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[kjemmy]

[Ansky]

Anyone listen to classical music at all?

While grinding I have usually stuck to house/trance. One of the reasons is the lack of lyrics, I find singing can sometimes be distracting while trying to use music as just background noise. Randomly made a classical station today on Jango, and have really been enjoying it. I literally know nothing about classical music or anybody besides the really big names, anyone have any recommendations? For the most part I seem to like it better when there is a pretty clear progression melody, and not so much the more abstract sounding ones (no idea if that is real description or not).

[alexeimartov]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3eiEHmJUA
appassionata movement 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8lU8...eature=related
balalde in g minor

2 of my favourites. you hsould prob find dif version of second one but w/e

[Ansky]

wow that first one

definitely like it a lot better because it's a video.

[PartyGirlUK]

[kjemmy]

ansky check out all of what ludovici einaudi has made, he's an absolute genius. i listen to classical a lot when i play, i have a huge playlist for it on spotify if you're interested

[jungleman]

four seasons by vivaldi for the classical music fish (im kinda fishy myself though tbh)

I really like astor piazolla, a mix of classical and tango

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamRlKTe7rU

[sirin]

i find chopin's nocturnes are good music for playing poker, its solo piano which i wouldn't normally be too into but it never gets boring.

for something a bit more dramatic try mahler's fifth symphony.

prokofiev's piano concerto no. 2 is amazing also, maybe a little more abstract but not off-puttingly so.

also its worth going to the trouble of getting good quality mp3s rather than listening to streaming audio - the extra sound quality really pays off.

[riverboatking]

jesus ****ing christ its 2012 how hard is it to get a decent ****ing wifi connection???

spend $135/night at commerce and the wifi is so slow you can't even stream a youtube video.

might as well be the old AOL dial up connection.

so tilting.

[m_reed05]

Huge classical music fan, especially piano music (because I play/played). Piano concertos (where the pianist is soloist with the orchestra accompanying) are my favorite.

In general, people just getting into classical music tend to like romantic era stuff the best. For piano music, try listening to stuff by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and expand out from there.

There's so much great stuff out there, it's hard to narrow it down, but here's a few things you might like.

Excerpt from the end of the 1st movement of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto (Emperor)

Excerpt from end of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paginini


Can only find audio for this one but...
Schubert Fantasy F minor for 4 hands (2 people playing)

[Deldar182]

Highly recommend anything Chopin. My favorites in particular are the waltzes and nocturnes, but it's all pretty great. I also quite like Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.

Classical ****s all over trance or house or whatever the ****, imo

On occasion I'll just put some on and just sit there and listen to it while doing nothing else. I find it evokes some strange ineffable feelings, like nothing else makes me feel. Particularly classical piano, of course. I've played on and off for much of my life.

[planB_]

rachmaninoffs piano concerto no. 2 is my personal favorite

Originally Posted by Deldar182

Classical ****s all over trance or house or whatever the ****, imo

If youre talking about personal preferance then my post is unnecessary but if you are talking about musical complexity IMO this is not ture. Ive been playing piano since I was 5 years old and did some transcripting as well as composing myself (nothing special obv) and recently tried to get into Reason 5 to try some electronic composing. If people like Franz Liszt were born today, I'd bet a high amount they'd be the next deadmau5. You have to see that the amount of variables available during 1600-1900 (where most "classic" stuff was composed) was limited to the orchestra and nothing else. Of course, geniuses like Mozart pulled of remarable works by creating extremely unique melodies that stick in your head, however this was all within the frame of classical composing. Now, if you look at what the best electronic artists are doing, its just beyond my understanding of what one can create. They have every instrument available that the classic composers had, multiplied by 1000 in its most variable forms and tunes. Of course you can just make up a beat with a programm and create something that qualifies as minimal, but to do complex stuff like deadmau5 and co you have to be what these guys were back then, musical ubertalents.

BTW, fun fact: since some mentioned chopin, deadmau5' "more ghots and stuff" has its intro transcripted from chopin's funeral march

[BluffingX]

Just woke up.. going to have some breakfast then brush my teeth.

[Lefort]

I used to listen to classical music while grinding for about a ~year but eventually decided it was making me too unaggro.. I mean, it's way easier to slam down an overbetbluff with TRANCEMUSIC pumping than chopin.. but that's just me. I'd recommend finding a good station that plays it so you get a large random sample of stuff and see what you like.

[BKiCe]

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