Recommend me music, I've grown stagnant in listening..

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#41
February 09, 2009, 03:45:52 PM
It worked.. hehe.  I'll get some Poulenc piano stuff that I heard on the radio, I liked the different harmonies.

George

#42
February 09, 2009, 03:51:52 PM
Quote from: Jaxamillian on February 09, 2009, 03:45:52 PM
It worked.. hehe.  I'll get some Poulenc piano stuff that I heard on the radio, I liked the different harmonies.

Not sure if you have a performer in mind, but Tacchino's performances are superb! They are on an EMI 2CD set.  8)

schweitzeralan

#43
February 23, 2009, 07:59:33 AM
Quote from: Jaxamillian on November 15, 2008, 09:36:32 PM
Alright guys- I used to listen to way more music when I was in school and we would analyze pieces and periods.  Lately I've grown stagnant in my listening...I find myself listening to the same pieces I loved.  Thats fine, but I've lost that sense of progression I used to have. 

I'll name some composers and pieces I really like and why I like them and hopefully you all can help me out.

R. Schumman- I love his songs and love his creative, ingenious use of harmony and harmonic sequences.  His piano accompinaments for his songs are freakin beautiful as well.
"Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai" anyone.....

Beethoven- Symphonies...Raw power.  Getting the most out of seemingly simple gestures....Faves...Symphony 5 Mvts. I and II....Sym 7 the slow movement...

Wagner- Making radical harmony work through counterpoint and moving lines....favorites....Prelude and Liebestad of Tristan un Isolde. I like the overtures in his operas and the preludes.

Mahler Symph 9...the final, slow movement...

Berlioz Symhopnie Fantastique- crazy, even scary in the orchestration and arrangement. 

Hovhaness- I haven't seen him discussed a lot here.  I like his sweeping string movements, Like the one in his Symph. 2.

I guess what I love most is clever use of traditional harmony...like late romantic style.  I love big chorales.  I love sweeping string movements like "Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis" by Vaughn Williams.  I am sure I am forgetting a lot but I hope this gives you a general sense of what I enjoy. 

Any reccomendations on essentials I need to get from those composers as well as new guys (or girls) to explore?

Thanks.

Have you heard any symphonies or tone poems by British composer Arnold Bax.  Many recordings available.  I recommend the 1st Symphony as a start.

Bulldog

#45
February 25, 2009, 06:31:41 AM
Quote from: jlaurson on February 25, 2009, 06:20:35 AM
Heartfelt suggestions.


Zemlinksy, Quartet No.2

I love this Zemlinsky disc and also its companion disc that completes the string quartets.

schweitzeralan

#47
February 25, 2009, 07:27:42 AM
Quote from: erato on February 25, 2009, 07:06:46 AM


One of my favorite discoveries of 2008.

Right on!  I love that earlier work by Roslavets "In the Hours of the New Moon."  Mysterious and haunting, as well as dramatic.  I discovered it last year. All other recordings I have are roslavets' piano works, which I've been listenng to often.  Quite unique with much Scriabin influence. 

Superhorn

#48
February 25, 2009, 02:08:25 PM
   Try symphonies by these composers :  Mily Balakirev ,no 1 in C major,
a welcome change from the same old Tchaikovsky symphonies.
  Mexican Carlos Chavez : no 2, Sinfonia India,a short ,zippy and extremely colorful one movement symphony based on Mexican Indian melodies.  Paul Dukas, Symphony in C, his only one,and sadly neglected.
  Sweden's Franz Berwald, four delightful and highly original ones by a contemporary of Berlioz.  Sir Arthur Bliss: (1891-1975) A Color Symphony. Each of the four movements represents a different color !
It's different and a lot of fun.  Dvorak: Symphonies 1-6. Sadly neglected in the concert hall, but gorgeous.  Prokofiev: symphonies, 2,3,4 and 6.
Not as well-known as the 5th and the classical, but marvelous.
  Albert Roussel : four symphonies. The 3rd is the best known, but all are brilliant.   There are a number of excellent recordings of all of these.
Check arkivmusic.com.

snyprrr

#49
February 27, 2009, 05:15:38 PM
FINZI!!!
FINZI
FINZI!!!

HARRIS SYM3 -SCHUMAN SUM3- bernstein DG-CD............DIAMOND sym4..........

ZELENKA (for baroque)

schmidt sym 4 (again)

you MIGHT even like Allan Pettersson!!!

you MIGHT even like Morton Feldman!

gorecki sym3 "symphony of sorrowful songs"

sessions sym3

basically, ANY sym3 by ANY composer, haha.


sound67

#50
February 28, 2009, 05:02:53 AM
Quote from: Jaxamillian on November 15, 2008, 09:36:32 PM
Hovhaness- I haven't seen him discussed a lot here.  I like his sweeping string movements, Like the one in his Symph. 2.

In that case, you should also enjoy his other 65 symphonies, because they're basically the same.  ;)

QuoteI guess what I love most is clever use of traditional harmony...like late romantic style.  I love big chorales.  I love sweeping string movements like "Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis" by Vaugh[a]n Williams.  I am sure I am forgetting a lot but I hope this gives you a general sense of what I enjoy. 

Then, by all means, MORE Vaughan Williams.  ;D

Thomas


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