Classical music (3 Viewers)

[piratecore]

i live near a charity shop with vast ammounts of classical vinyl at extremely cheap prices but i dont know the first thing about it. any recommendations (with brief descriptions please) i like things like mars from the planet suite and wagner bits n peices. preferably heavy sounding militaristic and agressive music but i am open to anything.

 

[Pat Pockets]

Youd probably get a better response posting this in the general forum barney

 

[piratecore]

yeah but they all have shit taste in music, hence they are not here

 

[ann post]

stravinsky is pretty eclectic, forerunner of zappa, mozart/beethoven aare sorta like the beatles, gorecki got very dark and pissed off near the end of his career. debussy thing with clair de lune is good. i'd say grab it all if its cheap enough.

 

[GO]

Any Beethoven.Dude was a genius.
Ravels Bolero is class.
Claude Debussy's etudes,in fact any of his shit is rad.
Rachmaninoff for a bit of shredding piano.
A bit of Gershwin is the job too.
Needless to say Gilbert and Sullivan can't be whacked for a bit of whimsy.
Mahler is pretty gloomy if yer feeling that way inclined.
And if they have a copy of the French National Anthem grab it.You'll be playing when you're locked for years to come.

 

[piratecore]

ah the old gilbert and sullivan is already a regular fixture

 

[kleft]

SCHOENBERG

 

[ann post]

'huntsmans chorus' is good for drunk, but probably no point in buying it when lyric fm play it 8 times a day.

 

[Pat Pockets]

Well I stand corrected

 

[AnarchoBob]

preferably heavy sounding militaristic and agressive music

You are planning in blasting it full volume, terrorize the whole of Stranmillis and goose-step up and down Stranmillis Road at the sound of it?

If that is the plan, I'm in.

 

[piratecore]

fuckin right! call down some time anyway bob were getting evicted at the end of the month

 

[AnarchoBob]

That sucks balls, that house actually looked quite nice. Where you lads relocating at?

 

[piratecore]

fuck knows, i am going away come june so it might be the mas fro a month or two.

which i am not looking forward to

 

[shower another shower]

yip, anything by Wagner...Ring Cycle, Lohengrin, Tannhauser. Its all fantasy shit with massive orchestras.
Also Shostakovich for more fantasy type stuff.
Chopin for piano.

 

[nooleen]

fuck knows, i am going away come june so it might be the mas fro a month or two.

which i am not looking forward to

BORNEY! TURN THAT PIANO SHEYT DOWN AND COME DOWN FOR YOUR TEA!

 

[Super Dexta]

karl jenkins - the armed man
it's all about war and had loads of crashing and banging and some really discordant bits that hurt my ears when i saw it live, and loads of double bass of which i approve.

this is the start of it, though it's better (much louder) live:

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my ma thinks it's simplistic classical music for stupid people, she's probably right

 

[cesspooldublin]

Whitehouse.

 

[Cormcolash]

Classical is extremely hit and miss. The majority of composers write a few good pieces and the rest is a load of nonsense, I find. Not all though.
I quite like the Baroque era stuff as I like the simplistic bare sound, which can often make pieces sound quite dark and gothic.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons is actually a good one to get. Split into 12 separate movements, 2 or 3 of them are amazing, most are pretty good, 2 or 3 are just bollocks.
Barney I'd say you would like Peer Gynt by Grieg if you can get it, In the Hall of the Mountian King, despite being so famous, is actually amazing and raging with the volume turned up full.

 

[piratecore]

yah peer gynt is good, hope they have it actually. gonna raid it tomorrow

 

[cesspooldublin]

fuck, yeah "Hall of The Mountain King" is amazing.

Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" is also great. Terrifying stuff.