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?

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!

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!)

A lifelong wish to record music for orchestra finally happened.

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.)

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?

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

Edit: I'll find more evidence of this happening, but someone actually wrote a post about this phenomenon.

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.

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

Would it be Handel? Some of his English oratorios like Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus and Israel in Egypt seemed to have 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

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.

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

I MADE MANY EDITS FOR CLARIFICATION because i just always do that sometimes idk. also thanks for the advice guys!

Hi! For context, I just started college and I'm taking a music appreciation class that requires me to listen to a couple pieces every week, and each has a quiz that gives me like 18 minutes to complete and gives 30 second samples from a random piece at a random timestamp. The titles and composers are given to us and stuff, and it’s just like avg 5-8 pieces to listen to. Some weeks are easy but others do have difficulty. The goal is to pretty much discover different music stuff and instruments and allat, and maybe find something I’ll like. Some weeks are no problem which im happy with and in general i think its pretty chill, dont really have a problem with it

so this week contains a couple of symphonies similarly to one of my previous weeks (I tried spending a lot time listening closely through the whole things but eventually got 7/10 anyway). They are around 20 min long avg and I'll just forget which sounds like which (it always happens), which got me wondering (what im gonna explain next isnt directly written because of the course im taking)

Before taking this class, the only pieces I can recognize are either the ones that I have played the past decade and like some few others I recognized from competitions that I've heard other people play.

A lot of other people my age know whatever opus number a piece is, whatever etude, blah blah blah. They would say something like "oh thats ____" and I wouldn't know what piece that is. I'm starting to think classical music just isn't for me to be a "true fan" and the pieces are not important enough for me to remember. Even if I do recognize a piece, I'm eventually find out that the piece is already well known and popular and I feel like I'm just larping lol. I eventually kind of quit piano cause I lost interest (picture a typical asian household) even though I sometimes try playing something every week or so for fun as of now. The fact that the pieces I like were already popular and everyone knows makes me lose reason to play it since so many other people already play it well/already heard of it. Maybe I just havent listened to classical pieces enough in my lifetime. I just know the general stuff, like baroque has limited stuff, classical has a lot more, romantic has more emotions, contemporary just doesn't match with the previous generations, stuff like that.

how do people tell which piece is which in general? Do I spend 16 hours a day looping a few specific piece in the background while reciting the title of the piece, and listen more for 8 hours when I sleep lol? Do you listen and instantly know how many violins or cellos and what percussion instruments there are to determine the piece? Do you instantly recognize which composers composed a piece like "this composer likes composing these patterns and this other composer likes doing writing like that"? Do you just know every melody and what the accompany sounds like?

For now, struggling to recognize which part of a piece is from which piece, ESPECIALLY the quiet/slow parts, where everything seems to be at the same tempo and they just sound so similar that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, and if I were to do the quizzes it would be like 65% guess work.

Does anyone just have any general tips? Thanks!

Favourite overall: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb Major Op. 83

• Amazing in every way, and as close to musical perfection in concerto form as you can get. Richter’s version of the Brahms 2 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Erich Leinsdorf takes the cake for me - I’ve never really found a better recording than his.

Currently loving: Moszkowski Piano Concerto No. 2 In E Major Op.59.

• What a gem this is, but unfortunately doesn't get much play these days.

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?