I think this may very well be my favorite. Such an amazing composition:

gonna gay out here, but i've shed more tears to this track than any other.

Wagner appreciation here, cool. recently I heard nothing but Anton Bruckner's work. I really love his symphony #9 which is actually unfinished, although still one of his longest symphonies. It's only 3 parts, while all his other symphonies are 4 parts.
Bruckner's symphonies show a certain influence of Wagner. I shared some if someone's interested.

Sort of Wagner-esque, I suppose:
Carmina Burana - O Fortuna

I love the bombast and surreal sense of drama.

for a glimpse of an insight. it's fucking brilliant.

Who is the conductor here? Is that Bernstein? He kinda kicks all kinds of ass. I love the leap that he takes at about 3:05.

I have some stuff i like, but do not really know names...

ill say Carmina Burana is the most well known piece i love...

yeah it's Bernstein. Great conductor indeed, although he put way more effort in interpreting Mahler. For Bruckner there are a couple of stronger interpreters, like Günter Wand (Kölner Radio-Sinfonieorchester) for the whole circle and Giulini (Wiener Philharmoniker) for the ninth in particular.

One of the most enjoyable evenings of music that I ever spent, was watching the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (kind of like the CSO's minor league team) play an "open rehearsal" of a Bartok piece with Pierre Boulez conducting.
I have never been a huge fan of most modern classical, finding it too hard to grasp on to any themes in a lot of it. But, this performance was incredible. Boulez took the orchestra through isolated movements, section by section, and pointed out to the audience the devices the composer used and how certain parts of the arrangement interacted with each other.
Totally amazing. Gave me a new appreciation for the composer. (Although I still have a hard time listening to him.)

Great. This kind of analysis helps a lot, not only with 20th century stuff. I use to read the sheet music along with my bandmate while we listen to a piece. It's not even necessary to read it note by note, but you get a much better overview about the structure and the motives.

Robert Schumann~ Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Opus 97, also known as the Rhenish Symphony". My favorite version is by the Royal Philharmonic, Ricardo Muti conducting, probably because it was the first one I ever heard. This Bernstein turn on it is nice as well. He rarely failed to leave a mark on whatever he conducted- sometimes a good thing, sometimes not, although I am way far from being very knowledgeable on classical music.

probably berlioz's symphonie fantastique

i have a lot of classical music is people want something

not old enough

for what? for listening to good music?

Since I first heard as a kid this one always sucks me in.

I listen most to early music and Mahler is probably my favorite composer (Third, Fourth, Das Lied, Ninth), and third movement Beethoven's Seventh is the single greatest passage of movement...and while there's nothing wrong with Bruckner (Ninth, good call) and Smetana etc.... you guys need to be dragged into modern serious music.

Especially around 3:40:

Ahhh. The conversation that dumb white college dudes (or bleeding heart homosexual Hispanics) take too seriously...
I want to rub my spit into your sticky wet scalps.
Bunch of ticks.
Give me some thing
Something that doesn't make you sound like an echo of everything regarding classical music.

Put... the ... crack...pipe.... down.....

A perfect melding of the mysterious and meditative Early Music I love and the avant garde of last century (20th) composition... this is music for Jerkass to come down and call the rehab counselor:

these two are in my repertoire






learning this one

I'm not so much into Chopin but the Beethoven's Sonata #14 is really great. Kind of a good reason to play piano.

Big Bach Set
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Bach-Set/dp/B ... 453&sr=1-1

He's far down my classical composer list but this Vanguard set is still a good deal at 99 CENTS (120 tracks), as a result of Bach's birthday on March 21.

This is what I think Angels might sound like... Amazing tone and variety from their voices.

fact: I was a classical musician for 15 years, I've played in about 20 different orchestras.

My favorite to play: Mendelssohn...he wrote great parts for bass, they were fast and actually required me to practice