "En chantant les servantes s'élancent" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=98SR7xN39Zs
No.3 "Aussi bas que le silence" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ua4Oo3yy8gs
No.4 "Toi ma patiente" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=_D5mfD0TUwE
No.5 "Riant du ciel et des planètes" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=zTsEJ1T0isY
No.6 "Le jour métonne et la nuit me fait peur" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-QHB0tHb85M
No.7 "La menace sous le ciel rouge" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=NXTpCsQ_z3U
No.8 "Liberté" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ij03EZ1SHWE
Possibly the most challenging and fun thing I've ever sung.


HOLST, Gustav
- Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (4 groups with varied accompaniments)
Group 1
Group 2 : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=c_RlvDi6Uxc
Group 3 : Dawn - http://www.youtube.c...h?v=WapVG8nZtG8
Varuna (waters) - http://www.youtube.c...h?v=H66vxFUZdWQ
Vena - http://www.youtube.c...h?v=3HjLIeSuBYk
Travellers - http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fXjhGNuhfI4
Group 4

ELGAR, Edward
- Four Choral Songs Op.53
No.1 "There is sweet music" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qqfOfHDFT0k
No.2 "Deep in my soul" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=YetYZqDpO3o
No.3 "O wild west wind!" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yZMDFZj1ZNA
No.4 "Owls" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=U7JnIjK1ML4
Some of the last music Elgar ever wrote. "Owls" is extremely un-Elgar-like, and all the more interesting for it.


GRIEG, Edvard
- Four Psalms, Op.74 (baritone solo and chorus)
No.1 "Hvad est du dog skjon" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yFs2ceKhwfo
No.2 "Guds son har gjort mig fri" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=b3MiNnLfI5w (unfortunately in English rather than Norwegian)
No.3 "Jesus Kristus er opfaren"
No.4 "I himmelen" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=BpV4q6vGbDw


JENKINS, Karl
- Adiemus (?) This is only half-serious, but I'd love to do this one:
Rain Dance : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=8zOWGX4-wv8


RUTTER, John
- When Icicles Hang (Song cycle for chorus, baritone solo, and
orchestra or reduction)
No.1 "When Icicles Hang"
No.2 "Now Winter Nights Enlarge"
No.3 "Good Ale" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=tY-x64xTeQo
No.4 "Blow, blow thou winter wind" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=55LkLSqInlA (So beautiful)
No.5 "Winter wakeneth all my care"
No.6 "Hay, ay"



- Five Childhood Lyrics
No.1 "The Owl And the Pussycat" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=TcB9j0ouGvE
No.2 "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Kjvof_3pL-Q
No.3 "Monday's Child" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fr-s9i1fNKY
No.4 "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=gSdVHdwqHP0
No.5 "Windy Nights" : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RrrZxrFkZZE

[Dag]

Resurrecting this thread (and it’s a pity it died – some great recommendations there, Jitsukerr!) just to briefly share my recent discovery.

About a month ago I stumbled upon works by Nazife Aral Güran, a (little known) Turkish pianist and composer born in Vienna, and immediately fell in love with her music. I find it a bit hard to put into words what it is that makes her piano pieces so fascinating for me – the atmosphere, the delightful merging of the Western classical tradition with Oriental motifs or the feeling that there is an almost visual quality to her brief compositions, turning them into colourful miniatures with millions of tiny details caught in one frame – but anyway... I just felt the urge to share.

Unfortunately, as mentioned above, she is little known and finding any of her works online or even in music stores is pretty difficult (I’m aware of only one compilation of her compositions that is available via Amazon), so here are the only three recordings I can find on Youtube.

Enjoy Nazife Aral Güran, performed by lovely Yuki Shinjo (a brilliant young pianist from Okinawa currently living and working in Vienna).

[Dag]

And since we can have only two videos per post, here's the third one:

[QuickTidal]

So I attended the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's performance of Mahler's Symphony for a Thousand (#8), which was a total spectacle. A packed house, a FULL orchestra, 3 full adult choirs and two children choirs. That is the fullest I've ever seen the venue barnone.

It was WELL done...my ONLY complaint is that my experience with Mahler's #8 is through video of it being performed in the Ally Pally in London and that place is like 4 times the size of our Roy Thomspon Hall so the separation of the choirs and the orchestra works in that large venue and works well to hear both. At our performance I found the first half of it the choirs were so loud and blasting that they literally drowned out the orchestra...but only in the first half, in the second half it was much better and we enjoyed. So yeah, I guess my complaint is our venue is a BIT too small for such a huge performance. The TSO poured their hearts into it though and we thoroughly enjoyed!

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 14 June 2012 - 01:22 PM

[yuna_anomander25]

can't remember the name of that Korean Cielist i have watched in Youtube before who IIRC played "The Flight of the Bumblebee(?)"

i like classical music, mostly from listening to movies and tv series, but Beethoven's Symphony No 7 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2 is my favorites,
i got to know of these by watching Nodame Cantabile, if any of you have/haven't watched this, its a Japanese Live Action/Anime about a Piano Student in a Musical Observatory,

http://youtu.be/nE7GNOox264

http://youtu.be/dSCjBzokjLs

This post has been edited by yuna_anomander25: 14 June 2012 - 05:19 PM

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

How does this thread exist without Terez joining in? SHe's a classical music major or something like that. I'm sure she has a lot to say.

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Discovered a new composer recently! As part of my Grade 4 piano, I'm doing a first public performance, of Friedrich Kuhlau's Sonatina in C major for piano. I need to introduce the piece, so I did a bit of research, and started listening to some more of his music. He was known as the "Beethoven of the Flute" and his flute music is really attractive. Here's a sample:

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yuna_anomander25, on 14 June 2012 - 04:48 PM, said:

can't remember the name of that Korean Cielist i have watched in Youtube before who IIRC played "The Flight of the Bumblebee(?)"

Was it Han-Na Chang?