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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/TraditionalWatch3233 on 2023-10-07 03:54:54.

I have now made a list of all the concertos that got more than 25 votes in the recent three questions about top 3 piano concertos, top 3 violin concertos and top 3 'other' concertos. These are:

1. Sibelius Violin Concerto - 208 votes

2. Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 - 184 votes

3. Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 - 179 votes

4. Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 - 122 votes

5. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 - 121 votes

6. Beethoven Violin Concerto - 113 votes

7. Brahms Violin Concerto - 94 votes

8. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 - 92 votes

9=) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 - 88 votes

9=) Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 - 88 votes

11. Mendelssohn Violin Concerto - 86 votes

12. Ravel Piano Concerto in G major - 81 votes

13. Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 - 80 Votes

14. Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto - 79 votes

15. Dvorak Cello Concerto - 73 votes

16. Berg Violin Concerto - 68 votes

17=) Elgar Cello Concerto - 64 votes

17=) Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 - 64 votes

19. Mozart Clarinet Concerto - 63 votes

20. Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 - 60 votes

21. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 - 56 votes

22. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 - 54 votes

23. Grieg Piano Concerto - 49 votes

24. Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 - 47 votes

25. Schumann Piano Concerto - 46 votes

26. Dvorak Violin Concerto - 42 votes

27. Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 - 40 votes

28. Moszkowski Piano Concerto No. 2 - 34 votes

29. Rautavaara Violin Concerto - 33 votes

30. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 - 31 votes

31=) Haydn Trumpet Concerto - 29 votes

31=) Korngold Violin Concerto - 29 votes

33. Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 - 28 votes

34. Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto - 26 votes

I have compiled a playlist on youtube. Please note I just took the first listed recording of each piece on youtube. Please let me know if you think other available recordings of a piece are better.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/magictransistor on 2023-10-06 23:57:39.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/DiorBlois on 2023-10-06 22:03:44.

I make Spotify playlists for a hobby. I just finished my 6th: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH!

It's over 167 hours (3,5 days) and has more than 3000 tracks ordered in BWV catalogue numbers.

This is the link:

These are the other FULL CHRONOLOGICAL playlists I made:

Beethoven:

Chopin:

Grieg:

Rachmaninov:

Scriabin:

Please share and enjoy! :)

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Sherlockyz on 2023-10-06 01:43:22.

Hey guys, so as a history nerd I really love learning about the history about people from field that I'm interested, so if you guys could recommend to me books and / or biographies about people who were important to the field that would be great!

Thanks in advance!

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Dash_Vinci on 2023-10-05 15:55:46.

some accounts suggest classical music is the greatest music of every era, that's why it has survived over centuries and that's why it's "classic", but it doesn't represent what classical music is, it's just defining the feature of classical music which is survivability and greatness, but I can't show someone Beethoven 5th and claim that's basically, classical music, because 11th century's Medieval vocal music is part of Classical music and 20th century Xenakis's abstract mathematical complicated music is also considered classical music which are just radically different, You can define other genres like Pop and Jazz, because they have basis to define them, but classical music evolved too far beyond, it just broke all rules, and it got to the point we started to questioning what music is, So, Do you have your own definition or definition you like, If you do, I would really want to know

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/1sixty on 2023-10-06 02:49:10.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/StarProfessional9566 on 2023-10-05 08:18:50.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/zumaro on 2023-10-05 16:00:37.

For me

1. Victoria: Officium Defunctorum (1605 version)
2. Josquin: Missa Pange lingua
3. Dufay: Missa L'Homme armé
4. Lassus: Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera
5. Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum

So many great works to choose from, and sorry mine are sticking to the well known. What are other people's favorites?

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Alternative_Case6452 on 2023-10-05 05:25:59.

Randomly stumbled across this guy's channel, he's absolutely amazing, but gets very little views.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Few_screwsloose0_0 on 2023-10-05 01:34:47.

I watched the movie "Pianist" (2002) and it was based on a real life event where a Jewish pianist called Wladyslaw Szpilman thought he was about to be executed by a german soldier, during World War 2. In the movie he played Chopin's Ballade No. 1 on a piano that was nearby. (But in real life Szpilman actually played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor.)

If you were in his position. And if you can't play any instrument, let's say you could magically gain the ability. Which piece would you perform knowing you are about to die? 🤔

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Whole_Value_1035 on 2023-10-04 22:05:16.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Few_screwsloose0_0 on 2023-10-04 20:33:09.

So I'm new to classical. Well...not really. I've been listening a bit my whole life, but only to short, extremely popular pieces. Like La Campanella, a bit of Chopin, Caprice No. 24, Fours Seasons etc.

But I'm new to the big-boy Classical, like symphonies and stuff. I really don't get it. They're so boring to me. The first time I heard Chopin's Ballade No. 1 I thought "Oh, God this is 9 MINUTES LONG?" (I usually listen to pop) but now I'm supposed to sit through 50+ minutes of a long symphony?

Like right now I'm trying to sit through Shostskovitch's 5th symphony. It's 55 minutes long and I kid you not I almost fell asleep. It's just so long, there's no really catchy, easy to understand melody like there is in pop music. It's so draining, and sometimes outright boring. The notes can be so long and drawn out, so I'm just wondering "What's the point of this?" I REALLY want to like Classical music, but man, is it hard.

The whole point of music for me is for it to be enjoyable the entire way through, I just don't understand why someone would deliberately write such a slow, long part. What's the point of making an uninterestig part on purpose?

Is this normal for newcomers? Were any of you like this at first? Will I get more appreciative of it if I just spend more time listening to it? Please help. 🙏

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/TraditionalWatch3233 on 2023-10-04 20:17:19.

I thought this might be an interesting follow up to similar questions for piano and violin. For me, Mozart Clarinet Concerto is #1, Elgar Cello Concerto #2 and #3 is a toss up between Nielsen’s Flute and Clarinet Concertos

Edit: Honourable mention for Fachwerk for bayan and orchestra by Sofia Gubaidulina, which is an amazing work to stand alongside her violin concertos.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/J7O3R7D2A5N7 on 2023-10-04 18:22:08.

It's ok to choose a band that isn't together anymore, let's say something in the last 50 years.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/WeirdPetrichor24 on 2023-10-04 07:59:53.

I'm not sure if this is allowed, but hypothetically, if you like classical music and are hanging out with someone who doesn't as much, that's something they could know about it that you would be impressed that they know?

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Certain_Suit_1905 on 2023-10-03 20:24:24.

I usually like something on the darker side overall. Love Beethoven's sonatas, something from Chopin, Funeral March is one of my favorite things I love it so much. Love surreal almost psychodelic stuff like music by Ives and Satie. Something harsh and wild and again dark like Stravinsky.

Classical isn't genre I listen to often, but time to time I just get this urge to listen to some intricate compositions that aren't based on vamps and kinda free.

Edit. Thanks to everyone who replied!

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Comfortable-Berry-34 on 2023-10-04 02:06:41.

I mean a peice that sends shivers down your whole body and maybe makes you feel like you want to cry. Idk why but I love this sort of music, it's almost comforting. Not sure if I have an absolute winner but I think it would be gorecki S3 Op36. Looking forward to hearing more suggestions :)

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/fugue-for-thought on 2023-10-03 18:58:00.

The favorites post made by u/24dinitrophenylhyd 12-ish hours ago reminded me of a very arbitrary but interesting 'best' list I saw many years ago. I don't believe it was on Reddit (I think it was on a classical music forum/message board), but if it was, it was many years ago.

So here's the rule: Nine symphonies, nine composers. Feel free to tack on a tenth or a 'best' symphony without a number. So, who has the 'best' symphony #....

Here's ONE version of my list, along with some alternatives. This could obviously be swapped around many ways (and now after making one draft, I've frustrated myself that I can't put Mahler, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Brahms in multiple (same) slots):

1. Brahms (full stop, although Mahler, and Shostakovich maybe)
2. Mahler (he could be so many of these, but this was the first Mahler symphony I fell for)
3. Robert Simpson (I just have to give the ninth to Beethoven but otherwise he'd come here, alternatively Mahler )
4. Bruckner (alternatively Brahms, Shostakovich, or less so Tchaikovsky)
5. Shostakovich (alternatively like everyone: Beethoven, Bruckner, Prokofiev, Sibelius, Mahler)
6. Myaskovsky (although Mahler really is the right answer here)
7. Sibelius (alternatively Bruckner, Pettersson, Shostakovich)
8. Schubert (alternatively Bruckner, Mahler. Picking Schubert's unfinished here feels a little unfair to the likes of these massive completed symphonies, but... they're spoken for)
9. Beethoven (alternatively Mahler, Bruckner, Schubert, and honestly more distantly trailing than most people's lists, Dvorak.)

Unnumbered: Symphonie Fantastique, no question.

Obviously this sort of leaves out the later, great works of Mozart and Haydn.

And again, it's completely arbitrary and just silly but also fun. I hope.

What's your list?

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/touchsonata on 2023-10-03 18:43:38.

I posted this magnificent passage from Prokofiev's concerto no. 2 on r/nextfuckinglevel with a clickbait title (sort of), because I really wanted to share it with the general population, wanted to break down the idea that classical music is "boring", and thought it would be funny to see their reaction to this colossus.

95% of commentators say that it sounds like shit and that it's just a cacophony. And I wondered: is classical and modern music necessarily an acquired taste? Why are certain pieces or styles of music more easily appreciated by others? And why is it that a piece that seems like a piece of nonsense to us, then sometimes becomes our favorite among all the others?

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/24dinitrophenylhyd on 2023-10-03 06:59:22.

If u had to choose 1 favourite symphony, what would it be? Looking for some recommendations to study and listen!!

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/UnderRep-Rep on 2023-10-03 12:18:05.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/UnderRep-Rep on 2023-10-03 12:22:37.

brams

I love Brahms. In fact I have a painting of him. I love Sympony No 1, both piano concertos, the violin concerto, and that elegant Violin Trio.

What are some of your favurite pieces?

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/24dinitrophenylhyd on 2023-10-03 06:59:22.

If u had to choose your top 3 favourite symphonies of all time, what would it be? Looking for some recommendations to study and listen to, espscially some of the underrated ones!!

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/toms_cruise on 2023-10-02 18:41:00.

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The original was posted on /r/classicalmusic by /u/Technical-Map-9150 on 2023-10-02 13:43:52.

I’m really interested to know thoughts and opinions :)

If you don’t listen to classical music as a young person, what would encourage you to?