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(Passing) Classical Gas
4 years ago
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So, I'm in one of my months-long classical music phases again. Can't help wondering what I might be missing (as a listener, not a player), so I thought I'd reach out to the classical fans here for any recommendations you'd like to share.
Now, my music education is ass backwards: I started out as a lover of serialism and non-tonal music and slowly worked my way backwards to pre-Baroque vocal music. I'm less likely to go for the obvious stuff than for outstanding but underplayed works by the masters (Schumann's dark, dramatic Second Violin Sonata and Stravinsky's capricious Symphonies of Wind Instruments ain't exactly warhorses). Which pieces of classical-type art music are you into these days?
Now, my music education is ass backwards: I started out as a lover of serialism and non-tonal music and slowly worked my way backwards to pre-Baroque vocal music. I'm less likely to go for the obvious stuff than for outstanding but underplayed works by the masters (Schumann's dark, dramatic Second Violin Sonata and Stravinsky's capricious Symphonies of Wind Instruments ain't exactly warhorses). Which pieces of classical-type art music are you into these days?
Moonlight Sonata, but ALL the movements, because there's a fast one in there that's just nuts.
Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca, full stop.
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 will always be a favorite.
Khachaturian's Sabre Dance is, perhaps, underappreciated.
Spoopy season may be over, but I never need an excuse to enjoy Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre. Sometimes I put it on loop and read Poe or Bradbury.
It's cheating a little since it's from and opera and has words, but L'amour est un oiseau rebelle from Bizet's Carmen is just plain fun.
Schoenberg: “La Noche Transfigurada”
Stravinsky: "The Firebird"