(Part 2) Best ballets & dances music according to redditors
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Here are 2 sets of Bach. One occupies 155 CD's (remember those?) and the other occupies 172 CD's. Most CD's are 60 to 80 minutes long, so very roughly, perhaps 200 hours.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Johann-Sebastian-Bach/dp/B003LR4QPE/ref=sr_1_sc_2
https://www.amazon.com/Bach-Complete-Works-155-Box/dp/B000HRME5U/ref=sr_1_sc_3
A few to consider, some more affordable than others:
If you need anything more specific than that, let me know and I'll try to recommend something.
If you have a look in the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section for any of these, you'll find many more.
As far as your point about lyrics, in my experience what makes it hard to get into music without lyrics is probably one of two things (or both):
(1) the lack of a melody that is easy to follow.
(2) the lack of an explicit meaning given to the music.
For me, I tend to have problem #2 to some extent, because when I listen to popular music I tend to have visions about the music in my mind. And those visions stem to some extent from the title of the song and the lyrics (both of which are often lacking in classical music). So not having lyrics makes it hard to picture something onto which your imagination can latch. It's just sounds, with little to no indication by the composer on what the music might be about. Heck there's a lot of classical musicians that adopt the "Absolute Music" doctrine, wherein music is about nothing in particular.
What a lot of people like to do to "remedy" this is make up their own "story" about the music (e.g. think of a loved one when listening to a slow movement). Sometimes I do this but to be honest it just happens naturally (in other words, I don't consciously tell myself Ok let's think about this or that).
I know I'm not offering concrete advice, but perhaps all of this might give you something to think about.
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As far as where to begin, I'm sure you'll easily find some advice on the web. For what it's worth I remember starting with this collection back in th day. https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Classical-Music-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B000001VU5
I still think it's a nice little starting point.
I agree with everybody, you have to listen, listen, listen! It's like any other genre of music, you need to listen to a bunch of stuff before you find a style that you enjoy and then it is easier (in my opinion) to dig deeper and listen to other composers related to the style you enjoy. I would suggest you get an anthology like this one for example https://www.amazon.ca/Grands-Classiques-Dedgar-Fruitier-Various/dp/B000N3AVPS (that's the one I had but there are many more!). It is divided by genre so you know what period you are listening to and its has a lot of different composers for you to discover. You could also try to listen to classical radio once in a while just so you don't have to think about choosing a song to listen to (they sometimes make a list of what's been played on their site so you can go back to check what you were listening in your car for example). Finally, keep it fun! You won't like classical music if you make yourself listen to everything Bach wrote in one sitting ;)
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|name|Ludwig van Beethoven|
|about artist|Ludwig van Beethoven (16 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a composer of the transitional period between the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was born in Bonn, Germany. Beethoven is widely regarded as one of the greatest masters of musical construction, sometimes sketching the architecture of a movement before he had decided upon the subject matter. He was one of the first composers to systematically and consistently use interlocking thematic devices, or “germ-motives”, to achieve unity between movements in long compositions. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig van Beethoven))|
|album|Classics in the Air, released Apr 1985|
|track|Moonlight Sonata|
|about track|Sonata in C sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2 - First Movement (Adagio Sostenuto) Correction This is not the entire Piano Sonata No. 14 ("Moonlight Sonata"), but only the first of three movements. The second and third movements are Allegretto and Presto Agitato, respectively. Beethoven's 14th piano sonata, AKA "Moonlight Sonata," was composed in the summer of 1801 in Hungary, on an estate belonging to the Brunswick family. The composition was published in 1802 and was dedicated to Beethoven’s pupil and passion, 17 years old Countess Giulietta Gucciardi. The Sonata is one of the most popular piano sonatas from Beethoven’s creation. It is also named “The Moonlight Sonata” by poet Ludwig Rellstab who, in 1832, had this inspiration on a moon lit night on the banks of the Lucerna River. Some biographers make the connection between the unshared love the composer held for Giulietta Guicciardi and the sonorities of the first part. Even more so, this sonata was dedicated to Giulietta, the musical theme of the first part being borrowed from a German ballad as Wyzewa observed. The piano sonata has three parts. The parts of the sonata give the impression of a whole first of all through the elaboration of themes and motifs. Consequently, the main musical theme of the first part becomes very elaborate in the second part, and the second motif of the main theme will be encountered in the first theme of part III.|
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|tags|classical, instrumental, romantic, classic, rock|
|similar|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Franz Joseph Haydn|
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The Top 100 Box Set is a pretty good collection of a wide variety of compositions over the course of several hundred years.
A few other pieces of music I'd recommend:
John Adams has some pretty cool pieces. It's more accessible than a lot of the atonal and minimalist stuff you see in modern music.
I'm also a fan of Alan Hovhaness, who is also considered modern; one of the most notable features of his music is the blending Eastern and Western styles to produce beautiful pieces.
I'd also check out eclassical.com, which I use for a majority of my music file purchases, since the prices are pretty good and you can buy tracks individually, as well as having a very wide variety of music to choose from.
Well of course a few come naturally:
Putting the Nutcracker near-constantly on is a December tradition of mine. I really like this recording, as the sound quality is fantastic, opening could be taken at a faster tempo, but solid otherwise.
http://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-PREVIN-LONDON-SYM-ORCH/dp/B002Q85A22/ref=pd_sim_15_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=51VSeYaAUML&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0NJCNEVVRVR33DM3NYBK
https://www.amazon.com/Ravel-Daphnis-Valses-nobles-sentimentales/dp/B002OLTASG/
Composers in Person is a massive collection of composers performing and conducting their works. Many of the recordings sound as old as they are, but it's still pretty amazing, if only for historical interest.
here's the reissue.
Respighi- Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome)
Ravel- Bolero
Shostakovich- Symphony No. 7
Stravinsky- The Firebird
Márquez- Danzón No 2 (one of my favorites)
Adams: Harmonielehre
Well, really... let's try to figure out what this should cost. If we accept that $100 is the correct price for tickets to his show (and it probably isn't, but we'll accept it for the time being) and then factor in the following:
All of these things, in my view, would reasonably take off the price. Does that mean $20? That's a bit harder to say. I feel like $20 is maybe around the low end. It's a difficult call to make. Expecting $100 (the normal ticket price) is too much.
Put another way: $20 is more than a CD of Bell would cost.
It is on this disc. . .
https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Sonatas-Variations-Grande-Polonaise/dp/B0021JLP0C/ref=sr_1_22?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1480558421&sr=1-22&keywords=von+Weber
I'm not aware of those. I'm a big fan of Herbert von Karajan's Decca recordings, though.
Oh, never mind. I just thought you were into electronic music, maybe a DJ or producer, or something like that. Not to sound stuck-up or anything, but part of the reason I thought that was that 150 albums didn't seem that many. 1 complete set of just Beethoven's, Mozart's, and Bach's music comes to 410 discs already.