dholliday
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We've got threads on jazz, electronic and even religious music.
But what about the one that started it all? Still enjoys a massive amount of relevancy today.
I'm more into the modern minimalist stuff, but appreciate some of the classics too. What about yous?
Some of my favourites, rough top ten:
1) The most sparsly-beautiful piece of musik i know, so pure. It's an essense of something deeply human. Best heard at around the 26-min pacing (some recordings are too slow or fast). Arvo Pärt does a lot of staid choir stuff which isn't for me, but the symphonic work is so good. You may know his Fratres, it features on There Will Be Blood.
2) Steve Reich does proto-technotrance? This is his seminal work, ridiculously hypnotic. And so lush.
3) On goosepimple count alone Wagner's prelude to his Tristan & Isolde opera is maybe the number one of all time...what a build-up, then after over 7 minutes finally the release. Jesus wept...
Known for underscoring Lancelot's betrayal of Arthur in the 1981 flick Excalibur.
4) pushing the boundaries of what is Classical music, but it's deffo that...also it's dark ambient, and feels like it's creating something in the cosmos as it plays. Mica Levi's other works are so-so, but this is astonishing stuff:
5) Görecki's Symphony Nr 3 is actually the most-sold CD in the Classical Music genre. Specifically the Dawn Upshaw version (technically-perfect operatic vocal rendition). But the Penderecki version wins as he convinced Beth Gibbons (of Portishead) to lend her brittle broken vocals, more suiting the suffering-mother character of the lyrics. My favourite is the final movement with its addictive flow:
6) Philip Glass receives a bad rep from some quarters. Nick Mason's band, with Robert Wyatt, even took the piss out of him in their Mineralist piece...i.e. accusing his music of wankery.
But when he gets it right, it's bloody brilliant!
7) familiar to gamers, the EPIC final-boss theme of Final Fantasy VII is a significant part of gaming history. Here, the Danish National Orchestra put their faithful spin on it...
Nobuo Uematsu has a humongous discography, but was never as superlatively-transcendental as the piece he's best known for:
8) Progressive Metal with just a piano? Beethoven did it. Mad props to anyone who can play this:
9) Holst's The Planets is arguably the most influential classical music of the 20th-century. Many movie blockbusters have either used it directly or paid obvious homage (Star Wars, Superman etc).
First-listening to the suite you have to get over the over-familiarity, when you're there it becomes its own thing once again. The highlight is this gorgeous number, with a hauntingly-lovely lead melody line:
10) Ligeti's contribution to Kubrick's 2001 elevated that film to greatest-of-all-time status:
But what about the one that started it all? Still enjoys a massive amount of relevancy today.
I'm more into the modern minimalist stuff, but appreciate some of the classics too. What about yous?
Some of my favourites, rough top ten:
1) The most sparsly-beautiful piece of musik i know, so pure. It's an essense of something deeply human. Best heard at around the 26-min pacing (some recordings are too slow or fast). Arvo Pärt does a lot of staid choir stuff which isn't for me, but the symphonic work is so good. You may know his Fratres, it features on There Will Be Blood.
2) Steve Reich does proto-technotrance? This is his seminal work, ridiculously hypnotic. And so lush.
3) On goosepimple count alone Wagner's prelude to his Tristan & Isolde opera is maybe the number one of all time...what a build-up, then after over 7 minutes finally the release. Jesus wept...
Known for underscoring Lancelot's betrayal of Arthur in the 1981 flick Excalibur.
4) pushing the boundaries of what is Classical music, but it's deffo that...also it's dark ambient, and feels like it's creating something in the cosmos as it plays. Mica Levi's other works are so-so, but this is astonishing stuff:
5) Görecki's Symphony Nr 3 is actually the most-sold CD in the Classical Music genre. Specifically the Dawn Upshaw version (technically-perfect operatic vocal rendition). But the Penderecki version wins as he convinced Beth Gibbons (of Portishead) to lend her brittle broken vocals, more suiting the suffering-mother character of the lyrics. My favourite is the final movement with its addictive flow:
6) Philip Glass receives a bad rep from some quarters. Nick Mason's band, with Robert Wyatt, even took the piss out of him in their Mineralist piece...i.e. accusing his music of wankery.
But when he gets it right, it's bloody brilliant!
7) familiar to gamers, the EPIC final-boss theme of Final Fantasy VII is a significant part of gaming history. Here, the Danish National Orchestra put their faithful spin on it...
Nobuo Uematsu has a humongous discography, but was never as superlatively-transcendental as the piece he's best known for:
8) Progressive Metal with just a piano? Beethoven did it. Mad props to anyone who can play this:
9) Holst's The Planets is arguably the most influential classical music of the 20th-century. Many movie blockbusters have either used it directly or paid obvious homage (Star Wars, Superman etc).
First-listening to the suite you have to get over the over-familiarity, when you're there it becomes its own thing once again. The highlight is this gorgeous number, with a hauntingly-lovely lead melody line:
10) Ligeti's contribution to Kubrick's 2001 elevated that film to greatest-of-all-time status:
