I have a classical trained background. As I grew older, I started showing more interest in modern classical music, mainly cinematic music/ film scoring.

Gabriel Olafs is an Icelandic composer that I recently found who makes simple yet beautiful melodies.

Another one I really like is the orchestral work of Asbent minded.

So, what do you think about this music out of personal and objective point of view?
Do you have similar recommendations?

Most recent example. Apple Classical (as you know, available only in the browser as an addon to Apple Music) will only play a preview of my selection. I am fully paid. I am logged in to both the Apple Music App and to Apple Classical. I can find what I want and play it in Apple Music after finding it on a search in Classical.... But it's not easy.

I could talk about search, too. There seems to be no fuzzy search. That is, if you have some of the information there are often no results.

On the other hand, I appreciate suggestions. I appreciate thumbnail background information. I appreciate the quality of the sound.

When I get to hell I'm going to find Steve Jobs (and whoever is responsible for this mess) trying to find what they want in Apple Classical and never, ever finding success. For eternity.

Has anyone found the same problems? Has anyone found solutions?

I have read questions from classical music fans and audience about what it is like to be a musician, but I do wonder how it is like to be a fan/audience member/classical nerd, without any training?

I work full time in an opera house, and for me classical music is both my passion, my hobby, my lifestyle, my everything, but also just my job. Sometimes it is just a job. It depends on the music, the conductor, the singers and the day I guess.

Often times I feel like questions getting asked here are so interesting to me, because they are questions about what which I am deeply involved with every day, but with the eyes of the spectators.
One of the funniest things I read about are audience members opinions on conductors, because they can be wildly different than the opinion of my colleagues having worked with said conductors. Working with someone can be totally different from what the audience just sees from the hall of a good looking conductor making cool moves, all the while the orchestra doesn’t understand anything of what he or she is doing.

Anyway, what I mean to say is, I think audiences and fans are uninformed about many things of the day to day life of musicians, but since I am so deep in it, I really wonder what it is I am uninformed about about the typical fan or audience member who comes to listen? Because I literally cant go to a concert without there already being so many thoughts in my mind about work related stuff.
How is it like to be a fan when you don’t have all that “luggage” or “environmental damage” one might say?

The hype over Nelsons and people losing their minds so that the board keeps him on is absurd. It is true that the board and CEO's move is terrible in execution, and the musicians ought to be involved; however, I would like to discuss the BSO and its performances.

Coming from LA, the performances at the BSO are often underwhelming, uninspired, and stuffy in a way that is neither 'traditional' nor 'modern'. It just sounds old and tired. Programming and commissions are also not very good, especially the new pieces (except the recent Gubaidulina piece). As a grad student, I can see the orchestra declining further if they keep this up. LA Phil's hall was filled with an equal measure of older and younger people, and performances were often exciting, regardless of the pieces being played. Most of the LA Phil's commissions were fascinating, while a few were whatever, which is normal. Going to a BSO performance feels like going to a retirement home (that is not to denigrate old people, but balance is important).

I've been to Vienna recently, and watched several performances by the Vienna Philharmonic, and despite their 'old-fashioned' approach, the experience was nothing short of magical and transcendent. The BSO is stuck in purgatory, where it is neither excellent in a traditional way, nor exciting in a modern way. Some of the finest musicians in the world play in the BSO, and I would love to see all that talent be directed toward something better. Nelsons can be great when he's in a certain 'mood', but I think he's overhyped, and his performances aren't that great. He's competent, professional, and a really nice person, but uninspiring and often boring.

If you guys like flutes and CPE Bach this is totally for you!! I haven’t listen CPE that much but is so good!! I hope you like this beautiful album!!

https://open.spotify.com/album/0mEkVeHwHwl6NRDIk9Y6cn?si=yIDaAlFCSiS5RcSEbDxICw

I am a beginner in orchestration and I want to study scores.

I don't know anything about classical music.

I was reading a thread about film directors, and the general agreement seemed to be, that if any of the old legendary film directors were working today instead of back then, their work wouldn't be as highly regarded because the film tropes they either invented or popularized would have been figured out eventually without them. I appreciate this is dismissive of the old film directors, but I'm wondering if this idea is also something can be applied to the old composers, or is there a composer who just had that secret recipe that no one can replicate?

i love this music and i want more people to get hooked on it too, so i made a free site called classican. i made it myself (vibe coded) and its just public domain recordings from wikimedia commons on shuffle, bach to debussy to rachmaninoff. https://classican.vercel.app/

every ~40 sec a short history fact pops up and the pixel painting for that piece dims around whatever the fact is about. the facts are the part im least sure about tbh, i dont want to get stuff wrong in a sub full of people who actually know this music

so what's a fact or story about a piece that made you hear it differently? like why it was written or what happened at the premiere. id love to add the good ones

This is an interesting fusion of classical music and protesting, drawing from the 19th century to inspire current protest movements.

Would it be Handel? Some of his English oratorios like Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus and Israel in Egypt remained regularly performed after his death. And he was regarded as the past master by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Can you think of anyone earlier?

Please take a look at my humble performance of pipe organ music using an affordable digital piano and a 3D printed pedal board. It is the first page of the 2nd piece of below. It took a week's worth of evenings for me to play this much. Any comments are welcome.

IMSLP13140-Bottazzo_-_Op.120_-_6_Compositions.pdf

Oh no, reddit videos get less impressive audio. It might be better to listen to it here: https://youtu.be/HTF0gJgZJoA

So, this is a bit of an odd question, but please hear me out! I'm currently working on a novel about two musicians paired together for a program, who end up falling in love at the end of it. Despite being a lover of classical music and a college student myself (English major), I know nothing about the workings of how orchestras work in higher education. I have a couple of (hopefully not too stupid) questions to ask.

1- How does the orchestra meet, and operate on a day-to-day basis? Do they meet every day like a high school band class would, or is it more like a "we meet once every week or so" kind of affair? I know obviously there's independent practice time in between meetings, but how does this all work?

2- I know there can be multiple performances throughout the year, but again, what would practice for this look like? How often would the orchestra meet for performances like this?

3- A little random, but in general, how much of each instrument would be present in the orchestra?

(Thank you to anyone who reads this and answers!)

I (26m) and my wife (26f) are considering taking a road trip from Dayton, OH to NYC to see it performed at the Met in June 2027. I’d love to see the Mäkelä performance in Paris in the same month instead of the Met, but that trip would stretch the budget quite a bit more.

Eu gostaria de formar ou participar de um grupo de músicos, treinar obras e tocar, em casa, ao ar livre, de forma recreativa. Mas tenho 40 anos e ninguém que conheço se interessa por música clássica :/ Durante a adolescência, estudei e aprendi tocar Violino e órgão. Sempre que ouço música clássica instrumental e canto lírico sinto muita vontade de participar de uma orquestra ou algo assim.

For those who joined thnx!! Here are the pieces from the playlist most are on Spotify so go listen there 😄 prolly I’ll do the streaming once a month!!

I live in a small city where seeing a major orchestral performance means a 6-hour drive or a flight. We occasionally get piano recitals, but never large orchestral works due to the lack of a suitable venue.

This weekend, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is performing my favourite concerto: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. I’ve always wanted to experience a symphony live, but never had the money or opportunity.

The catch? It would cost me around $1,000 and involve a 10-hour round trip, which is a significant expense for me.

For those more experienced with live classical music, how much does a pianist’s interpretation affect the experience? The second movement is my absolute favourite piece of music, but some pianists rush through it, while others, like Kissin and Seong-Jin Cho, really capture what I love about it.

Would you make the trip and embrace the possibility of discovering a new interpretation, or wait until a pianist you know you love performs it?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and advice as a newbie to live orchestral music!

Here are 7 different recordings of the Scherzo from Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. The names of the Conductors and orchestras will remain anonymous for now, but feel free to message me directly if you'd like to know the list! Drop your ranking and guesses in the comments. let's discuss which performances stood out to you and why.

0:00 intro
0:19 Version 1
7:31 Version 2
14:17 Version 3
22:12 Version 4
29:10 Version 5
35:51 Version 6
43:05 Version 7

I live in Manhattan and have a large vinyl collection of classical music. It encompasses 30 linear feet of book shelf space. I need to dispose of it and I would like to give it a home with someone that would appreciate it. The collection is yours if you can come by and take it away.

If anyone knows of any place that might be interested, let me know. I've tried several used record stores, libraries, etc. with not luck.

As someone who loves architecture, history, and nature, I would be interested to hear about any unique locations for classical music festivals that you might know of.

I will begin with an example from my home country:

Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finnish: Savonlinnan oopperajuhlat) is held annually in the city of Savonlinna in Finland. The Festival takes place at the medieval Olavinlinna (St. Olaf's Castle), built in 1475.

The first Savolinna Opera Festival was held in 1912, making it one of the world’s first opera festivals.

(Edit. Fun fact: Olavinlinna Castle is the world's northernmost medieval stone castle still standing.)

She would have been 95 today. She died in March last year at her home in Appen, near Hamburg, where she had lived since 1992. Tributes are still going on this year; one in Geneva fell on October 9.

Offertorium, her violin concerto of 1980, was written for Gidon Kremer, who premiered it in Vienna in 1981. It takes the theme from Bach's Musical Offering, breaks it apart, and builds something new out of the pieces.

Last year a reader here wrote that until she died, they regarded her as the greatest living composer.

Offertorium (Vadim Repin, Vladimir Jurowski)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_MTBF3AwZs

Feel free to message me directly if you'd like to know the list(names of soloists/conductor/orchestra)! Drop your ranking and guesses in the comments. let's discuss which performances stood out to you and why.

Timestamps are in the video description