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Classical Music?
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--- Quote from: ironoxide887 ---Chopin just bores me, I've just never been able to become exited about one of his works.
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i have to agree with you. i never really liked chopin either.
--- Quote from: The Hammered ---Does anyone have any suggestions for figuring out which recording of a particular piece to buy? Should I try figuring out which performers I really like and go from there, or should I spend hours looking up information on/reviews of various recordings, or what?
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i would not reccomend looking up reviews. symphonic music (i'm just going to call it that to prevent confusion w/ Classical era music) has just as many differences as popular/mass music does. i'd find a few artists you like, look into them, see who influenced or was influenced by them, and expand like that. like for a while in HS i was obsessed with russian composers, so i looked them all up and found what i did and didn't like. (most of it i did.) but yeah. also...you could look by type of composer, like whether they wrote opera, symphonies, chamber music, choral, etc. etc.
or just ignore that and look at the composers everyone's been listing, because they're all good as well. :)
E. Spaceman:
Glenn Branca, writing a symphony for 100 electric guitatrs is badass, but when you actually manage to make it sound good, then it's genius.
jcknbl:
Dvorak's 9th. Especially if you're a fan of John Williams (I can think of at least three soundtracks derived from this piece alone).
Stifled Dreams:
I don't really dig classical much which is sort of a problem since I play classical oboe, but I really enjoy playing more than the actual music. I really like Holst's Planets, though, and the Brandenburg Concertos. I do a program where I have to attend a whole bunch of classical concerts and then write reviews, and I thought the ones I went to this year were pretty boring for the most part so I bullshitted my reviews. Although the old people I sat next to seemed to think it was funny that I was there alone... I actually saw two pianists adapt Bizet's Jeux d'Enfants and I thought that was pretty sick.
I also am quite partial to Tchaikovsky. I have a friend who is obsessed with um whats-his-name... she always makes me listen to him... Shostakovich and he is pretty cool.
So I guess what I mean is that I like some classical music, but not the nameless stuff I usually hear on the radio. I also don't really know much about it, which is probably pretty obvious.
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playing it actually is a bit more fun. being in orchestra is one of the few things i miss from high school. i think the best things we played were Holst's Jupiter, Bluebeard (but i forget the composer off the top of my head), and soundtrack music from Pirates of the Carribean and Lord of the Rings.
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