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Things to Know

  • If you're new to classical music, and are looking for recommendations: first of all, welcome! /r/classicalresources is an archive for people who aren't sure where to start or are looking for more music they'll like, and we send all requests for basics over there. In addition to that, if you're posting an extremely frequently asked question, you may be told to use the search bar to look for similar posts.

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  • Posts from accounts under a certain (small) amount of karma must be manually approved by a mod in order to appear in the feed.

  • Remember that not everyone has the same tastes. If you can't tell why anyone would like a particular composer, don't be afraid to ask rather than dismissing them as "overrated." (On that note, please don't insult others for liking or disliking a specific composer!) And if you're feeling alone in your love of a specific composer, feel free to post some works of theirs that might intrigue others.

  • We acknowledge that the term "classical music" is somewhat porous. While this sub is absolutely not limited to Western classical music, that is currently its main focus.

Resources

  • /r/classicalresources - A variety of resources to help you expand your classical knowledge. Contains guides for beginners, an index of important composers and their works, and lists of classical pieces organised by genre, era, and theme.

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Are 2024/25 season announcements coming later where you live?

I can only speak for my city: London. And here, season announcements seem to come progressively later ever since a semblance of normalcy returned in 2022/23.

Last year, the London Symphony Orchestra announced its 2023/24 season on 14 March. It is now 26 March, yet the 2024/25 season has not been released.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra announced its 2022/23 season on 5 April. The 2023/24 season announcement only came on 24 April.

The Royal Opera House announced its 2022/23 season on 6 April. For the 2023/24 season it was on 26 April.

The same holds true for other major classical music organisations, with slight variation in degree.

Is this happening where you live? What might be the reason behind it?

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2024/03/26
07:51 UTC

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Your favorite “slowing moment”

I am talking about the Moment before the Ending of a piece, where the whole music calms down just to escalate one last time (in Drama that Moment is called “slowing moment”). Examples I know: Dvorak Ending of Cello Concerto, Beethoven Ending of Piano Concerto 5 and Symphony 3.

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2024/03/26
07:39 UTC

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Invention n 5 in Eb Major BWV 775, J.S. Bach Have a nice Week! 😀

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2024/03/26
06:24 UTC

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Looking for piano pieces that are similar in sound to Vladimir's Blues (Max Richter) and Truman Sleeps (Philip Glass)

They don't necessarily have to be minimalist in terms of composition. I'd just like something that is sonically similar whether that be for portions of a piece or the entire piece.

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2024/03/26
03:14 UTC

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"The Knight" Opera Song | Lyric Video

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2024/03/26
03:02 UTC

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Chicago Symphony under Solti

I am stoned tonight listening to Chicago Symphony Orchestra recordings from the Georg Solti era, 1970s - 1990s 😭🤯

Such a distinctive sound. Yes, extreme precision in that time free of digital editing that few orchestra can consistently pull off. But they were allowed to be so brassy, and both the way the brass and winds shape lines is so bold. So Chicago.

Muti is a fine music director, but that sound is lost. I wish I had attended CSO concerts in the Solti era!

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2024/03/26
02:52 UTC

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Calling for a reader

Hi folks, I am a screenwriter from LA. I am currently writing a small film about a composer. I didn't go to music school but for very personal reasons I choose to write the film. Currently I am trying to find any classical music enthusiastic or perhaps a composer who went to school for music to read and evaluate the technical moments of the script. It will be a very great help.

Thank you all.

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2024/03/26
02:36 UTC

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Easter music piece recommendations and Easter Gregorian chant reccomendations?

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for Easter music piece recommendations and Easter Gregorian chant reccomendations, what have you all got for reccomendations?

feel free to comment them!

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2024/03/26
02:30 UTC

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Bruckner 9th Reconstructed Finale

What are the thoughts on leaving the 9th incomplete vs reconstructing the finale from Bruckner's remaining sketches?

Personally, I feel like there is nothing wrong with reconstructing. Of course we will never know Bruckner's true intentions for the final movement but all or most of the material was written out, so this feels like the next best thing. This recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvJasTnAxfc&ab_channel=PhilharmonieFestiva-Topic) of the 9th's finale is just so marvelous how can I not love it. Reminds me much of the 5ths finale, but almost as a more intense version of it.

8 Comments
2024/03/26
02:26 UTC

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I need help finding this piece of music.

It’s been stuck in my head for a while.

All help is greatly appreciated!

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2024/03/26
01:59 UTC

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‘What’s This Piece?’ Weekly Thread #184

Welcome to the 184th r/classicalmusic weekly piece identification thread!

This thread was implemented after feedback from our users, and is here to help organise the subreddit a little.

All piece identification requests belong in this weekly thread.

Have a classical piece on the tip of your tongue? Feel free to submit it here as long as you have an audio file/video/musical score of the piece. Mediums that generally work best include Vocaroo or YouTube links. If you do submit a YouTube link, please include a linked timestamp if possible or state the timestamp in the comment. Please refrain from typing things like: what is the Beethoven piece that goes "Do do dooo Do do DUM", etc.

Other resources that may help:

- Musipedia - melody search engine. Search by rhythm, play it on piano or whistle into the computer.

- r/tipofmytongue - a subreddit for finding anything you can’t remember the name of!

- r/namethatsong - may be useful if you are unsure whether it’s classical or not

- Shazam - good if you heard it on the radio, in an advert etc. May not be as useful for singing.

- you can also ask Google ‘What’s this song?’ and sing/hum/play a melody for identification

- Facebook 'Guess The Score' group - for identifying pieces from the score

A big thank you to all the lovely people that visit this thread to help solve users’ earworms every week. You are all awesome!

Good luck and we hope you find the composition you've been searching for!

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2024/03/25
23:19 UTC

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Some Love For Haydn

I've recently started to listen to more Haydn. I struggle in general with the classical era, for my tastes it feels like the "boring" era, where the styles of the Baroque coalesced into a cohesive (but predictable) syntax. Haydn was the worst culprit of this for me, lacking the special moments of Mozart that make him stand out to me, or the revolutionary ideas of Beethoven at the end of the era. But I'm finally starting to open up to him. I did have to go through quite a bit of him to find things I liked, but I'm really starting to dig it. Also, perhaps Haydn is a casualty of the "Seinfeld isn't funny effect". If I'm not mistaken, isn't he partially responsible for the cosmopolitan style that emerges in the classical era? It's hard to appreciate such a true innovator.

I love this piece currently, at 11:13 I can really hear the germ of an idea that might have morphed into the Thieving Magpie theme by Rossini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKWJMmre8w&t=673s

Any other love for "Papa" Haydn?

EDIT: apologies, for a while the link brought you to a polka documentary...it's a long story

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2024/03/25
23:01 UTC

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Richard Strauss – Don Quixote, Op. 35 / Young-Chang Cho, cello / Sang-Jin, viola / Korean Symphony Orchestra conducted bt Christian Ehwald

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2024/03/25
22:05 UTC

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Wang Ming ( 王酩 ): Pastoral (1978)

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2024/03/25
21:51 UTC

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How to get into classical? BACH?

Hello! Iam a metalhead but I really want to try new music things. Iam not a bug musician. I only play drums for a year and I know just the basic drum sheet

But Iam really interested in Bach! Today I was listening to Toccata and Fugue And I want to ask why is there so many versions? There D minor but also there is f major and so on… Ummm I know it sounds differently. Is it like we dont know how he originally invented it?

Sorry if its a stupid question. I dont understand this at all

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2024/03/25
21:49 UTC

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Upbeat, joyful classical pieces similar to Widor’s Toccata

As in the title, looking for pieces that have a similar celebratory feel as Toccata from Symphonie V by Charles-Marie Widor

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2024/03/25
20:34 UTC

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I’m seeing “LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS LANG LANG IN RECITAL”!!

I’m seeing Lang Lang for the first time in Las Vegas. He’s performing Faure Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. 50 Schumann Kreisleriana Chopin 12 Mazurkas Chopin Polonaise in F# minor, Op. 44

I was wondering what should I expect from this concert? How good he actually is? This is only my third time at a “Classical” concert and I have no background in any musical instruments. So I’m just starting to learn.

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2024/03/25
20:49 UTC

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The Inlay Ensemble performing in Sydney

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2024/03/25
19:24 UTC

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FOR LISTENING: Vinyl or CD?

Just curious which format reveals more musically when listening? I have been told that the intricate nuances come through better on CD. I am asking this before spending money on a new turntable. I don't listen to classical through headphones. Ok or is that a mistake? Thanks in advance for your input.

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2024/03/25
18:56 UTC

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chopin piece difficulty

is chopin’s torrent etude or heroic polonaise more difficult for a pianist?

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2024/03/25
18:45 UTC

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Wayang Kulit gamelan shadow puppetry performance filed in 360* by American group Nusantara Arts at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

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2024/03/25
18:38 UTC

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How good are the graduates from top conservatories?

It seems the standards just get higher and higher - I've heard of pre-university orchestras playing Don Juan, as well as students performing Ginastera's first piano concerto while attending conservatory, or the complete post-war Messiaen organ music at the age of 16. Obviously not all of them are that good, but if the trend continues, violin majors will all be good enough to play the Ligeti concerto (?)

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2024/03/25
18:11 UTC

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Do you feel classical music has spoiled you?

I listen to classical a lot. I feel that because of my listening habits, I have been turned off many other genres, like pop music.

Taylor Swift is nice, but have you ever heard a Bruckner or Mahler symphony?

167 Comments
2024/03/25
17:51 UTC

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Dvorak/other Nationalist composers

Does anyone like Dvorak, Janacek and other nationalist composers, mostly from Bohemia, but also Brahms' pieces influenced by middle European folk music?

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2024/03/25
13:05 UTC

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Mozart - K. Anh. 221/45a - Symphony in G major "Old Lambach" (1766-67) [RWAMS project]

We're ranking Mozart's symphonies: this poll is for the RWAMS project. How do you rate this piece, probably composed by Mozart when he was 10-11 years old?

Here below you find a recording.

Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner

(YT) Mozart - K. Anh. 221/45a - Symphony in G major "Old Lambach" (1766-67) with beautiful landscapes

The Symphony in G major "Old Lambach", K. Anh. 221/45a, was probably written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during 1766 in The Hague and revised in 1767, when Mozart was 10-11 years old. Both versions – the original and the revision – have survived. The Mozart family began their journey between Salzburg and Vienna in January 1769, stopping over at the Lambach Abbey in Upper Austria, among other places. As was customary for Bavarian and Austrian monasteries, the Lambach Abbey offered rooms and meals for travellers and maintained a small chapel for both the liturgy and entertainment. This stopover is not mentioned in the correspondence of the Mozart family and is only known through the two manuscripts in the monastery. These two manuscripts were found at the beginning of the 20th century as copies (not autographs) in the archives of the Lambach Abbey and were probably gifts from the Mozart family as thanks for the hospitality given to them. One (the "Old Lambach") had the title "Del Sigre: Wolfgango Mozart. Dono Authoris 4.ta Jan. 1769" while the other (the "New Lambach", K. deest, Eisen G 16) was attributed to "Leopoldo" with the same date. Alfred Einstein assumed that the "Old Lambach" symphony (the one attributed to Wolfgang) was composed by 1767-68 during the stay in Vienna (which fit with the date on the manuscript in Lambach) and entered it into the main Köchel catalogue as K. 45a. This analysis was repeated in later editions of the Köchel catalogue. (The previous editions numbered the work as K. Anh. 221 as the work was then unknown apart from an incipit in the catalogue of Breitkopf & Härtel).

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2024/03/25
16:56 UTC

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Wolfgang Mozart - Requiem K626: Introitus Requiem Aeternam

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2024/03/25
16:28 UTC

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My Beethoven-inspired tattoo

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2024/03/25
15:46 UTC

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