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Started getting back into classical music again recently after a spell of not listening to classical..

Current fave being Beethoven's moonlight sonata..
Anyone know any really good more ambient piece's of classical?

Like, not Mozart's 40th, but more chilled out, relaxed, the kind of thing you'd put on of a late evening??

I feel my evening classical ambient music collection is lacking..

Beethovens 9th is a cracker although it ramps up as it goes along. I like strings though, nothing brassy or blowey (for classical anyway).

There are another two artists....no....composers that slip my mind but I have the tapes somewhere, again it'll be violin concerto type stuff.

And although highly predictable, Vivaldi's 4 seasons is great. I really want to get to know Mozart, he thing he's the original Thom Yorke!

They actually did some brain scan type monitoring stuff on humans (I'm pretty sure it was babies but it might be a tad cruel to put a baby in an MRI.... ) anyway, of all the classical music played to them, Mozart had the most effect - as in Mozarts music stimulated more areas of the brain! Cool huh!

Holst

Mars FTW!!
Any of J S Bach's Well Tempered Klavier, 48 preludes and fugues, The well known one of course is No 8 in D minor, played on the organ. Fucking sends shivvers down the spine every time I have it on, if you get the full version the last part is inspired, actually sounds like progressive rock.

Handle's Concerto grosso is another favorite

J S Bach's my favorite, he never wrote a duff one

Rodrigo, if you like guitare stuff.

Actually Bandit mentioned Le quatro stagione and I have Nigel Kennedy's version which I prefer,
but if you want cheerful any Vivaldi, I don't think I ever heard a sad tune from him

Any of Tchykovski's Balet music, the whatzisnames and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet stand out.
Try listening to Classic FM for a bit

and theres me enjoying Black Eyed Peas new album
( just as a change from the nutty boys you understand )

I have 4 seasons in the car for traffic jams. Stick that on full twat, windows down and watch people smile.

Or better still we got stuck in traffic on a paddlin trip with some 40 something bell end in a soft top merc circa 1985ish with what i can only consider to be scally tunes blaring. So Vivaldi on full, windows down, start head banging, burn off down a slip road on the route to freedom. Nearly crashed at the round about throguh tears, perhaps you had to be there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B49N46I39Y

the best holst i think, this IS space travel! Though i haven't listend to the whole lot for a while

Also a few more comments on the matter, the only way to experience Vivaldi IMHO is the Takako Nishizaki version, there are other renditions but there shite.
My best bits of Vivaldi Four Seasons, in best first order;

1) L'estate part 3 (though it would be nothing without part 2!)
2) La Primevera part 3
3) L'inverno part 3

I've got to say though while i LOVE the structure and the story, i prefer winter the most, something about it that just = v_max when driving

while we are loosley on the subject, Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman doing Con te partiro, infact there is quite a few good Bocelli tracks between the junk. He is possibly one of my favourite fivers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Bocelli

You wanna try that full volume shit with the Bach piece I mentioned earlier.

It's, Toccata and fugue No 8 in D minor. I promise you won't be dissappointed/

Andrea Bocelli is my favorite Tenor. Just love his voice. It's how I hoped mine would have turned out.

I was a boy chorister, winner of several competitions and receiver of specialist training, my voice broke at 13 and at first I sounded very like Bocelli.
Then I got what the quacks called pharengitis, only it lasted 12 months, when it finally cleared, no voice. I was left with a fairly high range and a deep one, but nowt in between, Ho Hum

Philhod wrote: It's, Toccata and fugue No 8 in D minor. I promise you won't be dissappointed/

I'm very familiar with that! My mate John plays it on the organ at the Colston Hall every so often..

Some food for thought there, ta chaps, although I was kind of hoping to find some more obscure stuff, in so much as I'm well versed on the four seasons and most of the well known classical stuff.

Whilst I do listen to Classic FM now and then I tend to find they too play quite a lot of well knwon stuff, albeit with the odd snippet of glorious obscure shit..

Like, every now and then you'll hear a piece of music ina film, or in an advert or what have you, you have no idea what it is, but it's fucking great.

I feel the need to find some chilled classical stuff along those lines really, which I appreciate is difficult given the lack of "new" classical stuff around...er... if you see what I mean..

On a related but different tack, anyone know what the music is int he new 3008 pug ad?

Chris, don't be confusing your toccata's!!! The one that john tries to play on the organ, is Widor's Toccata, and not Bach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWSDbtwkrQ0

Now, if you bother to read the blurb, the kid playing this is 14, and is playing from memory. Appart from playing it too fast, I think he does a great job. This really is my favourite piece!

Other music that is worth listening to, is that of Karl Jenkins, vocalised by Miriam Stockley. It is contemporary music, with a classical feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkTfZ0gLUw

I've got the whole set, and it's fantastic!

Yeah I'm with you there John, The stuff Carl Jenkins wrote for The Word at War series was very special.

But not with the Widor: Bach's is so far away from anything else, it is part of that series of 48 but is even apart from that, if you know what I mean. A very special piece, ideal for driving fast.

Reasonably modern (1940's) is Paderewski's Legend of the glass mountain, used in the film Dangerous Moonlight. Also have a look at stravinski's stuff. Vaughan Williams and Elgar drop into this category too.

docchevron1472 wrote:

Philhod wrote: It's, Toccata and fugue No 8 in D minor. I promise you won't be dissappointed/

I'm very familiar with that! My mate John plays it on the organ at the Colston Hall every so often..

Some food for thought there, ta chaps, although I was kind of hoping to find some more obscure stuff, in so much as I'm well versed on the four seasons and most of the well known classical stuff.

Whilst I do listen to Classic FM now and then I tend to find they too play quite a lot of well knwon stuff, albeit with the odd snippet of glorious obscure shit..

Like, every now and then you'll hear a piece of music ina film, or in an advert or what have you, you have no idea what it is, but it's fucking great.

I feel the need to find some chilled classical stuff along those lines really, which I appreciate is difficult given the lack of "new" classical stuff around...er... if you see what I mean..

On a related but different tack, anyone know what the music is int he new 3008 pug ad?

If you want obscure classical chill then I'm your bod. I'll have a think.

One wonders if you want to create an ambient mood for a special evening...?

Got me thinking - perhaps you could deck out the bus interior with candles, get a proper table in there and some quiet music (and heating!) and have a dinner date in there... assuming you ain't put the seats back in yet...

Mark.

Ahh, thanks Mark, not for a "special" evening as such, but I do tend to listen to stuff from the relaxed end of the spectrum when I get home form work, and feel my clasical chilled section is sadly lacking, so any input greatly recieved!

Most of the seats are back in the bus, but the back seat is plenty big enough should the moment require it!!!

Oh, and thanks to Mat who came up trumps with Venus : Beautiful days as the music to the 3008 ad, alas he can't log on here from work anymore....

The Holy Bible is quite relaxing Doc!

There is an opera piece, quite predictable I think but the song is excuisite. Something with Delibes in the title. I have it somewhere and I'll dig it out.

Brahms and Mendleson were the two violin concerto type blokes I was on about - need to check which bits though

this thread makes me want to buy a decent direct drive turn table!

I chucked a Technics one about 10 years ago No vynil left

I still have a Technics tuner amp and double tape unit and CD player.
I've had them 17 years, used daily, never had a problem with it

OOOOOOh. just been in the back room, playing some Yes.

If you fancy something completely different Doc.....Go into you tube...punch in

The Remembering High the memory part 2 of 2

Watch the video and just listen, then follow it immediately with

The Ancient Giants under the Sun.

Let me know what you think

ps while your looking around yes stuff, see if you can find some bits of Steve Howe showing why he is the greatest guitar player of all and how he uses classical in his innovations of sound and style.