(western) classical music discussion

[Alex K]

So what's your favourite string quartets?

The MO you describe may be for you, I personally buy all music, apart from (live) Youtube videos, naturally.

[Phosphorescent Panties]

So what's your favourite string quartets?

The MO you describe may be for you, I personally buy all music, apart from (live) Youtube videos, naturally.

I do buy a lot of music. Usually directly from the artist, from bandcamp or record labels. I generally like to support more obscure artists, so bandcamp is probably my favorite place to buy from. I have also bought quite a bit of second hand music, because a lot of times the stuff I want is out of print. 

My favorite string quartets are hands down, Bela Bartok's string quartets.

[Alex K]

So what's your favourite string quartets?

The MO you describe may be for you, I personally buy all music, apart from (live) Youtube videos, naturally.

I do buy a lot of music. Usually directly from the artist, from bandcamp or record labels. I generally like to support more obscure artists, so bandcamp is probably my favorite place to buy from. I have also bought quite a bit of second hand music, because a lot of times the stuff I want is out of print. 

My favorite string quartets are hands down, Bela Bartok's string quartets.

Hardcore stuff
How about something more conventional?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDlGYj0y1Y

[Phosphorescent Panties]

I do buy a lot of music. Usually directly from the artist, from bandcamp or record labels. I generally like to support more obscure artists, so bandcamp is probably my favorite place to buy from. I have also bought quite a bit of second hand music, because a lot of times the stuff I want is out of print. 

My favorite string quartets are hands down, Bela Bartok's string quartets.

Hardcore stuff
How about something more conventional?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDlGYj0y1Y

Yes, I've listened to his complete string quartets. I listened to the whole thing all the way through just once or twice, actually. It's about 3 grooling hours of dense music, I found it particularly hard to sit through. I'd of course, be willing to do it again, because I'm a slut for intense works of art 

I've listened to multiple string quartets. Alfred Schnittke, Schoenberg. Ligeti, Beethoven's late string quartets, I have many more to listen to. I've always wanted to get into classical music, but have always been daunted by the prospect. I found that it's easiest to just download a ton of music and listen to everything. That's how I go about getting into new music.

[Alex K]

Hardcore stuff
How about something more conventional?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDlGYj0y1Y

Yes, I've listened to his complete string quartets. I listened to the whole thing all the way through just once or twice, actually. It's about 3 grooling hours of dense music, I found it particularly hard to sit through. I'd of course, be willing to do it again, because I'm a slut for intense works of art 

I've listened to multiple string quartets. Alfred Schnittke, Schoenberg. Ligeti, Beethoven's late string quartets, I have many more to listen to. I've always wanted to get into classical music, but have always been daunted by the prospect. I found that it's easiest to just download a ton of music and listen to everything. That's how I go about getting into new music.

It makes sense - how else are you going to get an overview over what exists and what you like. You don't have to like everything that's considered a "classic", and so it doesn't really make sense to stick just with the most well-known works. Most of Mozart's music does very little for me (with a few very notable exceptions), for example, and if all I had ever been exposed to was that, I would maybe never have gotten into classical music.

Talking about extreme works of art and string quartets.... I think I've posted it before here, but who cares

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZXjW_s...tml5=False

[Phosphorescent Panties]

Yes, I've listened to his complete string quartets. I listened to the whole thing all the way through just once or twice, actually. It's about 3 grooling hours of dense music, I found it particularly hard to sit through. I'd of course, be willing to do it again, because I'm a slut for intense works of art 

I've listened to multiple string quartets. Alfred Schnittke, Schoenberg. Ligeti, Beethoven's late string quartets, I have many more to listen to. I've always wanted to get into classical music, but have always been daunted by the prospect. I found that it's easiest to just download a ton of music and listen to everything. That's how I go about getting into new music.

It makes sense - how else are you going to get an overview over what exists and what you like. You don't have to like everything that's considered a "classic", and so it doesn't really make sense to stick just with the most well-known works. Most of Mozart's music does very little for me (with a few very notable exceptions), for example, and if all I had ever been exposed to was that, I would maybe never have gotten into classical music.

Talking about extreme works of art and string quartets.... I think I've posted it before here, but who cares

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZXjW_s...tml5=False

Wow, this is pretty cool. These performers are on the ball. I was trying to find the album this was on, maybe it's this? https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/..._quartet_/
I don't know if this is part of the late string quartets, because if they are then I already have a version which was recommended to me by an art dealer that I have been enjoying. He swears by the Emerson String quartet, and went on a schtick about how he's listened to beethoven's late string quartets thousands of times, which is what he studied most closely in college. He claims it boosts intelligence levels to listen to classical music and he would not be as successful as he is today if it weren't for Beethoven's late string quartets, and that pop rap music actually detriments your intelligence level. I'm incredulous about that, but I really like his theory. He's a cool guy. 

I'm guessing that song you linked is part of his art of fuge. I have a version of that I downloaded.

[Minimalist]

So what's your favourite string quartets?

Haydn.

[Alex K]

IIRC the Grosse Fuge was originally intended by Beethoven as the finale of one of his quartets, but his publisher talked him into publishing it as a separate piece and to write a less radical movement for the quartet.

[Alex K]

So what's your favourite string quartets?

Haydn.

*stands up and salutes*

[Alex K]

I'm guessing that song you linked is part of his art of fuge. I have a version of that I downloaded.

Art of fugue is Bach

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

I absolutely adore it and am currently raping the first counterpoint in order to get reacquainted with piano playing.
Beethoven himself was a big fan of Bach's fugues and said himself that he always played something from the well tempered clavier to clear his head before composing. In his fugue writing, be it the string piece above, the missa solemnis or the 9th, he surely drew extensively from what he learned from Bach.