Bach has some very nice cello suites. Krzysztof Penderecki has a few good pieces as well.

Clair De Lune, Dance of the Knights and Adagio for Strings are my favourite pieces

On the subject of remixes I quite like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbIHxKh9bk

I have a very wide taste in classical music, but no one has mentioned my favorite, Philip Glass. I know he used to be a minimalist (and that can throw a lot of people off) but he matured into a good all-around composer I think. I really like a few of his Operas, particularly Akhnaten and Orion, as well as his score for Mishima. Otherwise, I can listen to Glassworks or even Songs from Liquid Days, when I'm in the mood, and his symphonies (especially 3) are pretty surprisingly good. Unfortunately, I think he gets a bad reputation for his minimalism, but if you can see through it, he's the best modern composer since Copland or Stravinsky.

http://video.yandex.ru/users/antares071/view/106/ (Sorry for the weird site, but I think other versions don't compare to this one, which is off Solo Piano)

Woah, haven't seen a mildly interesting thread like this in awhile.

To exclude the generic Mozart/Bach/Beethoven music that everyone here likely has heard, I've recently become a huge Shostakovich fan (my favorite so far being http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I). And Peter Warlock, a severely underrated composer imo, wrote a very interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFvkk85l7-o.

In a nutshell: I've only found one classical composer I don't like: Stravinsky. I've listened to about all his major works (Petruskha, Firebird, Rite of Spring) but I just can't get into it... his music is so overly aggresive, every single note is a "clash of tones". All a personal thing though.

I like Shostakovich as well. My favorite pieces by him are his piano concerti and the 5th, 7th and 11th symphonies.

Yes Philip Glass is one of my favorites especially his LIQUID DAYS which i believe parts of were in the war movie HAMBURGER HILL. I remember in the mid 1980s when i was into board wargames and i would have LIQUID DAYS playing in the background to enhance the mood during a game of BATTLETECH or NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO aswell as the b-side of David Bowie's HEROES.

Classical music brings so much to life without being stress inducing like some music is when listened to for long periods of time.

Another classical album great for listening to during grey rainy days is Glenn Gould, A State Of Wonder- Complete Goldberg Variations. Very peaceful and tranquil if all around you is quiet.

AC/DC is the best classic group. :mohawk:

I love the Goldberg Variations, especially Gould's version. He's quite the character.


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Does anyone know where I can get the sheet music for Canon in D that's been adapted to guitar?

Is http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/p/pachelbel_johann/canon_in_d-tab.shtml what you are looking for? I just googled it, if it's not, try google. Not sure what the guy in the video is doing, and the tabs look Greek to me since I don't know nothing about music.

Hope it's what you lookin for. If not see what else Google has to offer.

not exactly, I'm trying to move away from tablature and try to force myself to read sheet music so that I can get better at it. What I meant by adapted to guitar is that all the notes are played in the treble clef.

I am curious to people who like Classical, what do you think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG58vcg9oSc&feature=related from Trans Siberian Orechestra.

Roll over Beethoven !
I like it, but then again, I'm not a purist.

Trans Siberian Orchestra is really good. I've always wanted to see them around the Holidays, but never act on it.

Here is another one from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl7Wz4zdDZc&feature=related where they do a few classicals and a classic hehe.

I just can imagine what Betoveen or Bach, or any of the greats could have done with the instruments of today. You can just feel the power of the amplified music, which makes it feel more powerful. I have to give them credit that these composures, could do this without any amplified instruments. No wonder you had an orchestra over 100 people to play, just to get power.

It just goes to show, how great they were so long ago. Shame we don't have much like this today, unless you are Hanz Zimmer or John Williams doing movies. Maybe the sad thing, is, it is out there, I just don't know about it unless it's in a movie.

So what is it called if you make "classical music" in today age?

Rather little "conservative" classical music is still written today (actual sonatas, symphonies, quartets, etc.). Really, I don't think anyone is ever going to beat the masters like Bach and Mozart (especially Mozart). The last well-known people to write symphonies and sonatas and all that were the Russian composers of the late 19th and mid 20 centuries (Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov).

There are still alot of composers for string orchestras, marching/jazz bands, and piano music though.

You are neglecting people like Penderecki and Rautavaara who are living and write symphonies, sonatas etc....

But to be fair, do those names ring a bell to most of the "common folk" whatsoever? I know for a fact that nobody in my family or school would have ever heard those names before.

Hell, you're lucky if you get someone who's heard of Handel or Stravinsky around here.

Are you talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JjQGt7WjK0? To my experience, many poeple who appreciate Heavy Metal also appreciate Classical... or not at all... and vice versa.


soundtrack music :hehe:

Awesome. Hahah. :violin:

True, but that does not discredit them.

I don't really know Penderecki outside of "Threnody", which is a wonderful piece, imo, fairly reminiscent of some of Ligeti's work like the well-known "Atmospheres". In general I tend to be a bit of an early 20th c. classical fan, and most of those guys are unfortunately no longer with us. I do however greatly enjoy the work of some of the "spectralist" composers I've heard, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRuxHVWfQtA, who is still living.

I'm actually a "classical" composer myself, looking on to put on a recital of my original work this semester so that I might graduate. Though to be fair, I do heavily use rock instrumentation, but my music is fully scored out and regularly applies principles of harmony, counterpoint, and development.

Yes I was.

So can anyone make a link to some current composures of todays time then? I would like to hear it since I am pretty ignorant of most music of today.

I don't know if this has happened before in any iteration of this thread, but I've uploaded the outer movements of my wind quintet from last year http://ptkbo.bandcamp.com/. Check it out, or don't. Whichever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tfWuv_2TY4&feature=related :whistling:

I like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fZD_nD1nXA&feature=related though, as well as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxCOIAkbyQ like you find in movie soundtracks. Soundtracks are the modern composer's playground really, and I consider people like Jeremy Soule and Hans Zimmer to be on level with what Mozart and Bach would have been back in their day.

I'm also a total svcker for trumpet pieces like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQG-DZy7uY&feature=channel_page. The sound is downright sixy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf2aIVKp1OY Not as good as the original, but still damn epic when seeing them play it live for a crowd of 20.000 people.


That's exactly why I like Stravinsky. It's like heavy metal played by an entire orchestra, I love it.

Ever since first hearing it in Fantasia I really like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE as well.