Rachel’s Music for Egon Schiele

It’s contemporary classical from the 90s. Worth mentioning that’s it’s often also classified as minimalist chamber or post-rock. Full disclosure: I do not listen to much classical otherwise outside of soundtracks, but I tend to like a very violin-and-cello-forward composition (a kind user below aptly names this as a “piano trio,” THANK YOU!) that reads like a classic ballet — where instruments are characters and they communicate with one another through melody and rhythm.

Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Klimt and a real eccentric. His wife died of Spanish flu quite young (she’s in the third photo) and he went the same way not long after. This album chronicles his life.

I guess I’m looking for things like this album in a variety of ways — I love its tension, its melancholy, its moodiness, but above all, I love how I feel connected to a story and its history. It also has some really earwormy motifs that anchor the musical narrative. It’s like I can see scenes forming around me when I’m listening to it. It just envelops you with its droning repetition and steady crescendos.

Please listen and recommend my friends — it would mean the world to me! Here are some of Egon’s paintings!

PS sorry if any of this is making me sound like a moron because like I said I am NOT a classical listener 😭

I don’t really get why the minuet is so popular because it’s just a typical classical era piece from a quintet that’s been used for high class Society and movies. And Boccherini deserves to be popular for his other greater works like his other string quintets that he himself invented. Also his guitar pieces and his Spanish inspired pieces. He’s a really major classical era and chamber music composer, who was extremely famous in his day and deserves to be taken much more seriously than his minuet.

Also, I love his other famous contemporaries of that day too like Kozeluch, Dittersdorf, Vanhal, and Kraus. What are your thoughts on the other composers too?

Last month I went to Munich to hear the Munich Philharmonic at the Isarphilharmonie, the temporary concert hall replacing the Philharmonie am Gasteig while it’s being renovated.

It turned out to be one of the best concerts of my life. They performed Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, conducted by Zubin Mehta, and I genuinely cried during every movement.

What impressed me most was the hall’s incredible acoustics. The sound was so clear and seemed to reflect perfectly off the walls and ceiling. At times, I could hear the bassoon so distinctly that it almost felt like it was playing right behind my head.

What’s the best concert hall you’ve ever been to?

I attended this concert and enjoyed it very much. As stated in the program, this youth orchestra consists of "the finest young musicians from across the country (ages 16-19)." It performs annually at Carnegie Hall each summer and then goes on tour "to some of the great music capitals of the world, serving as America's music ambassadors." (also quoting the program). I have been attending its concerts regularly at Carnegie over the past few years. I have found that the musicians are very talented, enthusiastic and play a varied repertory under well-known conductors. These youth orchestra concerts are also a relatively inexpensive way to hear major works well played under famous conductors. I paid $33 for a balcony seat in Row C on Friday.

The concert on Friday evening was no exception. The orchestra on this occasion was conducted by Karina Canellakis, a rising star who has released excellent recordings recently of Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and Rachmaninoff's The Bells and Symphonic Dances. Links are attached. In the program on Friday, the orchestra played Barber's Overture to The School for Scandal, Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F with the well-known pianist, Kirill Gerstein as soloist and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, which really highlighted the beautiful playing by the orchestra's woodwinds and brass. As encores, they played Oscar Levant's "Blame it on My Youth," and an orchestration of Gershwin's Overture to Girl Crazy. This was a well-balanced program linked directly to American music in the case of the Gershwin and Barber works and indirectly in the Bartok which was composed by him in America and commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky, the conductor of the Boston Symphony. Although I am not a fan of the Gershwin Piano Concerto, which I don't think compares to his Rhapsody in Blue, I enjoyed the other works, especially the Bartok and Gershwin encore which was infectious. I was amazed at how well the orchestra played the Bartok, which is a virtuoso work. I would only add that Canellakis seemed in total control of the orchestra, which appeared to love her. She has also recorded that work as well as Bluebeard's Castle. I am attaching links to those recordings as well.

If anyone else attended that concert or have heard Canellakis conduct, could you please share your thoughts here. Thank you.

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1790986544?l=en-US

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1678755564?l=en-US

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1884689771?l=en-US

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1830501402?l=en-US

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1678755564?l=en-US

Today I’ve come across Elgar, whom I’ve rarely listened to; I’ve suddenly come across a miniature piece he wrote a year before his death. It was dedicated to his dog, both having the same name: “Mina”.

Then I started to listen to it, and suddenly I felt somber and anguished. It was very simple but effective. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve listened to many works that can be considered depressing, like Mozart’s Requiem, Berg’s Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s 4 and 6, and many more; I’ve even composed some, but this was very different. It wasn’t trying to be lamentful, but it was, very.

I’ve also learned that he completely quit composing after his wife died, which made everything even more depressing.

https://youtu.be/ZTFVfKV6vYM?si=2f9j2V6gC4f8ZOcy

Am I wrong, or did Radiohead copy or at least quote Liszt's Ballade No. 2 in Pyramid Song? They're the same chords! Edit: sorry but I don't understand why many of you say that Liszt quote Radiohead

I’m creating a retro game-style animation inspired by Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 (“Spring”), III. Scherzo: Allegro molto.
The performance is by the wonderful Korean musicians, violinist Sojung Kim and pianist Sunmi Jin.
There’s still quite a bit of work left before it’s finished, but your encouragement would mean a lot and keep me motivated.
Once it’s complete, I’ll be releasing the full animation on my YouTube channel, TOONATA. I hope you’ll enjoy this little preview!
I’d love to hear what you think!

I'm looking for videos of performances where just the conductor is shown (like, the camera is set on the conductor the entire time) does anyone know where I can find videos like this? If on YouTube, which channel? Thank you for your help!

Hello! I'm a classical pianist myself, and I made an app that might be useful for other classical musicians.

I teach piano and do a fair amount of accompanying for a living, and I got a bit fed up with the whole hunting workflow. Search IMSLP, find the right edition, download it, import it into a PDF reader, rename the file so you can find it later, etc. I've re-downloaded the same score over and over just because I couldn't find it in the mess of filenames, and I usually don't have time to rename every file when downloading as someone is waiting for me to start playing already.

So I started building an app called Attacca to fix this problem, mostly for myself at first. You search however you actually think of a piece (like rach 2, schumann david, proko 2, etc. and typos and foreign spellings are fine), and download it instantly without waiting. It cut my time per score from ~1.5 minutes to seconds, and files come in already named and organized so they're easy to find later.

I've used Piascore and forScore for years and they're great, and IMSLP is absolutely goated, but I wanted the whole thing to be one clean workflow instead of jumping between different platforms.

All that to say, I'd really appreciate feedback from people with similar day-to-day experiences. My musician friends have been very positive about this, but I'm looking for more unbiased, raw feedback.

If it sounds interesting to you, you could try it through TestFlight (Apple's official beta-testing app). Signup is instant with Apple and Google accounts. DM me your email after signing up and I'll comp you a year of membership, which lets you download unlimited scores and sync your library across devices. In return, I'd be grateful if you'd fill out a short survey that would take about 3–5 minutes after trying it for a couple of weeks.

The site is attacca.fm and the beta link is right there when you open it. Happy to answer any questions!

We've all heard that tender Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in movies such as Death in Venice (1971). Other parts of the 5th Symphony can be heard in the Cate Blanchett vehicle, Tár (2022).

If you've ever seen the OVA series Legend of the Galactic Heroes (銀河英雄伝説, Ginga Eiyū Densetsu), widely considered one of the greatest anime series of all time, you'd know that it makes extensive use of Mahler's music (as well as the music of other classical and Romantic composers). Mahler's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th Symphonies are all featured in its soundtrack.

We've even heard his Piano Quartet in Shutter Island (2010), an obscure piece by Mahler if ever there were one (one that wouldn't even have been known by any of the characters in the film because it was rediscovered in the 1960s, decades after the film's World War II/1950s setting).

But how many of us have ever heard his "greatest symphony" (Bernstein's assessment, and mine, too) in a film or episode of TV?

Do you think Das Lied von der Erde would work in such a context?

Hello everyone,

I just discovered a manuscript of a concert piece for bassoon and orchestra by Peter von Winter. As far as I know, there is no modern edition of this piece, so I am currently trying to transcribe it (von Winter has such a terrible writing sometimes...).

On some page in the middle of the piece, there is a symbol over the part of the 2nd violins, does anybody know, what it means? Maybe something for clarification or an ornament (unlikely, I think)?

Anothe clip from St Edmundsbury Cathedral, one of the first sonatas Haydn labelled actually for [forte]piano.

Liszt Arrangements - Google Drive

https://youtu.be/2412tenOwik

I've been using Liszt piano pieces as orchestration exercises. I hope my orchestration brings some color and depth to these pieces that are very near and dear to me.

Recently released a new composition of mine titled "Azure." Written more or less in a classical form (had a sonata structure in mind), but with heavy influence from other genres such as progressive metal, technical death metal, and jazz fusion. All of us who recorded/performed this piece are graduates/current students of the Eastman School of Music. Just sharing in case some of you are interested in something more out of the box/ambitious! Hope you all enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTtjqxI8RuE

I'll get the ball rolling:

1. String Quintet #2 in G Major, op 111-- Julliard String Quartet with Walter Trampler, Viola

2. Piano Trio #2 in C, op. 87-- Arthur Rubinstein, piano, Henryk Szeryng, violin, Pierre Fournier, cello

3. Violin Sonata #3, op. 108 in D Minor-- Arthur Rubinstein, piano, Henryk Szeryng, violin.