Classical Music Thread

[Autobahn]

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[Eldritch]

The only time I hate Nietzsche is his claim the English have no music, fair enough this was composed long after he died but I doubt many can hear this and believe the claim.

Some English Baroque chamber music:

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[Psychonaut]

I've just about finished learning to play this song:

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[The Lawspeaker]

G. F Händel - Water Music

[Gamera]

Chopin is amazing, this song is simply too great to have been written by a human:

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And one of my favourite songs from Chopin, the Grande Polonaise Brillante, pure genius too:

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[Eldritch]

To my knowledge, the only composer to have produced even fierier keyboard sonatas than Scarlatti was his one-time student Carlos Seixas:

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[Eldritch]

Now for some very old music:

Michael Praetorius wrote Terpsichore in the early 17th Century, but it is based on music at least a century older.

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[Crossbow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8G...next=1&index=1

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[Eldritch]

Avantgarde or classical?

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[Goswinus]

Recently discovered, the British composer Granville Bantock, who was influenced by Wagner and Richard Strauss, whose orchestral works are program music with Oriental and Celtic themes.

Granville Bantock - Pagan Symphony (1/5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyS1U-8OOPQ