classical music

[Brovion]

If you like Gorecki then you should try some Janacek - very good, especially the Glagolitic Mass.

Wagner is better than it sounds......

Blimey Horace, I think we're getting him to run before he can walk here!

 

[Acker79]

Also, maybe:
Classic FM Music For Studying: Amazon.co.uk: Music

 

[The Large One]

Nimrod, from Elgar's Enigma Variations.

That, or my favourite piece of mellow music - Gympnopedies No.1 by Erik Satie.

 

[Hornblower]

Blimey Horace, I think we're getting him to run before he can walk here!

Sorry, yes you're probably right, warm up with some Mussorgsky and possibly some Rimsky-Korsakov.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Thanks but I have got a load of those type of things from youtube that I use in the classroom but i am interested in using 'real' music for the same effect and looking into it a bit further.

Real music you say? sorry classical lovers but great music can be applied in the modern era too

 

[1066familyman]

Don't worry, you're quite correct it IS used as on overall term for all types of, er, well we both know the type of music you mean! There are loads of different periods for 'classical music' though, a bit like there are loads of different periods for 'art'.

As said above. The timeline goes something like this:

450 - 1450 = Medieval
1450 - 1600 = Renaissance
1600 - 1750 = Baroque
1750 - 1820 = Classical
1820 - 1910 = Romantic
1910 - 2000 = 20th Century

The latter is sometimes called Modern. Contemporary classical is another term you'll here too for more recent pieces.

Good link here to get a breakdown of each period and key players & events from each period: Timeline of Western Music History


If you're prepared to immerse yourself and up for a challenge then best advice I'd give to anyone wanting to discover more about Western Classical music is to keep your radio dial locked to BBC Radio 3 - that station is an institution to be proud of!

 

[Brovion]

Real music you say? sorry classical lovers but great music can be applied in the modern era too

Well yes it can, but that's just club music isn't it? I thought for a minute it was going to be a modern composer but it's just bog-standard backbeat, dance music. Anybody with a synth can produce that - and I speak from experience!

 

[BadFish]

Real music you say? sorry classical lovers but great music can be applied in the modern era too

Love William Orbit me. I was making the distinction between music made solely to manipulate your brain waves and music made as a piece of music/beauty.

Thanks for all the hints chaps I will be investigating with interest this weekend. I hope i can access radio 3 from over here that sounds like a good place to start.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Well yes it can, but that's just club music isn't it? I thought for a minute it was going to be a modern composer but it's just bog-standard backbeat, dance music. Anybody with a synth can produce that - and I speak from experience!

Yes and sorry to let you down-please not that when it comes to classical music i have not even reached the crawl stage yet

 

[Jam The Man]

Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Intermezzo

Lovley piece.. often gets used commercially, but my primary recollection was it's use at the end of The Godfather Part 3.

 

[1066familyman]

My daughter especially loves playing this piece on her piano. Some classical lovers would probably cringe though. You could probably call it Contemporary, Neo Classical or even New Age. Take your pick.

Ludovico Einaudi Primavera - YouTube

Personally for some contemporary stuff I'd have a dig around for the likes of Kevin Volans, Georgs Pelecis, Harold Budd, Phillip Glass and Steve Reich.

 

[centurion40]

Alright Ponces (myself included)

For one reason and another I have decided to explore some classical music. So far checking out some JS BAch on spotify and really enjoying it.

any recommendations?

Also interested in the use of classical music to focus the mind, alter brainwave patterns and improve learning if anyone knows anything about that.

Johann Pachelbel- canon in D is an amazing piece of music
Vivladi- Four Seasons
Sergei Prokofiev- Romeo and Juliet
Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata

 

[1066familyman]

I'm going to dispense with endlessly repeating myself and posting my favourite classical piece yet again - Nevertheless - but instead post a different Georgs Pelecis piece

Georgs Pelecis - Concertino bianco for piano and chamber orchestra in C major - YouTube

 

[withdeanwombat]

Try Mussorgsky/Ravel "Pictures at an Exhibition".The original piece was for piano,but Ravel arranged it for full orchestra.Heard it performed at the Dome decades ago.Marvelous.

Try Bruch "Violin Concerto #1".Bit of a one hit wonder,but what a hit!

Saint-Saens "Dance Macabre".You'll know it when you hear it.

Einaudi- "The Einaudi Collection".This is contemporary stuff,but I'm sure you'll like it.

When this fails,I fall back on Bob Dylan.

 

[Hornblower]

Johann Pachelbel- canon in D is an amazing piece of music
Vivladi- Four Seasons
Sergei Prokofiev- Romeo and Juliet
Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata

Wow! I suppose those are OK if you like the chocolate box stuff.

 

[BensGrandad]

Johann Pachelbel- canon in D is an amazing piece of music

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Son got married last year and they were undecided on which piece of music for his wife to be to enter the church to asked the vicar for his advice and he said that was the most popular entry music for brides. I personally do not like it but I was not getting married.

 

[The Large One]

The Troika from Lieutenant Kijé by Prokofiev is, for some reason, only ever associated with Christmas. But it's still a great piece.

 

[vegster]

I'd suggest....

Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite.

Sibelius's Finlandia and Symphony No 5

Beethoven's 6th/7th/8th and the stupendous 9th symphonies

and maybe some Rossini ....

Once you get listening you will recognize loads you hear as background music.

 

[brakespear]

Sibelius
Debussy
Malcolm Arnold
Erik Satie
And for a bit of light relief the Hoffnung concerts, of which there are several compilation CDs I believe

 

[wunt be druv]

Try Mozarts Clarinet Concerto in A major,K622 and Clarinet Quintet in A major,K581. both beautifull pieces of music and Vaughan Williams works The Lark ascending and Fantasia on Greensleeves - awesome!