Any classic classical?

My music collection is growing ever larger yet unfortunately I have neglected to add much classical. I can't think of much and I know there's loads that I like. Post any you can think of here please.

Screw Classical. Post-Minimalist and Baroque are respectively where it's at.

I like Chopin personally, cant say i know to much of other classic composers though.

Originally Posted by saxdude

I like Chopin personally, cant say i know to much of other classic composers though.

Chopin was Romantic, not Classical. And his piano études are generally awesome beyond comprehension.

Originally Posted by Ruire

Chopin was Romantic, not Classical. And his piano études are generally awesome beyond comprehension.

you're talking about the period of music called "classical".

I'm talking generally about art music 1000 AD to present.

Originally Posted by irelandeb

I'm talking generally about art music 1000 AD to present.

You could have said that.

Originally Posted by Ruire

You could have said that.

Well sorry I am a bit of a eejit as I'm sure you know!

his piano études are generally awesome beyond comprehension.

Indeed.

I have been into him lately

Apart from the obvious trio of Beethoven, Bach and Mozart (yes, in that order), I would suggest:

Bedřich Smetana (the symphonic cycle Ma Vlast - in particular: Vltava/The Moldau, and The Bartered Bride)
Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij (Rites of Spring, Petrushka, Firebird, etc, etc)
Sergei Prokofiev (Peter and the Wolf is a composition I particularly enjoy, seeing as I grew up listening to it. I'd also recommend Romeo and Juliet and Alexander Nevski)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eric Satie (his Gymnopedies 1-3 and Gnossiennes 1-7)
Camille Saint-Saëns (Danse Macabre)

I'm also a big listener of 20th century composers, namely:

Iannis Xenakis
Karl Heinz Stockhausen
John Cage
György Ligeti
Krzysztof Penderecki (his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima is particularly excellent)
Olivier Messiaen
Frank Zappa

Look into Haydn, he has a lot of cool stuff and is overlooked. Handel is also good.

Handel is also good.

Handel is the best.

Mussorgsky.

Baroque

Boring and emotionally dead. I've never found anything from that era that I like. I've found romanticism to be most to my liking.

Originally Posted by Trax

Handel is the best.

For sure.

Originally Posted by Timothy Leary

Boring and emotionally dead. I've never found anything from that era that I like. I've found romanticism to be most to my liking.

Hush, plebian. Baroque is the music of aristocrats.

For sure.

And that is instrumental, to me Handel is first and foremost a great dramatist and composer for voice.

Boring and emotionally dead.

Surely not.

Surely not.

Isn't that just a modern arrangement of some harpsichord piece that in original sounds nothing like that?

Boring and emotionally dead.

Meh.

Isn't that just a modern arrangement of some harpsichord piece that in original sounds nothing like that?

Pretty much, yes. Here's the harpsichord version.

Pretty much, yes. Here's the harpsichord version.

Oh, it sounds much more alike than I remembered.

Not quite sure why, been into this lately: