Can you recommend fantastic, classical music released in the last five years or so?
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posted by missmary6
on Dec 22, 2012 -
8 answers
What is this piece of music (
MP3)? My daughter's music teacher (it's an initiation class for 5-year olds) gave us the sheet music before leaving on vacation and I'd like to find a correct recording.
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posted by elgilito
on Oct 28, 2012 -
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I want to find small ensemble "classical" music that I really like but don't know how to find or even really describe - "clean" and "structural"? Maybe it's "modern" but it's less abstract and more classical in scale and construction than the modern/experimental music I'm familiar with.
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posted by freebird
on Aug 1, 2012 -
21 answers
Help me help a friend: which (probably romantic-era) composer wrote a piece about a Chinese lacquer box? I have searched like crazy and found nothing.
posted by naturalog
on May 6, 2012 -
7 answers
How can I learn to override my absolute pitch to cope with singing at Baroque pitch?
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posted by bassjump
on Oct 12, 2011 -
12 answers
Well, it's T-minus five weeks to the wedding and I haven't got the music down. I've got a crapload of amazing singers and all of my ideas are going down the tubes. Hope?
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posted by Madamina
on Aug 1, 2011 -
12 answers
What are interesting projects where art meets new (digital/social) technologies?
Like Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir, Youtube Symphony Orchestra, or Google Art Project.
posted by vladimirfrolov
on May 9, 2011 -
3 answers
I go through phases where I listen to lots of classical piano/organ music, but I tend to rehash the same pieces (some Bach, mostly). I'd love to expand my collection. What are your favorite classical piano recordings?
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posted by jz
on Nov 14, 2010 -
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I am looking for a classical music piece, or snippet, connoting "toil" or "hardship", and I think it's Russian or at least Eastern European.
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posted by everichon
on Oct 18, 2010 -
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I'm looking for some hardcore heart-wrenching classical music. My current selection includes Vocalise by Rachmaninoff, Ständchen from Schwanengesang by Schubert, Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, first movement (because of that haunting ending!), and Prelude in C minor by Chopin. Suggestions?
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posted by archagon
on Apr 2, 2010 -
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Can you describe to a non-music-theorist fan the differences a close listener might hear in the piano music composed by Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven? I've been loving exploring classical music but things start to blur during the 1800-1850 era. I'd like to be able to better hear what the above composers are doing differently from one another. General thoughts about their music are welcome (book recommendations, too), but especially interested in info related to solo or prominent piano pieces.
posted by mediareport
on Jan 7, 2010 -
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Are there well-known classical composers who aren't trained on a particular instrument? An acquaintance is a young singer who's interested in composition (mostly for voice), but in talking to him I get the sense that he feels a little inadequate compared to his fellow students who are accomplished on at least one instrument like piano or violin. Can you give me examples of classical composers whose work is respected but who weren't primarily instrumental players? Modern or otherwise. Thanks!
posted by mediareport
on Dec 14, 2009 -
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I've been trying to branch out my musical tastes, and have started recently to listen to atonal and serialist music (Boulez, Schoenberg, Webern). There is something about it that I like, but I'm not quite sure what it is, and I feel like if I knew more about the music in question I could better appreciate it.
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posted by Frankieist
on Jul 23, 2009 -
16 answers
How do you pronounce composer Charles Wuorinen's name? Which syllable is accented?
posted by mediareport
on Jul 16, 2009 -
8 answers
My list of favorite classical composers makes sense to me intuitively but not logically, and I don't know how to continue the list. Can anyone help?
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posted by quarantine
on Jun 5, 2009 -
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Please help me find an online avant-garde classical music site that posted full pieces you could listen to for free. The site let you browse by composer, genre and instruments. I think "america" may be in the URL, but I'm not sure. I do recall that it was almost entirely unusual repertoire 20th century stuff. Does this ring a bell?
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posted by mediareport
on Mar 5, 2009 -
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Looking for examples of 'happy' and 'sad' renditions of a work within the western classical repertoire.
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posted by Gyan
on Jan 30, 2009 -
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I played a piece in orchestra in high school that I think was named Aces Däd, but I can't seem to find that anywhere.
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posted by ZaneJ.
on Dec 22, 2007 -
6 answers
Please recommend classical music related to Christmas/birth of Jesus - preferably including comments on specific recordings.
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posted by medusa
on Dec 13, 2007 -
12 answers
Name some good online sources for recommendations and also reviews of recorded performances of classical music.
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posted by Gyan
on Aug 2, 2007 -
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In the summer of 2003, in Berlin, I heard a piece of music for two treble instruments and one bass instrument of the same family (or anyway closely related). In the performance I heard, these were, I think, two oboes and a bassoon—definitely everything involved was a reed instrument. It was a modern piece with lots of dissonant passages. Everything else about it I've completely forgotten. The composer may have been German but may not have been. Can't remember where I heard it. I certainly can't remember what its title was. But maybe one of you knows?
posted by kenko
on Mar 3, 2007 -
9 answers
I'd like to learn a classical stringed musical instrument and eventually join an amateur string quartet. I'm an adult with decent musical ability and a good sense of pitch, but no background with stringed (especially bowed) instruments. I'd be equally interested in any of the stringed instruments typically found in a string quartet. Which instrument should I choose? Which instrument would make me most valuable to a potential quartet? Are there more adult amateurs playing one than another? Any advice on learning a stringed instrument as an adult?
posted by dan_of_brainlog
on Feb 2, 2007 -
24 answers
I'm trying desperately to remember the name of a piece of music (and its composer). It's a twentieth-century piece, and fairly famous. It's quite soft and mournful and titled something like "Miss ______ Died Today." I've known this for years and it's just slipped out of my head.
posted by Bromius
on Dec 17, 2006 -
11 answers
What's the best way to locate scholarly writing and analysis of a given piece of classical music?
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posted by agropyron
on Jul 24, 2006 -
19 answers
Should I finally join ASCAP, despite my misgivings about copyright, the music-licensing industry, and certain practices by ASCAP and similar orgs? Yes, the cash would make a real difference for me, given the way ASCAP handles my genre and given my low income overall.
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 18, 2006 -
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Can anyone recognize this
theme(YSI mp3 extract; 1.2MB) from Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo? I have a strong sense that I've heard it appropriated as(or "inspired") some movie's theme, but the IMDb soundtrack search doesn't throw up anything familiar, credited to de Falla.
posted by daksya
on Jun 13, 2006 -
1 answer
What are the best books offering analysis of Beethoven's symphonies? Other classical works?
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posted by agropyron
on May 22, 2006 -
16 answers
Inspired by the 250th anniversary of his birth, I want to put together a nice collection of Mozart's music. However, I have no idea where to start. Can anyone recommend favorite recordings of Mozart's music for me to start with?
posted by alms
on Jan 27, 2006 -
14 answers
I feel silly for asking this, because I really feel as though I should know the answer, but what the heck is the music in the link in
this FPP?
posted by dersins
on Dec 2, 2005 -
6 answers
What recordings of Bach are considered essential? Which ones do you think are the best?
posted by ori
on Apr 24, 2005 -
21 answers
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