/classical/

Biber edition

This thread is for the discussion of music in the Western (European) classical tradition, as well as classical instrument-playing.

How do I get into classical?

This link has resources including audio courses, textbooks and selections of recordings to help you start to understand and appreciate classical music:
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Previously, on /classical/:

Justinianus Biber

Western (European) classical tradition

that means no amerimutts

Thank fuck

youtube.com/watch?v=lggHdywa958&list=OLAK5uy_l0hg4roXZdMXU2P3xEkaqkbW9LT6BpGCk&index=2

get owned

Nah

not sure what this has to do with Western (European) /classical/, maybe try instead?

feels like an evening for The Nutcracker
youtube.com/watch?v=USCdQqmcMrI&list=OLAK5uy_nJNbiPYyvxa60DG8Zdj61Chtswind8SZ4&index=1

Mighty fine evening to bust a nut, I agree

sorry for the doublepost but the second movement is too good not to share
youtube.com/watch?v=bbtEh51y0Ik&list=OLAK5uy_nJNbiPYyvxa60DG8Zdj61Chtswind8SZ4&index=2

listen to these first two opening movements I posted and you'll be hooked!

Beethoven

youtube.com/watch?v=OcL4JXbNwt8

what about The Gobsmacker?

Share your well thought-out opinions on Jan Václav Dusík or forever be a gay rastafarian

Backhaus <3

liar

What the fuck did you expect? Rattle is a disappointment 99% of the time.

Rattle's style with Sibelius seemed interesting, and it's with the Berlin Philharmonic, my favorite orchestra. What sucks is it's not even an issue of mawkishness or micromanaging the details like you'd expect from a poor Rattle recording, it's just... zzzzzzz. dull dull dull

what about the Ballbuster?

is that the Italian ballet about a grocer in Chicago who doesn't want to pay the mafia's protection fee?

it could be.

Vivaldi

youtube.com/watch?v=UHHViSWpQOU

I can listen to this over and over and over again and never get tired of it.

youtube.com/watch?v=T4_k-iArvxM

Ooooh but when that 1% hits though

he's good at Szymanowski, yeah.

and his Wagner recordings are actually surprisingly adept insofar as the orchestral accompaniment is concerned. unfortunately it's marred by completely dogshit singing.

would also give a thumbs up to his Haydn Creation
youtube.com/watch?v=nQX66pZQ-tM

Pretty small minded of you

music for a splitting tooth-ache?

youtube.com/watch?v=MfTjz6emd7c

kek, this is making me positively queasy

Good

Franz Schrecker
youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCpAcPQg3Y
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favorite Brahms cycle?

Walter

Beinum's if I ignore the fact that half of it is in mono.

But there isn't really one singular cycle that nails it for every symphony for me.

New York or Columbia?

Pic related. Runners-up in no particular orden: Jochum, Solti, Abbado, Dorati

Levine (Chicago and Vienna), Sanderling (Dresden and Berlin), Giulini (LA and Vienna), Karajan, Jochum/Klemperer

There's lots of great ones though, Brahms' symphonies are pieces most people do at least competently, and plenty do well, so it's really just about finding your own personal favorite touches and details in performances, hence why either combination of cycles from these performers are among my favorites because it's more in the spirit of how they approach it than any specific one time, inspired night of performance.

Who was a better symponist: Haydn or Mozart? For Mozart I of course mean his last four symphonies, since those are formally his best.

The school I work at has started playing Tchaikovsky in the student bathrooms to stop them from congregating during class time.

That's pretty based.

Mozart surpassed Haydn in his thirties but he died soon afterwards.

have you considered working at a school that doesn't have niggers?