classical music recommendations

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09 Jun 2014, 12:40 am

You know it takes forever to go through these, plus I'm still trying to make my forward from the beginning again and obsessively trolling YouTube.

But - how often do you get to say, It takes forever to do this! when it's something you are wildly enjoying!

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09 Jun 2014, 4:37 pm

waltzy waltz

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1kajv4VHLA[/youtube]

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09 Jun 2014, 5:03 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QROR4LioU-8[/youtube]

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09 Jun 2014, 5:08 pm

Don't judge it by it's cover, this is pretty much neoclassical. A lot of people have argued that there is a strong connection between classical music and heavy metal, and I think this is proof of that connection.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qrwON1-zE[/youtube]

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09 Jun 2014, 5:46 pm

As classical music seems very loosely defined any conventional, contemporary or modern avant garde music can lay claim to having connections with classical music. Lets keep things traditional.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtBLRZgk68[/youtube]

Waltzy waltzy melancholy waltz
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhiz4hwL0Bo[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUH9i_8MFo[/youtube]

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09 Jun 2014, 5:59 pm

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Dvorak :heart: :heart: :heart:

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09 Jun 2014, 11:44 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMg_EqVE96A[/youtube]

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10 Jun 2014, 2:27 am

It's King crimson, so technically not classical. lol

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wmDCBWqmPI[/youtube]

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10 Jun 2014, 8:46 pm

It's been a long day, so now it's time to breathe a sigh of relief.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzJ__a1e184[/youtube]

Yes, the pun was totally intentional.

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10 Jun 2014, 10:12 pm

It occurred to me to look this piece of up today because it's mentioned in one of my all time favorite pieces of literature ever, a short story called "The Indian Uprising," by Donald Barthelme. It's mentioned in the story how this is supposed to be played with four hands, but I was so uneducated in music that I didn't know that meant two people!

If you are interested in the story, you can go to the iTunes New Yorker Fiction podcast, Chris Adrien read the story in one of them. It's really beautiful.

But here's the piece I always wondered about and now I know -

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBH2SLz5miw[/youtube]

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10 Jun 2014, 10:22 pm

wozeree wrote:

This piece sounds so familiar, but I can't for the life of me remember where I've heard it as I'm not really familiar with any of Fauré's work.

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11 Jun 2014, 6:44 pm

Elgar's Sospiri with its delicate harp and lush strings just melted me into an emotional puddle. What a gorgeous tribute Elgar composed for his dear friend, the violinist William Reed. It's an absolute treasure. Elgar's friendships must have been so important to him. Art is one of the finest gifts a person can ever hope to receive in his or her life.

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Faure's Dolly Suite reminds me so much of Debussy. And so I unearthed a bit of history...

Faure wrote this suite for Emma Bardac's daughter, Helene, who was one of two children Emma gave birth to during her marriage to Parisian banker Sigismond Bardac.

As it turns out, Faure was having a relationship with Emma while she was married to Sigismond! And later, Emma ran away with Claude Debussy and they had a baby and married! That baby, of course, is Emma-Claude, the little girl who inspired him to write Children's Corner!

What sordid and wild rollercoaster lives some artists lead. :shameonyou:

Debussy's daughter, Emma-Claude AKA "Chou Chou":

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Barthelme... right, that makes sense that Chris Adrian chose to narrate Donald's story. I've read some of Chris's work, such as his bizarre "sci-fi/ alternate history" novel Gob's Grief and his surrealist short story "The Black Square." The fingerprints of Barthelme are visible in Adrian's ink. Good analysis at the end.. the themes of heartbreak and war fit together seamlessly.

Barthelme's playful, imaginative stories are important relics of 60s era postmodernism, swimming in the lifeblood of the surrealists, with a touch of referential style reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges, along with the eccentric humor that would have such an influence on David Foster Wallace, George Saunders and others in the years to come. The physicality of this story reminded me of Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual, where there's a peculiar fascination with inanimate objects, their symbolic value, and in many cases, how the clothes/ belongings/ household items are "extensions" of characters, revealing their personality traits, dropping hints about their mysterious pasts, etc.

Many writers draw inspiration from classical music, visual artists and composers draw from literature... and so forth and so on. There's a constant exchange of ideas, an interplay between the visual, musical, literary and other mediums of the art realm.