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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

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)

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

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

*linked to my favorite section, during the second movement

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)

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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! 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

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

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:55 pm 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.