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post #16 of 23
5/28/11 at 2:45pm
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Originally Posted by Sordel View Post




If that's aimed at me, that wasn't my point. Sure, you're going to get to Beethoven ... you're going to get to Bach ... but if the thing turning you on is Debussy's harmonies, then Beethoven isn't going to sound like that. So if o/p wants to hear more of what he likes, then it's better to track forward than back. To vary your analogy, telling someone to listen to Beethoven because they like Debussy is a little bit like telling someone who likes Paul's letter to the Corinthians to go read Genesis in the original Hebrew.



ha ha I like it biggrin.gif

 

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post #17 of 23
6/1/11 at 11:50am

Check the link in my sig.

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post #18 of 23
6/1/11 at 5:33pm

Check out some Mahler. No. 2 3 and 9 and maybe Das Lied Von der Erde

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post #19 of 23
6/1/11 at 11:23pm

If you liked Grieg, you'll most likely enjoy Sibelius (Valse Triste,Violin Concerto). For the concerto, I recommend Hillary Hahn on the violin.

If you liked Debussy, you will like Ravel, who was also from the impressionist "school" (Daphnis and Chloe, Bolero, Pavane pour une Enfante Defunte).

When I started listening to classical, I also started with such composers. Then I got into other schools like Modern (Stravinsky, Berg, Webern), then Baroque (Bach, Vivaldi), Classical (Mozart...) then Romantic (from Beethoven to Brahms and Liszt and  a late romantic like Mahler).

 

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post #20 of 23
6/2/11 at 8:28pm

Also, remember that classical is a bit different in format than jazz or rock/pop.  Phrases tend to only repeat over long spans, and there's a lot of transitions between keys and motifs, so patience is required, as is listening to a piece several times before you might "get it".  And for goodness sake, listen to classical LOUD!

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post #21 of 23
6/3/11 at 3:00am
Thread Starter 

I'll try to give it all a try but i've only listened to half of Rachmaninov. 

 

Anyways, thanks for the help :)

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post #22 of 23
6/5/11 at 5:31am
I know the big time classical listeners will scream at me for suggesting this, but you can get a lot of good classical stuff with the X5 Music Groups "99 Best of" releases on amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1307276969/ref=sr_shvl_1-all?ie=UTF8&keywords=x5%20music%20group&rh=n%3A163856011%2Cn%3A!624868011%2Ck%3Ax5%20music%20group%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A625150011

I recommend 99 Darkest Pieces, 99 Essential Spring Classics, 99 Essential Christmas, 99 Essential Summer
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post #23 of 23
6/5/11 at 10:51am
Those sorts of bleeding chunks collections are good for identifying pieces you don't know the name of, but I can't imagine sitting down and listening to it. Hopefully, the tags list the composer's name. Without that, it's worthless.
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