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Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Clayton — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:22:58 GMT

filc:

ClaytonB:
Here's a Chopin piece that'll stand your hair on end.

Yes this is nuckin futs. I hadn't realized it but this pretty much maid me an insta Chopin fan. Amazing.

Thanks everyone.

That piece is unfinished, by the way, it was published posthumously. Let me know if you'd like more Chopin recommendations.

Clayton -

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

filc — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:55:48 GMT

Dondoolee:

As far as pointing to somethin specific, what do you mean? Specific Brahms, lullabys, Celtic music, or something else?

I doubt I could help much with Celtic music though.

Precisely. If you can't identify anything it's no problem. You've all been a great help already. I think collectively I have added probably 400 tracks to my WHS, of which I listen to nightly off my squeezebox while I read.

ClaytonB:
Here's a Chopin piece that'll stand your hair on end.

Yes this is nuckin futs. I hadn't realized it but this pretty much maid me an insta Chopin fan. Amazing.

Thanks everyone.

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

filc — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:06:13 GMT

ClaytonB:

Bach's Cello Suite No. 1. Ten minutes of your life that could not be better spent.

Well Duh. Suite 1 is a tune that can turn any cloudy day into a day of inspiration and sunshine, whether the sun is out or not!

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Clayton — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:54:55 GMT

Merlin:

ClaytonB:
Ase's Death from the Peer Gynt suite by Edvard Grieg. Will make your hair stand on end (at least, it does mine).

That was great!

Check out the rest of the Peer Gynt Suite, there's a lot of great stuff in there... very moody, romantic. Ingrid's Lament, Solveig's Song, Hall of the Mountain King (more upbeat, but the coolest riff ever). Grieg was an OG.

Someone on a different forum mentioned this piece a few months back and... wow... let me just say that the first time I heard it was like a revelation. Try it out, if you like Ase's Death I think you'll like this. I had never heard of Atterberg before I heard this piece.

Less depressing but very introspective is the 2nd movement from Dvorak's 9th symphony (possibly the best symphony ever written, from beginning to end).

While we're on a dirge kick, here's a slow and pensive piece for piano by Claude Debussy. It's one of those pieces that, despite not being flashy and fast, is actually extremely difficult to play correctly because it is all about the resonance and dissonance within the piano.

Of course, Chopin is my favorite composer by a mile, so I have to post something of his. Here's a Chopin piece that'll stand your hair on end. Also, here's Ivo Pogorelich (one of my top fav interpreters of Chopin), playing Chopin's very sad E minor Prelude.

Clayton -

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

William — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:11:08 GMT

I forgot to list "Dido's Lament" by Henry Purcell. That is a very famous depressing song. Also from Purcell, "The Cold Song" and "Funeral for Queen Mary"

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

filc — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:40:22 GMT

Man I can't wait to get home and listen to all the great stuff you guys posted!

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Merlin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:34:33 GMT

ClaytonB:
Ase's Death from the Peer Gynt suite by Edvard Grieg. Will make your hair stand on end (at least, it does mine).

That was great!

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Solredime — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:25:52 GMT

Nothing beats Mozart's Lacrimosa, or the rest of his requiem.

edit: also love the 3rd movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Clayton — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:50:11 GMT

Dondoolee:

The four most famous examples I know:

Chopin's "funeral march"

Tchaikovsky's final movement in the 6th Symphony "Pathetique"

Barbers "Adagio for strings"

Adagio for Strings in G minor (sometimes called Albinoni's Adagio, though it was actually composed by remo giazotto)

I am sure all could be found easily on youtube

Ase's Death from the Peer Gynt suite by Edvard Grieg. Will make your hair stand on end (at least, it does mine).

Clayton -

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

William — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:32:46 GMT

Merlin:

Bert:

Getting back to the related thread... I love Beethoven's 7th. Is there any classical (or composers specifically) who's music was more gloomy than usual?

I agree that the 7nt is great.

Sibelius’ Valse Triste is as gloomy as they come. I don’t know about his other pieces. I hear Berlioz was into gloomy, but can’t say so from experience.

The four most famous examples I know:

Chopin's "funeral march"

Tchaikovsky's final movement in the 6th Symphony "Pathetique"

Barbers "Adagio for strings"

Adagio for Strings in G minor (sometimes called Albinoni's Adagio, though it was actually composed by remo giazotto)

I am sure all could be found easily on youtube

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Merlin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:06:23 GMT

Bert:

Getting back to the related thread... I love Beethoven's 7th. Is there any classical (or composers specifically) who's music was more gloomy than usual?

I agree that the 7nt is great.

Sibelius’ Valse Triste is as gloomy as they come. I don’t know about his other pieces. I hear Berlioz was into gloomy, but can’t say so from experience.

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Bert — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:39:35 GMT

Knight_of_BAAWA:

It is, in essence, metal by a cello quartet.

If you want to actually come across metal with other instruments involved check out bands such as Remains of The Day, Fall of Efrafa, and other "post-crust" acts. My girlfriend listens to a lot of black metal, and while vocally I'm sure it's not the most pleasing, musically it's very talented and some of those bands tend to add cello and violin playing in their music, but it's hard to say what to search for...

I have a friend who plays metal/crust, and he was adding cello samples to the intros of his band's songs.

Getting back to the related thread... I love Beethoven's 7th. Is there any classical (or composers specifically) who's music was more gloomy than usual?

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

William — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:26:21 GMT

I just meant she was using lullabyes as a style. I don't think she incorperated "Brahms lullabye" directly, I was just pointing out the 2 most famous lullabyes I know.

As far as pointing to somethin specific, what do you mean? Specific Brahms, lullabys, Celtic music, or something else?

I doubt I could help much with Celtic music though.

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

Clayton — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:32:54 GMT

Bach's Cello Suite No. 1. Ten minutes of your life that could not be better spent.

Re: Like the Cello? Bach? Classical? ect..?

filc — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:40:28 GMT

Dondoolee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_music

The "lullaby set" actually contains traditional lullaby's. If you like that form of music, Brahms and Chopin wrote very famous lullaby's

When I look up Brahms lullabye it's that same one I've heard since i was a little kid. Needless to say I'm not terribly interested in it. Now how Shira incorporated that, IDK, but it sounded nice. Is there anything specific you can point me to? I did listen to some other of Brahms symphony's and they sound pretty rockin