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post #91 of 100
1/27/13 at 9:29am

Has anyone heard this one yet  for $1  ?

 

By the way, I have found listening to MP3 using Foobar2000 gives me the best sound.

 

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post #92 of 100
1/27/13 at 11:03am
All the Bach Guild mp3 box sets are good.
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post #93 of 100
5/16/13 at 9:58pm

I find the  Harnoncourt's Mozart requiem just so painfully slow...

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post #94 of 100
5/16/13 at 11:14pm
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That is how you are supposed to dress when you listen to them!

I like to dress extreme casual, keep my banjo at my side so I can play along when the mood strikes, and drink beer..

 

Seriously, I second the recommendation for the Rise of the Masters series. I think they are a credible and inexpensive way to learn about classical music. After a while you will develop preferences for certain composers. When you do, go to Spotify or Pandora, and listen to more samples of the composers you like played by different orchestras and musicians. Some of the recordings of the same symphony, for example, will sound very different from each other. I found exploring music in this manner to be interesting and enjoyable.

 

There are also many sub-genres in the type of music we call "classical".  Here's a good introduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music  My favorites are baroque and 20th century music.

 

 

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post #95 of 100
5/17/13 at 7:40am
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I find the  Harnoncourt's Mozart requiem just so painfully slow...

 

I've really enjoyed it, but, admittedly, I haven't heard the other versions.

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post #96 of 100
5/17/13 at 7:43am

There are countless other ones. Davis LSO, Rattle Berlin Phil, Karajan Berlin Phil, all these conductors have a much more spontaneous approach to the piece. I respect Harnoncourt as a Musicologist, he has written some deeply insightful dissertations, but in the Mozart, I just had to give up.

 

Do you have a specific preference for instrumental music? If so what instrument? Then I can recommend you a more specific range of pieces. 


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post #97 of 100
5/17/13 at 8:13am
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There are countless other ones. Davis LSO, Rattle Berlin Phil, Karajan Berlin Phil, all these conductors have a much more spontaneous approach to the piece. I respect Harnoncourt as a Musicologist, he has written some deeply insightful dissertations, but in the Mozart, I just had to give up.

 

Do you have a specific preference for instrumental music? If so what instrument? Then I can recommend you a more specific range of pieces. 

No preference for instrument.

 

I'll just say that I prefer things that are haunting and somber or perhaps powerful as opposed to classical pieces that sound like deer frolicking in a field.

 

I recently attended the Nashville Symphonies performance of The Red Violin and enjoyed every second of it.

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post #98 of 100
5/17/13 at 8:25am
Ravel La Valse
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
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post #99 of 100
5/17/13 at 11:08am
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Ravel La Valse
Stravinsky Rite of Spring

Any particular recording of each of those?

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post #100 of 100
5/17/13 at 12:25pm

Claudio Abbado and LSO for both. You might want to read up on the Rite of Spring on wiki or something. It has quite the back story. And it will sound extremely WTF is this at first....


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