Digging Classical
disco_che
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I don't find the time to listen to a lot of classical music because of so much other stuff I have to listen to but there's so much awesomeness in classical music. I have to deal with it every now and then when I'm at work at a large radio broadcaster. THere I was introduced to a lot composers I didn't know before.I got to know danish composer Carl Nielsen recently and liked it a lot. Also Arvo P??rt is my shit. Debussy, Rodrigo, Prokoviev, Shostakovich, Sibelius are other favorites.J.S.Bach has some ill shit too.I dislike Wagner and Mozart.Who else is into the classical schitt? Can you recommend some heat? Any favorite composers? Anybody digging for Karajan-Grails on vinyl?
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Liszt is a big name here in Weimar. He lived and worked here for a long time. Also the music college (where I took 2 semesters of electro-acoustical music) is named after him.
His music is rather abstract and it can get very tiresome for unexperienced ears, just like the music by Sun Ra, for example. Two years ago i had a first-hand experience of it because I've manged to get one of the sought after student tickets for the final rehearsal of the Schlingensief production of "Parsifal".
(I had to wait in front of a university building in a line for a whole night, mind you!)
In general Parsifal is considered to be one of his least accesible musical works. This combined with crazy production by Schlingensief made me leave the theater aprox. at halftime after 3 hours (!!!). I regretted it badly that I hadn't informed myself about the plot and the music. I simply had the urge to leave, because i was afraid that my head would explode and I lost all powers of concentration.
To get started with Wagner a connessuer suggested me "Der fliegende Holll??nder" which is said to be his most accesible work.
Thats definitely part of the appeal of Glenn Gould too, I think.
also early music.
And at the very moment I read that, I am looking at a Musical Heritage Society record, number 666, of his Cantata #80 and #83 in the front of my "recently listened to but too lazy to put back on the shelf" stack.
Anyhow, I always appreciated the complexity of classical, but it's never been anything that I would listen to very often by chance or choice nor was anything I wanted to research. In the past two years, I have been making an effort to learn all the famous pieces and composers, just because I "should" as a music enthusiast.