Help me add some classical music to my playlist

[MEbenhoe]

I really like some of the classical music I've heard. It can be relaxing and a good change of pace at times. However I have no clue what is good to get. So far on my list are Beethoven's 5th Symphony, 9th symphony, and Flight of the Bumblebee, Pachelbel's Canon in D, and the William Tell Overture. Pretty weak list, so help me add to it.

[Shajen]

Wagner has some good stuff. Ride of the Valkyres and all that.

Uhm, the best place IMO to start is the "classical music's Greatest hits" stuff you see at like Barnes and Noble, or music stores. Seriously. You get a wide selection of music in various styles for pretty damned cheap.

GL with this.

[Allan]

The problem with these greatest hits compilations is that the performances usually suck meaning there's a good chance you actually won't enjoy what you're listening to.

Allan

[Shajen]

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The problem with these greatest hits compilations is that the performances usually suck meaning there's a good chance you actually won't enjoy what you're listening to.

Allan

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Eh, I was trying to give him a starting point is all. He said he wasn't sure what he liked and I used those to start my little collection off.

Anyway, your advise is more wise.

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[turnipmonster]

do you want symphonic music, or any classical?

some of my favorites
bach: the goldberg variations (get glenn gould's recording of this!)
bach: st matthew's passion
shostakovich: any of his string quartets
bartok: any of his string quartets

other composers: brahms, ravel, debussy, chopin (all have written spectacular works for solo piano)

both mozart and hadyn's string quartets are classic works (I'm writing a string quartet for my wedding, so I've beeen listening to a lot of them).

incidentally, the naxos label is really great for getting inexpensive classical cds.

[MEbenhoe]

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do you want symphonic music, or any classical?

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I prob lean more towards the symphonic, but I would say any would do.

[swede123]

Several good suggestions already. You can't really go wrong with Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. Someone also mentioned Debussy, who's made some of my favorite works: Claire de Lune, La Mer being two of them.

Classical guitar is pretty cool as well. Look for works by Vivaldi, Villa-Lobos, and Albeniz. It's often times not symphonic stuff, but I find it one of the most relaxing types of music.

Cheers,

Swede

[turnipmonster]

more classical guitar:

Fernando Sor, Franscisco Tarrega, Leo Brouwer. Brouwer is one of my favorite composers for guitar, very modern stuff.

--turnipmonster

[MEbenhoe]

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Classical guitar is pretty cool as well. Look for works by Vivaldi...


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Just downloaded the entire work of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, hope its good.

[sfer]

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bach: the goldberg variations (get glenn gould's recording of this!)
bach: st matthew's passion

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Great choices. I'm listening to Passion right now. Weird.