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Oh shit it's your favorite conductor edition
someone recommend me something haunting and beautiful like maurice ravel, claude debussy, or eric satie, please.
>>64790330
>favorite conductor edition
Basically every /classical/ thread desu
Can anyone help me find a solo Romantic piano piece that I heard awhile back? It starts off somewhat similar to Chopin's Prelude in E minor with repeating chords that descend chromatically (except in a major key) and gradually grows into this beautiful grandiose and virtuosic climax before dying back down again. Around 3-5 minutes in length. I tried combing through Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, and Poulenc but I very well could've missed it.
>>64790361
The Count of Conza himself
I like Steve Reich a lot. Schoenberg's string quartets are great too
>>64791235
do you really think composers and conductors are the same thing?
>>64791870
Misread the thread.
Nice.
It's late here. Gimme a break
>>64790732
i only know him for his Mahler cycle which is generally very good. are there other performances that show his conducting abilities? any other cycles? i heard his Bruckner 8th is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RT2nHD6CQ -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkjGdG9JnnI
I see what he did there...
>>64792202
He has a pretty good Parsifal, and he has a ton of recordings of Dvořák which are from what I've heard so far pretty good.
I've heard good things about his recording of Haydn's Creation too.
Bump
https://mega.co.nz/#F!mMYGhBgY!Ee_a6DJvLJRGej-9GBqi0A
https://mega.co.nz/#F!lIh3GRpY!piUs-QdhZACFt2hGtX39Rw
https://mega.co.nz/#F!Y8pXlJ7L!RzSeyGemu6QdvYzlfKs67w
https://mega.co.nz/#F!kMpkFSzL!diCUavpSn9B-pr-MfKnKdA
https://mega.nz/#F!ekBFiCLD!spgz8Ij5G0SRH2JjXpnjLg
https://mega.co.nz/#F!4EVlnJrB!PRjPFC0vB2UT1vrBHAlHlw
https://mega.co.nz/#F!ygImCRjS!1C9L77tCcZGQRF6UVXa-dA
https://mega.co.nz/#F!il5yBShJ!WPT0v8GwCAFdOaTYOLDA1g
https://mega.co.nz/#F!DdJWUBBK!BeGdGaiAqdLy9SBZjCHjCw
http://crudblud.sjm.so/
posting random obscure/unlistenable shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZFpNw7Q0js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX-LI2bUB28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KugkO7d2Nns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFOUBHJp3Ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icuwM5zoASg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUwfVz5tqEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o36gpa6qXc
>>64793314
>Ferneyhough and Xenakis
>obscure
>>64793519
to the unaware they are pretty out there, they're memed enough here to where they have more of a reputation
>>64790361
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8as_BN5h5YQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQfid7zecE
>>64793519
to be fair I've never seen any of those links posted on /classical/ and I've been here for a couple of years
>>64791870
Steve Reich conducted his own ensemble, you dip.
>>64793314
>that last one
Wow, actually surprisingly engaging. Had to sit through almost 7 minutes of it not going anywhere, though.
How do I get into listening to classical music? Are there albums, or what? Like if I want to listen to the piano pieces of Mozart, or Bach, for example, who do I go to to listen to that?
>>64795996
you actually just buy sheet music and take a picture then have audacity translate it into music to listen to. that is, if you're a pleb. most classical fans actually purchase studio time (and of course are proficient in most instruments) and make their own home audio recordings of their favorite pieces then distribute them through private google drives. /classical/ is thus completely at a loss to make an extensive essentials list that could get posted every single thread with links to things in full FLAC and perfect tags with artwork, because we actually spend most of the time dick measuring until we're comfortable using 4chan Gold PM to exchange google drive credentials.
>>64795996
Glenn Gould, of course.
>>64795996
rutracker is good. youtube is passable. Seeing things live is best, provided its a quality ensemble
>>64796170
https://rbt.asia/mu/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=fuck+off+poly
>>64796170
>chamber recording of a keyboard work
>"essential Bach"
put your trip back on poly
>>64795996
I'm currently on CD 53 of a 100 CD, 15 GB collection of Beethoven's Complete Works. This and similar collections are all on rutracker.
>>64796170
C
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>>64792202
just about everything except his Beethoven is worth hearing.
>>64793201
has anything been added to these in general lately?
>>64796259
>>64796897
>>64796978
Try posting constructively next time
Anyone know where I can download a large, diverse and well tagged collection of albums by various composers? I downloaded everything in the mega folders, I downloaded a large "collector's edition" collection of albums from someone on soulseek, I downloaded just about every top 100 album and far beyond that from the rateyourmusic list (though I suspect that's not a great introduction into classical music).
>>64798760
>"collector's edition" collection
the gramophone collection to be exact, which is about 107 albums.
>>64798433
Try not being Poly, next time.
Bump
music for 18 musicians is such fucking garbage. why is it rated highest on rateyourmusic?
>>64801278
It's accessible for pop music fans
>>64790361
>ravel
Have you listened to his Daphnis et Chloé?
>>64801133
>/classical/ is too cool for bernstein
This is why these threads always devolved into endless nitpicking and attempts to out obscure each other.
>>64801278
So which minimalist pieces do you enjoy?
>>64790330
>your favorite conductor
I'm not even really a choral music fan, but Robert Shaw's recording, especially pic related, are just fucking great.
>>64801278
>rated highest
Highest of what? Steve Reich's music? I personally prefer Proverb to Music for 18 Musicians. There's no way it is the highest rated Classical piece.
>>64790330
>>64790330
Whoever this majestic fucker is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeyDfVjq6sw
I'm watching this documentary about conductors right now. My favorites are, herbert von karajan, also, otto klemper (he's so fucking funny. It's amazing that he's so dead serious. He's also sorta badass), sir thomas beechman (he's just fucking hilarious),
I'm only like half way through the documentary right now, I've been watching it on and off for the past couple days. Thomas Beechman may just be my favorite though, just listen to him talk. He was a true character.
>>64801616
None of those conductors on that list is obscure at all.
And some people do obviously like Bernstein here because there is always one or two people protesting to others not liking him.
>>64802136
There is an entire book of Beecham quips.
>The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
>Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
>All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
>There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
>The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.
>The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
>>64802353
>There is an entire book of Beecham quips.
good lord lmao those quotes
>>64801642
Evil Nigger
>>64790361
Try Aleksandr Skryabin.
Great piano composer.
Sonatas and preludes are excellent.
>>64790330
John Eliot Gardiner
Who cares about conductors? They are hacks
Let's talk about some actually talented people like Hans Zimmer
>>64803194
Ok
You start
>>64803194
>talented people
>like Hans Zimmer
Greatest romantic piece of all time?
>>64803591
I will always love you by Whiteney Huehueston XDD
>>64796170
i know its meme as fuck, but glenn gould's goldberg variations (1981) is just pure gold.
>>64803061
>John Eliot Gardiner
YES.
His st matthew passion is easy to listen.
I am not a pro in JS BACH, but his bach is quite beautiful for me.
>>64792677
that has my favorite recording of mspc.
>>64790330
karajan, reiner, kubelik, v.beinum, bohm.
>>64790330
Wilhelm Furtwangler.
So can someone explain why Gould plays this piece so exquisitely?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5hYKNfFN8
It's so melodic and so lyrical, coupled with his usual habit of full-bodied bass and strong phrasing in general; I think this is a perfect interpretation.
Compare to this clown's wallowing. His touch is so puny it almost makes the piano sound like a guitar. Absolutely disgusting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZRbp1YOCBc&feature=youtu.be&t=1899
Also, more Bach for people who don't like Bach?
>>64805114
gould was a romantic.
New top 5 favorite composer: Galina Oestvolskaja
Wow
So intense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhdxHOrPm4
>>64805209
>female composer
off yourself m8
>>64802353
>There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
I didn't know my old youth orchestra conductor was Beecham. (Funnily enough his last name is Needham)
What are the best meme instruments?
I elect this baby, the ol' demented oboe
>>64805432
Not him but,
What's wrong with female composers? Some of them are actually pretty good
(and they also can be used to tell feminists to fuck off with their old white men shit.)
I do hate it when a female composer's trumped up on say international women's day, it's incredibly patronizing.
>>64805843
nothing is wrong with female composers
other anon is retarded
>>64805209
If this is top 5 material for you, you haven't listened to very much.
My top 5:
Mozart
Beethoven
Bach
Schubert
Brahms
>>64796039
u wot m8
What do I name a piece about a minute and a half long, for a beginner violinist at Suzuki book 1? Should I just go with Andante or something?
>>64805209
Nothing wrong with clusters but I don't see the point of making a piece solely out of clusters just for the sake of making a piece solely out of clusters. You're relegating yourself to a meme position at one end of the formalist stick, with triadfags at the other.
Things should only be used as integrated and integral parts of a great overarching idea. Clusters, triads, meme chords, all of these should be means rather than ends.
For example, here's a piece I made with clusters in it but only incidentally:
https://soundcloud.com/spookypianostuff/nocturne
>>64806493
Lots of clusters, yeah, but she's doing a little more than "meme clusters" as you're saying. She's also a badass.
>Ustvolskaya developed her own very particular style, of which she said, "There is no link whatsoever between my music and that of any other composer, living or dead." Among its characteristics are: the use of repeated, homophonic blocks of sound, which prompted the Dutch critic Elmer Schönberger to call her "the woman with the hammer"; unusual combinations of instruments (such as eight double basses, piano and percussion in her Composition No. 2); considerable use of extreme dynamics (as in her Piano Sonata No. 6); employing groups of instruments in order to introduce tone clusters; and the use of piano or percussion to beat out regular unchanging rhythms (all of her acknowledged works use either piano or percussion, many use both).
Hey guys is there a solid computer program which would let me compose on "digital paper" and could play back the result with acceptable instrument timbre?
>>64807189
Cubase (5).
>>64806493
I made this using a standard vst (Mono Upright in the piano section).
>>64807189
http://lilypond.org/introduction.html
I hope you have a favourite text editor.
>>64807359
Not quite what I'm looking for
>>64807367
Looks pretty good
But can you listen to what you wrote with this software?
>>64801133
conductor chart
>toscanini, abbado and karajan in
>no Victor De Sabata and Celibidache
/classical/ confirms his illiteracy
>>64805840
the Saxophone
>>64808211
>>64808211
>celibidache
lmao !!
>>64790330
nazi piece of shit
>>64809273
No anon thats a jew
>>64806567
literally a fucking meme
>>64807189
sibelius
>>64809230
pre munich celibidache is pretty good though. it was before he went glacial.
>>64809925
he's best known for his ridiculously slow tempos though. he is one of the few conductors i truly consider to be a meme. laughable.
>>64801133
>not sneaking Cobra in there for shits and giggles
![quote-madam-you-have-between-your-legs-an-instrument-capable-of-giving-pleasure-to-thousands-thomas-beecham-69-37-07[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rNoldHn.jpg "quote-madam-you-have-between-your-legs-an-instrument-capable-of-giving-pleasure-to-thousands-thomas-beecham-69-37-07[1].jpg")
>>64802495
>>64802353
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
>>64810025
>"""slow""" = bad
i'm sorry the only meme around here is you
>>64811573
RIDICULOUSLY slow. learn to fucking read.
Is anybody actually playing any instrument there?
>>64812116
where?
So I've selected the very best of my piano pieces I've been writing for years and it came out to be more than 4 hours of music, too much for one release. But how much would be appropiate? Is 200 or 180 minutes of music still too much for one album?
>>64790361
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkmkH-nhA3E
The golden cockerel - my favourite opera, loved it as a teen. Rimsky-Korsakow's most interesting work imo and definitely worth the 2 hours if you like impressionism.
And it has incredible beatiful arias:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ib1eSZmaR4
>>64811573
>implying this is excusable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLGS4nJy070
Though to be fair to Celi I haven't heard anything from his pre-Munich days.
/classical/'s favorite piano concertos?
