European country with the best music?

[Sikeliot]

What do you think?

[Hess]

Classic or Contemporary?

It depends on the type- Germans have the best marches, Iberians have the best dances, the USSR had the best hymns, etc.

Overall, I personally enjoy German music the most,

[Sikeliot]

In general. :)

[SilverKnight]

UK - in general there (alt) Rock is great

[Sicilianu101]

Greece has the best music. A lot of their modern music has preserved old elements of traditional Greek music. It's usually upbeat; the instrumentation (both percussion and bouzouki, etc.) is soulful and complex.
I feel that while a lot of Sicilian music (including traditional music) has borrowed heavily from Western European music (Germano-Celtic) Greek music has preserved its East Med musical identity for the most part and also absorbed other influences which complement it.
I'm going to be crucified for saying this, but I think the best music in Northern/Central/Western Europe (I'm not including Iberia in this) was made by Romani people.. :lol:
Iberia also has a great musical tradition, especially the south, and Romani did make a contribution to this, though unlike other parts of "Western Europe" I think the natives made a lot of great music.

[Logan]

Ireland

[SwordoftheVistula]

Britain, both for their rock bands of the 70s & 80s and the techno music of the 90s & early 2000s

[Frederick]

Germany started to suck in modern times I think.
In the 18th and 19th century, one spoke of "German hegemony in music".
And it was said "from all kind of arts, music is the most German one".

An American magazine made a list of the 100 most important componistsof the last 1000 years and there had been 7 guys from German speaking countries in the top 10. ;)

But where are the German superstars of the last 50 years?
Did every German who possessed musicmaker DNA die in the war?

Did all the survivors migrate to the USA?

[Lasituacion]

England obviously

[Neanderthal]

Hard one, between Norway and Sweden i'd say. Love Black/Extreme Metal <3

[boogeyman]

Punk and metal started in UK so its easy choice.

[Aces High]

England.....then the US,its not really open to question.

[Treffie]

Without wanting to sound biased, but the UK is dominant in quality popular music in Europe. Not only does it travel well throughout Europe, but also the rest of the world. Few countries can match Britain's originality, except for the US.

[Zankapfel]

For contemporary I have to say England, just for springing the likes of Bowie.

For classical, Germany. No personal bias.

[Laubach]

England, German and French. I love rock and classical music!!

[Wanderlust]

England

[Mordid]

UK

[Logan]

Ireland

Mine was a traditional or folk response. I'll keep to it.

Modern might be any of the English speaking ones.

[Laudanum]

Hard one. I'd say Norway, the United Kingdom and Germany are three really important countries when it comes to music. My favourite music is Norwegian music, though. I do really like many bands from the UK, but we're only allowed to vote for one country, so I voted for Norge.:)

[hajduk]

Romanian house and pop music is very good

[Comte Arnau]

Polls like these, with state-countries instead of areas, are a bit senseless because you can't simply compare, say, Montenegro with Germany or Russia. People are always going to vote for the big countries if only because a bigger demographic size produces more musicians and they are better known.


My order of preference when it comes to folk music:



* West Med (Catalan, Italian)
* Basco-Pyrenean
* Celto-Atlantic (British Isles, NW Iberia, Brittany)
* Russian
* Portuguese
* Balkan
* Southern Spanish
* Central European


For medieval and Baroque music, the whole South-West of Europe (centering in Occitania/Catalonia, with branches into inland Iberia, northern France/England and Tuscany).

When it comes to Classical music, Central Europe comes first (Germans, Austrians, Hungarians).

In pop-rock music, the British Isles come first by far, followed by pop-rock bands from a high diversity of countries from all Europe. For hard rock, Northern Europe. For ballads and singer-songwriters, Southern Europe. For choirs, Eastern Europe.

[Pallantides]

1. Norway
2. Sweden
3. Iceland
4. Finland

Best Folk music, best Alternative music and best Metal.

[Laudanum]

1. Norway
2. Sweden
3. Iceland
4. Finland

Best Folk music, best Alternative music and best Metal.

Yeah. They should've added Iceland to the list. Icelandic music is quite original.:)

[Lithium]

I like the French and Italian gothic/ambient scene, also Irish, Norwegian and Dutch folk/metal/symphonic music.

[Querubín]

Netherland. UK and germany have good music too.

Music is now evolving through electronic music, especially new age, and overcoat trance.

In trance music, Dutchs are clearly the best. Although my favorite is Slovenian.

[beaver]

Philadelphia orchestra:
Repertoire
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Jan. 26 - 27, 2012
Chaconne, from Partita No. 2 for solo violin
(arr. Stokowski)
Feb. 2 - 4, 2012
Orchestral Suite No. 3 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Barber Toccata festiva, for organ and orchestra Dec. 1 - 3, 2011
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Feb. 9 - 14, 2012
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Mar. 29 - 31, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 2 Apr. 12 - 14, 2012
Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus May 17 - 19, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 2 Oct. 21 and 25, 2011
Piano Concerto No. 3 Jan. 19 - 21, 2012
Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) Jan. 19 - 21, 2012
Symphony No. 4 Nov. 25 - 27, 2011
Symphony No. 5 Jan. 6 - 8, 2012
Symphony No. 7 Oct. 14 - 16, 2011
Symphony No. 8 Nov. 25 - 27, 2011
Violin Concerto Jan. 12 - 14, 2012
Bernstein Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront Mar. 8 - 10, 2012
Brahms A German Requiem Nov. 3 - 5, 2011
Symphony No. 1 Feb. 23 - 25, 2012
Symphony No. 3 Apr. 26 - 29, 2012
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Nov. 25 - 27, 2011
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 Season Repertoire PAGE 2
February 2011 – All programs and artists subject to change.
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 May 17 - 19, 2012
Copland Clarinet Concerto Dec. 1 - 3, 2011
Debussy La Mer Mar. 29 - 31, 2012
Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom
of Saint Sebastian
May 4 - 5, 2012
Dvorák Symphony No. 7 Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) Dec. 1 - 3, 2011
Elgar “Enigma” Variations Oct. 27, 2011
Oct. 28 - 29, 2011
Fauré Pavane Oct. 20 - 25, 2011
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue** Mar. 8 - 10, 2012
Handel Messiah Dec. 18, 2011
Higdon Concerto for Orchestra Dec. 8 - 11, 2011
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by
Carl Maria von Weber
Feb. 17 - 18, 2012
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 Oct. 20 and 22, 2011
Mahler Symphony No. 6 Jan. 26 - 27, 2012
Martin Concerto for Seven Winds, Percussion,
and String Orchestra
Feb. 9 - 14, 2012
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Apr. 12 - 14, 2012
Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”) Mar. 16 - 18, 2012
Violin Concerto Feb. 9 - 14, 2012
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 Season Repertoire PAGE 3
February 2011 – All programs and artists subject to change.
Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Overture to Idomeneo Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 25, K. 503 Feb. 23 - 25, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595 Mar. 15, 2012
Serenade in D major (“Serenata notturna”) Feb. 23 - 25, 2012
Symphony No. 31 (“Paris”) May 4 - 5, 2012
Symphony No. 38 (“Prague”) Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Symphony No. 40 Nov. 3 - 5, 2011
Palomo Andalusian Nocturnes, for guitar and
orchestra*
Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 (“Classical”) Oct. 14 - 16, 2011
Violin Concerto No. 1 Mar. 16 - 18, 2012
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Feb. 17 - 18, 2012
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, for
piano and orchestra
Dec. 8 - 11, 2011
Ravel Bolero Oct. 13, 2011;
Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Daphnis and Chloé (complete ballet) May 17 - 19, 2012
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture Apr. 20 - 21, 2012
Sheherazade Feb. 2 - 4, 2012
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and
orchestra
Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Rossini Overture to William Tell Mar. 16 - 18, 2012
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 May 4 - 5, 2012
Salonen Violin Concerto* Mar. 29 - 31, 2012
Schumann Cello Concerto Oct. 28 - 29, 2011
Symphony No. 3 (“Rhenish”) Apr. 26 - 29, 2012
Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy May 4 - 5, 2012
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 Season Repertoire PAGE 4
February 2011 – All programs and artists subject to change.
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Apr. 20 - 21, 2012
Symphony No. 7 (“Leningrad”) Nov. 17 - 19, 2011
Symphony No. 10 Oct. 20 - 25, 2011
Violin Concerto No. 1 Feb. 2 - 4, 2012
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Jan. 12 - 14, 2012
Violin Concerto Oct. 14 - 16, 2011
Stookey The Composer is Dead Apr. 14, 2012
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Feb. 17 - 18, 2012
Elektra (opera in concert)* May 10 - 12, 2012
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Oct. 28 - 29, 2011
Stravinsky Petrushka Apr. 12 - 14, 2012
Tchaikovsky Suite from Swan Lake Mar. 8 - 10, 2012
Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian”) Dec. 8 - 11, 2011
Symphony No. 4 Apr. 19, 2012
Apr. 20 - 21, 2012
Torke* Ash* Jan. 6 - 8, 2012
Turina Danzas fantásticas Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Walton Viola Concerto Jan. 6 - 8, 2012
Webern

[Birka]

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Cream, Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Wishbone Ash, Traffic, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, Humble Pie, The Moody Blues, Procol Harum, David Bowie, The Kinks, T Rex....are from where?

[beaver]

Slavs from them (here is an anthropoforum finally :) )

Philadelphia orchestra:
Repertoire
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Jan. 26 - 27, 2012
Chaconne, from Partita No. 2 for solo violin
(arr. Stokowski)
Feb. 2 - 4, 2012
Orchestral Suite No. 3 Nov. 10 - 12, 2011
Barber Toccata festiva, for organ and orchestra Dec. 1 - 3, 2011
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Feb. 9 - 14, 2012
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Mar. 29 - 31, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 2 Apr. 12 - 14, 2012
Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus May 17 - 19, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 2 Oct. 21 and 25, 2011
Piano Concerto No. 3 Jan. 19 - 21, 2012
Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) Jan. 19 - 21, 2012
Symphony No. 4 Nov. 25 - 27, 2011
Symphony No. 5 Jan. 6 - 8, 2012
Symphony No. 7 Oct. 14 - 16, 2011
Symphony No. 8 Nov. 25 - 27, 2011
Violin Concerto Jan. 12 - 14, 2012
Bernstein Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront Mar. 8 - 10, 2012
Brahms A German Requiem Nov. 3 - 5, 2011
Symphony No. 1 Feb. 23 - 25, 2012
Symphony No. 3 Apr. 26 - 29, 2012
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Nov. 25 - 27, 2011
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 Season Repertoire PAGE 2
February 2011 – All programs and artists subject to change.
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 May 17 - 19, 2012
Copland Clarinet Concerto Dec. 1 - 3, 2011
Debussy La Mer Mar. 29 - 31, 2012
Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom
of Saint Sebastian
May 4 - 5, 2012
Dvorák Symphony No. 7 Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) Dec. 1 - 3, 2011
Elgar “Enigma” Variations Oct. 27, 2011
Oct. 28 - 29, 2011
Fauré Pavane Oct. 20 - 25, 2011
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue** Mar. 8 - 10, 2012
Handel Messiah Dec. 18, 2011
Higdon Concerto for Orchestra Dec. 8 - 11, 2011
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by
Carl Maria von Weber
Feb. 17 - 18, 2012
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 Oct. 20 and 22, 2011
Mahler Symphony No. 6 Jan. 26 - 27, 2012
Martin Concerto for Seven Winds, Percussion,
and String Orchestra
Feb. 9 - 14, 2012
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Apr. 12 - 14, 2012
Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”) Mar. 16 - 18, 2012
Violin Concerto Feb. 9 - 14, 2012
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 Season Repertoire PAGE 3
February 2011 – All programs and artists subject to change.
Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Overture to Idomeneo Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 25, K. 503 Feb. 23 - 25, 2012
Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595 Mar. 15, 2012
Serenade in D major (“Serenata notturna”) Feb. 23 - 25, 2012
Symphony No. 31 (“Paris”) May 4 - 5, 2012
Symphony No. 38 (“Prague”) Mar. 22 - 24, 2012
Symphony No. 40 Nov. 3 - 5, 2011
Palomo Andalusian Nocturnes, for guitar and
orchestra*
Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 (“Classical”) Oct. 14 - 16, 2011
Violin Concerto No. 1 Mar. 16 - 18, 2012
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Feb. 17 - 18, 2012
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, for
piano and orchestra
Dec. 8 - 11, 2011
Ravel Bolero Oct. 13, 2011;
Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Daphnis and Chloé (complete ballet) May 17 - 19, 2012
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture Apr. 20 - 21, 2012
Sheherazade Feb. 2 - 4, 2012
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and
orchestra
Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Rossini Overture to William Tell Mar. 16 - 18, 2012
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 May 4 - 5, 2012
Salonen Violin Concerto* Mar. 29 - 31, 2012
Schumann Cello Concerto Oct. 28 - 29, 2011
Symphony No. 3 (“Rhenish”) Apr. 26 - 29, 2012
Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy May 4 - 5, 2012
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-12 Season Repertoire PAGE 4
February 2011 – All programs and artists subject to change.
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Apr. 20 - 21, 2012
Symphony No. 7 (“Leningrad”) Nov. 17 - 19, 2011
Symphony No. 10 Oct. 20 - 25, 2011
Violin Concerto No. 1 Feb. 2 - 4, 2012
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Jan. 12 - 14, 2012
Violin Concerto Oct. 14 - 16, 2011
Stookey The Composer is Dead Apr. 14, 2012
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Feb. 17 - 18, 2012
Elektra (opera in concert)* May 10 - 12, 2012
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Oct. 28 - 29, 2011
Stravinsky Petrushka Apr. 12 - 14, 2012
Tchaikovsky Suite from Swan Lake Mar. 8 - 10, 2012
Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian”) Dec. 8 - 11, 2011
Symphony No. 4 Apr. 19, 2012
Apr. 20 - 21, 2012
Torke* Ash* Jan. 6 - 8, 2012
Turina Danzas fantásticas Mar. 1 - 3, 2012
Walton Viola Concerto Jan. 6 - 8, 2012
Webern

[Comte Arnau]

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Cream, Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Wishbone Ash, Traffic, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, Humble Pie, The Moody Blues, Procol Harum, David Bowie, The Kinks, T Rex....are from where?

Yes, but more than 1,000 years of European music can't be reduced to the last 40, specially when the origin of pop-rock music is partly alien to Europe. ;)

[Barbarossa]

Norway! I like first wave of Norwegian black metal! Burzum, Ildjarn, old Darkthrone, old Ulver, old Enslaved, old Mayhem, old Helheim, old Hades, old Borknagar, Strid, Gorgoroth, Taake, Windir just to many of them :D.

[Inese]

But where are the German superstars of the last 50 years?
Did every German who possessed musicmaker DNA die in the war?

Hans Zimmer! Perfect music and received many awards in many years --- Academy Award, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards....

Look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer

[Tony]

Italian of course, we've got tons of classical music and modern too, we just lack rock, if compared to England and USA, because the language hardly allowed itself to grt "musicated" (I mean translate words into music) in tune with a rock melody, while English for instance is full of short words so you can musicate basically anything you want to.

We had and still have (a little bit less since the golden age was the 60s-70s) a lot of cantautori (Singers-songwriters) who, had they've been born in UK/USA, would have became world top stars while instead today they are known only here and that's a pity I can't stand.

Once for all Lucio Dalla, thou I don't even know wether teens would think of him as "boring" :mad:

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[Rosenrot]

Hans Zimmer! Perfect music and received many awards in many years --- Academy Award, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards....

Look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer

Hans Zimmer is just awesome. He's one of the reasons for Pirates of the Caribbean being such an amazing tittle. His music really counts to create the movie's athmosphere! Davy Jone's and The Kraken's themes are classics for me.

[Heart of Oak]

It has to be the U.K.for the most part,closely followed by the U.S.A. I once made the mistake of watching the eurovision song contest or rather part of it,some of what I witnessed made me think of the dentist.

Mainland Europe dose in my opinion produce a lot of trash!!!

[Pallantides]

Currently it's Sweden!
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[Hurrem sultana]

UK and then Sweden

[Svarog]

UK for me.


It has to be the U.K.for the most part,closely followed by the U.S.A. I once made the mistake of watching the eurovision song contest or rather part of it,some of what I witnessed made me think of the dentist.

Mainland Europe dose in my opinion produce a lot of trash!!!

You can't possibly compare Eurovision with music lol.
Its a drag festival of everything that makes you puke.

[Drawing-slim]

Accidently i pressed ukraine:d


UK, by far the best in the world and usa.
Classical you got germans aurtrians some really good russians etc

Eurovision is an embarrasment to music.

Some noteworthy, norwagians lately have pruduce couple good bands i like, kings of convinience and royksopp
Also some good french songs i like including the dutch jacques brel
The king of Clasiccal guitar segiovia
And san remo festival i grew up watching but not in the past 15 years so i dont know whats going there anymore:p

This quick but i have a large collection of music.

[Heart of Oak]

UK for me.



You can't possibly compare Eurovision with music lol.
Its a drag festival of everything that makes you puke.

well I believe everything in main land Europe is a drag the sooner we part from the rest of it the better off the U.K. Will be.Lol

[Heart of Oak]

UK for me.



You can't possibly compare Eurovision with music lol.
Its a drag festival of everything that makes you puke.

well I believe everything in main land Europe is a drag the sooner we part from the rest of it the better off the U.K. Will be.Lol

[Aviane]

I have to say in my view The United kingdom I'm afraid, sorry.

They had some of the best stuff since from the late 70's all the way to the early 2000's.

[Guapo]

Greece or Turkey.

[LightInDarkness]

Germany hands down. Most of the music I listen to is German-industrial/Techno. The UK would be a close second for Big-beat/Classic rock/Electronic

[Vasconcelos]

Moldova

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[mymy]

France.

[Guapo]

Lithuania.

[poiuytrewq0987]

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[Guapo]

FYROMacedonia

[Richard]

Speakin of contemporary music:Uk rock stuff ,Italian movie soundtracks and some kraut rock bands like neu!.

[Black Sun Dimension]

U.K no doubt.

[Bakura]

Yugoslavia

[hajduk]

Yugoslavia

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[Magyar the Conqueror]

Hungary, no doubt about it.

[Olika]

Russia,Ukraine,Romania,Germany,Spain

[drgs]

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

[Permafrost]

Bosnia, especially the Bosniak neoclassical and romantic-era composers, music for the soul.

[Queen B]

Italy and UK.

[Highlands]

UK, by far.

[mikeyup]

UK has the best Pop music, obviously.

[Arch Hades]

Germany, not even close.

[Taiga Lake]

In metal England, Finland, Sweden, in other music Russia and other Eastern European countries.

[Imamudin]

Russia and Germany

[Mortimer]

Serbia and Greece, Serbia is not on the list so i vote for Greece.

[LouisFerdinand]

Austria