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I am far from an expert at classical music, but I really enjoy it from time to time. However, I feel like it is pretty hard to get more specific types and moods of classical music without knowing the exact authors or pieces, and since this kind of music has the worst naming system ever, I really need to catalog the cool songs and works I come accross so that I can come back to it more easily. This page is first and foremost for me, so that I can organise better the songs I find good.
Things might be a little empty/messy here at first, but it will change as I come back to it and add more stuff. Also please note that I have no pretention of being an expert on the matter, actually I would be very grateful for recommendations so please feel free to hmu if you have some.
This is the kind of classical music I just listen to when walking on the street, looking at people and buildings. It's also perfect for reading. I have this little game where I try to predict what the song will do next, and actually I often fail to do so, it's like dancing with a more elegant being, who moves with the highest grace while I try to follow it clumsily, I kina like it.
In no particular order, I love all of them. Maybe as I listen more to it I'll eventually find a favourite but as it stands right now, each song dances around my head with their own beauty. I can listen the whole thing without ever getting even a little bored with it. When I'm sad it makes me very melancolic, but I surprise myself trying to find the joy in the notes.
The man with an infamously long pinkie is, in my opinon, one of the best of all pianists. I find his work to be way more positive and happy than the one of Chopin, but it has a certain kind of complexity to it which gives it a very unique life. His music has always been there for me for when I needed to be productive, I owe many good grades to it. His work has many great songs, but the second movement of the one I linked is maybe the one part that marked me the most. The motives dance together so elegantly, it is so iconic to me.
Sometimes life requries more passion, more drama, to make life more alive. Opera is perfect for that. I am very lucky to have been introduced to opera IRL by someone who knows a lot about it. It is truly a shame that this kind of media is so hard to get into, because of how expansive it is, because it has so much potential and, in particular, I find that, as a media, it is very close to videogames. I wish to make a shrine to hold a whole rent about that, because I feel like there is so much potential.
This is such a classic for me, the main motif haunts me every day, it is so delicious. And wow, what a writing, so simple yet so effective, it cuts deep into me and plays with my heart strings. "La commedia è finita!!" makes all of my body hair rise. May your comedia be finita dear reader.
You can have it here with english subtitles but I like the other version more, even though they are almost identical.
A very powerful opera by my boy Tchaikovsky about Jeanne d'Arc, aka the GOAT. It goes as russian operas go, it will take you on an emotionnal roller coaster, it will stress you out, it will unfold horror before your eyes, and you will love it. Some passages are very very powerful and remind me beautifully that I am just a mere mortal.
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