Classical Listening

Beethoven, Symphony 7, Allegretto, mvt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4

Something lighter:

Cavalleria Rusticana - Intermezzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDVFaheqQAg

Mozart uninteresting?! Well sometimes, rarely. But I don't agree that KV 449 is uninteresting. Was it the performance? Try:

M. Uchida plays Mozart Piano Concerto No.14, KV 449 (2/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hI42K2sMPU

Favourite music website (this week): http://www.spotify.com - an amazing number of free, first-class performances... more 'big hitters' than Naxos music library...

Spotify enabled me to explore Bilson's Mozart set to see if I really needed it to supplement Perahia's - I decided "no" - Bilson/fortepiano doesn't bring enough "feeling" to the slow movements for me.

Music book I'm reading today: "Music for the People" by Gareth Malone - a good beginners guide, and turned me on to Spotify! It's also full of good references to utube - not as good as this thread though...

Jacques Loussier Trio
Live in Concert
JS Bach
'Italian' Concerto
Second and Third Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqHOc...eature=related

Cantata 84/B

Aria
Recitative
Chorale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP5bc...eature=related

Grumiaux - Krebbers - Bach concerto for two violins BWV 1043 - (finale)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_q4Q5chWE

Hi mal4mac,

Wow, Grumiaux has such marvellous tone quality in almost everything I've heard from him. One of the very finest violinists, for sure. I heard his recordings of chamber works and they were wonderful also.

Regards

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Grumiaux - Krebbers - Bach concerto for two violins BWV 1043 - (finale)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_q4Q5chWE

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Grumiaux, Mozart concertos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFOwooVItI

Ah, yes. Very nice. You may care to hear the Mozart violin concerto. KV 268. (Known as number 6). It's excruciatingly and really Mozart. Honest ! The score is so bad, so banale, it had to be 'worked on' by the industry before it was publicly released, of course. (You know, expert orchestration to replace what was actually written etc. Cutting out the comic, abrupt, crude writing). Basic, clumsy writing. Don't tell the children. But, hey, it sells CD's.

So here, for discerning ears, is Mozart's real Violin Concerto. (His only one). Repaired, re-orchestrated and newly harmonised. For the faithful. Don't ask about the contents of the actual score.

And here is the 'official' list of Mozart's works (a fairly recent version of the Koechel Catalogue). Note that KV268 is not there. Sorry about that !!!

http://www.mozartforum.com/Koechel%20part%202.htm

Well, well, somebody must have removed it. It's that awful in its original form I guess it can't have been by him. Right ?

W.A. Mozart
Violin Concerto
KV268
1st Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_kqL...7A44D77A4B36AF

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Grumiaux, Mozart concertos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFOwooVItI

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I think the first movement of KV268 is nice. Not enough to have me running to Amazon to make a purchase though, especially after the disappointment of the second movement! Alfred Einstein believed “the excellent first movement" to be genuine, but "it is not likely that a single note of the obsolete and superficial second movement was written by Mozart”. The Cambridge Mozart Encylopedia doesn't list it at all, not even the first movement - and it's comprehensive, they list fragments of which they are "certain".

Hi there mal4mac,

KV268 is something of a joke within studies of 18th century music. I assure you that if you were to hear the manuscript first movement (rather than this heavily sanitised version) you would wonder how the legendary Mozart could possibly have composed such stuff. Ludwig Kochel (whose celebrated catalogue of 'his' music was the product of decades of study) had the fact that the manuscript was definitely in Mozart's hand. Good enough for him. But there are a whole series which had the same fate.

I could mention many examples. Take for example the awful slow introduction to the Symphony KV444 (also deleted from the Mozart catalogue) when it was finally discovered in 1908 ! that only that slow intro was in Mozart's hand. So much for the expertise of Mozart publications, right ? It's such poor stuff. So, as far as the 'experts' were concerned KV444 was a genuine symphony by W.A. Mozart. One of close to 100 'Mozart' symphonies that have been published, sold, eulogised and performed in his name. The survivors numbering far less than 50 today. Even in the most conservative catalogues. Of which hardly one, in fact, is actually by Mozart.

At some point the penny will drop.

Regards

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I think the first movement of KV268 is nice. Not enough to have me running to Amazon to make a purchase though, especially after the disappointment of the second movement! Alfred Einstein believed “the excellent first movement" to be genuine, but "it is not likely that a single note of the obsolete and superficial second movement was written by Mozart”. The Cambridge Mozart Encylopedia doesn't list it at all, not even the first movement - and it's comprehensive, they list fragments of which they are "certain".

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Some great playing here.

http://youtu.be/2DFnrdZZj_8

Really fine stuff !!!

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Some great playing here.

http://youtu.be/2DFnrdZZj_8

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Sergi Prokofiev
5th Symphony
Allegro marcato
Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e0c4...eature=related

Arturo Márquez
Danzón Nº 2
Simon Bolivar Orchestra
Proms Festival (London)
Gustavo Dudamel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vwZA...eature=related

Tomorrow night I'm seeing a "Classical's Greatest Hits" being performed tomorrow night at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis with the folks. Here's the setlist (is that what it's called for a symphony?):

WAGNER -- Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin
BIZET -- Selections from Carmen Suite No. 1
SARASATE -- Zigeunerweisen, op. 20
BERLIOZ -- Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust
DEBUSSY / arr. Caplet -- Clair de lune
DUKAS -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
MOZART -- The Magic Flute Overture
MOZART -- Allegro from Eine kleine Nachtmusik
J. STRAUSS, JR. -- On the Beautiful Blue Danube
ELGAR -- Nimrod from Enigma Variations
MUSSORGSKY / orch. Ravel -- The Great Gate at Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition

Once I saw part of Pictures at an Exhibition was being played, I just had to go.

I had the good luck to see the Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition by the Cleveland Orchestra some years back on one of those nights when their playing was simply transcendent. The climax absolutely sent chills down my spine and left my wife in tears. I believe the orchestra was called back 5 times by the standing ovation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rVci4h8TkM

The Musorgsky is wonderful in the Ravel arrangement. (Great in the piano version, too.) There are some other pretty good arrangements too that are worth hearing. The Gortchakov is admired by many who think it sounds more like Musorgsky in the style of its orchestration—raw, unsophisticated, not so heavy on the confectionary department as the Ravel. Vladimir Ashkenazy made an interesting version as well. There are like 30 or more published arrangements apparently . . .

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Tomorrow night I'm seeing a "Classical's Greatest Hits" being performed tomorrow night at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis with the folks. Here's the setlist (is that what it's called for a symphony?):

WAGNER -- Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin
BIZET -- Selections from Carmen Suite No. 1
SARASATE -- Zigeunerweisen, op. 20
BERLIOZ -- Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust
DEBUSSY / arr. Caplet -- Clair de lune
DUKAS -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
MOZART -- The Magic Flute Overture
MOZART -- Allegro from Eine kleine Nachtmusik
J. STRAUSS, JR. -- On the Beautiful Blue Danube
ELGAR -- Nimrod from Enigma Variations
MUSSORGSKY / orch. Ravel -- The Great Gate at Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition

Once I saw part of Pictures at an Exhibition was being played, I just had to go.

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That sounds like a pretty awesome concert - let us know how you find it!

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BIZET -- Selections from Carmen Suite No. 1...

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I prefer programme or 'play list', 'set list' sounds bit like homework :)

I have a CD of "MUSSORGSKY / orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition" and all of it is well worth a listen, here's part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5r8sa863Ts

I have problems with Wagner 'in bulk', but like his orchestral interludes. My favourite listening from Radio 3 over the last few days has been the prelude to "Master Singers". My 'I hate Wagner' stance put into question again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhcTllJgIY

If you like Claire, try some more of Debussy's piano music. Gordon Fergus Thompson's set is a favourite of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIdS0KzZGVU

"The Magic Flute" is a source of endless wonder, has to be heard in full...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGMz8OlunO0

"Nimrod" is the only Enigma variation I like. Maybe I haven't listened to the right set - any recommendations? Elgar's Cello Concerto, though, is not to be missed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

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I"Nimrod" is the only Enigma variation I like. Maybe I haven't listened to the right set - any recommendations? Elgar's Cello Concerto, though, is not to be missed:

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Nimrod is obviously one of the great set pieces of English music but as the same, yet to be discovered, tune links each and every variation, they are all connected in a work which is greater than the sum of its parts.
I don't see how anyone interested in music wouldn't like this:

http://youtu.be/59BLe5BQ3ak

Here's the latest BBC Radio 3 BAL winner:

Schubert - Piano Trio Op. 99 - Beaux Arts Trio (II)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12xe2osfq1w

The cellist, Bernard Greenhouse, died last week.

Encore:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12xe2osfq1w

NASA abandons expensive programmes in search of aliens and also ditches the Shuttle programme. It also stops broadcasting images of young heroes floating around in space suits - this after a broadcast was unexpectedly received from outer space of a high volume Bach concert -

A small step for man but a giant leap for all mankind.

'When Bach played from his fancy, all
twenty-four keys were within his power; he
did with them what he pleased. He
connected the most remote as easily and as
naturally together as the nearest; the hearer
believed he had modulated with the
compass of a single key. He knew nothing of
harshness in modulation; even his transitions
in the chromatic style were as soft and
flowing as if he had wholly confined himself
to the diatonic scale. His Chromatic Fantasy
may prove what I here state. All his
extempore fantasies are said to have been of
a similar description, but frequently much
more free, brilliant and expressive.' "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP2o4...eature=related

Gustav Mahler
4th Symphony
Finale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqy-...eature=related

I'll write a mini review of last night's symphony later tonight ... so look forward to that! Preview: I loved it.

Vivaldi should never be underestimated. His Four Seasons may be overplayed (through no fault of his own) but there is clearly a reason for this. Contrary to Stravinsky's snide comment that he wrote the same concerto 100 times (Stravinsky should be lucky to survive as long as Vivaldi) his concertos are laden with any number of absolutely marvelous moments. His vocal music, however, has been ignored for far too long. Currently, I'm listening to Juditha Triumphans... one of his best operas. I am especially struck by the aria, Quanto magis generosa... here performed by Magdalena Kozena.:hurray:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH03Ol_DBNk

Some other lovely moments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub-wLrz_Kg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfpYO8_j5w

So, my succinct thoughts on the symphony. I'll go piece by piece.

The Wagner was a great way to start the performance. Boisterous and energetic, I really liked it.

The selections from Carmen were awesome, and really continued my enjoyment of the show.

The Sarasate, as I'm sure most of you know featured a solo violinist. A quite young (23, the program said), and pretty attractive if I do say so, woman played it and she was amazing. But, the piece didn't grab me. I've never been a huge solo kind of person, and the song seemed to drag a bit. Still, I enjoyed it, and watching her talent was a great pleasure. She deservedly got a standing ovation.

The Berlioz was very good. I enjoyed it.

Debussy's Claire de Lune was really the surprise highlight of the show. t was just so beautiful. I always enjoyed this song, but never really had any love of it. I do now. Certain parts gave me goosebumps, especially the build-up at 1:52 (in this video). Up until this point, it had been a good, enjoyable show. This song changed that to an amazing show.

The Dukas was a lot of fun to listen to, as almost everyone knows it. It's such a wonderful song with such an amazingly apt name. A great way to rap up the first half of the show before intermission.

To kick off the second half were two pieces by Mozart. I know I speak blasphemy, but I can't get into Mozart, and the performance didn't convert me. It wasn't bad, but it just seemed so boring. Mozart always just seems so safe. I enjoy his operas more than his concertos.

As for the Strauss, I've never liked the Blue Danube. I don't know why, I just don't. It's boring and way too repetitive, and it seemed to drag. At this point I was getting bored.

Thankfully, Elgar's Nimrod brought it back. I found this piece to be just beautiful, just like Claire de Lune was, but this just didn't give me goosebumps like Lune did.

And, the finale was the finale to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, which was just AMAZING. Definitely the best song, though I'm definitely biased towards it. It was just so powerful, so grand. I mean, how could one not love the gong? Where Lune gave me goosebumps, this gave me chills. I'd love to see the whole piece performed.

So, there're my thoughts on the songs. Overal it was an awesome experience. But, like Mozart in general, it was too safe for my tastes in classical. I like more of the modern stuff, music that is a bit more out there. Hopefully there'll be some of that next season, because I'm definitely going back. The sound was just amazing. It almost didn't sound real, if that makes sense. That so much sound can come from unamplified music is just amazing to someone who has, up until now, seen almost nothing but amplified concerts, including many an earl-bleeding heavy metal shows.

A couple questions, though. The conductor talked to the crowd every few songs (with a microphone) about what they were playing, giving brief explanations and backgrounds of each piece. Is this normal, or usual? It was a "Classical's Greatest Hits" show, so I think it was geared more towards very casual listeners or people new to classical (like myself), so maybe it was just for that show. In any case, I liked that he did it.

My other question is, is it against decorum to move at all during a performance? Both my dad and me were pretty much bobbing our heads (or sort of swaying them during slower sections) the whole time. It's just how we are--we can't help but move when listening to music. Every time I looked around, people were like statues, which, to me, is weirder than not moving.

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To kick off the second half were two pieces by Mozart. I know I speak blasphemy, but I can't get into Mozart, and the performance didn't convert me. It wasn't bad, but it just seemed so boring. Mozart always just seems so safe. I enjoy his operas more than his concertos.

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Could it be you are just too familiar with the piece? Also it is a sernade, light music, written on commission. It's not really fair to judge Mozart on this (although I think it's great!)

Anyway, you are contradicting yourself here - you say you enjoy his operas and his concertos, so you can obviously *are* into him.

I find the mature Mozart amazing in all serious forms, here's a Sonata that never fails to blow me away:

Mozart Piano Sonata No.8 (Lesson) Walter Klien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1-LhYntNbc

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I listened to Karajan's 1982 live version of Mahler 9 yesterday It has two slow movements (I and IV), both half an hour long, and both amazingly beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYd5K_0-ae4

BBC Radio 3 broadcast Parsifal complete (in English) yesterday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011cgmj

The Prelude was superb, though I gave up when the singing started (I'm not doing Mahler 9 and Parsifal back to back!)

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As for the Strauss, I've never liked the Blue Danube. I don't know why, I just don't. It's boring and way too repetitive, and it seemed to drag. At this point I was getting bored.

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It's just too light and frivolous - just not satisfying if you've just listened to something really moving like Mahler 9.

Claire de Lune is a very interesting piece - it is so simple, why doesn't it seem as light and frivolous as the Blue Danube? Debussy is very special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CLYpYKHNY

And, the finale was the finale to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, which was just AMAZING. Definitely the best song, though I'm definitely biased towards it. It was just so powerful, so grand. I mean, how could one not love the gong? Where Lune gave me goosebumps, this gave me chills. I'd love to see the whole piece performed.

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The conductor talked to the crowd every few songs (with a microphone) about what they were playing, giving brief explanations and backgrounds of each piece. Is this normal, or usual?...

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Very unusual!

"The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience" - Andre Kostelanetz

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My other question is, is it against decorum to move at all during a performance? Both my dad and me were pretty much bobbing our heads (or sort of swaying them during slower sections) the whole time. It's just how we are--we can't help but move when listening to music. Every time I looked around, people were like statues, which, to me, is weirder than not moving.

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Simple rule: only do it if the rest of the audience is doing it.

There are some occasions when not moving would be a treasonable offence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWz9MrHskk

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Vivaldi should never be underestimated. His Four Seasons may be overplayed (through no fault of his own) but there is clearly a reason for this. Contrary to Stravinsky's snide comment that he wrote the same concerto 100 times (Stravinsky should be lucky to survive as long as Vivaldi) his concertos are laden with any number of absolutely marvelous moments.

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I agree, Stravinsky was the master of *unfair* comments about other composers - he once said that listening to a Vaughan Williams symphony was like staring at a cow for an hour. (Unfair! But funny...)

Vivaldi La Stravaganza Concerto 6 in G minor II - Marriner ASMF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgiA3Vs7DHI

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Anyway, you are contradicting yourself here - you say you enjoy his operas and his concertos, so you can obviously *are* into him.

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Not really. I can enjoy a piece and not be "into" that particular artist. I enjoy most of what I hear by Mozart, but I don't go out of my way to listen to him. He's just not as great to me as he is to others.

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Screw that. I'll move my head if the music provokes me. :nod:

Just retruned from my son's(violin) High School orchestra concert. A few selections played included "The Water is Wide" arranged by Robert Sieving, Pirates of the Caribbean arr by Ted Ricketts, a harp solo playing Trois Gymnopedies, a medley from Fiddler on the Roof and the hi-lite of the evening was "Adagio for Strings" by Samual Barber:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM

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I've been listening to classical for a few months now, mostly through Pandora, and I just realized I haven't heard any organ/pipe organ, an instrument I've always loved the sound of. Any suggestions on names I could put in to hear some?

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I've been listening to classical for a few months now, mostly through Pandora, and I just realized I haven't heard any organ/pipe organ, an instrument I've always loved the sound of. Any suggestions on names I could put in to hear some?

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I'm not usually a great fan of organ music, but I really liked this:

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Organ Sonata no.5 W70 no.5
Performer: Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Heard it on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010nttb

CPE Bach is greatly underated IMHO!

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I've been listening to classical for a few months now, mostly through Pandora, and I just realized I haven't heard any organ/pipe organ, an instrument I've always loved the sound of. Any suggestions on names I could put in to hear some?

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Saint-Saëns' Symphony No.3 in C minor is one of my absolute favourite pieces - and it's usually called the 'Organ' symphony because that is exactly what it features in two of its four movements.

It's an absolutely stunning piece, the composer's best - and one of the great masterpieces of Romantic music.

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Saint-Saëns' Symphony No.3 in C minor is one of my absolute favourite pieces - and it's usually called the 'Organ' symphony because that is exactly what it features in two of its four movements.

It's an absolutely stunning piece, the composer's best - and one of the great masterpieces of Romantic music.

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Stunning is exactly the word to describe this great work of French romanticism but, before the classists turn up their noses at an organ work that wasn't composed by Bach, just remember this, Bach for all of his obvious greatness would have given his right arm to have had these orchestral forces at his disposal.

http://youtu.be/TCKiZRWyv20

Obviously J.S. Bach. Look into a collection of his organ works. My favorite would surely be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE8SRkEa4_k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAXqR...eature=related

Check out G.F. Handel's Organ Concertos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdo8A...eature=related

Dietrich Buxtehude is another name that should not be ignored... a great precursor to J.S. Bach on both organ and in the cantata:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbY5cUYKX2Y

Perhaps one of the most recent masters of the instrument was the composer, Messiaen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS37bQ-SN_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfkUgazCtM

Another great Modern composer for the organ is Marcel Dupre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfkUgazCtM

JS Bach
Danse Forlane
Orchestral Suite 1
BWV 1066/4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Owbd...eature=related

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Serenade For Winds; K. 361; 3rd Movement 'Gran Partita'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Up4X1JHwqI

Thanks for all the suggestions on the organ music, everyone!

I know you've been on a choral music kick, StLukes, and it's something I've never really gotten into (yet). Though I did hear this yesterday and I just love it. Dark, ominous, foreboding, sinister. Awesome.

Does anyone have any suggestions to put in for choral classical that is more contemporary? I am playing the choral station on pandora, and they seem to only play Baroque period, maybe classical, but nothing beyond.

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Does anyone have any suggestions to put in for choral classical that is more contemporary? I am playing the choral station on pandora, and they seem to only play Baroque period, maybe classical, but nothing beyond.

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Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil (most commonly, if incorrectly, called Vespers) is a justifiably celebrated 20th century choral piece. They are exclusively a capella (so no orchestra or anything). I really do love them - they almost challenge Piano Concerto No. 2 for the place of my favourite Rachmaninov work.

Ligeti: "Lux aeterna"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnuAaKiX1sg

JS Bach
Double Concerto
Second Movement
Soloists - Isaac Stern & Shlomo Mintz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ZRN...eature=related

Herbert Howells- Requiem aeternam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbINuox-kZ0

John Adams- Harmonium:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJKs...eature=related

David Lang- The Little Match Girl Passion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuOi5yIqIAQ

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxywxCMx_Y

Peteris Vasks- Dona Nobis Pacem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsenEas8jw

Benjamen Britten- War Requiem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhkbphH8_Ic

Henryck Gorecki- Symphony 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4

John Rutter- Requiem aeternam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAhNDGwMDPQ

John Tavener- New Jerusalem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOCXM...eature=related

Eric Whitacre- Sleep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCS7etNEbU

David Briggs- O Lord Support Us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USwqmEdFsos

Krzysztof Penderecki- Utrenja:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mmcq1HylCg

Oliver Messiaen- O sacrum convivium:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieiHH...eature=related

Osvaldo Golijov- La Pasión según San Marcos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvTiWPV2da0

Philip Glass- Itaipu:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PM754CTz5I

Arvo Part- Magnificat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbxnnC22gwY

Kaija Saariaho - Lonh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrXaWt0UJ5Y

(Saariaho's work is not traditional "choral" is the use of a choir. Rather she employs various electronic and recording techniques to layer voices.)

Gyorgy Ligeti- Lux aeterna:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnuAa...eature=related

Samuel Barber- Agnus Dei:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ilqJW3fV8

Thanks Lok, and especially thanks StLukes. That'll keep me occupied for a while, for sure.

Bach, J.S. - "Air" Orchestral Suite N° 3 in D Major BWV 1068
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlT8yeEYbMs

Bach - Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C Minor BWV 1062 - 2/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bue...eature=related

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
'Karelia Suite'
Opening

*****

Tampere Filharmonia
Tuomas Ollila (1998)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYoJ4...eature=related

Just listened to Handel's royal fireworks music by Marriner and wondered why I bought it :( Far too smooth and slow.

Need to fix this.

Any suggestions?

I like this version by Pinnock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-yHmIObOXQ

Any other Handel performances that might fix my situation?