There's No Good Orchestral Music on The Radio

Run by 2 musicians: Violinist. Baroque/Romantic/Impressionist period enthusiast. so many radio stations call all orchestral & chamber music classical | Singer/guitarist with a classical background. Just here for the angsty sad classical music

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Gnossiennes no. 4

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String Quintet In E Flat, K.614 - II. Andante

By Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

Performed By Max Lesueur, Arpad Gérecz And The Grumiaux Trio

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When Für Elise is on drugs

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If you’ve been in orchestras, especially school program orchestras, there are some songs that are just notorious for being overplayed for the sake of ceremony, and to please your parents, who likely don’t have much of an orchestral background. A few of these pieces are ones like the first movement of Vivaldi’s “Spring” and variably, almost anything from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite during the christmas season. That sorta stuff. 

Pomp and Circumstance, which is used at nearly every graduation ceremony is one of these pieces. Now, musicians tend to get fucking sick and tired of playing the same song over and over again, both every year, and literally within the context of the grad ceremony. We’d have to play the section that’s famous repeatedly until all the students have taken their seats. 

My conductor in high school was also incredibly sick of having to play that god forsaken piece, and asked our principal one year if he could use a different one for variety’s sake, the principal said “No, it has to be Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar.” little did the guy know that there was more than one march called “Pomp and Circumstance”, that was yes, also composed by Edward Elgar.  

So just to be a dick, and because he was sick of the traditional Pomp and Circumstance, my conductor had the orchestra play “Pomp and Circumstance No. 4″ one year. The principal had no idea until the orchestra started playing on the day of graduation. He was so fucking pissed our conductor almost got fired. 

Talking to my conductor about it afterwards I asked if it was worth nearly getting the sack, he said “absolutely.”

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I hate when people think they can just waltz into my room when I’m obviously listening to music in 4/4. 

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Title: Pyramid Song

Composed by: Thom Yorke (Radiohead) 

Arr.: Christopher O'Riley

Performed by: Christopher O'Riley (Piano) Matt Haimovitz (Cello)

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this cracked me up bc my water pipes are noisy like this too

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Triple Concerto for plumbing, faucet, and violin.

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Tchaikovsky; he broke the glass, he chewed paper 

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Title: Danzon No. 2

Composed by: Arturo Márquez

Performed by: Gustavo Dudamel, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela

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Mozart - Adagio & Fugue in C Minor K. 546

I stumbled across this recording of one of my favourite mozart pieces today. My god, this performance is so shockingly perfect and what a quality recording! (the fugue starts at about 3:15 btw)

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Rebloging from self because Mozart

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This still gives me the chills holy shit.

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The articulation is ameowzyang, and I really love when violins are scored in mid-low range and it’s mic’d so you can really hear the bow digging into the string. I like Mozart well enough, but I really like Mozart when, like this, he reminds us of what good groundwork he laid for Beethoven to help develop into Romanticism. 

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Tartini - Violin Sonata in g minor, “the Devil’s Trill”

13 pieces for Halloween, no.11: This sonata is notorious for its unusual back story. In the composer’s own words, “One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the “Devil’s Trill”, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.” The idea of the devil as a talented violinist has been in the Western psyche for hundreds of years, a favorite trope of musicians and artists. Maybe it’s symbolic of doing whatever it takes to achieve fame and praise for one’s art? Or playing off the anxiety of how easy it could be to be tempted into selling one’s soul? The work was published after Tartini’s death, and has since been his most popular work.

Movements:

1. Larghetto affettuoso

2. Allegro moderato

3. Andante

4. Allegro assai - Andante - Allegro assai

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Title: 青猫のトルソ (Aoneko no Torso: A Blue Cat’s Torso)

Composed By: 坂本龍 (Ryuichi Sakamoto)

Performed By: 坂本龍 (Piano), Jaques Morelenbaum (Cello) Everton Nelson (Violin) 

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Title: Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op.81: 3. Capriccio

Composed by: Felix Mendelssohn

Performed by: Emerson String Quartet 

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Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14, H.48 : V. Songe D'une Nuit Du Sabbat ( Dream Of A Witches Sabbath ) - Larghetto ; Allegro 

By Composer Hector Berlioz

Performed By Conductor Louis De Froment And The Radio Luxembourg Symphony Orchestra  

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Scriabin - Sonata no. 9, “Black Mass”

13 pieces for Halloween, no.12: Scriabin’s synesthesia caused him to see color from different pitches. It’s hard to imagine how dark and murky his 6th sonata was for him to shutter from playing it. He found it so “dark” he wanted to “purge” it through the relatively “bright” 7th sonata which he called the White Mass. After hearing the bleakness of the 9th, people gave it the nickname “Black Mass” which Scriabin seemed to approve of. This work is stark and brittle, almost like old bones, and it makes me think of cultish rituals, festering bodies, it carries this sense of dread that never lets up. I picked this older performance by Vladimir Horowitz because the way he articulates the climax adds an extra layer of grotesque.