Turned onto Classical/Piano music due to KS?

[newnar]

I've always been a fan of modern classical and instrumental piano.

[gRaViJa]

Shameless self promotion, but i'm making an indie rpg and my composer (there even are 2 in our team ^^) is an amazing classical pianist and musician. He's the leader of the Kyoto student orchestra and started working for a japanese game company last year, as a composer.Talented man, really.

Example of the OST:

recording of him playing live piano in Tokyo:

[Bigbishounen]

Come to think of it, I'm not even sure if any of the composers I listen to most are Classical. I think they're all Baroque or Romantic... I'm partial, however, to Mozart, Beethoven, Bach....

When we started talking about Baroque composers I was wondering when someone would mention Bach...

<MUSIC NERD JOKE INCOMING>

Do you know why Bach is considered a Baroque composer?

Because he had seven kids!

If YOU had seven kids, You'd be BAROQUE too!

*rimshot*

<END MUSIC NERD JOKE>

Sorry, I had to find a way to squeeze that one in.

[newnar]

Anyone here listens to Rob Dougan's instrumentals?

[Mysterious Stranger]

As someone who listens to classical music almost exclusively, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, and Satie are probably my absolute favorite pianist composers. Liszt is also quite excellent, but I feel he sometimes gets overplayed a bit.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 would rank extremely high if I were to someday construct an exhaustive list of my favorite individual pieces.

Beyond piano specifically, though, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Bach, Vivaldi, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Brahms, Handel, and Schubert are all utterly brilliant. Those are just a handful of favorites off the top of my head, obviously, plenty of other magnificent composers to explore out there.

[FstrthnU]

If I may, could I ask for some help in looking for composers with a similar style to this group?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQgcfrISbk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUoVEkAt6aE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTB3X31HKAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCeAmR0BJpE

The group is a Touhou arrange group known as Kitsune's Workshop/Foxfactory. I LOVE their style, I'd like to find more classical composers who make similar music

[BadMrFrostii]

My person favorite composer, and his best song .

Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor

[metalangel]

Vanessa Mae isn't bad... either as a violinist or to look at

She fuses modern elements (especially techno) with classical pieces. She's also an accomplished classical violinist but the fusion pieces are often excellent in their own right.

Her most famous recording, 'Storm'
Her rendition of Toccate and Fugue

[newnar]

If I may, could I ask for some help in looking for composers with a similar style to this group?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQgcfrISbk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUoVEkAt6aE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTB3X31HKAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCeAmR0BJpE

The group is a Touhou arrange group known as Kitsune's Workshop/Foxfactory. I LOVE their style, I'd like to find more classical composers who make similar music

These are absolutely EPIC!

[Brasse]

Anything by Tchaikovsky, but my favourites are:

Slavonic March
Waltz of the Flowers
Coffee (Arabic Dance)

Additionally, there's:

Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 1: I. Waltz
Shostakovich - Sonata for Violoncello and Piano D Minor, op.40, II - Allegro
Robert W. Frost - The Divine Comedy - Inferno

Edit: Semi-related, kinda.

[Wakagana]

If I may, could I ask for some help in looking for composers with a similar style to this group?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQgcfrISbk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUoVEkAt6aE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTB3X31HKAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCeAmR0BJpE

The group is a Touhou arrange group known as Kitsune's Workshop/Foxfactory. I LOVE their style, I'd like to find more classical composers who make similar music

Oh my god...My ears are....Ngnhf..so good..... -wiggles around on the floor foaming at the mouth- So great. Thank you for showing these!

[Wakagana]

^^ This is a close friend of mine, He does a lot of different tracks and this one sort've fit the qualification of what this thread was about, so I figured I'd show you guys one of my personal favorites of his work. Its very relaxing, Imo.

Also, one of my favorites is this! Should definitely check the rest of this guys covers out vvv

- Bloody Tears - Castlevania - Played by Rey187

[SephkaBlight]

Philip Glass - Solo Piano is one of my favorite works

It's really simply but so beautiful and melancholic

[Tempester]

I've been a classical geek for long before I played KS. I like Romantic music like that of Mahler, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms the most, but I also have a soft spot for Classical period music from Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart. Recently I've been loving Dvorak's Symphony From the New World for its spectacular arrangement of addicting and colorful melodies and themes.

The first minute of Romance in Andante II from KS immediately reminded me of the gorgeous 3rd movement from Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2. Perhaps it was a source of inspiration for NicolArmarfi.

Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement 1
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement 2
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement 3
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement 4

Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Decent piece, but it's small time next to this.

[harlequin]

Well I study music at university, so obviously classical music is the biggest part of my life. Violin is my weapon of choice, but I'm also okay at piano. I can know out a few chopin etudes and rachmaninoff predules.

Late romantic music is what I generally favour, and often from russian composers. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Brahms and Mahler are a few of my favorites.

If you want some recommendations I'd say, Rachmaninoff's piano concertos, Symphonic Dances and Piano preludes. Mahlers 8th symphony. Actually, all of them are fantastic but I'm not so keen on his middle period even though they reveal an incredible maturing of style. Tchaikovsky violin concerto. There's really so much Tchaik to listen to but the violin concerto has to be heard. The first piano concerto is also incredible.

Also the Bruch Violin concerto in g minor is a personal fav. A staple of my repetoir as well.
If you're after something 20th century then Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring is one of my all time favorite pieces of music.

In terms of English composers, Vaughan Williams and Elgar. Delius I despise. I've never been too much of a fan of French composers. Ravel and Debussy may sound pretty but they're all so focused on texture rather than any solid development of themes or tonality, and it's all a bit wishy washy Imo.

Somone mentioned Rob Dougan instrumentals but his most famous track just samples the theme from Elgar's enigma variations.

Also people tend to mistake music played with what they consider classical instruments to be classical music. This isn't the case.