Please give me your favorite top 10 favorite along with your preferred version/conductor/orchestra. Format not to important at this point, just no tape. If you recommend tape be prepared for a visitor to listen.
I am looking for the "Heavy Metal" loud, bombastic, percussive pieces of classical here. I am not looking for quiet soothing stuff here. I have come to the conclusion at this point, that's the stuff that irritates me the most, opera even more so.
Bonzo coined me as a "Rocker" and he is not too far from the truth, so we must start there.
Please and thank you and GO!
Holst The Planets
Shostakovich symphony 8
Mussorgsky pictures at an exhibition Stokowski version
Respighi Pines of Rome
Nielsen Aladdin
Sibelius Kullervo
Prokofiev Romeo and juliet
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps / The Rite of Spring
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloe
Wagner Ring
Poulenc: Organ Concerto in G minor, op. 36
I'll let you do the hard work. I could probably list a hundred. I suggest you have a large powerful system. There are many beautiful and powerful Pieces out there to listen to....Saint Saens,Delius,Debussy....Spanish composers and Americans like Copland.
Some of mine that might fit what I think you're looking for (in no articular order; CDs unless otherwise noted):
Beethoven - Immortal Beloved excellent movie soundtrack with pieces from many of his best
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique (London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis)
Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Symphonic Winds - Holst, Handel, Bach selections on Telarc label
Holst - The Planets (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta)
Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances (Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue - SACD)
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 3 (Arcadi Volodos, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine)
Saint-Saens - Symphony No 3 'Organ' (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine)
Schubert - Symphony No 9 (Vienna Philharmonic, Sir George Solti)
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Erich Kunzel)
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker (London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras)
Please give me your favorite top 10 favorite along with your preferred version/conductor/orchestra. Format not to important at this point, just no tape. If you recommend tape be prepared for a visitor to listen.
I am looking for the "Heavy Metal" loud, bombastic, percussive pieces of classical here. I am not looking for quiet soothing stuff here. I have come to the conclusion at this point, that's the stuff that irritates me the most, opera even more so.
Bonzo coined me as a "Rocker" and he is not too far from the truth, so we must start there.
Please and thank you and GO!
Are you looking to gain appreciation of classical or do you think bombastic recommendations are the way to get close to a heavy metal taste and begin appreciation. These are very different things
Hi Fi Guy, I don’t like all opera, but Puccini’s Operas are some of the most beautiful and dynamic music ever written. Here is the opening few minutes of Turandot with Freni and PavorottI.I also recommend Tosca with Price and Gobbi only on Living Stereo Tape or LP. Good luck on your journey.
Please give me your favorite top 10 favorite along with your preferred version/conductor/orchestra. Format not to important at this point, just no tape. If you recommend tape be prepared for a visitor to listen.
I am looking for the "Heavy Metal" loud, bombastic, percussive pieces of classical here. I am not looking for quiet soothing stuff here. I have come to the conclusion at this point, that's the stuff that irritates me the most, opera even more so.
Bonzo coined me as a "Rocker" and he is not too far from the truth, so we must start there.
A little off. topic, but if you like powerful experiences you should look into movie soundtracks. Three of my favorites that create tension and on a big system can be fear actually are....“The Red Violin,”The Mission”, And “Chinatown”.
1.Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 Pathetique Yvgeny Mravinsky Leningrad Philharmonie dgm Record made 1972 at in London if you like to know how Cosmos feels too human. https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4798123
1.Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 Pathetique Yvgeny Mravinsky Leningrad Philharmonie dgm Record made 1972 at in London if you like to know how Cosmos feels too human. https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4798123
All
Thank you for the suggestions so far, it is appreciated! AL I appreciate the links to spend money with a single click.
I am not sure what my issue is with classical at the moment, but I have one and I want to figure it out as I have not always felt this way. I have a friend that is a cellist and have been to quite a few his performances as well as professional performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
I will continue to explore the selections offered here as time permits, been working stupid hours. I did listen to and do like Stockhausen Gruppen/Punkte Eötvös conductor.
I have a large Living Stereo Shaded Dog collection that I have not explored to deeply yet, once I get my kit out of crates and set back up we will venture into that. For now its digital and headphones.
Thanks guys!
Keder
I am not sure how to answer the question properly at this point, but leaning towards the later. I need more time.
The last piece I heard that made me go out and buy it right after I heard it was Living Stereo Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 Pathetique. I heard it at the second THE Show, some dude had brought it to demo. Is it the ultimate, no but I like it a lot.
I am very familiar with Pictures via ELP and Alberto Ginastera OP. 28 Toccata. Keith played it for him before he put it on the album and he gave it his blessing saying he captured everything he intended. Love this piece!
All
Thank you for the suggestions so far, it is appreciated! AL I appreciate the links to spend money with a single click.
I am not sure what my issue is with classical at the moment, but I have one and I want to figure it out as I have not always felt this way. I have a friend that is a cellist and have been to quite a few his performances as well as professional performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
I will continue to explore the selections offered here as time permits, been working stupid hours. I did listen to and do like Stockhausen Gruppen/Punkte Eötvös conductor.
I have a large Living Stereo Shaded Dog collection that I have not explored to deeply yet, once I get my kit out of crates and set back up we will venture into that. For now its digital and headphones.
In what sense? No, it's thoroughly enjoyable, exciting and fulfilling to listen to his music. He has composed masterpieces right up to his death in 2007. Just the last few days the opera Freitag aus Licht and the standalone electronic music thereof (Weltraum / Outer Space), composed when he was 65, once more totally blew me away.
And yes, I deeply love the music of Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Bruckner, Mahler and so many others too.
just looked up the stuff on youtube and gave it some listening i, however, say the piece is a total mockery:
not that i'm no accustomed to what mockery Beethoven, Mahler, Strauss or Prokofiev may have smuggled into their scores, but at least their music is all encompassing, highly diverse & has a message to deliver; unlike this Stockhausen fellow, who takes on the subject of 'space' and gives it a very short-sighted interpretation as if of something 'alien' or completely 'different' which is not true at all; for in fact space includes our world same as others as well and, therefore, you should not portray the 'other worlds' theme with no due reference to our world presented in a thorough manner.
just looked up the stuff on youtube and gave it some listening i, however, say the piece is a total mockery:
not that i'm no accustomed to what mockery Beethoven, Mahler, Strauss or Prokofiev may have smuggled into their scores, but at least their music is all encompassing, highly diverse & has a message to deliver; unlike this Stockhausen fellow, who takes on the subject of 'space' and gives it a very short-sighted interpretation as if of something 'alien' or completely 'different' which is not true at all; for in fact space includes our world same as others as well and, therefore, you should not portray the 'other worlds' theme with no due reference to our world presented in a thorough manner.
