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

[vandermolen]

Some (more or less) Late Romantic works that may fit your bill (and I'll be seconding some other recommendations):

Miaskovsky: symphony 25
Borodin: symphony 2
Bruckner: string quintet, Te Deum, symphonies 7-9
Bax: Tintagel
Hanson: Romantic and Nordic symphonies
Norgard: symphony 3 (avant-garde, but lush and grand)
Strauss: Don Juan, Ein Heldenleben, Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)
Elgar: cello concerto, Coronation March, In the South
Rubbra: viola concerto
Lilburn: Aotearoa, Drysdale Overture
Vaughan Williams: symphonies 2 & 3, The Lark Ascending
Pärt: Summa, Trisagion, Lamentate, etc.
Holst: The Planets
Liszt: Les Preludes and Mazeppa
Smetana: Ma Vlast
Dvorak: cello concerto, symphonies 7-9
Tchaikovsky: violin concerto, symphonies 4-6
Korngold: symphony
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, symphony 2 "Antar"
for something along the lines of Beethoven's symphonies: the symphonies of Ries, Onslow, and Farrenc

Excellent list.

[Keemun]

One recommendation that I haven't seen yet is Sibelius' symphonies.  Wonderful music. 

Others that I recommend:

Bruckner: Symphonies (all, but especially Nos. 7 and 8 )
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (German Requiem)
Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 (I'm assuming you're already familiar with No. 9)
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Martinu: Symphony No. 4
Schmidt: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4
Scriabin: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
Suk: Asrael

[Harry]

Grown stagnant. That concept is totally unknown for me, and its hard to imagine at all.

[Ten thumbs]

What is 'Late Romantic' without Rakhmaninoff?
However, if you grow tired of his piano concertos, get hold of the three by Medtner. They opened up a whole new world for me.

[Superhorn]

   Listen to the magnificent six symphonies of the unmelancholy Dane, Carl Nielsen. This is music which is imbued with the life force ! !f If this doesn't revive you, nothing will.
  Also try the exuberant overture to his delightful comic opera Maskarade,
the Helios overture, which depicts sunrise and sunset, the woodwind quintet, and the concertos for flute, clarinet and violin.

[some guy]

Well, if I were asked, and I haven't been, I would say that all these recommendations for more of the kind of thing you already like will just make the pond bigger. At first that will dilute the stagnation you're experiencing, but I haven't see much that will get the water flowing clean and pure again.

If you find yourself growing (!) stagnant again, try something completely different. Or at least somewhat different. (More Janacek and Norgard and Nielsen, for instance.)

Stravinsky
Haydn
Machaut
Gluck
Varese
Lachenmann
Gobeil
Kutavicius

And, while you're still in the still but embiggened pond, why not get your ears around the rest of Berlioz?

[ChamberNut]

How about Olivier Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time (piano, clarinet, violin, cello)?

I heard this work live last night, and was taken aback by the intensity of different emotions I felt throughout the work.

It's in 8 very unique movements.  Perhaps a bit difficult upon first hearing, but one of the most rewarding listening experiences for me in a long time! 

[DavidW]

As a cure to listmania, I suggest a different approach.  Listen to the radio (pbs or bbc) and when you're like wow! I like that, check out more from that composer.  You'll save money that way ensuring that everything you buy you'll like, where if you were to just go buy what's on these lists you may spend much more money and not be as satisfied with the result.

[Kullervo]

   Listen to the magnificent six symphonies of the unmelancholy Dane, Carl Nielsen. This is music which is imbued with the life force !

A very apt description.

[marvinbrown]

As a cure to listmania, I suggest a different approach.  Listen to the radio (pbs or bbc) and when you're like wow! I like that, check out more from that composer.  You'll save money that way ensuring that everything you buy you'll like, where if you were to just go buy what's on these lists you may spend much more money and not be as satisfied with the result.

  Sound (pun intended  ) advice.  Still I'd like to think that Verdi's Otello, one of my recommendations is a sure winner- but then again I could be wrong......

  marvin

[karlhenning]

Still I'd like to think that Verdi's Otello, one of my recommendations is a sure winner- but then again I could be wrong......

Not in this, you could not.

[Grazioso]

I don't remember if this was mentioned: try genres outside of classical music. If, for example, you want "unmelancholy music imbued with the life force," get thee to the jazz section posthaste!

[eyeresist]

Pick up:

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Karajan/EMI)

Rachmaninov Symphonies & Symphonic Dances (Ashkenazy/Decca)

Great recordings that should be in everyone's collection.

[PerfectWagnerite]

If I have to recommend one recording that would get your adrenaline going it would be Lenny's recording of the Leningrad Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Man oh man does he bring out the raw power of DSCH's scoring (half a dozen trumpets and trombones) to an almost frightening reality. And you get one of the coolest cover arts, ever.

[anasazi]

Here is a 20th century American composer whose symphonies and concertos I am also discovering right now: David Diamond.  Try any of the Delos CDs that you can find.  Some have been reissued by Naxos, but not all I think.  Diamond's music is tonal (barely) but sounds kind of fresh to me.  Like Hanson (x2).

[Grazioso]

Here is a 20th century American composer whose symphonies and concertos I am also discovering right now: David Diamond.  Try any of the Delos CDs that you can find.  Some have been reissued by Naxos, but not all I think.  Diamond's music is tonal (barely) but sounds kind of fresh to me.  Like Hanson (x2).

The Naxos reissue of symphonies 2 & 4 is particularly good. The former should appeal to Brucknerians.

[Anne]

If I have to recommend one recording that would get your adrenaline going it would be Lenny's recording of the Leningrad Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Man oh man does he bring out the raw power of DSCH's scoring (half a dozen trumpets and trombones) to an almost frightening reality. And you get one of the coolest cover arts, ever.

What he said.  I agree completely.

[George]

Poulenc, Satie and Saint Saens

[Jay F]

As a cure to listmania, I suggest a different approach.  Listen to the radio (pbs or bbc) and when you're like wow! I like that, check out more from that composer.  You'll save money that way ensuring that everything you buy you'll like, where if you were to just go buy what's on these lists you may spend much more money and not be as satisfied with the result.

That's a good idea. I was listening to WQED one morning last spring, and I heard the Beaux Arts Trio do the second piano trio by Schubert, and it started me on this listening and buying binge that has yet to end. I haven't listened to the radio since then, just listenin' to CDs and shoppin', and hangin' out with Stuart and George, and Russell and Eddie and Bill (and someone else who has a made-up name), and now you guys.

Oh, and if you don't want to listen to the radio, may I recommend Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 6, and 7? I'll let you do conductor research.

Or else St. Matthew's Passion, what with easter just two months away. I like the first one by Herreweghe. Stuart is now listening to the second one by Herreweghe.

[Jay F]

Poulenc, Satie and Saint Saens

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