Classical music

[greennui]

pls share some of your favourite pieces.

Pájaro triste by Federico Mompou is my mood at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0nKil4kiE

[brian d]

i listen to a lot of classical, but most of it is really early, weird stuff from the renaissance and the baroque period. a few that i find fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzP06m9mres
(the first-ever single-authored mass that we know of, though this is a really idiosyncratic performance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgAb2AjkgWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8JpdrZWWc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6snQ5WktexM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NE
(this one isn't weird at all, but was forbidden to be sung anywhere but the sistine chapel for around a century and a half; mozart ended up transcribing it from memory when he heard it there)

[flip]

repertory works i couldn't live without:

- beethoven's late string quartets
- the shostakovich string quartets
- the brahms symphonies (and most of his chamber music)
- bruckner's 9th symphony
- stravinsky's petrushka

there are dozens of less-performed pieces i could add to that list, especially from the 20th century, maybe i'll post a few more later, here's three, all should be played loud imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0G1Z9dwyPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix7UEfiC9MQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twg2_5vUNaM

[liquidnature]

https://youtu.be/WANMioZCpGQ?t=1483

*linked to my favorite section, during the second movement

[rischka]

ooh thx for the medieval musiqs brian

i will listen to everything here

(was forbidden to be sung anywhere but the sistine chapel for around a century and a half; mozart ended up transcribing it from memory when he heard it there)

this is the coolest story ever

[brian d]

if you like those i've got plenty more. there's tons of really good stuff from the renaissance and baroque. wish i knew more like the picchi, i can't find out much about him or other pieces that are similar. can't find much like the tallis either, though he's well-known.

[liquidnature]

yeah the medieval through baroque periods are a treasure-trove. Used to solely listen to classical music during high school, and I've gotten away from it since. Feeling compelled to return to it again.

[MrCarmady]

Nice idea for a thread. I like listening to classical music live so am off it a bit at the moment but pre-lockdown saw a version of this which was very memorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c

[Otello Cagliostro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ETtig ... &index=301

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yIiHzMN1kQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusWbRR5QQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-JHVnehtWw

[Holdrüholoheuho]

when i was a late teen i asked a friend to record on my empty cassette tape (time of cassette players) an album of Residents.
he, did so — there was still some (empty) time left (after Residents) so (out of his own initiative) he recorded as a bonus track also Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto.
i kept playing it over and over then and still like to listen to it occasionally.
https://youtu.be/klQY_X1clMs

[sally]

i've had all 8 minutes of this as an intractable earworm for the past week. it's lovely but it's driving me mad pum pum pum pum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ohJnh-2Qk

[brian d]

monteverdi! these are my favorite two pieces from his vespers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4TkZmLPoK1I

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YcZ62Z07830

monteiro uses the first two pieces of the vespers as the credits play for a comedia de deus, and eugène green (meh) uses monteverdi's lamento della ninfa (yay) in le pont des arts and this is exciting and I'm all done

[sally]

this is lovely, but it is also giving me nightmares. can anyone recommend other secular multi-vocal stuff like this that isn't a dirge or purcell burping? (great tho that is)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXlXjzf8ZLw

[wba]

i've had all 8 minutes of this as an intractable earworm for the past week. it's lovely but it's driving me mad pum pum pum pum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ohJnh-2Qk

Monteverdi!!

I definitely love that older "classical" stuff, when played with the older historical instruments. Can't stand it when interpreted in a more "modern" way, though, as it looses all of its quality for me.

I especially enjoy his opera L'ORFEO as interpreted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the 1969 recording.