Classical recommendations for a metal head?!
Question: I would like to broaden my horizons a bit. Can anyone recommend some classical for the noninitiated?
Answers: I would like to broaden my horizons a bit. Can anyone recommend some classical for the noninitiated?
Usally metal musicians take things from the classical and the romantic not really the baroque other than a couple Bach compositions. Well I'm not really into metal but I'm into progressive rock so I'll tell you what I like. Stravinsky is my favorite composer (Beethoven is there too and they are way to hard to compare). Stravinsky's music is intense but unlike Beethoven, Mozart and Bach it's not catchy. He wrote three Symphonies (actually he wrote others that resembled symphonies but they weren't as good), Symphony in three movments, Symphony in C, and Symphony of the Psalms (barely a symphony and my favorite work by him) and a Violin Concerto which is a great piece of muisc. He wrote three ballets and if you want to get into him listen to the Rite of Spring (but Firebird and Pestrucka both are great). Beethoven has various great works but if you're like me you like layers of music and that means orchestration. So Beethoven's Violin Concerto is the greatest Concerto ever written for any instrument and each of his Symphonys is better than the one before it (and yes I literally believe his Eigth is the second best, seventh the third and the Fifth and sixth are tied at fourth). If you like extreme musicianship try Liszt or Paganini. They are probaly the two best at their instrument who ever lived. Bach wrote extremely complex music but their's no intensity it's just perfectly structured and complex.
ride of the valkyrees is pretty cool
franz lidst is an excellent pianist.
i like alot of metal too. and hes really soothing sometimes.
My favorite bands are Disturbed and Mudvayne, but I also happen to like Beethoven.
old metallica, poison, ratt, whitesnake, pretty much any band from the 80's that had big hair and wore more makeup than most women
do you mean like
black sabbath,
ac/dc
megadeath
motorhead
iron maiden
metalica
Mussorgsky is a fine time, do you remember Emerson Lake & Palmer? get it on, dude. : }
EMI/Angel put out two CDs several (or more) years ago called "Heavy Classix" and, would you believe it "Heavy Classix Vol. 2"
http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Classix-Hect...
http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Classix-Vol-...
It's got everything you need to get yourself started
... I'm going to have to grab 'em from the bookshelf ... driving music for the morning commute. That's the ticket!
I'll recommend one from each period.
Baroque: J.S. Bach's "Passacaglia and Fugue in C-minor.
Classical: W.A. Mozart's "Symphony #40 in G-minor.
Romantic: going to recant: here's three -
(1) F. Liszt's tone poem: "Les Preludes"(The Lone Ranger intermission music)
(2) R. Wagner: "Tannhauser" Overture: even if one is not religious, this is a glorious piece of music.
(3) R. Strauss's tone poem: "Don Juan": one of the most heroic, exhilarating pieces of love music ever written; but with a horrifying, fatalistic last two minutes - will knock your socks off.
Enjoy,
Alberich
I would suggest starting off with familiar works. Even if your noninitiated, there are still works that you will be acquainted with, from movies or television. There are some great cd's for beginners that have nothing but 'classics from the movies' etc. If you try to bite off more than you can chew it might turn you off from classical in the future. So I wouldn't suggest any opera at first. But Beethoven's 5th (it has 4 awsome movents) would be great. Karl Orf's "O Fortuana" from "Carmina Burana" is also a song very popular with band geeks. (not all band geeks like classical music by the way). And have you ever heard all 3 movements to Rossini's Guilliame Tell (William Tell) Overature? (You'd know it from the theme to the 'Lone Ranger'). I personally was hooked on classical music by Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (A little Night Music)
Enjoy :)
I would advise anybody wanting to start enjoying classical music to start with MOZART and BEETHOVEN although which works you start with is a matter of uncertainty, but probably best to start with Beethoven's Piano Concertos, particularly the 5th or Emperor Concerto and Beethoven's 9th or Choral Symphony. In time you may well decide you need to go on to something more exciting and TCHAIKOVSKY or MAHLER may well give you more satisfaction. Initially you certainly need to keep clear of contemporary (20th Century music) which is rather more difficult for a newcomer to the world of classical music to come to grips with, For baroque period I would think VIVALDI or HANDEL may be easier to start with than JS BACH, perhaps Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Handel's Water Music.are easier for a newcomer than much of Bach.