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Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 02-08-2016
A thread where classical music snobs like myself can share their favorite songs and whine about the low quality of today's popular music.
(I suppose technically this thread should be called the "Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Symphonic Snob Committee", since all those genres are also allowed, but that was too long)
Some of my current favorites:
Bacchanale by Saint-Saens
Chopin's posthumous Nocturne in C# Minor
Rachmoninoff's Prelude in C# Minor
Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto (Sadly not in C# minor)
The Adagio from Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Kíeros - 02-08-2016
Trust me, I have loads that I could put here. I'm just going to start with the piece our orchestra is finally playing Saturday. (Long story short, it was supposed to be on our fall concert my sophomore year, but it was struck at the last minute. So now it's the winter concert senior year, and I really like it, so I'm happy we're finally doing it)
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - ThePassenger - 02-08-2016
Oh God Concierto de Aranjuez. If I could write something that achingly sad the purpose of my life would be fulfilled.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - ThePassenger - 02-09-2016
Of all the things I've heard in my life, this is the most like what the pagan version of Christmas music would be. Like Bach but dark and Hungarian. It makes me want to be celebrating Yule and have a Green Knight walk in and challenge me or something like that.
Bartok, Cantata Profana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ZBqQj3o7g
Also been listening to a lot of Mozart. This is Mozart in the mood I like him in; thrilling and terrifying. He spent a lot of time writing music light in spirit which I generally find boring, but when he goes for it, he really goes. Adagio and Fugue in C Minor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd8EdQRX0Tg
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Loather - 03-02-2016
my favorites are dvorak and rachmaninoff
coplands cool too, quiet city has a really nice feel to it
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 07-23-2016
Everybody loves Rhapsody in Blue, but I think too many people forget about its younger sister, which is just as good. That is, only people who haven't heard it forget about this song, but that's still too many.
Now I need to find a song that is actually underappreciated so I can justify this post.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Kíeros - 07-23-2016
Over the last week, I was helping out with a strings camp, and this was our closing song. Because Dvorak is great, but everyone's heard New World.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Kaynato - 07-23-2016
I have a library of over 1200 classical music pieces.
I find that I really love the French Impressionism: Faure, Ravel, Debussy... But also, all sorts of Russian music.
Anyhow, here's a bunch of my favorites. I'm willing to bet that you haven't heard of a few of these before:
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Kaynato - 07-23-2016
I had this in my favorites, but forgot about it.
Autoplay was on, this came on, and it got to around 30:00 and I thought "I MUST FAVORITE THIS" only to find that I already had.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Kaynato - 07-23-2016
I found this just now, and already I love it:
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Kíeros - 07-23-2016
I just really like the finale of this. It's so fun to play.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Kíeros - 08-18-2016
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 12-03-2016
We've been playing this at school for a few months and I've absolutely fallen in love with it.
edit: I only just saw that medley thing. I was expecting to be very angry, but that was really skillfully done and worked very well. It does a great job of showing the common threads in music, especially music from similar time periods. I'm also very proud/embarassed about how many of those I could name.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Stovie - 12-05-2016
I'm a fan of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in general, but out of all of its movements I prefer the feel of the 4th one the best. It's great for those times when you're staying up until 3 in the morning.
I suppose this is a bit earlier than Baroque, but I also really like 16th and 17th century music. "Wir Zogen In Das Feld" is catchy too.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Our Lady of Lampreys - 01-31-2017
I've had mixed feelings about this piece for a while but recently I gave up and decided that I liked it. It's still the epitome of late-Romantic self-indulgence, but sometimes that's okay.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 04-14-2017
I saw this live at the symphony a while ago and it's really good.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 04-23-2017
Some more I saw at the symphony. These songs are so evocative; while other songs may be based on an idea, these ones are that idea.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 07-27-2017
Putting this here just so I don't keep forgetting what it's called.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 08-08-2017
(07-27-2017, 06:52 PM)a52 Wrote: »Putting this here just so I don't keep forgetting what it's called.
This too.
Man I'd love to be able to play this some day.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 08-28-2017
I've really been getting into Grieg lately. Most of these have both piano and orchestra arrangements, so I choose the ones I liked the best.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - gloomyMoron - 08-28-2017
I'm not much of a snob, per se, but I still enjoy classical music. <.<
[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpfbDLFSZb4[/youtube]
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 09-20-2017
This isn't actually a classical song, but I thought it was cool how you could hear snatches of Debussy throughout, especially in the beginning. It's especially interesting because Debussy and Guaraldi are both some of my favorite composers, but I didn't notice before now how much Guaraldi must have been influenced by Debussy.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 10-20-2017
Most people will recognize the two major themes of this song, but when I listened to it today I was really struck by the tragic, solitary introductory theme of the first five minutes or so. I think it's one of the real strengths of this piece, but since it's not repeated like the other two are, it's not as well known.
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - a52 - 12-14-2017
(04-23-2017, 05:46 AM)a52 Wrote: »Some more I saw at the symphony. These songs are so evocative; while other songs may be based on an idea, these ones are that idea.
these two are almost as good, and they're also about the sea:
RE: Classical Music Snob Committee - Reyweld - 12-14-2017
Listening to the top choice by Rachmaninov is making my internetting and general life feel a lot more dramatic and exciting! Thanks a52.