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A to Z recommendations.

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  • #62
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    Charles Ives - 3 Places in New England.


  • #63
    Doshea3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Doshea3


    Karl Jenkins—Armed Man Mass


  • #64
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Doshea3 wrote: »
    Bren—Never heard of Yamada, actually.

    Yeah, I picked up a Naxos CD during my 'I like everything Japanese' phase.

    He's a little academic, models his styles very closely on other composers. His early stuff sounds like Mozart, and his later like Skryabin, but I do like his symphonic poems.

    Damnit, I want 'w'. (In sort of a Webern mood...aw, hell, Variations for piano, and that one's free.)

    Er...Dmitri Kabalevsky, violin concerto.


  • #65
    Doshea3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Doshea3


    Excellent! SKRYJABINE! Nothing like a bit of himself. Recently been reobsessed with his first symphony. Must check out this Yamada chap.

    Love Webern's Variations too.

    Recommendations...O, Franz Liszt, Sonata in B minor. What else!?

    EDIT: Liszt again. Really, nothing works.


  • #66
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Messiaen, Olivier - Turangalîla-Symphonie


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  • #67
    Sandwich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Sandwich


    Dont know much about him but have long enjoyed

    Johann Baptist Neruda's
    Trumpet Concerto in E flat.

    Mid 18th cent Haydnesque style.


  • #68
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Er...I think the best to offer is Orff's Carmina Burana. Oh well.

    Anyone got anything better? Or a 'P'?


  • #69
    Doshea3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Doshea3


    That's the best one I'd say.

    Purcell—Dido and Aeneas


  • #70
    Pianist2891
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Pianist2891


    His songs - Now sleeps the crimson petal! op3

    Too bad he studied with percy "cakewalk basher" grainger.

    Like Haydn, I think Quilter would have possibly been a lovely person - gentle, kind and quite witty!


  • #71
    Calina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Calina


    Rachmaninov - Vocalise


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  • #72
    Sandwich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Sandwich


    A really good one here, and not just keeping the list going:

    Antonio Soler:
    Sonata No 91 in C maj

    or many many other fine sonatas with an astonishing verve and inventiveness (from a priest living in the austere El Escorial !). Scarlatti style in many ways but more enjoyable IMHO. Naxos is working on a complete set of the works (maybe completed by now).

    Try him if you havent before.


  • #73
    Doshea3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Doshea3


    Karishmeh—It's rare you can say that about a composer! I'd certainly like to have met Haydn. And Satie too, of course.

    Also, I'll definitely check out Soler. Come across him once or twice, must give him a closer look.

    I think a new thread is in order. *goes to make it*


  • #74
    Pianist2891
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Pianist2891


    Yes, Haydn - one of these days I'm going to do nothing but play Haydn for a whole month. I am probably the only person who doesn't care much for Soler - I still prefer Domenico's keyboard sonatas but agree that anyone who is looking at Scarlatti, should look or at least read through some Soler anyway!

    Moving on so T - Toru Takemitsu (his predictably famous Rain Tree Sketches for Piano) or Thomas Tallis - try his motets, lamentations, gorgeous stuff!


  • #75
    Sandwich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Sandwich


    Just a curio but a nice one.

    Uccellini : Aria quinta "Sopra la Bergmasca".

    Anyone familiar with much of his music ?


  • #76
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Not a favourite of mine, but I accept that it's had a major effect on both classical and popular music in the twentieth century (for better or worse):

    Edgard Varèse: Ionisation


  • #77
    Sandwich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Sandwich


    Maybe cheating a little bit ;

    Jan Vaclav Worzischeck (more commonly spelt Vorisek + with various accents)

    Symphony.

    Not heard it in a long time but found it quite good and quite Beethovenian in style.


  • #78
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,794 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Zelenka, super Czech composer of the Baroque era. He wrote a lot of music for the Mass, etc. Heard some of his work played on Lyric a few years ago but have had trouble finding a recording!

    Also Zipoli (Elevazione), Baroque again, very serene and uplifting!


  • #79
    Aard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Adams: Harmonielehre
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiv0jJl9zU


  • #80
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Brahms 3

    Incredible piece of work, and well up in my top 10 symphonies, probably top 5

    The 3rd Movt seems to get most of the attention (as it is gorgeous!),
    but the opening movement blows me away!

    Indispensable


  • #81
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Sandwich wrote: »
    Maybe cheating a little bit ;

    Jan Vaclav Worzischeck (more commonly spelt Vorisek + with various accents)

    Symphony.

    Not heard it in a long time but found it quite good and quite Beethovenian in style.

    German spellings are welcome here! (Shostakowitsch and Skrjabin fan...)

    Cage: 4'33"!


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  • #82
    funky penguin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    Dammit! Got there before me.....

    The opportunity was ripe for the picking!


  • #83
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    funky penguin wrote: »
    Dammit! Got there before me.....

    The opportunity was ripe for the picking!

    Ha-HA!

    As no-one seems to be following...

    Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2


  • #84
    JohnGalt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭JohnGalt


    Elgar- Three Bavarian Dances

    Faure- Fantasie

    Grieg- In the Hall of the Mountain King

    (Sorry for posting three, but had to get to Grieg, my favorite)


  • #85
    tSubh Dearg
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    For the time of year that's in it, I'm going to go with

    Handel - Messiah or
    Haydn - The Creation (which I will be singing in the NCH on Friday)


  • #86
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Ibeniz-Asturias

    JS Bach-Bouree on guitar.

    Both are some of the few things I can play!



    Edit: I cheated. Sorry!


  • #87
    tSubh Dearg
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    Are you using the J for your entry? A little cheaty but we don't mind :)


  • #88
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Kurtág - Játékok


  • #89
    kawaii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭kawaii


    Ligeti - Continuum
    Messiaen - Etudes de rythme 2 - Mode de valeurs et d'intensites


  • #90
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    Neilsen, Carl - Symphony No. 4 - The Inextinguishable
    Orff, Carl - Carmina Burana


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  • #91
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Arvo Pärt - Fratres

    I dunno how to spell how I feel about this piece, but it goes something like this: ahahwhhahwhahgahgahaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!


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