(Part 2) Best classical music according to redditors

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u/mikeaveli2682 · 23 pointsr/hiphopheads

30,879 tracks and I'll shortly be getting a [Maria Callas boxed set] (http://www.amazon.com/Maria-Callas-Remastered-Recordings-1949-1969/dp/B00KN15P56) with 70 CDs in it. It's a real problem. I want my entire collection on my 160GB iPod but can't fit it.

u/Sutcliffe · 15 pointsr/NintendoSwitchDeals

If you dig enough there's always a classical music (ie post copyright) CD for a couple bucks.

Who doesn't want more Vivaldi in their life?

u/[deleted] · 9 pointsr/classicalmusic

Vladimir Horowitz's Chopin can be controversial, but this collection is widely accepted as being among his best (from what I've seen, at least) and is a personal favorite.

For the nocturnes, I'd go with Rubinstein, and he also had very good recordings of the waltzes. For Chopin, it's hard to go wrong with Rubinstein - his 11 disc Chopin Collection is a pretty essential collection and is one of the best overviews of Chopin's music.

I personally like Maurizio Pollini for the preludes, but there are some who think that his interpretation lacks emotion (I'd obviously disagree completely). His interpretation of the etudes is unmatched, I think.

EDIT: I'd also like to add a recommendation for Vladimir Ashkenazy, who interprets Chopin very intelligently, as well as Ivo Pogorelich (though the latter could be inconsistent throughout his career and his playing was very controversial and unconventional).

u/jliszt · 8 pointsr/explainlikeimfive

Ignoring symphonies and other large scale works, which are very different creatures from what we call songs, look at the timings of this song cycle by Schubert from almost 200 years ago. Besides a few really short ones, the length of the songs aren't really much different from what we get nowadays. Same thing with this collection of madrigals by Gesualdo from the renaissance. So I'm not sure I completely buy the technology explanation, there has to be something else, probably as simple as what the top comment says, that it just feels right.

u/scrumptiouscakes · 8 pointsr/classicalmusic

A few to consider, some more affordable than others:

u/mroceancoloredpants · 7 pointsr/classicalmusic

I'll hazard some suggestions:

Mozart: Piano Concerti, Uchida/Tate/English Chamber Orchestra

Bach: Mass in B Minor, Gardiner

Debussy: La Mer/Nocturnes etc., Boulez/Cleveland

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Boulez/Chicago

Beethoven: op. 59 quartets, Tokyo SQ

Webern: Works for String Quartet, Emerson SQ

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Ensemble Intercontemporain

Bach: Orchestral Suites, Neville Marriner

Mahler: 9th Symphony, Karajan/Berlin

Schubert: Winterreise and Goethe Lieder, Fischer-Dieskau

And Karajan doing the Brahms symphonies on DVD.

u/species64739 · 7 pointsr/pics

Well, yes

u/Rhapsodie · 6 pointsr/classicalmusic

These two albums are cornerstones of my collection:

  • Muti/PO: Symphonies 1-3, Poem of ecstasy, P. of fire - PoE and Symph1 (esp. mvmt 6) are two of my favorite pieces. no other recording of PoE keeps the second half as tense nor does the coda as perfectly as this one.
  • Lettberg: Solo piano works - I have to highlight her op. 18 and op. 4, two large piano works that mostly predate the sonatas. Great great romantic, virtuosic passionate pieces that lie somewhere between Brahms more violent intermezzos (eg, 76/1) and Chopin ballades. The rest is all quality.

    Others to supplement, that I don't feel as strongly about.

  • Ashkenazy: Piano sonatas - older recordings, but he captures the more eccentric side so essential to Scriabin, like the frenetic no. 2 and the disturbing no. 9. I still think Ashkenazy is more at home with Rach (ossia pc3!!) though.
  • Diev: Preludes - simply a great value, for the 48 short pieces you get here. Solid playing, I don't think he has quite the edge needed to pull off the more hairy pieces, but he nails the tender side of 11/11 and 16/3.
u/blackstar9000 · 6 pointsr/AskReddit

Get these recordings.

u/brocket66 · 5 pointsr/classicalmusic

With Schubert, oh yes I do! The Fischer-Dishkau/Demus recording of Winterreise is a real treasure. Even people who aren't keen on lieder may find it appealing:

http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Winterreise-Dietrich-Fischer-Dieskau/dp/B000001GQE

Kleiber's rendition of the "Unfinished" symphony is the best I've heard:

http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Symphonies-Nos-3-8/dp/B000001GXE/

And I love the Takacs Quartet's take on the 13th and 14th string quartets:

http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-String-Quartets-Death-Maiden/dp/B000I5Y8W8/

Finally, the Emerson Quartet playing with Rostropovich (what a team-up!) for the String Quintet:

http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-String-Quintet-d-956/dp/B000001GFA/

As for Mahler you can't go wrong with Rattle's recording of the 2nd Symphony or Bernstein's recording of the 5th. Bernstein playing Rhapsody in Blue is terrific as well. Hope this helps :-)

u/Cyberbuddha · 5 pointsr/classicalmusic

Martha Argerich Rach 3 and Tchaikovsky - A classic. First rendition of Rach 3 I heard. Not the most technically perfect (e.g. compare with Kissin) but just so powerful and exhilarating.

Solti Mahler 8 in Vienna - Perfect soloists, perfect sound, perfect interpretation. Completely different league with respect to any other recording in terms of the soloists and Part 1.

Solti Brahms cycle - Great cycle. Either I love CSO/Solti recordings or I can't stand them. This is one of the former probably because Brahms is more in line with Solti's type of conducting. The fourth is particularily strong.

Mahler 2 Bernstein - Another classic. Not your everyday Mahler 2 but then again you don't listen to Mahler 2 every day. Pushing the score to its romantic limits as one reviewer put. Spiritual listening experience of death and transfiguration for the listener.

Eugene Ablulescu's Hammerklavier - Very interesting academic performance (not as slow or heartfelt as Solomon in the adagio for example). Rigid adherence to marked tempi. No idea why it isn't more well known.

Also I totally second the Gilels/Jochum Brahms concertos.

u/LeQuattroStagioni · 4 pointsr/audiophile

For a vinyl recommendation, I would highly recommend Vivaldi's Four Seasons played by I Musici with Felix Ayo on violin. Probably my favourite recording of The Four Seasons. It's energetic without being overly dramatic (like so many interpretations tend to be) and very nicely paced. A very enjoyable listen. I don't think I've enjoyed movement 1 of Winter (track 10) more than on this recording. The pacing and speed of playing is just to my liking and the cello really gives the two crescendos a lot of life.

u/ichmusspinkle · 4 pointsr/medicalschool

>full Der Ring des Nibelungen

Low yield. The high yield version cuts out all the singers so it's only an hour. ;-)

That Maazel version is to Solti what Sattar is to PhDs lecturing about their research

u/BarryZZZ · 3 pointsr/answers

It certainly is! The Art of the Bawdy Song came with one. My wife ordered it in to a local record store, the guy at the counter said he'd never seen one of a "classical" disc. No outright vulgarity, no explicit descriptions, it's all artful word play and innuendo.

u/Rooster_Ties · 3 pointsr/classicalmusic

Edgard Varèse sketched a piece that basically did/does exactly what the OP is describing. It was 'realized' (completed) and recorded finally on this set, called "Tuning Up".

"Tuning Up" for orchestra (sketched 1946; completed by Chou Wen-Chung, 1998)

u/ralala · 3 pointsr/classicalmusic

A couple more to add to what people have already mentioned:

Rubinstein - Chopin's Nocturnes

Horowitz Plays Liszt (especially the Sonata in B and the Mephisto Waltz)

Hilary Hahn Plays Bach (especially the Chaconne in Partita No. 2)

u/Llama_Sutra · 3 pointsr/occult

As a musician who specializes in early music, I often use medieval and renaissance pieces for my rituals. Favorites include renaissance lute fantasias (tons of recordings available from Paul O'Dette, Ronn McFarlane, and Nigel North), Renaissance choral music, and more mystical/meditative medieval pieces (Sequentia has some great stuff with vielles and harps). There is a huge range of sounds/textures from the middle ages that can be very meditative. Some Examples: Organetto & drum, recorder and percussion, meditative vocal music (Anonymous 4 are a great group, and vielles.

I've also found North Indian classical music on Sarangi or Sitar, and Arabic classical music (Oud taqsim/improvisations especially) to be very effective during rituals. If I was using medieval or renaissance grimoires, I'd use appropriate music from those time periods. For general work, middle eastern and Indian music is always a good choice.

u/vashjunky · 3 pointsr/classicalmusic

This is fun and exciting, but this is the best recording of Mahler 2 ever.

u/PriceKnight · 3 pointsr/NintendoSwitchDeals

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u/Handyland · 3 pointsr/piano

You might try Chopin's Nocturnes.

u/mingl · 2 pointsr/classicalmusic

2000!

https://www.academia-music.com/academia/templates/pdf/SPA_50_37_Beethoven.pdf

Del Mar has a huge essay at the beginning of each Symphony talking about all the different sources he used and the major changes to articulations. It caused a big stir. In 2000 a few recordings came out that were based on this edition: Zinman

u/ColbertNation893 · 2 pointsr/trumpet

It's on Phil Smith's excerpts cd! He talks through and plays many of the excerpts you'll ever need to know for an audition. It's my orchestral bible. It's only one interpretation of this stuff, but you can't go wrong with following the principal trumpet of the NY Phil. That being said, I actually do American in Paris differently from him. It's one of those excerpts that you can really explore lots of interpretations with and get creative with how you play it.

Here's a link to the album on Amazon if anybody is interested: http://www.amazon.com/Orchestral-Excerpts-Trumpet-Philip-Smith/dp/B0000038JG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417017461&sr=8-1&keywords=phil+smith

u/prustage · 2 pointsr/classicalmusic

There is a Verdi without words

There is a version of Wagners Ring without words

And there is a CD that has a selection ofworks from other operas without words.

u/mladez · 2 pointsr/classicalmusic

I found the vinyl you sent me on Amazon and that's what i worked with.

Sadly because I live in Serbia almost none of them shipped to me for less than the actual cost of the vinyl so after reading some reviews I ended up buying this one, since the shipping cost around 6 dollars.

Again thank you very much for your help.

u/jupiterkansas · 2 pointsr/progrockmusic

do they have to be prog?

Conan the Barbarian soundtrack by Basil Poledouris - possibly the best soundtrack I've ever heard.

The Bones of All Men by Phillip Pickett and Richard Thompson - like a medieval rock band

and just for fun, The Art of the Bawdy Song by the Baltimore Consort

u/Epistaxis · 2 pointsr/classicalmusic

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000042H4/

It is amazing. That may look like a lot for an album, but it's less than $8/disc, and you'll treasure it for a lifetime. :-)

BBC made a documentary of the filming of Götterdämmerung: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PDZQUG/. It's somewhat fluffy, but it contains footage of live recording sessions, including some of the final takes, and Culshaw insisted that BBC use his soundtracks instead of their own. That's the source of the video I linked; the highlights are all on YouTube somewhere or other.

Supposedly some poll rated this as the greatest recording of all time.

u/scrunchcrunch · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

JS Bach wrote 6 solo suites for cello for cello. Suite is just a fancy word for a group of peices, often in the style of popular dances of the day, that are considered a gropu of music. Consider a suite something like an anthology of short stories- enjoyable individually, but when viewed as a whole, epic themes and ideas emerge.

The prelude to the g major suite is probably the most famous bit from the suites, but don't over look the rest of the G major suite, or the other suites. They are as strong as each other.

I adore the bach cello suites, I feel that all the ideas of western music are distilled into these 6 suites.

When listening to a recording of the Bach cello suites which performance you choose is going to have massive impact on what you hear and what you take away from the suites.

For a more traditional interpretation of the suites, you can not go past Pablo Casals while for a more modern interpretation have a listen to rostropovich

These two sound like they are playing different music completely, even though they are reading the same black dots on the page.

Happy listening.

u/ashowofhands · 2 pointsr/classicalmusic

We have similar tastes in classical music, you and I.

I'm glad you grabbed those Glass operas. I saw them in the first picture I would have had to hurt you if you didn't bring them home with you.

That Svetlanov recording of Scriabin 1 is awesome. I bet the Berman Scriabin recording is awesome too (and I also bet it was never reissued on CD, so enjoy having a rarity of a phenomenal pianist!) I had no idea that Bareinboim ever played the Messiaen quartet, sounds interesting.

I don't know if you collect CDs too, but if you do the Decca Varese Complete Works set is a must-have. As is post-vinyl era Penderecki (definitely pick up his 7th symphony and Polish Requiem).

u/furettodelcardellino · 2 pointsr/italy

Le incisioni più quotate dei migliori prodotti del genio umano, a poco più di un euro ciascuna. Ringraziamo Amazon!

u/Black_Gay_Man · 2 pointsr/opera

The Solti recording of Le Nozze di Figaro with Te Kanawa, Sam Ramey, Lucia Popp, Frederica von Stade, Thomas Allen and Kurt Moll and the London Philharmonic

The live Solti recording of Cosi fan Tutte with Renée Fleming (in the one early performances that launched her career), Anne Sophie Von Otter, Olaf Bår, Michele Pertusi, Frank Lopardo and Adelina Scarabelli with the Chamber orchestra of Europe

The Madame Butterfly with Mirella Freni, Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig with Karajan conducting Vienna Philharmonic

The legendary Solti Ring Cycle with Nilsson, Ludwig, Flagstad, Windgassen, a young Joan Sutherland and practically every other great Wagnerian of the era with Vienna

The Otello DVD from the MET with Levine conducting Domingo, Fleming, and James Morris

The Rusalka with Fleming, Zajick, Franz Hawlata, and Ben Heppner with Mackerras conducting the Czech Philharmonic

The Porgy and Bess with Rattle conducting London Philharmonic and Williard White, Cynthia Haymon, Harolyn Blackwell et all singing

There are a few live recordings and bootlegs I love also. There's a Romeo and Juliet from 68 with Gedda and Freni at the MET that I LOVE. There's an Ernani from the early 60s with Cornell Macneil, Leontyne Price, Bergonzi and Schippers conducting that is amazing. There is a live Frau ohne Schatten with Karajan conducting Christa Ludwig, Jess Thomas, Leonie Rysanek, Lucia Popp, Walter Berry and Wunderlich

I'm sure there are a few others I'm forgetting, but with youtube it's so easy to watch individual performances of particular parts of particular operas---which is maybe making the art form in the theatre have a hard time competing. Now a days I prefer to hear singers in the hall before I get into their video and audio recordings.

u/Giga_Punch · 1 pointr/classicalmusic

I recently purchased David Zinman's cycle which tries to follow the original metronome markings. I find the music much more exciting this way.
It becomes easier to imagine the relentless energy that original audiences were confronted with, and if we have it on good authority that this is how Beethoven wanted his music played, then I can't imagine hearing it any other way.

u/CaJawnFC · 1 pointr/pics

I recognized this from the cover of a Steve Reich album...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SUVK/howardstokarmana

u/paperrhino · 1 pointr/classicalmusic

So many they almost make up a whole genre. Though most of them tend to be popular songs as opposed to the more refined and aristocratic music that we know as classical.
The Art of the Bawdy Song is one CD that came up in a search. I have another but can't seem to find it at the moment.

u/hotboilivejive · 1 pointr/audiophile

How does it work on top of my Tidal subscription? How accurate is it in detecting metadata from CD's? Because, currently, none of the other services EAC uses is able to get info for this collection, making me input the data for every. single. cd. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FP45RV8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

u/GoatTnder · 1 pointr/rpg

Is it the Kashmir from Symphonic Led Zeppelin by the London Philharmonic Orchestra? Because that whole album is AWESOME!!

u/KelMHill · 1 pointr/classicalmusic

Very much worth the price, but if you're fairly new, don't you want more variety than all Mozart? (He doesn't even make my top 10!) I would start with much less expensive collections that feature a variety of composers in order to discover who you like most. There are tons of great box sets out there. Most any big collection by Decca/London/Deutsche Grammophon is going to be reputable.

Just one example:

https://www.amazon.com/Deutsche-Grammophon-Originals-Legendary-Recordings/dp/B00LNRJMCQ/ref=sr_1_41

My generation paid $25 a disc for the same recordings when they were first released. (I still have and love most of mine.) Now they're less than $3 a disc. I also recommend comparing pricing between amazon.ca and amazon.com because for many items it is much less expensive to buy them from com rather than ca, even after duty. Depends on the set. In fact, when I am planning a larger ticket purchase, I check British amazon as well for the same reason. I have ordered from them all, and find no difference in service quality.

Another example

https://www.amazon.com/Decca-Sound-Analogue-Years-Box/dp/B00E0H8KAQ/ref=pd_sim_15_2

u/Calico_Dick_Fringe · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Everyone here will recommend classical music written between from 1650-1850, but you owe it to yourself to check out Renaissance and Medieval music while you're at it. There was so much neglected but amazing stuff written before 1600.

Ronn McFarlane has some fantastic solo lute albums. If you prefer quiet beautiful introspective melodies, DEFINITELY pick up his albums "The Renaissance Lute" and "Between Two Hearts".
He's also a member of the Baltimore Consort, and their work is quite good if you find you want more of this genre.

If you want beautiful music to wash over you and bring you to tears, listen to THIS album of Renaissance choral music. Crank it up LOUD! It's like angels tickling your insides.

Medieval music has more dissonances in it, so you may or may not like it, but give it a shot. I like the quieter meditative pieces that sound like a twisted music box. Here are some decent CDs:

u/mrgosh · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I know this going to get lost in a sea of recommendations, but if you happen to see it please - please please please - make sure you listen to ATLEAST the first couple opening scenes of Das Rheingold from Wagner's Ring cycle. It is meant to symbolize both musical and human evolution and leaves me SPEECHLESS every time I hear it. This is my favorite recording: http://www.amazon.com/Wagner-Der-Ring-Nibelungen-Cycle/dp/B0000042H4

Additionally, if you enjoy Sigur Ros, I cannot recommend Jonsi's Riceboy Sleeps record strongly enough. It is so successful at - for me at least - translating emotional impact into sound. It is extremely effecting - particularly the first track which I would describe simply as "joyous".

I wish frequently I could hear much of the world for the first time, again. You are a very lucky person, in more senses than one.

u/SerjoHlaaluDramBero · 1 pointr/Christianity

No way. Not while there are such beautiful albums of Gregorian chant still being recorded and released by Catholics today.

u/DragonVariation · 1 pointr/classicalmusic

The Maria Callas Remastered Box Set has been taking up most of my listening time. But I still find time to relisten to the Leonidas Kavakos & Yuja Wang Brahms Violin Sonatas album from this spring. (Now that it's holiday time, I'm listening to the Home Alone soundtrack on repeat! :D THE BEST!)

u/faroutkwamdam · 1 pointr/SRSMusic

"the ring without words". here a link to the cd. i highly recommend it.

amazon

u/mild_delusion · 1 pointr/classicalmusic

Oh god OP, that Kleiber beethoven 5 is crazy intense. Good choice.

Mahler's Symphony No. 5 - Bernstein

Mahler's Symphony No. 8 "Symphony of a thousand" - Sinopoli The greatest recording of this ever. And yes I have heard Solti and Horenstien.

Schumann's Fantasie in C major If you know Richter's Schumann, no explanation is required. If not, you need to hear this.

Scriabin's 10 Piano Sonatas - Ashkenazy I've heard people call Ashkenazy bland. He definitely isn't here.

I really don't want to limit my choices, but I think maybe I should keep it at 5 or this list will become too big..so for something completely different..Phases - Box set of Steve Reich's music on Nonesuch label

u/semper_ortus · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Also - choral settings by Palestrina. When I want to feel clean on the inside, I just put on some Renaissance choral music and blast the house. Holy crap!

u/kziv · 1 pointr/classicalmusic

I'm not a musician so I don't have the words or expertise to describe why I like what I do, but this version is my favorite because it seems to flow better. It seems like the instruments are more... balanced? I've heard versions that sound more "rock"-like (looking at you, Joshua Bell) and don't care for that style for this particular set of music, even the Summer presto movement.

u/themetricsystem · 0 pointsr/Music

Orchestral sessions. Fuck yeah.

There's still a fond place in my heart for symphonic led zeppelin

u/theturbolemming · -1 pointsr/classicalmusic

If you want the good stuff, you're going to have to pay for it.