How to Listen to classical music
Thoughts and advice on how to listen to the music of the past in our futuristic and technologically busy era...
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Really great video in every aspect! Thank you. It's a shame KZread doesn't support channels like this one but I hope you keep doing your thing, I surely appreciate it!
@enjoyclassicalmusic6006
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, appreciated.
I appreciate how u talk about a right way to listen, passive listening of classic music rly pisses me off, thank u for ur job)
i call my abode the house of a thousand melodies: old disc and cylinder musical boxes, pre wwI player piano, roller organs, victrola phonograph for 78s and modern turntable for 33s. youtube provides rehearsal tracks for choir. i am officially crazy for analog.
It's very interesting the psychology of tastes, how our mind has to get used to new styles, of art for example, and then it can understand it and enjoy it
Great video, thanks!
@enjoyclassicalmusic6006
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
My major hurdle isn't that I have difficulty sitting and appreciating a classical piece. It's that I have a hard time selecting a recording I want to give my attention to. It's a problem of curation. Say I want to listen to Bruce Springsteen. I type his name into Spotify and I can listen to the exact recordings of his 1982 album Nebraska. Say instead I want to listen to a piece from Chopin, I type his name into Spotify and thousands of different recordings from hundreds of orchestras and conductors using different arrangements and recording equipment, and there's live or there's in studio... It's a boggling selection. For the lay person who just wants to jump in feet first, there's precious little direction. You may come across a song you like by Debussy or Bartok or Vivaldi, but have no idea if you're interested in other performances from the Orchestra you've listened to. I'm sure there must be trusted individuals in the field whose opinions are well-regarded and point the initiated in the direction of the best recordings and such... But that is incredibly opaque to the likes of the novice. I think the audience for classical music is much larger than people would assume. It just lacks a commonly accepted guided entry point. Something beginner friendly, clearly denoted, and even... Visually consistent.
@douglashorton1368
18 күн бұрын
I had the very same problem when I started listening to classical music. One thing I found that eliminated a lot of the distracting options was by looking at versions of pieces that were released by record labels I liked. It took a bit of trial and error, but once I narrowed things down to labels like Deutsche Grammophon or Decca I was able to consistently find recordings I liked by composers I wanted to try. Or you could try the same experiment with conductors or ensembles. I recently wanted to try out some Scriabin, so I looked for a Deutsche Grammophon recording and found one that I knew I would enjoy. I think the key is just to try stuff out and not be afraid of making a “mistake”.
Fantastic vid!
Great tips!
@enjoyclassicalmusic6006
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Different place than where I thought you were going to go, but cool.
Good video! Also you used Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto 1 which was the first concerto I was able to coherently follow along!
i love listening to it in ocncert halls and live and actively. of course i grew up playing the violin, was in the orchestra, played lots of great pieces, and also learned so many i did not get to play . i tis truly wonderful
Informative video. What's the title of the piece played at 4:40?
@enjoyclassicalmusic6006
2 жыл бұрын
It's the first movement of Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto
Dang, this is a great video... Hope KZread decides to share this 😐🙏
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I listened to the whole of beethoven's 9th at my 4th attempt only. Watched Figarro in some 5 chunks.
“2022 ADHD” - perfect!
that woman playing vivaldi on her viiolin at 4 minutes is holding her bow completely wrong. wtf
@bentoaican
Жыл бұрын
I'm not a violin player but i believe that is the baroque bow hold, or maybe sometimes players adjust their hold because of injuries; perhaps someone can clarify that.
@Johnadams20760
Жыл бұрын
@@bentoaican I base this on the fact I started playing violin ag age 4 and played all the way through college. including being in the University symphony orchestra as well as being at Interlochen. so i didn't come up with that out of nowhere ;)
@bentoaican
Жыл бұрын
@@Johnadams20760 so that isn't the baroque bow hold then?
@Johnadams20760
Жыл бұрын
@@bentoaican there is no musical time period way to hold a bow. I mean just look at the 4-5 other violn players. they are all holding the bow frog not almost 1/4 of the way into the bow. i played music from Rennasaicne all thew ay to modern and not I nor any other person i ever seen play it ever held it there.
@fyvewytches
8 ай бұрын
Who cares how holding it… in that small excerpt we can hear that she can play her instrument and play it well. She could be holding it between her teeth if she prefers. People like her, who think differently, makes things evolve rather than being told how to do something and never ask questions. Sheep and leaders…