Pretty much the title. Obviously there’s joining the Nazis twice but what other reasons are there? IMO he has some of the best recordings for many pieces (Beethoven 7, Beethoven 3, Dvorak 9, Tchaikovsky PC1 (unfortunately not Rach 2 though)), yet I see a lot of mixed reactions on the sub and in general.

I haven't really ever listened to classical music, but I always really liked Clair de Lune. I'd be interested to hear some recommendations from you all!

Any exercises or techniques to help improve coordination between hands?

Novice here - So I'm in the process of cataloguing my dad's music collection which includes a lot of classical and opera, and I ran into a CD of an opera called Tristan & Iseult (here it is on Discogs). A Wikipedia search tells me there was a Richard Wagner opera, Tristan und Isolde, but neither the liner notes nor Discogs credit Wagner or any other composer. (I also remember my dad being vocally anti-Wagner, which doesn't necessarily mean he couldn't have some in his collection but it would be weird.)

What do you guys think is happening here? Is there another lesser-known Tristan & Iseult opera by a different composer that's not on Wikipedia, or is this in fact the Wagner opera and just doesn't credit him for whatever reason?

Something like Mendelssohn’s No. 2, 1st mvt or Death and the Maiden

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I'd like to hear more operas by Jonathan Dove, but very few seem to have been recorded. Have 'Flight' (on Chandos) and 'The Adventures of Pinocchio' (from Radio 3 via YouTube). Can anyone point me to other recordings of his operas? Thanks!

I am currently writing an essay with the title “How does Shostakovich use composition techniques in his 7th symphony to express the political turmoil and criticize the Soviet Union?”.

Are there any resources for both harmonic analysis and biographical material, that would help me? I already have a decent knowledge of harmony and music theory (completed ARCT harmony, but honestly forgot most of it). Thanks!

I am starting to plan a road trip around Europe. This will be my bucket list tour, so need to fit everything in—bonus points for anywhere unexpected or unique.

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Anybody here familiar with Paul von Klenau's 9th Symphony? Is it worth the effort?

(This would mean buying a rather expensive CD - my internet connection is an iPhone so I can't just stream it and expect to make sense of something that big and complex).

We all know that major keys are associated with happiness, and minor keys are associated with sadness. Let's chat about pieces that defy that.

I really want to go into classical music but I play the Bari sax. I do go to an arts school (high school, not college,) and I am very confident that I will go into the music field. I was thinking of starting to compose classical music with saxophones in it but I just can’t seem to really create songs. I have been working on getting an oboe as well since it would open up more doors. I have gotten the local repair/instrument store to work on a oboe (Yamaha, about $700) and I have gotten a reed and gotten lessons set up with an oboe player. The problem with this though is that I really would like to play the saxophone and not some other instrument. I don’t quite like jazz but I do marching band for my home school. I don’t want to be working for a school cause I’d think it would make me miserable doing gigs and lessons and teaching all at once. I was thinking about going into wind ensembles but they don’t get paid much. Any ideas?

if they’re used quietly and not used to record entire concerts. Honestly don’t think they’re more distracting than someone quietly reading the program notes, the person next to me nodding to the music, or the horn player emptying their spit valve.

Now I know they are viewed as distracting but I like to think things are only as distracting as we allow them to be. For example, I’m sure at every concert you’ve attended someone drops something and everyone turn their heads from the music towards the source of the noise. While the noise itself is distracting I feel the physical turning of the head and breaking of concentration is much more. If you’re truly engrossed in the music a banging from behind you shouldn’t be enough to completely break your concentration. Of course there are limits to this, example phones ringing are almost impossible to ignore. But if phone use is allowed it makes concerts much more accepting and welcoming to a younger audience.

What are your guys thoughts. Do you agree, disagree, or think there are better ways to adapt the concert format for the new generations/new technology. And if you agree what do you feel the limits of this provision should be? Personally filming the whole thing(although I feel filming should be allowed in certain sections) or talking on the phone/volume turned on are obviously completely off limits.

Hey

If you were looking at the sky at 3:00 AM alone , The weather is beautiful and the air hits your face, and your head is a black hole that attracts every idea related to the origin of the universe and existential and philosophical questions. What do you suggest listening?

Thanks

I will update the post as we go along (and as I listen to the movements):

It's the least programmed of Brahms' 4 symphonies in live concerts, and I don't understand why it doesn't have as much play time as the other three.

The 3rd movement is perhaps the most popular in terms of familiarity. I think it's used in movies and those bedtime classical playlists and CD albums, at least from my experience and asking around.

I just listened from the 2nd movement and the way it melts into the following Poco allegretto makes me love it even more.

• What are some things you like about this symphony?
• Why do you think it's not programmed very often?

I am a 15-year-old boy and in two months I will leave high school and at the closing ceremony I want to perform playing a song on a violin but the problem is that I don't know which one I could present, recommend a song that I can lend.

I greatly enjoyed Karajan's version of Das Rheingold (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCFq6WWmGE), but, unfortunately, it doesn't seem that Karajan filmed the later performances. Currently, I'm trying to find a good version of Die Walkure Act 1. I started to watch the 90s Bayreuth version but was quickly put off by all of the characters wearing suits and fedoras. I want to watch a production of the Ring that is faithful to the norse/germanic myth that it is based on -- Karajan's was delightful. I'm not interested in "modern" takes on the opera. If anyone knows of any good ol' cheesy traditional productions, please tell me! Please don't just argue opinions, that's not what I intend this post to be -- just explaining what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance.

I'm currently working on the first movement of my first symphony, it's in sonata form, but I'm having trouble with

1. Writing a good subject
2. What key the second subject should be in
3. How to transition between them
4. and finally, what instruments should play them.

Also, can you provide some good examples, of sonata form to help me?

Had an idea to let the people of r/classicalmusic to work together on a classical style composition.

Basically just comment what you want and the one with the most upvotes will be added

I was thinking a concerto so we'd need to choose the focus instrument, key and form to start off with

Hopefully enough people see this and contribute to make it work! Cheers