Classical music

I'm currently searching into classical music,
quite obscure, powerful and 'frightening' things...

I know MUSSORGSKI who has some quite good things in 'Pictures of an exhibition', and it seems MOSSOLOV wasn't bad either...

Have you got some names? Some composers that kick your ass?

look for russian composers from the first half of the 20th century like Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Chostakovitch...I also have recordings of contemporary guitar if you're interested but it's more "weird" than dark

Tigi wrote:

look for russian composers from the first half of the 20th century like Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Chostakovitch...I also have recordings of contemporary guitar if you're interested but it's more "weird" than dark

Thanx,
I hope it's quite rythmic music, with some punch... If it's too "symphonic" or drowning too long on the same themes it becomes quite boring to me...

well I've heard bits of their pieces but never an actually entire piece.
from what I heard it has far more dynamics than your regular classical music, but now it's real complex music so it's not easy to describe.
try and find mp3 and make your own mind. I'm more familiar with contemporary guitar stuff than pieces for phiharmonic orchestra bcause I study guitar not violin heh.

Holst's The Planets collection can be quite good. You might recognise the Mars Bringer of War from a certain Nile song

Mussorsky's Night on bald mountain (sometimes called bare mountain (or maybe bear mountain?!? Or Beer mountain! Though it'll be something else in Frenchieness)) is better than the Pictures in an exhibition I'd say...

The best Chostakovitch (or Shostokovitch) to go for would be his 5th Symphony, lots of Communist influences in there.

Mozart is usually poncy milkyish shit, but his Requiem has it's darker moments.

Berlioz's Faust opera, Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung and Bruckner's later symphonies are all fairly long (or with Wagner, VERY LONG!) but they all have their moments.

Schumann's later work is also worth a look (went mad through mercury poisoning, jumped in a river)


Personally, I like to listen to nice 'soft' pieces, then blast on some ugly metal afterwards ahah!

I listened to the mentionned Holst's music on the good website of NAXOS... It seems NILE took quite a lot of things from there for 'Ramses bringer of war'

Mussorsky's Night on bald mountain is more powerful than Pictures in an exhibition, but some of the songs of this last collection sound a bit darker, not sure how to explain my feeling correctly, but it might be a bit more 'creepy'...?

I ordered a cheap CD of LISZT and it seems to be quite dark.

Well Callum, you seem to know quite a lot of cool classical music! I'll listen to these composers... Did you play piano in your early years or something?

Liszt has some nice Hungarian Waltz's (I think the 2nd is the more famous one...), not really that dark, but nice to listen to anyway.

I never played Piano or anything, too expensive! I just collect a few second hand LP's (especially now that it's become increasingly expensive to buy metal ones.... )

The Liszt CD I ordered is related to Faust, the extracts I got weren't bad.

Classical music CDs are cheap in there... You can get some unused CDs for 5 euros from a town-shop, cool...

Check you mail box, I'd like to send you the manipulations I did with Mussorgski's music

if you dig the later romantic period, you can also try Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz etc...

Tigi wrote:

if you dig the later romantic period, you can also try Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz etc...

Romantic?

gabalgabow wrote:

Tigi wrote:

if you dig the later romantic period, you can also try Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz etc...

Romantic?

that's the way the 19th century/early20th period is called, nothing to do with gayness don't worry

Tigi wrote:

that's the way the 19th century/early20th period is called, nothing to do with gayness don't worry

Ok, well what I know of Ravel (Le boléro and few others) isn't exactly menacing or obscure

gabalgabow wrote:

Tigi wrote:

that's the way the 19th century/early20th period is called, nothing to do with gayness don't worry

Ok, well what I know of Ravel (Le boléro and few others) isn't exactly menacing or obscure

depends what your hear from him, Id' like to give you more accurate nifo but as I listen to classical only on radio I hardly get who wrote what...

Tigi wrote:

if you dig the later romantic period, you can also try Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz etc...

I tried Camille Saint saens, but it's not my cup of tea... It seems other works he did are darker...

Mahler doesn't seem too shocking, even though a CD is called "Le titan", which let me imagine something big and crushing (lol)

Listz has nice moments in "Faust", but he generally doesn't seem too much in-your-face...

I should receive an Holst CD later...

You have new names to advice?

not really, haven't tried anything new in ages...maybe you should try more contemporary stuff?

aaaaaaarrrrrggggg that's classical music...

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only usa could produce such a thing !

sounds like some old Game Boy...yuck :erk:

How old is the Great Kat now? I don't think she'll fit in those clothes any longer.

Penderecki (get either the Shining or Exorcist soundtracks, or the Threnody to victims of Hiroshima) and Ligenti (the bit in 2001: A Space Odyssey with the glowing lights + the OFC intro on Stillbirth Machine) are good.

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can't determine if she has nice tits or not...look so...

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tradeforall wrote:

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probably a frustrated lesbo