Tending towards Lutheran stuff but that's just because that's all we're singing in the Easter concert I'm part of in a few hours. May break it up with something more Catholic now that I have a bit of a break before that though
Ethan Barnes
I'm still undecided if the good bit of Mahler 2 is worth sitting through 45 minutes of filler. Same issue every Easter
Parker Price
Why the stigma about Karajan?
Are you... Bigoted?
Asher James
Soulless.
Camden Cook
Started with Messiah. Will probably turn to an early mass later...
As for Karajan, I don't mind him so much except for Beethoven. In any case I find he's good to listen to if you want to learn something new about a piece. I adore his Requiem Mass.
The Western allies collaborated with the Soviet Regime, and they were just as bad.
Angel White
Implying
Daniel Fisher
>Handel's Messiah >Bach's Easter oratorio What else is essential?
Elijah Turner
>Nazis kill 6 million jews, plus a few million cripples, homos and 'degenerates'
>Soviets Stalin himself orders the deaths of ~49 million people. Many more horrifically imprisoned - some even in ex nazi concentration camps - that they had recently been prisoners in - for up to 20 years. Some people estimate the unnatural deaths in the soviet union from 1928 - 1954 up to 62 million. And yet during WW2 all the western politicians tried to suck Stalins dick as hard as possible - even when they knew about things like Katyn and the mass removals of entire ethnic groups (like the Crimean tartars)
>people "liking" all this shitty new age pop piano >not one person can identify Satie
Brandon Hill
>speedruns Absolutely degenerate.
Aiden Morgan
How do I stop listening to Mahler's second symphony? The finale is so glorious that every time I try to switch CDs I just want to listen to it again. And again. And again. I even got a box set so I wouldn't do this, pic related.
Eli Hall
Does /classical/ have classical favourite pieces/albums of the year? What are some recently released stuff y'all have been digging?
how are they playing in the arctic with those clothes her hands must be freezing!
Aaron Harris
She poured cayenne pepper into her vagina first.
How else do you think girls can wear skirts in chilly weather?
Benjamin Taylor
is: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Professor Robert Greenberg any good? I dowloaded it but he kinda sound like an idiot
Jose Russell
Thanks for reminding me I have that downloaded And no, you're the idiot
Blake Butler
>Is ------------------- by Professor --------------- any good?
No.
Brody Sanders
Hey wait a minute, why do I hear him breath at 1:34 but his mouth doesn't leave the mouthpiece?
Camden King
>mass removal of former slave traders and Ottoman dickriders You say that as if it was a bad thing.
Nathan Anderson
Fuck off dumb frogposter
Justin Butler
>Abbado's Mahler I like you.
But you'll never stop loving Mahler's 2nd.
Liam Gutierrez
I'm sorry for being new, but I really enjoy entry level pieces by Bach and Mozart and Beethoven, but have been getting into BBC released recordings of Leopold Stokowski conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 and the like and I'm wondering where to explore next.
I don't know how to follow this symphony. Like I love the beginning and the ending is super uplifting, but 20 minutes of the middle is like random swings in darkness to me.
I've played Sibelius' violin concerto and generally like his other symphonies so it's not like I'm new to him either.
Eli Lewis
If you like Shostakovich's 5th, then go to his 8th and 10th. Then go for his late period 14th and 15th, as they're very, very different.
Dominic Green
Thank you so much. Any Mahler recommendations?
I'd peruse the links you have up in the OP, but it's just so daunting and overwhelming I don't even know where to start.
Leo Hughes
Also, any particular recordings of these pieces that are distinctly above the others or are they all mostly good?
Get a good used piano, as opposed to a cheap new one.
Leo Russell
No upright so you mean a grand piano? Wouldn't it be like 10k used?
How much should i spend on it if i want to get an used good one?
Also are digital piano not worth it?
Connor Morales
Probably something like £3000 for a nice used upright piano? Could be less, just make sure the feel and sound of the piano is good.
Digital pianos are ok for the first 5 years or so, then they just become impossible to play some of the more advanced pieces on.
Jayden Lewis
Ok thanks, do you think i can progress studying by myself or is a teacher necessary? I have a basic understanding of music having studied guitar with a teacher in the past
Xavier Myers
You can get by without a teacher if you do your homework and make sure your technique is fine.
It's pretty simple, really. Fingers should be curved naturally (not flat) and your elbows should be still and not "jerk" outwards when you do your scales.
There are plenty of beginner piano music books with sensible progression, so you can just work through some. It'd be good if you have a friend who plays the piano or something, and maybe at some point just pop in and ask them if you're playing right.
string quartet it's the most intimate sounding group
Ayden Richardson
>Why do I find Mahler so cheesy and grandiloquent? He kinda is Love his music wish he had written more than 9 or 11 symphonies and a load of amazing songs Abbados some of the best love this box set
Andrew Rogers
Chopin!
Ryan Ortiz
What are you chopping?
Ryan Myers
Because you should be listening to the whole symphony. And that involves listening to the first 45 minutes which is just filler for the most part before you get to the good bit of the symphony.
Ethan Sullivan
circular memeing
Alexander Lopez
If you like Shosti 5, you'll probably like 12 (from his late period). It's not as well liked as far as Shosti goes because it's 5 except no-one tried to argue that it was ironic so people just see it as agitprop - which is unfair given that 5 is basically the same. 13-15 take things in a particular direction so are worth a listen: 13 is a bunch of Jewish folk tales set to music with the complementary instrumental influences; 14 is a song cycle with orchestral accompaniment and is all about death; 15 is a return to something of "normality" for Shosti, but he still quotes a number of western works within it.
Tyler Morris
13 is fantastic if you can find it listen to Konrashin conducting 20/12/1962 a reaaly special recording
This is my closest encounter with the world of art music and true technical musicality/compositions other than select genres of more improvisational jazz music.
Nobody fucking listens to the radio. It's all corporate bullshit that plays shitty pop music. Get out of here faggot.
Landon Sanders
So can someone tell me why everything in the mega links is poorly recorded garbage?
Carson Reed
>he can't into the old recording meme Plebeian
Leo Nelson
there's plenty of non-poorly recorded garbage in there, though
to answer your question, it's because interpretation > sound quality
Logan Barnes
Try Michelangeli, if you're talking about the Bach Chaconne.
Sebastian Morales
Because you touch yourself at night.
Jaxson James
>Nobody fucking listens to the radio. It's all corporate bullshit that plays shitty pop music. Get out of here faggot.
moron
Levi Barnes
>ITT: post controversial opinions Childhood is idolizing Bach, adulthood is realizing that Vivaldi's melodic innovation and harmonic diversity made more sense. youtube.com/watch?v=YzIk-cP5JGk
