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    • Cylob said...
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    • 30 Sep 2006, 07:54

    The Classical Music Desk:

    Welcome to the Classical Music Desk:



    Go ahead and leave your queries or recommendations.

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    Edited by Cylob on 23 Dec 2007, 10:25
    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 30 Sep 2006, 15:06
    15th century Russian choral music, please.

    • Cylob said...
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    • 1 Oct 2006, 10:56
    Something by Schubert (please)!

    I have just one of his works, the 9th Symphony. :(

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  • The unfinished symphony and the string quintet.

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    • 1 Oct 2006, 21:37
    Trout Quintet and symphony no 2... i got these 6 tracks in one cd played by State Chamber Orchestra Of Zilina.

    • Mez1 said...
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    • 1 Oct 2006, 21:40
    Ok there is no other place to put this!! It could also go into the metal desk but some others here might know.

    Basically similar to Haggard.

    It's basically doom metal mixed with classical and medieval music with death growls and female soprano.

    Tall order. Will try metal desk if no ideas.

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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 1 Oct 2006, 21:52
    as far as i know there's nothing similar to haggard. closest match one of those female fronted metal bands would be. and i think the best is Epica

    • Cylob said...
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    • 2 Oct 2006, 17:12
    Thanks guys, I'm in the process of getting those Schubert works.

    My (modern) classical pick of the week:

    Ryan Teague - Six Preludes (2005)


    Great use of violins on this album, also some mean percussion. I would describe it as "dark yet at the same time light". Sometimes erie, but not to the point you'd want to stop it.

    Incidentally, a perfect backdrop for writing verse (with wine).

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    • Mez1 said...
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    • 2 Oct 2006, 18:36
    art-nouveau said:

    as far as i know there's nothing similar to haggard. closest match one of those female fronted metal bands would be. and i think the best is Epica


    Thanks man but i already have an epica album!

    Thanks again anyway :)

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  • Happy Birthday D!

    If anyone has been listening to CBC Radio 2 lately (CBC=Canadian Broadcasting Company) then you would have heard that this past week was the 100th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birthday. I really enjoy about a third of Shostakovich's music, hate another third and am kind of ambivalent to the last third.

    My favorite piece is String quartet no.15 in E flat minor, op.144: - I. Elegy - Adagio. If anyone can suggest something as beautiful and sad and haunting just let me know.


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  • Difficult.

    The 15th quartet is a bit untypical the way it (mostly) does without his usual "wild musical gesticulation".
    The 8th and 10th quartet's first movements are somewhat similar but both are simpler and don't really work as standalone pieces imo (rather as introductions that create a contrast to the following violence).

    Maybe the Sonata for Piano and Viola Op. 147, though it's not quite as solemn.

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    • 26 Nov 2006, 21:44
    Claire De Lune a masterpiece (piano)
    Suite N°1 En Sol Majeur, Bwv 1007 another masterpiece (like all Bach's cello concertos)
    La Guerre French renaissance choir, almost sounds like recent human beatbox sometimes.

    • ghozza said...
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    • 27 Nov 2006, 14:32
    I suggest Scheherazade. :) ... I just enjoyed it a couple of times this past week.

    From Wikipedia:
    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (March 6 (O.S. March 18), 1844 – June 8 (O.S. June 21) 1908) was a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, and for his extraordinary skill in orchestration, which may have been influenced by his synesthesia.

    About Scheherazade:
    Scheherazade (Шехерезада in Cyrillic, Šekherezada in transliteration), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music, and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and an interest in the East, which figured greatly in the history of Imperial Russia.

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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 15 Dec 2006, 21:26
    piano solo



    Nice, short, simple and good.

  • Classical Quiz

    Classical Quiz here in MCA:

    Identify the music track

    • Cylob said...
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    • 25 Jan 2007, 08:08
    Transferred from an isle:

    DeathShipAhoy said:

    "I love classical music played by small ensembles, especially sad sounding pieces... any albums i should check out?

    also, jazz with classical influences?"

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  • Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique



    One of his better known works.
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    • Cylob said...
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    • 18 May 2007, 09:38
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    Thanks to all those who contributed.

    Keep those recommendations coming....

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    • 22 May 2007, 09:15

    Composer of the week

  • Cylob said:
    Something by Schubert (please)!

    I have just one of his works, the 9th Symphony. :(

    I'm a year late so I'm not sure if you're still interested, but if you are I would highly recommend his Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 100 or The Death and the Maiden Quartet. I would highly recommend the recording with Lynn Harrell, Pinchas Zukerman & Vladimir Ashkenazy.

    blue6353 My favorite piece is String quartet no.15 in E flat minor, op.144: - I. Elegy - Adagio. If anyone can suggest something as beautiful and sad and haunting just let me know.

    The second movement to Beethoven's 7th symphony.
    First movement of the Moonlight Sonata-Beethoven.
    The Funeral March-Chopin(played by Van Cliburn)
    Piano Trio in A Minor, Op.50-Tchaikovsky
    The last movement of Shostakovitch's 2nd Piano Trio
    I can probably think of more later.

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    • 24 May 2007, 18:12
    Track Pick Trail:

    Johann Sebastian Bach - Air



    (016 | 017 | 018)

    • Cylob said...
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    • 25 May 2007, 06:35
    @ jman14141414

    Nice one! I'll check those. :)

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  • Franz Liszt - Romantic Masterpieces



    Hungarian Pianist. Famous for his Hungarian Rhapsodies.
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    Track pick: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Flat - Allegro marziale animato - Presto

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 27 May 2007, 23:04
    I need to get some stuff by Liszt.

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