Huge novice when it comes to classical, but Im working on it.
Some of my favorites are
- Handel's Water Music Suite
- Bach's 3rd Orchestral
- Shubert's Ave Maria
- The Opera "Dank Sei Dir Herr" (dunno who its by)
- Brahms Symphony No. 1 _________________
Kiki wrote:
You're chart is sooooooooo american. It's like a diner in here.
Easily my favorite classical album of all time, the Trio Subtilior performs a set of pieces from the French Ars Subtilior (14th century). These are not songs you can hum along to after one listen... or perhaps even ten listenings. They explore the musical space in a way that's both exciting and new (to my ears). At first, they may sound as if the composers randomly chose notes to splotch together, like a child fingerpainting for an exhibit of abstract art. Eventually, however, the tunes will come together, and begin to sound energizing, somber, or perhaps even catchy.
I could go on for pages about my adventures with this album. As a person who spent most of his life listening to rock and pop, the initial experience of listening to these recordings was bewildering, to say the least. What could this music possibly have to offer me? The rhythms were simple, and the voices predominantly sang in intervals of fourths, fifths, and octaves. For the few weeks after I downloaded the recording (and intermittently during the following months), I played it to myself while I was working, before I went to sleep at night, and even while I was in the bath. Every now and then, when my focus was fixed on other minutiae of my life, the music would grab me, as if some transcendant sequence of notes had been struck... but as soon as my focus returned, the feeling faded.
Eventually, I began to understand... but that understanding is best left for others to discover for themselves.
Some of the very earliest music put to paper, these works were actually influential on modern minimalist composers. The collection features performances of pieces composed by Léonin and Pérotin, as well as by a number of anonymous (that is, unknown) composers, all products of the Notre Dame School of Music between the years 1160 and 1250. Named after the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, this collection of composers was renowned for its role in the development of early polyphony.
A collection of music from the late Trecento period, especially highlighting the work of Johannes Ciconia and Antonia Zachara da Teramo. Included in the collection are motets, madrigals, ballata, and even a short canon.
I've been meaning to make a chart for this. Anyway, I'm into early music
Please do. I've been working on a classical chart for awhile now but I know very little about anything per-baroque. (I'll make a point to check out everything you've posted)
Anyway, my top 5, (all of which are on my chart, one of which is my #1)
Lord knows I've only scratched the surface of things, but here's what I've been listening to most often lately:
Chopin - Nocturnes (Arthur Rubinstein)
Liszt - The Liszt Album (Arthur Rubinstein)
Scriabin - Poem of Ecstasy/Piano Concerto/Prometheus (Anatol Ugorski, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez)
Hildegard Von Bingen - A Feather on the Breath of God
Guillaume de Machaut - Masse De Notre Dame (Ensemble Gilles Binchois)
Debussy - Orchestral Music (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Eduard van Beinum)
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