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grahf

grahf

New York, NY
September 2002

DEC 15, 2002 03:43 PM

Does anyone here like it? I don't like most of it, but the occasional bit really interests me. For example, I really like O Fortuna from Carmina Burana even though it's the single most overused soundtrack song in the world. I also like what the Kronos Quartet did on the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, especially Meltdown and Lux Aeterna. My problem is that I have no idea where to look for more non-typical classical like those since I don't know enough about the genre. If anyone has recommendations, I'd appreciate it.

fnyboy

fnyboy

Ann Arbor, MI
December 2002

DEC 15, 2002 04:03 PM

Try the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange

Smatt

smatt

United Kingdom
November 2002

DEC 15, 2002 04:06 PM

Soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange is a good start, definitely.

The whole of Carmina Burana is pretty good, not just O Fortuna. Also Beethoven's 9th symphony 4th movement (choral) is excellent although again over played. Elgar's done some stirring stuff too.

Denk

Denk

Germany
OLD SKOOL

DEC 15, 2002 04:09 PM

Besides the huge variety of barock, classical and romantic pieces that's out there wating to be discovered, I enjoy very much contemporary ones. So if you really want to experience some new worlds (without drugs...), try Henze or Schnittke. They are modern, but keep doors open for us film-music threatened kids to come in. Especially that two always blast my mind away, cause they have shown me things beyond all my imagination.
And don't buy cheap CDs with cheap orchestras, the differences are enormous.

Cherry

Cherry

SUICIDEGIRL

British Columbia, Canada

DEC 15, 2002 04:23 PM

Not to be picky, but classical isn't a style of music - it's a type of music from a certain era. The music you're talking of is just orchestral music tongue

I listen to orchestral music all the time. Especially when I'm in the bath. Usually soundtracks. My two favourite soundtracks are Superman (the original one) + American Beauty...

Cherry xx

giga_geo

giga_geo

San Francisco, CA
November 2002

DEC 15, 2002 04:47 PM

carmina burana rules!

i would also highly recommend mozart, marriage of figaro, because it has an awesome storm piece.

i am a big big fan of watching piano concertos. it is just so surreal to me to just watch someone press keys and here this beautiful noise be produced.

Sarc

Sarc

Cincinnati, OH
December 2002

DEC 15, 2002 04:48 PM

Funny that I'm reading this thread while listening to KMFDM's "Liebeslied" (containing samples of O Fortuna)...

I have lots of classical (EXCUSE ME, I mean "orchestral") cd's. My favorites are Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Stravinsky, and Grieg.

My favorite modern-day composers are John Williams, Joseph LoDuca, James Horner, and Danny Elfman.

Also, if you have one of those music-stealing programs, try searching for the techno remix of "O Fortuna". It rocks.

[Edited on Dec 15, 2002 by Anadox]

thedarkocean

thedarkocean

Sherman Oaks, CA
November 2002

DEC 15, 2002 05:19 PM

For some reason I don't like the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack at all. I'm an emotion-based person, so gimme my Romanticism and I'm happy.

Brahms, Respighi, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Saint-Saens, etc. Elfman has turned out to be a good writer, although I hear he's a dick and he just writes lead sheets and shoves the dirty work onto other composers. The Dances with Wolves soundtrack by John Barry is absolutely gorgeous, go buy it. I hate most John Williams stuff, but the A.I. soundtrack has some interesting minor-minimalist stuff going on. I wish him and Spielberg would both do weirder things.

mycophile

mycophile

Canada
October 2002

DEC 15, 2002 05:38 PM

Oh, man, don't get me started.. J. S. Bach rules...

[Edited on Dec 15, 2002 by mycophile]

Marla

Marla

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

DEC 15, 2002 09:03 PM

Raymond Watts is pretty good with the off-kilter orchestral music, as well as Danny Elfman soundtracks.

UncleGraysius

UncleGraysius

Portland, OR
October 2002

DEC 15, 2002 10:00 PM

Disney's Fantasia (1941) is a great tour through the major composers of the 19th and early 20th century.

Any Tscaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite is timely for the holidays. Romeo and Juliet Overture, Pathetique

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

Grieg's Peer Gynt and Piano Concerto in A minor

Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man (if you can momentarily disassociate it from the Beef Council or Stuart Anderson Steak House ads).

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue - again, may be familiar as the United Airlines ad music, but the piece in it's entirety is sexy and triumphant - it soars and it seduces.

johnnyfive

johnnyfive

Raleigh, NC
November 2002

DEC 16, 2002 12:26 AM

I second the Grieg and nominate Saint-Saiens' "Danse Macabre" and Bach's "Reqiuem". Danny Elfman's stuff is fun and haunting; as is Eerie Von's instrumental "Uneasy Listening". Oh, and the Ode to Joy, Big B's 9th; I'm not sure which version is on the Clockwork Orange sndtrk, but the choral version on the Immortal Beloved soundtrack is awesome.

penelopelee

penelopelee

Pittsburgh, PA
OLD SKOOL

DEC 16, 2002 12:28 AM

arvo part will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

joyrider

joyrider

I'm lost
OLD SKOOL

DEC 16, 2002 01:04 AM

i am not much for renaissance or baroque, but i like classical through romanticism. i like a few of the modernists, too.

romantics:
franz liszt, frederic chopin, richard wagner, gustav mahler, anton bruckner, nikolai rimsky-korsakov, modest mussorgsky - i'm a sucker for bombastic germans/austrians/russians.

modernists:
eric satie, arnold schoenberg, terry riley, philip glass - yay serialism! the style everyone hates!

juniper

juniper

Portland, OR
October 2002

DEC 16, 2002 01:05 AM

I like some Albinoni, Mozart, Gorecki, my dad listens to classical ALL the time and I love it, but I never know who the composer is. I have fond memories of waking up to the sound of cellos and the smell of coffee.

joyrider

joyrider

I'm lost
OLD SKOOL

DEC 16, 2002 01:07 AM

Anadox said:

Also, if you have one of those music-stealing programs, try searching for the techno remix of "O Fortuna". It rocks.


Hm. I wonder if that's actually Apoptygma Berzerk's "Love Never Dies." it has Carmina Burana samples, and could be mistaken for techno...

Orff makes me think of Conan movies.

clamby

clamby

Beaverton, OR
OLD SKOOL

DEC 16, 2002 01:18 AM

zappa did some semi-orchestral stuff that's very interesting, but i'm still deciding how i feel about it.

i have always loved debussy and ravel. satie was pretty amazing too. a lot of jazz musicians drew from these guys, which can't be a bad thing.

Sarc

Sarc

Cincinnati, OH
December 2002

DEC 16, 2002 04:06 AM

Marla said:
Raymond Watts is pretty good with the off-kilter orchestral music, as well as Danny Elfman soundtracks.



Too bad Raymond Watts sucks in the lyrical department. heh. I never really got into PiG.

BinkyMcQueen

BinkyMcQueen

Philadelphia, PA
December 2002

DEC 16, 2002 04:58 PM

Here are a few:
Rachmaninoff-brilliant
Moussorgsky
Bartok--Not for the faint of heart--also the composer who most influenced Zappa
Brahms
Tosca
Orff
John Cage

indigoboy

indigoboy

Chicago, IL
OLD SKOOL

DEC 17, 2002 08:18 AM

My tastes in classical tend to be on the dark side.
Some Kronos Quartet stuff is great.
Polish composer Penderecki is amazing (especially "Threnody" for the victims of Hiroshima).
Mozart's "Requiem" is great.
I also have a collection of Chopin piano pieces performed by Ashkenazy that is brilliant.
John Cage is good as well. I think Sonic Youth is really into him (among others I'm sure).
Many web sites (including Amazon) should have samples to check out.

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

DEC 17, 2002 10:42 AM

I like Debussy, Saint-Saen, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Liszt, a lot of "classical" (the misnomer of which is pointed out above). I went through a period a few years ago when I first discovered orchestral music, where I couldn't listen to anything else because it sounded too simple. Luckily, got over it. Mozart is my absolute favorite though, especially his operas.

[Edited on Dec 17, 2002 by Imagined]

pmonkeyEsquire

pmonkeyEsquire

I'm lost
May 2004

APR 21, 2005 10:47 PM

Mahler.


Mazaal for teh fourth.

Solti for the 9th

and bernstein for everything.

hotcurry

hotcurry

Los Angeles, CA
June 2004

APR 21, 2005 10:54 PM

Oh, God I love Saint-Saiens' "Danse Macabre". As well as Mahler's works.

And orchestral pieces aside. I fucking love most of Wagner's Operas. For some reason Tristan und Isolde never struck me as all that great. But I'm not a big atonal freak.

Trucker_Fiction

Trucker_Fiction

Normal, IL
December 2003

APR 21, 2005 11:03 PM

Wagner, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, most of Bach's organ music

lamdalamdalamda

lamdalamdalamda

Chicago, IL
February 2003

APR 21, 2005 11:22 PM

besides for a healthy dose of cage and feldman, i'm into schnittke, takemitsu, bartok, nancarrow, crumb, brahms, biber, bach, carter, babbitt, so many! i live for it!

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