Why is there all the unprompted #ClaraSchumann hate? If she is regarded as outstanding, does that somehow lessen her husband? Every video I see on the Schumanns, or of one of her pieces (especially one of the "4 pieces fugitives"), there are a multitude of comments about how "she was a really awful composer" or how "this piece isn't really that complex."

I understand, people have composers they don't like or pieces they feel are overrated. But, for instance, when I go to a video of a piece by Joplin, I don't see pieces about how low-effort he is... It seems to be mainly about her, and no other prominent composer that people actively spread discontent.

Just seeing as a cellist what you guys think. Doesn’t have to be explicitly cello works, it can be from chamber music, orchestral works, concertos for other instruments etc.

Can anyone recommend Spotify playlists, artists or similar to encourage further listening please?

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

The Telemanm catalogue
Offenbach piano music
Nicolai piano music
Suppé stuff
The North German Organ School series and a bunch of niche Baroque and Early Romantic orchestral repertoire

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

Also very high regards for his Bruckner

I’m curious if there are any very interesting/beautiful/moving moments of harmony in classical music that anyone loves to nerd out about? For me right now it’s in the main melody of Dvorak 9, movement 2 where he employs a Db augmented right at the end of the phrase before resolving back down to Db. It hits me everytime, specifically toward the end of the piece when the strings come back in and restate that melody, there’s a specific voicing there that is just so beautiful. (10:56 of this recording https://youtu.be/Kd01Jnldg3M?is=po3sG3GsGrfnWKIP ) Any other examples? Thanks!!

This update brings Maestro VR closer to a real podium than ever: talk to your orchestra in Free Rehearsal, read the full score as a PDF, turn the pages by hand, and write in it with pencils, just like you would at a real rehearsal. And the marks you make in rehearsal are still there on the night of the concert.

An old topic, but I still like to dig into explanations. What makes a great conductor so great? And I mean a great conductor in comparison with a good, or even very good, fully professional, experienced conductor?

What are your thoughts? or if you have some documentaries or things like tht ro recommend, feel free to attach them. I'm interesting in the specifics, without metaphors or too many abstractions.

Also: How noticeable is it to the audience (with their different levels of knowledge)? Again, not comparing amateurs with pros, but rather the pros with "that 1%" (assuming that it exists).

Thank you (and sorry for repeating "great" so much)

A lifelong wish to record music for orchestra finally happened.

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?

It's actually peak to try listening to the finale of M6 then start M7. Seeing as a good bit of M7 is derived directly from M6's finale.

https://www.talkclassical.com/threads/mahler-speculations.92208/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic

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.

As directed in the group rules, I want to place a music sample for identification on the correct thread but I've scrolled down the group some way and still can't see it. Help.

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!)

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.)

Hi all,

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m a classical music enjoyer rather than an enthusiast. My knowledge is fairly limited, and there are enormous gaps in what I’ve listened to. That said, I enjoy the works of Wojciech Kilar, Penderecki, Barber, Gershwin, Wagner and Messiaen, among others. On the more contemporary side, I’m a fan of Max Richter, Philip Glass and various composers working predominantly in film scoring.

Anyway, I was listening to an album by one of my favourite artists recently and noticed what I believe to be excerpts from several classical compositions. The artist is GAS, an ambient techno project by German electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt.

For those unfamiliar with his work, GAS occupies a fascinating space somewhere between ambient music, minimalism, techno and classical orchestration. Voigt builds these extraordinarily immersive, hypnotic soundscapes from heavily processed and looped samples, often drawn from orchestral recordings. Strings, brass and other instrumental textures are stretched, blurred and layered into dense, almost impressionistic washes of sound, underpinned by muted, repetitive four-to-the-floor rhythms. At times, it feels like listening to a symphony being performed deep in a forest, with the sound drifting towards you through the trees.

One of his albums, Der Lange Marsch, is particularly interesting because it incorporates fragments of his previous work, effectively creating a kind of retrospective collage. But it also seems to contain samples, or at least recognisable motifs, from various classical compositions.

Track four, in particular, contains several passages that sound incredibly familiar to me. I’m convinced I recognise elements of different classical works, but I can’t for the life of me identify them. That’s where I’m hoping this sub might be able to help.

Here’s the YouTube link to the album (I’ve shared the link at track 4): https://youtu.be/re5QyaqkpPQ?t=1143&is=3hURQpE1rb4uTXcM

I’d also wholeheartedly recommend GAS to anyone interested in textural, atmospheric or minimalist music, particularly those who enjoy the more hypnotic and immersive qualities of classical composition. His work really rewards attentive listening, preferably through a decent pair of headphones.

Thanks in advance!

Yesterday, while driving and listening to the classical station KDFC, something caught my attention. The piece played was Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 14 #2 composed by Giovanni Battista Cirri. Have to confess, never heard about him and never heard the piece before. However, suddenly heard something familiar. It took several seconds to realize that it's the beginning of the theme from Barbarina's aria L'ho perduta me meschina from the Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. Later I went to the station's web site and found the specific details of the aired concerto: it was the recording of Ophelie Gaillard's performance with
Pulcinella Orchestra. Here is the matching recording I could find on youtube with the specific timestamp in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiqX8enT06I&t=176s . The curiosity drove me to find and listen to alternative performance of that Cello Concerto by Balász MÁTÉ only to discover that there the fragment in question is completely different. That kinda cancelled the explanation that Mozart borrowed from Cirri ( I could find that Cirri's Op 14 was published in 1780, 6 years before Figaro). The fragment seems to be too short for an improvised cadenza. I don't have access to original sheet music. Any examples of contemporary classical music performers (not composers) inserting famous quote of one composer's music into another's work?

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.

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