Suddenly developed a taste for classical music, any suggestions?

Some of my favorites







Sal

a reply to: TechUnique

originally posted by: AboveBoard
Excellent choices! Especially for someone who likes Tchaikovsky.

I figured they would be instantly recognizable even to someone who has not listened to classical.

a reply to: BiffWellington

Bingo!

Both got me through finishing my Bachelor's. So soothing.

1965 stereo recording of Paganini's 1st concerto played by Michael Rabin
Paganini's 24 Caprices played by Schlomo Mintz
Brahm's Violin Concerto played by Itzhak Perlman
Early Beethoven String Quartets played by Quatour Vegh
Ravel String Quartet played by Emerson String Quartet
Shostakovich Symphony "The Red Square"
Nathan Milstein plays his own piece "Paganiniana"

Start there. If you like any of that hit me up and I'll give you more. I've been a concert violinist my whole life.

a reply to: TechUnique

There is more than plenty available to wet your appetite.

A few recommendations.

Sir Edward Elgar.



Gustav Holst



Beethoven 6th Symphony. So sublime.

Frisson material ahead.....

I'm a bit of a Schubert fan:



Sibelius' 2nd: Two of my favorite ring tones come from this piece - on this verison at 3:35 and 31:43 or thereabouts.



Hindemith Symphony in B Flat for Winds



Americans:

Samuel Barber:

Overture to a School for Scandal:



and Agnus Dei (an a cappala arrangement directed by Robert Shaw - sublime)



Copeland, Gershwin (oh don't forget Gershwin)

Bachs cello suites as performed by mitslav rostropovich.


Vivaldis 4 seasons. Especially the "storm" during the middle of the summer suite

originally posted by: Kantzveldt

Simply Lovely - thank you....

a reply to: TechUnique

i'm glad you were suddenly overwhelmed by classical music and that you initiated this thread.

i enjoy all the suggestions, i'm listening and starring here for two days now. a few of my favorites are listed here already and some others became my new favorites.

i hope there is still space in your heart of classical music and that you will also enjoy my two contributions


Requiem For A Dream (Horrific Version)


Dance Macabre (For Violin & Piano) - Camille Saint-Saëns

Eric Satie

I like these two.
I've always associated these with Christmas, though neither were composed with that in mind.

originally posted by: DaphneApollo
Eric Satie

I fell in love with this piece. I just found the sheet music for it for cello. I am going to give it a try.

Thanks.

This is a delightful thread and I've more to add... in keeping with the developing theme...

I first heard these two young cellists from eastern Europe on KUSC playing the Bach Double Violin Concerto in D minor. See the 2nd movement here:



... I didn't hear who the artists were and then ...

... someone on ATS posted this wonderful video with very topical political symbology of a Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About US" (Should be "They Bomb Us All".



and this riff on Rossini's William Tell Overture and Iron Maiden's Trooper:



and back to a more classical theme from 2 Cellos, the lovely:

a reply to: FyreByrd

If I could play like those guys, I would be in 7th heaven. Still struggling over the Gnossienne 1, but it is coming along. I can't practice very much anymore because of misplaced disks to my cervical and lumbar spine, but I do what I can, until it gets to be too much.

I get pleasure out of just playing for myself, and my Mom. She gets a kick out of hearing my lousy playing. Of course, mothers being mothers, it is music to her ears only.

www.youtube.com...