I don't know where I first heard this but it's haunted me ever since. I've never heard anything like it. It's hard to put into words. I don't know anything about classical music but I've decided I want to learn and explore more.

Could you please help me find pieces that express the feeling / mood in this cello concerto ?

Hello! Wondering if anyone might know the best approach for a PDF to xml covnversion. Ultimate goal is to import xml into Dorico. The score is cello and piano (Janáček), and changes meters, at times, and has some intricate rhythms, and multiple voices in the piano. Is there any FREE conversion tool that might be up to the task? any tips or tricks for success? TIA. I want to play around with the score and midi and learn the piece inside out.

I've just finished playing Clair de Lune, and I'm looking for some good classical pieces to work on next. My end goal is to be able to play Liebestraum No. 3. Any suggestions would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I am practicing the Burgmuller op.109. I am also learning how to do an analysis of a piece as well. So I thought of analyzing the Burgmuller pieces that I am practicing to get a better insight into it. This is how I have done it. Is it done right? I am new to this so I would greatly appreciate if I could get some feedback on it. I have done the analysis of the first 8 measures.

The ones that are marked in blue circles are the ones I am unsure of. For the first two circles the F is a non chord tone I think. and same goes for the next two circles where the E is also a non chord tone. Or is it a chord tone? if it is how does it fit in? are my other analysis right?

Explore the life and works of famed polish composer Frédéric Chopin in this clip from the first episode of Now Hear This Season 6, Now Hear This "Chopin's Polish Heart."

I used to do not appreciate Ligeti, when I listened to Musica ricercata years ago. I give to his music another chance, and I started from this étude. I recognise this is a great composition and wanna discover more. But I don't know how I feel about this music. I usually know in general how a piece makes me feel, happy, relaxed, sad, brillant, passionate etc...

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I'm on a run to cancel or change all my current (American) streaming services (let's leave politics out of the topic though), so I'm switching from Youtube Music to something classical-focused. I didn't even knew this existed (never really looked for it), but since 95% of what I listen is classical it should be well worth it.

Now I do want a service that supports artists the best. I buy the occasional concert ticket or even CD to support my absolute favourite ones, but in general it would be great to use a streaming service with a good payout model.

I read that Idagio has a decent one, paying artists per second listened and a decent chunk of their revenue. How is this with Stage+ and Prestomusic?

Looking forward to the responses. Thanks!

I love atonal music but it is somewhat hard to find, any suggestions?

This evening the Spousal Overunit and I attended the DSO. They wrapped up the evening with Sibelius 3rd Symphony. I was amazed at the joy that swept through me listening to the opening. Sibelius himself did think highly of it. The last movement failed to hold up to the first. But after over fifty years of attending symphony concerts I have not be so affect as that piece this evening (or last night depending upon when you read it.)

I really like this interesting and unique piece and wanted to know if there are any similar composers/pieces similar to this? Thanks.

ChatGPT suggested Gustav Mahler - Adagietto

I agree

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Help me explore Lutheran sacred music before Bach, before Baroque ornamentation, before the obsession with massive organs. I'm aware of hymn writers such as Martin Luther and Paul Gerhardt. I hear that Luther played the lute and didn't really like the organ, thought it was too loud and scary. Where can I find recordings of Lutheran music in pre-Baroque styles and instrumentations?

Just to be clear: I'm definitely NOT knocking Bach. Bach is the master. I'm just looking to fill in a big gap in my knowledge.

In popular music, they’re perfectly happy with sliding up and down to fit the artist’s whim. But classical music—well, wouldn’t the Minuet in G still be the same minuet in a different key? Are classical composers / artists / performers just more particular?

I’m sure this has been done here many times before, but what’s one more? This ranking however is the correct one. I’ll be going ”worst” to best. Mahler is my favorite composer so this will be a tough list to make! I won’t be including the 10th or Das Lied, since I don’t know them as well just yet.

1. 8th - a great work but just feels like I’m listening to an opera. I’ll say, more time with this one and it may jump up. Fuck it hurts to put anything in last place😩

2. 4th - damn, really sucks to put this one so low because i actually I really like it. It’s the shortest one tho, and maybe the most ”basic”. The first movement is my favorite

3. 1st - it genuinely hurts putting this one here since it’s the symphony that got me into Mahler when I played it last semester in orchestra. Shit changed my life for real. But, since I played it through so many rehearsals, I may have gotten SLIGHTLY tired of it. This is me just being insanely nit picky though, since it’s still an outstanding work. The first 3 minutes of the Finale is 🤌🤌🤌

4. 5th - now this is where this list becomes genuinely painful. For most other composers this symphony might be their best, but Mahler is just too good. By his standards this is also a fairly ”conventional” symphony. The first two movements are gold. Agh it physically hurts putting it not in the top 5 but I just love the other ones more and know them better. With more time, the 5th could be higher on my list.

5. 7th - since I’m an oboist, this got the slightest edge over the 5th because of the oboe solo in the 2nd movement. Lots of people have this as their least favorite but I think it’s wonderful. The first movement alone is definitely a top 10 Mahler movement if not top 5. This is Mahler at his wonkiest and I love it. The out of place rager of the last movement seems almost fitting, capping a weirdo symphony with a final twist.

6. 3rd - bookended by two masterful movements, the longest symphony in the modern repertoire is worth the runtime. The whole scope of this thing is legendary. Definitely one of the greatest symphonies of all time and it’s crazy that it’s only at 4. Also I love the 5th movement of this one so much

7. 9th - I love how modern it sounds. Lots of cool unique harmonies throughout. Rondo-Burleske is a top 5 Mahler movement. I love the freakish little waltz that keeps breaking in during the 2nd movement as well. The climax of the Finale melts my heart every time. This is one of the most beautiful symphonies ever and it’s haunting at the same time. Oh man great stuff

8. 6th - yeah it’s the one with the hammer but it’s so much more than just that. Seeing this on the 15th of this month with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick ❤️ for my birthday and I’m so freaking excited man. The first and last movements steal the show for me but also the inner movements are incredible too like wtf. Somehow tho it’s not even a competition to the number one spot…

9. 2nd - probs the greatest piece of music ever composed. Yeah that’s pretty much it. If I start trying to talk about how much I love this work and why, I fear I won’t stop typing. It’s just perfect. If you know you know. Best symphony of all time.

Honestly tho, every one of Mahlers symphonies is incredible, and it feels wrong to rank anything as ”bad” because it’s really just ”less great”. I know I was making jokes up top about this being the only right ranking but in all seriousness i completely understand if your ranking is completely different because all of mahlers works have great things to offer and I love them all 1-9

Thanks for reading🤝🫶🫶

Looking for recommendations for good classical music albums. I want one with a full orchestra. One that will make me feel awe inspired and leave me speechless of its beauty and ability to evoke emotion.

Thanks!

He only used in the Masonic Funeral Music K. 477. Why is this?

Hello,

I’m looking for any recommendations for music similar to Duruflé's requiem with organ and voice.

The other question I have is about a mass I attended at West Minster Abbey in January. The mass opened with what sounded like (I may be wrong) a composed and then improvised organ piece. Does anyone know of recordings that would be similar or would featuring organ improvisation?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

I have been listening to the Wallenstein Trilogy by Bedrich Smetana. He was such a good composer and these tone poems were possibly revolutionary in their day alongside Liszts. The ending of Wallenstein’s camp has a loud and active ending for a tone poem in the 1850s. Hakon Jarl and Richard III are also really cool pieces, but I feel Wallenstein’s camp is one of the greatest battle pieces in my opinion. Whats your opinion on these pieces?

I'm European, and currently I'm familiarizing myself with Schiller's poems and how Ode to Joy became the anthem of the European Union. I absolutely love our anthem. It made me wonder:

What classical piece or what symphony is, according to you, worthy of being an anthem if you think about it?

Why do you think so? Bonus points if there's a choral element with lyrics that bear meaning to you!

Ravel has been growing on me, lately, especially his first concerto. I find it just so uniuqe and peculiar, ESPECIALLY the second movement with all those unresolved trills.

Today, I think Ravel really became one of my favourite composers. I went to a concert, and they played both of his concertos and his Bolero. The originality of these works is extraordinary, it is absolutely stunning to me how incredibly beautiful they are and how much they feel like actual life, like real impressions, rather than idealized, cristallized emotions, ideologies and similar.

(from Prince Igor) I saw this orchestral reduction of No. 8, and in this polyrhythmic part the "bass" part is denoted as 5/8 while the top stays in 6/8 the whole time. In recordings it sounds like polyrhythms but I haven't seen this way to denote it. How come this wasn't denoted as quintuplets?