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Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 1,819 Location: dodging bullets
Posted: Sun 19/Oct/08 9:27am Post subject:
wachtourak wrote:
As per a reccomendation from E Dogg aaaages ago, I _finally_ got round to checking out the Rite Of Spring. Some of the most intense, unholy music I've ever heard. I heart the dissonance. I think I'll check out some Mahler and Shostakovich next, I hear their stuff is along the same lines?
The God Machine-One Last Laugh In a Place of Dying...(released 1994,Fiction records)
I rate that as pretty intense,dissonance music.
Joined: Sep 04, 2002 Posts: 21,503 Location: Riding the Entertainment Mastodon
Posted: Sun 19/Oct/08 10:56am Post subject:
wachtourak wrote:
As per a reccomendation from E Dogg aaaages ago, I _finally_ got round to checking out the Rite Of Spring. Some of the most intense, unholy music I've ever heard. I heart the dissonance. I think I'll check out some Mahler and Shostakovich next, I hear their stuff is along the same lines?
Not entirely. Mahler is a little more conventionally in the German romantic symphonic tradition, but its good stuff. Symphonies 2, 6, and 9 are my favourites. He takes a bit of getting used to, but there is so much going on in the music, especially contrapuntally.
Shostakovich can be very agressive. Symphony 5 is good, symphony 7 is worth it just for the first movement which is about as intense as classical gets.
Richard Strauss' operas Salome and Electra are also really dissonant and both really good, but don't know if you're up for opera.
Joined: Dec 09, 2002 Posts: 32,257 Location: Licking my wounds, in these forgotten tombs
Posted: Sun 19/Oct/08 11:03am Post subject:
Curses, I was misled about Mahler and Shostakovich then. Will still check them out. I was reading about Strauss on Wikipedia before and liked the sound of Salome, but yeah dunno about the Opera thing. Will give it a go though. I just downloaded Gorecki's Symphony 3 as well, as everyone seems to zzij over it, however reading up a bit I think his earlier stuff would be more my thing.
Joined: Jun 23, 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Mount Maunganui
Posted: Mon 20/Oct/08 9:30pm Post subject:
Shostakovich is gnikcuf awesome. I mainly like his string quartets and cello concertos; they're certainly some of the most intense music written for a cello that I've ever heard.
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