I'm a sucker for Toccata and Fugue in D minor. It was the first song I heard on my own CD with headphones, I walked into a performance in an old cathedral in Venice, and it's popped up here and there at interesting times in my life. Not normally into baroque stuff. But if I'm trying to study, something on the piano is nice. A little Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Mozart. Very different from each other but nice. Beethoven and Tchaikovsky made some real bangers, and Vivaldi is good to vibe to.
In the time it takes me to listen to one song, I get a dozen new songs to listen to. I am getting quickly overwhelmed.
I.suffer from anxiety. I feel so often overwhelmed. And this? Its the most overwhelmed I've felt in a long tiMe. But for once I don't feel like I'm drowning. Surrounded by the music you all are sending me, I feel buoyant I am floating on it, being upraised!!!!
I am trying to respond to everyone but I'm getting twenty responses
Per notification. And I couldn't be happier. I'm so grateful that so many of you saw this topic and decided to engage. I know that some of you might not hear anything back from me but please don't let that drag you down. What it really means is that there a lot.of people out there like you that have excellemt.taste in musoc. If I don't respond to you, feel free to take my idea and run with it. Keep the discourse alive!
Hey, I suffer from pretty bad anxiety as well. I would listen to music all day long at school just to keep myself going and finish the work. Too many people in too small of a place with too many voices that I couldn't process the words of someone talking directly at me. Was so stressful!
I'm glad this isn't necessarily a bad feeling of anxiety though, and I hope you enjoyed the songs I suggested!
Pretty much any song that is in a Minor key gives me goosebumps every time I listen to them!
I stopped checking in on this thread because it was getting overwhelming, but I am still checking it occasionally and I couldn't let this comment pass without notice.
Bruch: 1. Violinkonzert ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Hilary Hahn. I am basic though and like most of the famous german composers, especially when HIllary Hahn is performing a violin concerto
I have her performance of Dvorak's Violin Concerto and Sarasate's Carmen Suite with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony on CD. Hope she gets better, I can't imagine how awful a hand injury must be to a violinist.
In not even a blip on the classical radar so i have no authority to answer that, but for the purposes of this imgur thread, ill allow it. Maybe someone that knows better than me will feel compelled to weigh in, and i might learn more about classical music. This is a win/win for me!
I've been looking for this piece for years but I've never been able to adequately describe it well enough that even my musician friends could recognize it. Today, I found it and saved it. Thank you.
urbancashmere
In the Hall of the Mountain King or Bach's Tocatta and Fugue
cambriago13
Mars or Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Okfushhh
I just got the "entertaining" accolade. Not surprising.
DustinJL
It's a hard tie between Étude in A minor by Charles-Valentin Alkan https://youtu.be/MVGcjBB3UlM?si=lYZ981jAn2Nl70Nq
And Gnossienne 1 by Erik Satie https://youtu.be/PLFVGwGQcB0?si=7nebsDU1OmG68XkX
barfopedia
Clair de Lune
Shifuede
Properly Classical? Mozart's Symphony № 40 in G Minor (K. 550).
Symphonic from any period? Shostakovich's Symphony № 7 in C Major.
brendino87
Danse Macabre Op 40, R171
Okfushhh
Camille st saens. This was gonna be what i posted if anyone had asked. I love how bittersweet it is.
Beesareonthewhatnow
Piano sonata no. 14 (Moonlight sonata) - Ludwig van Beethoven
DancesWithHippos
I'm a sucker for Toccata and Fugue in D minor. It was the first song I heard on my own CD with headphones, I walked into a performance in an old cathedral in Venice, and it's popped up here and there at interesting times in my life. Not normally into baroque stuff. But if I'm trying to study, something on the piano is nice. A little Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Mozart. Very different from each other but nice. Beethoven and Tchaikovsky made some real bangers, and Vivaldi is good to vibe to.
XanNing
Ode to Joy
PlacentaEaters
I second this
uberAIDSwastakenwtf
Carnival of the Animals - Fossils (but I used to play it in high school so I’m biased). All of the movements are good tbh
Coca08
Bach's Goldberg Variations. BWV 988
Pfffftit
Beethovens fifth
Okfushhh
Any reason why?
Pfffftit
I saw Athur Fiedler and the Boston Pops perform it, and it was magnificent
Zetor
Vivaldi - Summer
servingmytimeinusersub
I prefer winter. But all the seasons are beautiful
IHaveAGuyForEverything
Winter for me as well.
Okfushhh
I am being inundated with excellent suggestions.
In the time it takes me to listen to one song, I get a dozen new songs to listen to. I am getting quickly overwhelmed.
I.suffer from anxiety. I feel so often overwhelmed. And this? Its the most overwhelmed I've felt in a long tiMe. But for once I don't feel like I'm drowning. Surrounded by the music you all are sending me, I feel buoyant I am floating on it, being upraised!!!!
I am trying to respond to everyone but I'm getting twenty responses
Okfushhh
Per notification. And I couldn't be happier. I'm so grateful that so many of you saw this topic and decided to engage. I know that some of you might not hear anything back from me but please don't let that drag you down. What it really means is that there a lot.of people out there like you that have excellemt.taste in musoc. If I don't respond to you, feel free to take my idea and run with it. Keep the discourse alive!
DustinJL
Hey, I suffer from pretty bad anxiety as well. I would listen to music all day long at school just to keep myself going and finish the work. Too many people in too small of a place with too many voices that I couldn't process the words of someone talking directly at me. Was so stressful!
I'm glad this isn't necessarily a bad feeling of anxiety though, and I hope you enjoyed the songs I suggested!
Pretty much any song that is in a Minor key gives me goosebumps every time I listen to them!
horseWnoname
mahler 2
Okfushhh
I stopped checking in on this thread because it was getting overwhelming, but I am still checking it occasionally and I couldn't let this comment pass without notice.
TheLuminousBanana
Holst: The planets (Mars for example)
DiaryOfAFatKid
Bruch: 1. Violinkonzert ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Hilary Hahn. I am basic though and like most of the famous german composers, especially when HIllary Hahn is performing a violin concerto
wqpsu
I have her performance of Dvorak's Violin Concerto and Sarasate's Carmen Suite with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony on CD. Hope she gets better, I can't imagine how awful a hand injury must be to a violinist.
https://youtu.be/LgGxunzbmxA
DiaryOfAFatKid
I didn't know she had a hand injury How unfortunate for her, hopefully she recovers quickly. If you're interested. I have playlist of her concertos. Her music got me through so many hours of data analytics. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1whkxlSyTXPCkFyU8Iw4rcD9ZZ57BWG&si=gqoLmBXTlqB0Dj-6
AlienJeffries81
is Rhapsody In Blue considered classical? Gershwin?
PowerPedant
It's certainly a classic. And up there with the greats.
Okfushhh
In not even a blip on the classical radar so i have no authority to answer that, but for the purposes of this imgur thread, ill allow it. Maybe someone that knows better than me will feel compelled to weigh in, and i might learn more about classical music. This is a win/win for me!
AllMei
Damn right it is.
I remember it as a kid, we'd call it the "fireworks song" since we thought the start sounded like fireworks
Quebeker
Sabotage by the beastie boys
Okfushhh
Thats not classical music....yet.
bolobass
Bathory - Necromancy https://youtu.be/YmwgeY7ydDs?si=xGcuo-7fdT4KMWjR
LariCheltsy
Darude - Sandstorm
Okfushhh
Motherf-
LariCheltsy
Okfushhh
I really wish this wasn't the most popular comment, but I thank you for engaging
LariCheltsy
It's all about the memes.
woodworkerf
That's a CLASSIC!
AllMei
3 gymnopedies, Satie
Okfushhh
Ummmm..... is this one on YouTube?
AllMei
https://youtu.be/wnacdOIoTBQ
Although, my favoriete version gnossienne is by Alena Cherny - check spotify
MaybeIllDisappear
I love Satie's gnossiennes very mysterious.
dronir
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 is high on my list too, especially the orchestral versions. E.g. https://youtu.be/uNi-_0kqpdE
Okfushhh
I've been looking for this piece for years but I've never been able to adequately describe it well enough that even my musician friends could recognize it. Today, I found it and saved it. Thank you.
dronir
I had that exact same experience with the very same piece.
belly42
Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
You might find this interesting. https://youtu.be/DjOQ69JjTRo
Some context around the performance if you are interested, I was blown away by it: https://youtu.be/6iB9zkEq4VA
belly42
Crikey, that was an astounding performance.
Okfushhh
I played that one in college!
The bad news.... those were my last favorite rehearsals. 😅
belly42
I admit, I don't think I've ever heard the original, just the Ravel orchestration.
jonhamsandwich11
Old post worth perusing /gallery/g1DLn
jonhamsandwich11
Personal faves
Bruchner’s 8th
Rachmaninov Isle of the dead
Wagner Sigmund’s funeral
Okfushhh
Don't tell imgur but one of my previous banned accounts had that post saved because Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2.
I used to do percussion work with competitive high school bamds, and we incorporated his work into a depiction of "Cinderella but zombies"
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
The 1812 Overture.
Okfushhh
Have you ever seen Farscape?
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
No, I haven't, unfortunately.
Okfushhh
Well fuck off, you're beneath me (that was a bluff I don't really mean that)
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
I really should watch it, so you are correct.
deviantlyfrivolous
adrummerdrummingdrums
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1czI4aHBmMHEwaHd0anZlbzlhYzYwejF2b28zZnBhc255eGhieHhvMyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/R0H0Y9ulnZXK8/200w.webp
ADMNtek
But only if it has an entire town worth of church bells and some proper cannons.
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
The very first time I heard it was when an army orchestra played it. They used real cannons.
LespritDeLescalier22
This. It’s completely underwhelming without those elements
Raventhief
Vivaldi.
Okfushhh
Thats an owuvre, not a piece.
Okfushhh
I know I misspelled oeuvre, but I'm typing one letter at a time on a tablet right now, gimme a break.
Raventhief
Oh, Vivaldi was a piece, alright.
Okfushhh
Oh you motherf-
IHaveAGuyForEverything
Arvo Part - Spiegel im Spiegel
Okfushhh
I'm not familiar with this one- can you link your favorite performance of it? YouTube or something?
IHaveAGuyForEverything
Hells yeah! https://youtu.be/TJ6Mzvh3XCc
Okfushhh
Pensive and patient. Simplistic. Good use of long notes combined with bass or treble notes to accentuate the melody.
Amd I'm only 5 minutes in
IHaveAGuyForEverything
There are shorter versions as well a decent version with Saxophone instead of a Viola.
Okfushhh
I wasn't looking for a shorter version. I just liked it enough I felt compelled to like it even before it was done.
horsetuna
Ugh. I wish I could find it. Even Reddit was no use.
Second choice would be Right of Spring.
PowerPedant
*Rite
horsetuna
Damn autocorrect
Okfushhh
Rite of spring! To quote Mr holland: "Tchaikovsky, now *that* was a break down in discipline!"
For those curious: the debut of this piece resulted in a riot worse than Woodstock 99
Okfushhh
"You wanna talk about about a breakdown in discipline? Tchaikovsky was the music of the Russian revolution!"
I remembered that quote without having to go back to the movie and I'm really proud of myself.
horsetuna
I'm told it wasn't the piece itself but it was just the place where things overboile from political tensions etc
Okfushhh
I was taught that oboes weren't supposed to have solos....lol