favourite instrumental/orchestral pieces (1 Viewer)

[olay]

so.... what are your faves guys???

 

[untying_average]

At the moment my favorite piece is gymnopedie no. 1 by Eric Satie for piano.

 

[olay]

hehe hey i can play that

oh my gosh guys i just found the cooooooooolest thing

you know schubert's serenade? [i'm pretty sure you've heard of it]...... they fused it with this tango and OH MY GOSH its like a party in there!!!!!!!!!!!

"tango seranato de schubert" by buddha bar so so cool [far more so if you know the original], check it out guys

 

[chepas]

Yay! A thread dedicated to this topic

Smetana's "Ma vlast" is my favourite orchestral piece of all time, esp. the 2nd movement 'Vltava', that river through Prague.

I love the romantic period.... Lately I am stuck in it on my stereo.

That tango thing sounds really interesting, but if its like that really shite version of Eine kleine Nachtmusik with a beatbox I will have to blow it up.... is it on the net or findable on imesh/kazaa etc? or in a shop somewhere?

 

[olay]

i got it from kazaa, and no seriously it is some UBER FUNK going on there. its amazing [ok maybe u should just hear it for yourself but i was blown away by it ]. hmm haven't heard of Smetana, nor anything by him or her, i must go listen

 

[chepas]

Yes you must - Czech composers. Hurray for their nationalism and riddance of German-ness over them, at least after WW2, then the Soviets, but the Czech spirit has never seemd to have died.

Oh, ber funk. Gute Deutsche ve are, ja? Then search I shall.

Rediscovered my Dvorak Serenade for Wind op44. - another lovely little piece.

 

[Josephine]

Yeah, "Ma Vlast" is really good I absolutely love Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto, I could listen to it all day *sigh*

 

[sugared plum]

OHH czech composers!! i used to be crazy over Dvorak, but now i just love the mad Janacek operas. but also good czech dudes are suk and martinu. and i like smetana's moldau.
my father says this weird thing about czechoslovakia where the czechs were all the artists and the slavs were the slobs.
he thinks it's funny.

 

[olay]

i just got moldau because i couldn't find ma vlast!!! it is rather beautiful although theres a chipping machine chomping up trees outside jading my aural experience.

Originally posted by chepas
Oh, ber funk. Gute Deutsche ve are, ja? Then search I shall.

eto..... sumimasen, wakarimasen!! "oh, very funk. good german something something, yes?" hehe thats all i got out of that.

oh and off topic, do u guys know where you can get online scores [for free ]??

 

[sugared plum]

umm i don't think you can get online scores free , but you can go and look at the con library free, or even buy a library card and borrow.

 

[chepas]

I've seen Berlioz Symphonie fantastique online before, but mmm.

I found that just by typing something like "Berlioz"+"scores" or something in altavista. I never thought it'd actually lead somewhere . - Also some might be on through a link through the sibelius.com site, but the scores are usually nothing significant.

 

[untying_average]

There is a fair bit of classical piano music here:
http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/
Its all free but you can only d/l 2 peices a day... But you can get around that if you delete all your internet files.
I doesn't have everything but it's the best site for free classical piano music out there i think. There are some orchestral workds there too but its mostly piano.

 

[olay]

hehe i have the entire score to symphonie fantastique anyway [cause i was gonna use it + the program as my additional text for adv eng]. and i have quite a loooot of piano music anyway. i was more looking for orchestral, cause i love listening and score reading at the same time. its as lovely as a hot drink on a cold day! i'll have a look at the sheet music archive thingy though! and :S still can't get ma vlast!

 

[chepas]

The SF for an additional text? Brilliant!!! For journeys, yes? My teacher has a pole up her arse about 'music not being a text', because apparently it can't convey emotion and meaning that a book or a painting can.... but the programme, yes!! Phys/Imaginative/Inner journey?

Yeah, I prefer listening to a good symphonic work with a score in front of me, helps me to remember the themes and sick little stuff better - a lot of the scores I have I just covet from school,

Ma vlast can't be found many places, I had a hell of a time trying to find the other movements, in the end I just found a CD in a classical 'bargain bin' for $2 by chance, but I didn't like that particular conductor's leading of the Vltava (I prefer using the Czech name to the former dominating-power German name, for that reason ) - so, what downloading prog do you use? I use imesh.... but sooooo much ad software and popups...

 

[olay]

i wanted it for imag. he made us find other texts too, and they worked far better, but i have it as a back up. sif music does not convey meaning and emotion the way a painting can. O_O hehe yeah my music teacher is cool, he lends/photocopies me scores n burns me cds kick arse

must hunt down ma vlast. i'm so curious. my teacher prob has it though, i'll just peer pressure him into handing it over heehee. i use kazaa lite. theres a lot of corrupt files going round on it :S so disappointing when u get something and it turns out plain nasty :S

 

[thebearcub]

Astor Piazzolla's Four Seaons.. or anything by Piazzolla

 

[fingolfin101]

The Pogues - Manhattan Melody

 

[chepas]

YAY!!!

ABC Classics played my net request today Smetana's "Vltava"... and by a real Czech ensemble (Czech Phil)... hurrah!!! But god I wish I chose my words wiser, when I submitted the requested we had to write a little reason why and mine sounded so daggy t'wasn't funny, and the presenter guy read them out!

 

[caroline86]

I like Symphony No. 25 in G minor by Mozart. I'm playing it in orchestra at the moment and i'm really enjoying it. one problem is that it's baroque so there isn't much dynamics. i like the dramatic music!

 

[Gevaudan]

Mahler Symphony No. 5!!

Are there any other Mahlerites out there?
I also love guitar music. Like Koyunbaba, etc.