music help please

[Ljbonobo]

I am looking for some good classical music pieces. The type I'm looking for are piano pieces or orchestra pieces. I want the simple yet ooh so elegant sound like Fur elise or moonlight sonata. Any help?

 

[Rex1960]

I am looking for some good classical music pieces. The type I'm looking for are piano pieces or orchestra pieces. I want the simple yet ooh so elegant sound like Fur elise or moonlight sonata. Any help?

I'd recommend Chopin's piano concerts


edited to add: Frederic Chopin that is

 

[Blindinthedark]

Chopin for piano.

Vivaldi for orchestral peices.

 

[Guest]

Peter Katin

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[Guest]

Glen Gould......anything.

 

[Thrillhouse]

I'm a big fan of Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major, K488: Adagio.

 

[Rex1960]

Vivaldi for orchestral peices.

"Four Seasons" would be my pick for starters

 

[Guest]

Errm, excuse me......

I thought the possibilities were restricted to piano pieces..........

 

[Rex1960]

Re: Errm, excuse me......

I thought the possibilities were restricted to piano pieces..........

Lj asked for piano or orchestra

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Errm, excuse me......

Lj asked for piano or orchestra

Sorry, tunnel vision.

 

[GreenEyedGodess]

I am looking for some good classical music pieces. The type I'm looking for are piano pieces or orchestra pieces. I want the simple yet ooh so elegant sound like Fur elise or moonlight sonata. Any help?

Here are a few good ones done in Baroque style by the composer Marin Marais. Suite in D Major, Suite in G minor, Prelude in D minor, Suite in A minor, Passacaille in B minor, and Suite in G Major I've heard these pieces performed by a harpsichordist, and a Viola de Gamba player. But you might hear other instrumental versions of them.



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[Shingen]

I am looking for some good classical music pieces. The type I'm looking for are piano pieces or orchestra pieces. I want the simple yet ooh so elegant sound like Fur elise or moonlight sonata. Any help?

Try some Chopin etudes and nocturnes. Other Beethoven sonatas. And maybe Debussy as well.

As far as orchestra pieces, I would go for some piano concertos, such as Tchaikovsky's 1st, Rachmaninoff's 2nd, Beethoven's 3rd and 5th.

Hope this helps out.

 

[La Principessa]

try the Bach Goldberg variations recorded by Glen Gould (1956 recording) don't worry about the date....you find him playing them it will either be the 1956 recording (very inexpensive) or a "new release". Charming pieces

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3, try Vladimir Horowitz playing with Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony. There's one out there with him playing and the London Symphony, but I like Ormandy with the Phil. Sym. better. (also gets both Piano and orchestra combined)

Look for Gershwin...excellent Piano and Piano w/ orch.

Like Modern (20th cent.) classical? Look for Philip Glass. Very melodic. come on. say it. I know you want to!

Try some chamber music for a change. Maybe some Mozart Diverimentos, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Copland's Music of America, Georg Telemann trumpet works, Handel's Water Music, Elgar's Enigma Variations

Just some ideas.

 

[Shingen]

La Principessa

I knew it I knew it I knew it!!!!

I had a feeling you would post in this thread!!!



Good choices BTW.

I also like Vladimir Ashkenazy performing the Rachmaninoff concertos as well as Kissin's version of the 3rd.

For modern, I really dig Gorecki..Symphony #3 with Dawn Upshaw.

 

[Lancecastor]

Glen Gould......anything.

Ditto.

His "Goldberg Variations" is pretty hard to beat.

 

[Spinaroonie]

The Who - Tommy.

 

[La Principessa]

Re: La Principessa

I knew it I knew it I knew it!!!!

I had a feeling you would post in this thread!!!



Good choices BTW.

I also like Vladimir Ashkenazy performing the Rachmaninoff concertos as well as Kissin's version of the 3rd.

For modern, I really dig Gorecki..Symphony #3 with Dawn Upshaw.

you knew it you knew it you knew it!!! Am I that predictable??? well, if so at least I'm not usually about classical music.

 

[Shingen]

It's almost a given that whenever there is a classical music thread, both you and I will post in it.

Have a good one!