classical music

[Bassus Sanguinis]

If the music makes things move inside me, I'm all game, no matter what genre. Among many, many other classical composers, I just love John Dowland.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4[/youtube]

[Rygot]

Wagner

[The4455]

Wagner

Seconded, and I'll leave this, for your consideration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsRLV5BKFtg&feature=fvw

[RossCanyonsofstatic]

I'm a big fan of chamber stuff. Quartets and of course Reich, cage, glass, oliveros, John Adams etc

[mauerkraut]

if Stockhausen is your cup of tea, check out Krzysztof Penderecki
this is kinda 20th Century Classical
plus, it's kinda "droney", i guess some of our ILFers have heard this piece already

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig[/youtube]

oh, did you say piano piece?

I like! Very much so. Must be listened with headphones. It frightened me at times.

[foomanfat]

I super dig Verdi's Requiem.

[dubkitty]

when i was a kid i was heavily into Beethoven and the Russians. in my college-age period, the 1970s, i and the people i came up with listened to the late 19th/early 20th century impressionists (Ravel--who i still adore, especially the piano pieces--Debussy, Ives) and the 20th century composers who were still arguably working in the classical form (Penderecki, Part, Boulez, the Stockhausen of Verklarte Nacht). i didn't warm to the Minimalists until late, mistaking "i don't like Minimalism" for "i don't like the music of Philip Glass." i still find Glass dry, but love Reich and moreso Bryars. i drove my SO nuts for three months when i finally got a CD of the original version of "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet," listening to it in the car driving to work.

in recent years i've been warming to the kind of classical music that used to drive me up the walls with its ordered niceness, to Mozart and Scarlatti and that sort of drawing-room shit. there's a soothing quality to all that order and resolution that i never appreciated until i got really, really weary.

[madmax1012]

if Stockhausen is your cup of tea, check out Krzysztof Penderecki
this is kinda 20th Century Classical
plus, it's kinda "droney", i guess some of our ILFers have heard this piece already

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig[/youtube]

oh, did you say piano piece?

I like! Very much so. Must be listened with headphones. It frightened me at times.

that was extremely bad ass. wasn't expecting it at all. i may have to check his other works out...

[dubkitty]

Penderecki's Auschwitz Oratorio will fuck you up. as a Pole, this was a subject close to home for him.

[Toonster]

I came across this blog with a serie of articles called: "The post-rock lover’s guide to Classical Music"
Link: http://amberhaze.com/category/the-post-rock-lovers-guide-to-classical-music/

[The Mad Owl]

if Stockhausen is your cup of tea, check out Krzysztof Penderecki
this is kinda 20th Century Classical
plus, it's kinda "droney", i guess some of our ILFers have heard this piece already

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig[/youtube]

oh, did you say piano piece?

i studied this back in school. it's one of my favorite pieces of music EVER.

i have composed before... i was working on a symphony when i stopped schooling

[Chankgeez]

There's lots of cool classical music.

Here's some of the coolest:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZX8zXZzCs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1UjSXneB3E[/youtube]

[karmablock]

Oh man, I just got done with a semester of "Survey of Music Literature" and I am trying to resist the impulse of "Well actually. . ."
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrezpUWIY98[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCke8BfVPBs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKwDm4qA7B8[/youtube]

[MSUsousaphone]

Symphonie Fantastique is my favorite all time piece of music. Hands down. All five movements are just magnificent.

Never really got into John Cage....at all.....it's nowhere near as bad as Penderecki. That's just shit on a music staff.

Lincolnshire Posy: II Horkstow Grange

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxaNJCfGCo[/youtube]

[MSUsousaphone]

Concert band....hey...it counts.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EoUAbODO34[/youtube]