Need some Classical Music suggestions

[Subotan]

Most Wagner should suit your needs.

Takes a while to get going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edE...M&feature=fvsr <- my favorite

I can't listen to Wagner without the ghost of Nietzsche screaming in my ear that he's an idiot :[

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Shosty (Or, Shostakovich if you want to be accurate) is always good fun. The Festive Overture is particularly good, mainly for the stomping tuba solo at 1:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBGP9iv1qw

Gustav Holst is also another favourite, with the Suite in Eb being my favourite piece, again because of the Tuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehb6...eature=related
The suite is composed of three movements. You'll probably find the third the most interesting, which begins at 7:38

[Scienter]

I can't listen to Wagner without the ghost of Nietzsche screaming in my ear that he's an idiot :[

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Shosty (Or, Shostakovich if you want to be accurate) is always good fun. The Festive Overture is particularly good, mainly for the stomping tuba solo at 1:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBGP9iv1qw

Gustav Holst is also another favourite, with the Suite in Eb being my favourite piece, again because of the Tuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehb6...eature=related
The suite is composed of three movements. You'll probably find the third the most interesting, which begins at 7:38

Holst's Planets are aslo really fun. I like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

[Beskar]

Rachmaninov, Liszt, Brahms, Gershwin, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, Strauss, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Franck, Dukas and Bach

Have a big fun long listen, though you can easily get one of those packs with like 40 odd CD's of everything for around $30 or so, or used to have them.. I remember them advertised around 6 years ago...

[Aemilius Paulus]

Well as a change from my usual punk and hardcore music I have had a recent urge to listen to some classical music, mostly so I can relax whilst doing homework, etc. I have listened to some of it in the past and generally prefer the more fast-paced and militaristic pieces.

So yes, any recommendations?

Well, although Mozart is not my choice, here is his complete collection of 16 GB (yes, the torrent is actually legal due to the lack of copyright on his work).

I myself am more partial to Shostakovich (in accordance with the copyright law of 1973 which gives a 25 year period after the death of the author - Shosta died in '75) - and Beethoven but that is my personal preference. (both links are the full collections IIRC)

Links deleted by busybody mods, Lemur

[CountArach]

If I am not mistaken the musical scores themselves are public, but the recordings are not because they are the property of those who performed them. Not entirely sure though. Also linking to Torrent sites is prohibitted according to the site's rules, so you may want to remove those.

Thanks for the recommendations everyone, I have some listening to do.

EDIT: Oh and Lemur, I actually cringed at that...

[Lemur]

To clarify for CA and AP, there's nothing wrong with torrents per se; both Europa Barbarorum and Ubuntu are best grabbed as torrents.

That said, CA is correct, all of those recordings are probably in copyright, so I'm deleting the linkies, AP, and you should know better going forward. The musical scores are free of copyright, but the recordings of the performances are probably not.

EDIT: Oh and Lemur, I actually cringed at that...

And I am now officially obsessed with Beethoven on the banjo. Here's a more epic version of Ode to Joy.

[Aemilius Paulus]

To clarify for CA and AP, there's nothing wrong with torrents per se; both Europa Barbarorum and Ubuntu are best grabbed as torrents.

That said, CA is correct, all of those recordings are probably in copyright, so I'm deleting the linkies, AP, and you should know better going forward. The musical scores are free of copyright, but the recordings of the performances are probably not.

Good thing I asked before posting, or else I would have been in trouble

So if the music is uncopyrighted, does that not mean the recordings are free to distribute? Not sure about this, I will have to check the source of that music. If the Shostakovich music was recorded by the Russians, it is likely free to distribute. The rest I cannot answer for.

[Fragony]

I like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Yeah, especially Gnomus, so dreamy and sinister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYY6kT_0cxE

[spmetla]

In terms of militaristic pieces I think the following two should be alright for you: Radetzky Marsch and Preußens Gloria