Recommend me some Romantic Composers

Hello all

Thanks to a few members of this site (namely juji, evan and nico) I've been branching out in my listening and trying new things.

I've found I really like Rimsky Korsakov, could anyone recommend some composers in a similar sort of vein?

Thanks, Mark

If you like Nikolai look into the other members of the New Russian School. Also try Mahler (neoromantic technically, but still amazing).

are you referring to the 'big 5'?

Thanks, I'll check out Mahler

The black eyed peas is good. They have lyrics and music from heaven!

The black eyed peas is good. They have lyrics and music from heaven!

:rolleyes:

Debussy's nice.. Try it.

The black eyed peas is good. They have lyrics and music from heaven!

:rolleyes:

My thoughts exactly

I've listened to a little Debussy, can't say it was really my thing tbh

You've probably listened to the wrong recordings, I'd recommend Michelangeli:

YouTube - Michelangeli plays Debussy

To enjoy Debussy to the max, you should try to envisage the scenes he paints with his music- Trust me, it works! - his music becomes infinitely more inspiring to me when I employ this method.

Try to search out some of the orchestral music as well, if you haven't already.

thanks for the links letehn, checking them out now

EDIT: i saw the pianist and thought it was another click from american psycho!

listened to the first one, found it quite horrible :rolleyes:

Gah! You suck :rolleyes:

downloading some brahms atm, looking forward to it

Got the first few mvts of symphony number one and enjoying so far

Well, you know my opinion on that ;) and the tens of composers I've mentioned :D :D I'll be looking forward to seeing how're you doing, though :rolleyes:

If you like what you hear of Brahms so far, start looking into his chamber music. I especially recommend his piano quintet and piano quartets.

If you like Brahms, you'll like Dvorak and Schumann too.

Also, if it's OK to go into the slightly obscure, listen to some Rheinberger.

are you referring to the 'big 5'?

Yes

Skrjabin Symhonies

Janacek Quartets

~Nico

Scribain is HAWT. (you spell it funny)

As are the Janacek quartets...

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Nice list, by the way!

Try listening to the symphonies of Bruckner's 4th,9th and Shostakovich 5th,9th and Prokofiev's 5th. Also Brahms' sonata's for solo instruments and piano, op.120 no.1 and no.2 for clarinet or viola, and two sontas for cello, and his string quartets. Also for late romantic, try Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, and his Pomp and Circumstance Marches.

thanks very much for all the recommendations people, loads of stuff to download and listen to (P2P, completely legal!)

Nico, thank's so much for that, I'll check out everything on there i haven't already.

Mark

listening to brahms, symphony number 3 and just looking for beethoven symphony no9 thanks all

Why don't we do it in the road-The Beatles

is that actually a beatles song?

or is it something completely innocent and my mind just jumped to conclusions?