Gounod editionhttps://youtu.be/fkYPwbeh9VMThis thread is for the discussion of music in the Western (European) classical tradition, as well as classical instrument-playing.>How do I get into classical?This link has resources including audio courses, textbooks and selections of recordings to help you start to understand and appreciate classical music:https://rentry.org/classicalgenPrevious: >>130018716
Gounod more like gonad AH-HAAAAAAA HAHAHA, AH HAHAHAHA
>>130035842>Gounod: Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ MDR-Rundfunkchor ∙ AltinogluJust listened to a minute or two of the Kyrie and wtf that's beautiful. Didn't know this Mass existed, thanks. Only know Gounod for his Faust, obviously.
>>130035869I confess I've listened to everything Gounod and Bizet did except their operas
Came across this recording and opened it, expecting to find maybe 3-4 hours of music, and instead my browser froze for a moment, as it struggled to open the behemoth of 11 hours of solo piano music! Tchaikovsky! Who knew? Certainly not me, and I'm the anon who's been proclaiming how underrated I think his two piano sonatas are. Anyway, give a peep,start of the recordinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JSYQNjHTKU&list=OLAK5uy_mXe0PPUqjYuJvv8iEpKVNbAeH0_cmp8ss&index=2Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37, TH 139https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-DFqW4t8Sg&list=OLAK5uy_mXe0PPUqjYuJvv8iEpKVNbAeH0_cmp8ss&index=44Piano Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. 80, TH 123https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUcFBMaLxX8&list=OLAK5uy_mXe0PPUqjYuJvv8iEpKVNbAeH0_cmp8ss&index=47His solo piano music deserves more recognition.
>>130035888I've only listened to Faust, and then Carmen and Bizet's Symphony, respectively. Recommend me something for each if you don't mind.
What are the best recording of the English Suites on harpsichord?
>>130035931Gounod: the one in OP, Symphonies 1 & 2, Suite Concertante & Concerto for pedal piano (as far as I know there is at least one recording of all his works with an actual pedal piano)Bizet: Souvenirs de Rome symphony, Patrie overture, the five or so suites he derived from his operas, Jeux d'enfants
>>130035990Gounod has symphonies? Who knew. Thanks.
>>130035990>Bizet: Souvenirs de Rome symphonyshit, nevermind>>130035931>Bizet's Symphony
>>130035994They won't blow your mind, but they're great for what they are
>>130035984https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7TlCktBo0&list=OLAK5uy_lRVhgmcX2j96sFj4NrOHsILxyS799G6ME&index=1She also has a recording of the French Suites.I'm guessing you're already familiar with Suzuki's?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDgCyJxCGRc&list=OLAK5uy_mW-Xwf-ZmWY4k0Rf6K4DjeZEriV41xiks&index=1and lastly, if neither of those tickles your fancy, you might find this one by Edith Picht-Axenfeld of interesthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kFJ8Z9pVg&list=OLAK5uy_mOWA6uvQHcpc8hZ8MhFODTNoCcanexCLw&index=20
Why aren't you listening to Scriabin anons?
It's Boccherini timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqwt4F9IrLw
>>130036069He doesn't have any vocal music.here's some Grieghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLN4yXIKIjE&list=OLAK5uy_nb2hG2yOvfIcH5pwlU2jFVNrRN6vvc_CM&index=8
>>130036155>He doesn't have any vocal music.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W8_c7CBVeU
>>130036172You know what I mean! What am I gonna do, listen that part on repeat for 2 hours?
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>>130036195touche
Can I just say, what kind of sicko records and releases only 3/4ths of a work? Fuckin' tease.Gotterdammerung NOW
Wow, looks like DG actually heard my prayers and is coming out with a new, high budget, high production value Martinu symphonies cycle. Dope. Looks like it should be out and available for streaming sometime this week. I'm excited!>Jakub Hrusa, the 2026 International Classical Music Awards "Artist of the Year" and Musical America's "Conductor of the Year," explores one of the 20th century's finest symphonic cycles. Composed during the Czech composer's American exile, these mature works encompass poetic lyricism, epic tragedy, and Bohemian color and energy. The Bamberg Symphony traces its artistic lineage to Prague, with roots reaching back to the Estates Theatre and the city's rich musical culture. Based in Bamberg since 1946, the orchestra has brought its rich and warm sound to music lovers worldwide. In a close artistic partnership, Hrusa and the orchestra bring this shared heritage to life with clarity, depth, and expressive power.Not really familiar with the conductor Jakub Hrusa. The name is almost familiar, maybe I've heard one recording by him? I certainly don't remember which one if so. Still, should be at least good if it got greenlit by DG to be released.
>>130036153righteous stuff
Puccini
>>130036267I forget: Is Martinu a modernist, closer to Janacek or even Bartok, or is he late/post-romantic like Dvorak and Bruckner
>>130036342Modernist for sure.
>>130036353was I confusing him with Enescu again, goddamn
Wow
>>130037422I didn't know she conducted
>>130037563You see these "conducts from the piano" recordings here and there with pianists who've been performing for nearly a lifetime, eg Zimerman, Barenboim, Perahia, Buchbinder., Andras Schiff. I suppose you pick things up over all those years.
>>130037656And then there's Argerich who plays as if neither conductor nor orchestra are there and dominates both
I love to deepthroat huge cocks, rec me a classical piece
>>130037702https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8uNw-LzSE
Which of Brahms' late piano masterpieces is your favorite,op 116 (seven pieces)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQdK1iY26Yop 117 (three pieces)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFYDwxUmIAop 118 (six pieces)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgmMHtRV_c0or op 119 (four pieces)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT496p0C7NM
>>130037902you just posted all of them, 116-119
>>130037912yes but which op is your favorite!
Parsifal nighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnQH5h_jEXM&list=OLAK5uy_npKZGqIVFo-i5BgSF5aXqz8IaoN70sY8U&index=1
>>130037918nah man you can't split them, it's like asking which of Beethoven's last three quartets are your favourite (que some monster answering that question like a psycho)
>>130037944(cue*
>>130037944hmm, respectable
>>130037929>It’s become almost customary to refer to famous opera recordings by the conductor, as in ‘Toscanini’s Otello’ or ‘Furtwängler’s Tristan’, and this new Parsifal may well fall into that custom. It’s not that the singers are second best – perish the thought – but operas on a huge scale, like this one, need such careful phrasing and tempo management, to say nothing of orchestral and vocal balance and control, that the conductor really can be the make-or-break of ultimate success. Thielemann has many detractors – and I have not always been convinced, as in his Schumann Second Symphony for DG – but there’s no doubt that his superb conducting is one of the main sources of pleasure here...>Whatever you feel about the questionable philosophy at the core of the opera – and at least one opera guide describes it as ‘morally repugnant’ – you quickly find yourself sucked into Wagner’s voluptuous musical sound-world, which very often reaches a state of stasis-like contemplation where silence is as telling as sound. This is Thielemann’s great contribution here, controlling the ebb and flow of tension and release, not afraid to move proceedings on with lightness and even force where required. He so obviously comes from the Karajan tradition but has learnt from other sources (Boulez?) that not everything in this piece has to resemble a religious experience, whatever Wagner thought. ---- Tony Haywoodlol what's "morally repugnant" about Parsifal? i'm guessing something something le nazism?
Nikolai Kapustin
Why would anyone order them like this?
>>130038426I don't know, but the question will fester in my mind the rest of the night as I contemplate multitudes of scenarios and explanations. I mean the groups aren't *that* disparate, so there was obviously some logic to it. Probably just making them fit, to be honest. Yeah, I'm gonna go with that. No more festering.
My does my streaming service skip a bunch of tracks when my internet momentarily cuts out? So annoying. Completely lost my place. I just know I absolutely was not as far in as where it began playing, but I hadn't been looking at the playlist, so no idea where it should be. Lame.
Dargon1, Dragon2, Dragon3>Bach, Beethoven, Mozart>Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn>Liszt, Chopin, Scriabinthis is your nightly truth nuke
>>130038426So that you can fill the disks more efficiently. If they had them in order, they would probably need at least five more disks or they would need to split symphonies across disks.
>>130039000True except Mendy, he's great
What composer is the anti-Bach?
>>130039320Debussy: dissonant, 'atonal', homophonic, textural and timbral
Bach and Debussy are the two sides of the same coin. I prefer Wiener Philharmoniker
>>130039626thank you botposter
Brucknerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8W2o7MKA2U&list=OLAK5uy_lHmn3dnewBrjJjUjA_DtLj68ZgS-vq4ZU&index=1
Albeniz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C8b0J4wpGI
>>130039477>Debussy: dissonant, 'atonal'
IT'S BOCCHERINI TIME, BITCHES
>It’s one thing to take liberties and interpretive risks; it’s quite another to be merely perverse. Apparently the formerly “normal” pianist Alexander Paley has drifted over into the lunatic fringe. His interpretations of Chopin’s B minor sonata, four Ballades, and four Scherzi reek with abnormally slow tempos, vulgar phrase distensions, arbitrary dynamic alterations, and mauled rhythms that must be heard to be believed.Oh my... dare I listen to this...?
I think Scriabin is a bit dandy
>>130038326Kapustin was the only composer to surpass Bach and no, I will not speak further on that.
>>130039939Definitely dissonant and modern. Arguably atonal, that's why I used quotation marks.
What's a good recording of Scriabin's Op. 11 No. 1?
The dandies at Scriabi's Diner keep making fun of my waistcoat because it's not "in"
Addicted to Elgarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Xq6AwFRHQ
>>130040205kek do it
>>130041190There's like a bajillion, anon. Start with Alexeevhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSdphjvrwJ0&list=OLAK5uy_kdcKcuJElpKJHGmV42EIE8AZe5O3FPydY&index=3
>>130041190Ignore everyone else, the answer is always Lettberg.
>>130039944Currently listeining to his op 20 quintets
>>130042084the thumbnail makes her look like she's grimacing
