Help Me Find Great Modern Classical Music
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5830 posts since 27 Jul, 2001 from Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
Second Update To Clarify Things
Hello,
I apologize if I was not clear enough in the Origami Post. I learned a bit by the time we got to the seventh page.
I want to find some new music to listen to. Please help me.
I am primarily looking for:
1. Classical genre by modern day composers born after World War Two. It can be a bit earlier.
2. Any obscure Classical piece by an obscure composer qualifies regardless of birthday. A work that you think is great but somehow fell through the crack of the gatekeepers.
3. Symphonies or Concertos. Just love the big full sound! But I am flexible here.
4. I have a slight preference for adagios, but extremely flexible here.
5. Romantic music or the like but am extremely flexible here, even minimalism!
6. I like complexity, point counterpoint, intricate, interweaving, mysterious, dark, abstract.
7. Do not like a drum beat. Do not like loud drums that startle you. OK if occasionally or in the climax.
8. Do not like loud crashing or crystalline sounds often found in minimalist music or for that matter any music.
9. Do not like voice in Classical music. rp314 please take note. Pi?
10. Do not like dissonance.
If it helps any, my favorite composers are:
Sibelius, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Enescu, Dorius, Bruckner, Mendelsohn, Nielsen, Mahler, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Gluck, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Berloiz, Bartok, Grieg, Franck, Respighi, Shastakovich, Barber, Ravel, Albinoni, Henze, Hindemith, Faure, Strauss, Debussy, Pachelbel, ….
I primarily listen to Classical music in the car and just before sleeping.
My recent discoveries that I like but still very unfamiliar with most of their works:
Avro Part
Bruno Mars
Lars-Erik Larsson
Uuno Klami
Franz Waxman
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today found Alla Pavlova Symphony No.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUR1wQ ... UBBFpD77ap
Heard part of it and seems worth checking him out.
So I have a craving for some new music that will blow me away. Please help me to satisfy this craving.
Hello,
I apologize if I was not clear enough in the Origami Post. I learned a bit by the time we got to the seventh page.
I want to find some new music to listen to. Please help me.
I am primarily looking for:
1. Classical genre by modern day composers born after World War Two. It can be a bit earlier.
2. Any obscure Classical piece by an obscure composer qualifies regardless of birthday. A work that you think is great but somehow fell through the crack of the gatekeepers.
3. Symphonies or Concertos. Just love the big full sound! But I am flexible here.
4. I have a slight preference for adagios, but extremely flexible here.
5. Romantic music or the like but am extremely flexible here, even minimalism!
6. I like complexity, point counterpoint, intricate, interweaving, mysterious, dark, abstract.
7. Do not like a drum beat. Do not like loud drums that startle you. OK if occasionally or in the climax.
8. Do not like loud crashing or crystalline sounds often found in minimalist music or for that matter any music.
9. Do not like voice in Classical music. rp314 please take note. Pi?
10. Do not like dissonance.
If it helps any, my favorite composers are:
Sibelius, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Enescu, Dorius, Bruckner, Mendelsohn, Nielsen, Mahler, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Gluck, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Berloiz, Bartok, Grieg, Franck, Respighi, Shastakovich, Barber, Ravel, Albinoni, Henze, Hindemith, Faure, Strauss, Debussy, Pachelbel, ….
I primarily listen to Classical music in the car and just before sleeping.
My recent discoveries that I like but still very unfamiliar with most of their works:
Avro Part
Bruno Mars
Lars-Erik Larsson
Uuno Klami
Franz Waxman
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
today found Alla Pavlova Symphony No.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUR1wQ ... UBBFpD77ap
Heard part of it and seems worth checking him out.
So I have a craving for some new music that will blow me away. Please help me to satisfy this craving.
Last edited by Kalamata Kid on Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
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- KVRian
- 712 posts since 21 Apr, 2004
Check out Gorecki's Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) from 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhrG82nV2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhrG82nV2c
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5830 posts since 27 Jul, 2001 from Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
Parma,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I will ask for a CD of Gorecki's symphonies from the library. Hope they have them. Will listen to them with headphones.
Also just heard:
Henryk Górecki - Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra Op. 40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXjX-IOP6s
Wow! Excellent!
Thanks for the suggestion.
I will ask for a CD of Gorecki's symphonies from the library. Hope they have them. Will listen to them with headphones.
Also just heard:
Henryk Górecki - Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra Op. 40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXjX-IOP6s
Wow! Excellent!
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- KVRAF
- 5692 posts since 24 May, 2004 from []1
maybe something here
- KVRAF
- 2545 posts since 15 Jan, 2013 from L'Écosse
I grew up listening to classical music and have a collection of works similar to yours.
For contemporary try Jennifer Higdon. I loved her Violin Concerto, and the Hilary Hahn recording is worth getting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... fer_Higdon
You don't sound like a fan of the Schoenberg School but give Anton Webern a listen, for example his Passacaglia. Another one is his Concerto for Nine Instruments.
For contemporary try Jennifer Higdon. I loved her Violin Concerto, and the Hilary Hahn recording is worth getting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... fer_Higdon
You don't sound like a fan of the Schoenberg School but give Anton Webern a listen, for example his Passacaglia. Another one is his Concerto for Nine Instruments.
- KVRAF
- 35405 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Bartok - Music for strings etc
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- KVRAF
- 5716 posts since 8 Jun, 2009
Philip Glass - Symphonies 2 & 3 and extend outward from there. Although they tend to the minimalist they have a more classical feel than operas like Einstein on the Beach.
William Walton - a lot of film music starts here, that isn't nicked from the Russians.
William Walton - a lot of film music starts here, that isn't nicked from the Russians.
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
+10piel wrote:Dmitri Shostakovich
The 10th Symphony is like the end all of music for me.
A lot has happened to the sound palette since 1953, but when it comes to thematics it just can't be beat
- KVRAF
- 35405 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Except by the 14thNumanoid wrote:+10piel wrote:Dmitri Shostakovich
The 10th Symphony is like the end all of music for me.
A lot has happened to the sound palette since 1953, but when it comes to thematics it just can't be beat
- KVRAF
- 4689 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
All of them were born before WW2.piel wrote:Dmitri Shostakovich, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Kurtág, György Ligeti from the eastern block.
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
I realized that now reading the OP, but feels a little biased towards old composer.Zombie Queen wrote:All of them were born before WW2.piel wrote:Dmitri Shostakovich, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Kurtág, György Ligeti from the eastern block.
As long as it was released after WW2 should be of interest.
I mean Edgar Froese was born before WW2 was over and has managed to put out interesting music up untilt the very end (RIP)
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- KVRAF
- 2323 posts since 4 Mar, 2004 from Portugal (Lagos)
Something obvious: Wim Mertens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVY9nijtFEs
Mertens is someone I had some talks about with my friend Alessandra Celletti, here herself with Roedelius (sorry for the blurred video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z28X2W8bCug
Here she's solo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dViuWfV8vRY
Another Italian, Ludovico Einaudi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DRDcGlSsE
Do I need to mention Michael Nyman?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDgg08VVDSk
Also there's that new guy called Philip Glass .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVY9nijtFEs
Mertens is someone I had some talks about with my friend Alessandra Celletti, here herself with Roedelius (sorry for the blurred video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z28X2W8bCug
Here she's solo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dViuWfV8vRY
Another Italian, Ludovico Einaudi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DRDcGlSsE
Do I need to mention Michael Nyman?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDgg08VVDSk
Also there's that new guy called Philip Glass .
Eventually something intelligent will appear written here. Watch this space.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5830 posts since 27 Jul, 2001 from Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
Big list mostly of familiar composers.Musical Gym wrote:maybe something here
Perhaps I will find something interesting.
Thanks
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5830 posts since 27 Jul, 2001 from Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
Found this:Nightpolymath wrote:I grew up listening to classical music and have a collection of works similar to yours.
For contemporary try Jennifer Higdon. I loved her Violin Concerto, and the Hilary Hahn recording is worth getting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... fer_Higdon
You don't sound like a fan of the Schoenberg School but give Anton Webern a listen, for example his Passacaglia. Another one is his Concerto for Nine Instruments.
Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral (with introduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_uFd83ExMg
I will certainly find more of her work and listen to it.
Thanks
Passacaglia, Op. 1 - Anton Webern?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZelEcPZU8A
Loved it. This will be great with headphones in bed as I am trying to fall asleep.
Perhaps I should seek out more minimalist music!?
Concerto for Nine Instruments not for me, however my music taste evolves. When younger I detested adagios and wondered why composers did such awful composing. Now I love adagios. Oh well, such is life.
Thanks for your suggestions.
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