Who spins some classical?

digitalkettle

swiller said:

im a sucker for villa lobos...

I'm fond of a lot of classical guitar stuff (only 'guitar' though: always a six-string bigot)...but I can't get Villa-Lobos. I just don't find him as lyrical as someone like Lauro (or other, less obvious, composers that John Williams and David Russell featured on their respective 'best of south america' albums of the 2000s).

Apart from players who do amazing interpretations of Bach, I think my favourite stuff is spanish, e.g. Tarrega, Rodrigo, Granados, Albeniz, Torroba, etc.

ICBM

barnstorm said:

The Four Seasons is the one thing I’ll go out of my way to hear new recordings of. Absolutely rips, and has stood the test of time better than any other piece of music for me. Outrageous achievement to write something that arguably still counts as pop music 300 years on.

The Four Seasons is absolute perfection, a work of outstanding genius. I had two or three more albums worth of Vivaldi's music though, and none of it was as good - but very similar, almost as if all the notes and phrases of TFS had been cut up into a random order and rejoined. I probably only scratched the surface, admittedly.

Sporky

I like Max Richter's version of The Four Seasons. 

Cranky

thecolourbox said:

Shameless bit of self promo here

Tabs?

barnstorm

Sporky said:

I like Max Richter's version of The Four Seasons. 

I still put that on from time to time, too. The version he released last year seemed superfluous to me, but insisting on re-recording the whole thing with all the players using gut strings is very online-guitar-forum, so I sort of respect it!

CHRISB50

barnstorm said:

Sporky said:

I like Max Richter's version of The Four Seasons. 

I still put that on from time to time, too. The version he released last year seemed superfluous to me, but insisting on re-recording the whole thing with all the players using gut strings is very online-guitar-forum, so I sort of respect it!

I love it too. I’ve just listened to it because of this thread. 

Spring 1 and Autumn 3 are favourites of mine. 

I have both versions. They do sound different, but it was quite OTT to redo it. 

Aside from Vivaldi, I quite like some contemporary stuff like Phillip Glass and Steve Reich. 

Classical guitar wise I really like Tarrega. 

I don’t have an acoustic anymore but loved playing Lagrima and Adelita. 

Contemporary classical guitar I really like Gerrard Cousins. He’s written some great stuff. 

CHRISB50

@thecolourbox really enjoyed listening to you. 

You’re very talented. 

thecolourbox

CHRISB50 said:

@thecolourbox really enjoyed listening to you. 

You’re very talented. 

Very kind, thank you. Like most things in life and in music, it's a lot of repetitive practice and loving what you're playing enough to go through that ordeal of obsession, I think. There are a couple of other pieces from that concert on my youtube as well if you wish to find them, they are shorter pieces so you'll get less of a numb backside from sitting there listening. Rachmaninov prelude and a light piece by Sinding (Norwegian romantic era composer)

roberty

digitalkettle said:

thecolourbox said:

I'm a classical pianist first and foremost...

Impresssive...most impressive...

What a coincidence, I am a classical penis

roberty

Cranky said:

thecolourbox said:

Shameless bit of self promo here

Tabs?

Musical notation is basically piano tab lol

Reverend

I like Thomas Tallis, John Taverner(the modern era one more that the Tudor one as not heard much of them), Wagner, Johann Johannson and load more

Grunfeld

Really into early Philip Glass at the moment:

Philip Glass, Music in 12 Parts (Part 1)

I came across this guitar arrangement of a later piece which is nice.  That polyrhythmic thing always catches my ear.

Philip Glass, Opening

axisus

My mum was really into classical, personally I just don't really like the sound of an orchestra much. I like some of the most famous pieces but I never choose to put stuff like that on. I know it's brilliant stuff, just not for me.

CHRISB50

Grunfeld said:

Really into early Philip Glass at the moment:

Philip Glass, Music in 12 Parts (Part 1)

I came across this guitar arrangement of a later piece which is nice.  That polyrhythmic thing always catches my ear.

Philip Glass, Opening

Philip Glass is great isn’t he. 

The classical guitarist I mentioned in my post, Gerard Cousins, is a massive Philip Glass fan. 

He’s done a whole album of guitar arrangements of Philip Glass pieces called Escape. 

Maybe worth checking it out. You might like it. 

CHRISB50

thecolourbox said:

CHRISB50 said:

@thecolourbox really enjoyed listening to you. 

You’re very talented. 

Very kind, thank you. Like most things in life and in music, it's a lot of repetitive practice and loving what you're playing enough to go through that ordeal of obsession, I think. There are a couple of other pieces from that concert on my youtube as well if you wish to find them, they are shorter pieces so you'll get less of a numb backside from sitting there listening. Rachmaninov prelude and a light piece by Sinding (Norwegian romantic era composer)

Thanks. 

I will definitely have a listen. 

Grunfeld

CHRISB50 said:

...Gerard Cousins....

Maybe worth checking it out. You might like it. 

Oh wow, he's good.  Thanks for the poke!

CHRISB50

Grunfeld said:

CHRISB50 said:

...Gerard Cousins....

Maybe worth checking it out. You might like it. 

Oh wow, he's good.  Thanks for the poke!

Pleased you like it. You’re welcome mate. 

Blueingreen

I'm quite a big classical music and maybe more particularly opera fan. My favourite period for classical is from Debussy to Shostakovich - once you get into the serialist stuff and beyond that into minimalism there's still lots of stuff that I really like but a lot of it leaves me cold.  Going back in time I also tend to prefer pre-Romantic stuff,  ie Baroque and Classical, but there are loads of  exceptions.  i will occasionally go the ballet if I'm interested enough in the score - I wouldn't go for the dance if I didn't think the music would be interesting.

I'm a big enough opera fan to have seen productions of most of the current repertoire, the more popular stuff up to half a dozen times - ie the more popular Verdis, Puccinis, the 4 big Mozarts, the best know Bellini, Bizet,Tchaikovsky. Massenet, Mussorgsky etc.  I've seen a fair sprinkling of modern stuff as well - Britten (the better known ones more than once), Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Bartok, Janacek, Humperdinck, etc etc.  I travelled twice in one year to see different productions of Debussy's rarely performed Pelleas et Melisande (in Paris and Edinburgh) and have also seen Szymanovsky's glorious Krol Roger in two different productions. The first of these, with Gergiev and the Mariinsky might be the best thing I've ever seen.  One problem I do have with opera is finding stuff I haven't seen about as often as I want to see it, because the same fairly small number of favourites tend to show up again and again.

Unlike other classical music I've never been hugely interested in recordings of opera or even videos, although I used to buy recordings and/or vidoes to prep for seeing something new.  it really has to be live performance.  But for me it's the most complete form of performative art/entertainment, call it what you will - I've come out of far more operas walking on air than classical/rock/jazz concerts, movies or anything else you can think of.

hollywoodrox

Mainly Baroque stuff  especially if it’s autumnal ,wintery or Christmassy 

digitalkettle

CHRISB50 said:

Grunfeld said:

CHRISB50 said:

...Gerard Cousins....

Maybe worth checking it out. You might like it. 

Oh wow, he's good.  Thanks for the poke!

Pleased you like it. You’re welcome mate. 

Here's a couple of newer classical guitar pieces:

Carlo Domeniconi's 'Koyunbaba' (played by Declan Zapala)


Roland Dyens' 'Saudade No.3' (played by Alexandra Whittingham)