your post and unfunny video edit appears to be an attempted shitpost disparaging classical music so i'm gonna hijack this into an actual thread appreciating classical music

i've been in love with this brahms piano quintet ever since i got to hear it performed live by yo yo ma and members of the chicago symphony orchestra when i was in highschool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haBMWnuQWes

i'm also a big fan of baroque era music after spending a couple years in a chamber ensemble playing on baroque period accurate instruments (gut strings, pointed bows, you name it) including actual theorbos, viola de gambas, and even a rare viola d'amore that the director somehow convinced the school was worthy of receiving budget to purchase. no one but him knew how to play it though lol. anyways i got to play one of the solo violin parts for this bach brandenburg so it brings back fond memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdsyNwUoON0

actually i just really like chamber music in general, like this one i learned with some friends for a competition in hs as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ-oZvbdwxA

picking a favorite classical music song is hard because i would be hard pressed to even begin to choose within a single era, composer, or even composition type

if there are any other ex orch dorks out there please identify yourselves ty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmsRN78qMxM

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/018/489/nick-young-confused-face-300x256-nqlyaa.jpg

I don't think he's really considered classical but fuck Sousa that guy tortures french horn players.

This isn't a particular classical song but I think this technology is super fucking interesting: https://youtu.be/He6MCalvDf4

How about some of the ol' Ludvig van while sipping chai from a nice portculan chasha, followed by some ultraviolence.

Chopin's pieces is pretty good on the technical side, always had me alert on my fingers when I was playing piano in high school

CHOPIN IS THE GOAT

https://i.ibb.co/PNM0myL/1603742454430.jpg

you've been listening to the WRONG sousa buddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-GMVsnA9oQ

this is the only sousa piece that matters

i just couldnt find the thread with the original video to necro

Glassworks by Philip Glass is one of the greatest albums of all time. Full Stop.

have a playlist of various shit i listen and add to whenever im in da mood for some classical music

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLedzD_btR4EjxAktzw9XCPGBLMrxEuH2W

not super diverse or anything, big fan of chopin and rachmaninoff and all that

favorites include moritz moszkowski piano concerto no 2 and rachmaninoff piano concerto no 1, if only because it's the """lesser known""" of his piano concertos, with 3 generally overshadowing 1 and sometimes 2

i like his songs from koyaanisqatsi

And if you're lucky, a bit of the ol' in-out.

Just a few I've been listening to recently:

Vaughan Williams - A Lark Ascending
Thomas Tallis - Fantasia on a Theme (probably my favourite classicial piece).
Bach - Cello Suite
and also Bolero by Ravel actually.

This looks really cool, I'd like to see it try to play some Rachmaninoff

Seconding Glassworks, if you like minimalism Steve Reich is great too, Music for 18 Musicians is my favorite of his.

Lately I've been on a bit of a Romantic kick, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Tchaikovsky's Sixth, and Mahler's Eigth have been my recent gotos.

where do I start
Ravel - Introduction et Allegro
Ravel - Miroirs
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2
Debussy - La Mer
Debussy - Suite Bergamesque
Borodin - Polovtsian Dances
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Holst - The Planets
Strauss - Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils
Berg - Wozzeck (for the daring)
Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Gershwin - Concerto in F
Chopin - Ballade No. 4
Wagner - Final scene from Gotterdammerung

Everyone knows the first Bach cello suite but all 6 are really good, great for either active listening or just in the background. Also relatively easy to transcribe to guitar if thats ur thing :)

Vanhal - Double Bass Concerto
Chopin - Etude Op. 25 No. 5
my most absolute favorite pieces of classical music

There's some great stuff in this thread. My favourite is Satie.
His Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes are very good and very well known, but I also love his Nocturnes and Pièces froides.

All of Chopin's Etudes are masterpieces both technically and musically, but my personal favorite will always be Op. 25 No.11 (Winter Wind), of which Cziffra delivers probably the most bombastic interpretation.

Liszt's compositions are mainly known for their technical difficulty, but Yundi Li's interpretation of La Campanella is also one of my absolute favorite performances in terms of sheer musicality.

I don't LISTEN to sousa because fuck that guy. I played his marches a ton in highschool/college. Offbeats for the entirety of the piece can die in a hole.

I've always wondered if sousa marches are as famous around the world as other famous composers are in america

Anyway, I've studied tuba for 15 years so I'm big on low brass excerpts. I'm not gonna lie, any piece with a thick, juicy trombone section gets me going. Behold:

https://youtu.be/xEYftmh4wz0

Really incredible playing by these guys. But it breaks my heart that my favorite excerpt isn't even on this cd. So here you go.

https://youtu.be/xIM-R4zWO9w

Not sure if this strictly counts as classical, but its super good either way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei7cdynwRMA

https://youtu.be/MJenceQ9IEw

favourite piece at the moment

https://youtu.be/sVAxhE2eAc0

I love Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, here in two quite different, but equally incredible performances. I also second Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, Ravel's harmony (mixed with equally good orchestration) absolutely shreds my heart to pieces. Relatively simple, but super effective :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIJfC3cZzE
one of my fav orchestral pieces
also helps since i played an excerpt from the 1st movement for my uni audition

I am a long time violinist violist. I absolutely love discussing classical music with people!

I find that what interests me the most in terms of listening and discussing is stuff I've been personally involved in playing. For the most part, that has been chamber/ensemble stuff. String quartet is my favourite format.

Dvorak "American" Quartet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqgMrwG4i0
Probably my top quartet set to play. The viola opening tune is the most recognizable melody for the viola. The finale makes me think of an old Western-genre film, and it was written well before those were a thing.

Smetana "From My Life" Quartet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWW0dXCpTuA

For those who may not be familiar, the viola is a different instrument in the "violin" family. It was used to pad out the sounds of violins similar to how the double bass pads the cello sound. As such, its repertoire is small, but its sound is very interesting when it's used for pieces written for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-sbebj6cZg (Marchenbilder/Fairy Tale Pictures by Robert Schumann)

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Just reminding you to get your 40 hours of practicing in today.