Any like Neo-Classical you like to recomend?

[Loner]

I am Exploring Neo-Classiacal or Moderin Classiacal music and was wondering if any one could name people I should cheak out?

 

[stonetoflesh]

Here are a few: Stravinsky, Hindemith, Bartok, Prokofiev, Copland. That ought to keep you busy for a while...

 

[Snoofles]

as for modern, i would say john williams is one to consider. the pieces he's written for many of the movies are just beautifully done.

 

[kazzman]

For modern, even though they're movie scores, I'd suggest the Last Samuri, and Gladiator soundtracks by Hans Zimmer.

 

[Alcamo]

I found a group I really like but had never heard of before that I highly recommend. It’s a group called Libera. I recommend their self-titled CD (the yellow one – you’ll understand when you see it). The blue one (Luminosa) is also very nice, but I like the yellow one better. It’s a mixture of a children’s choir singing gregorian chant (among other things) with modern instruments. It’s difficult to describe really, but all my friends who’ve borrowed it from me love it. It’s mostly on the mellow side, but very nice.

For something more upbeat, Vanessa Mae’s CD “Storm” is awesome.

 

[Chrysalis]

I like the work of Ludivico Einaudi and Arvo Pärt.

 

[Ceridwen]

Profokiev, Gershwin, Copland.

 

[willard3]

Part was crazy. I really like his Tabula Rasa, though.

I personally dislike Gershwin; the only piece you ever hear is Rhapsody in Blue, and it's kind of annoying.

Try the soundtrack for The Rock; I LOVE that main theme.

 

[Luke34]

"Neoclassical" and "modern classical" have different meanings. Neoclassical refers to, forgive my bad definition, 20th century music written by Stravinsky and others which attempts to return to classical-period ideals. Modern classical is a vague term, meaning anything from "last 100 years" to "last 10 years." Anyway, I'll just go with the 20th century: Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Copland, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Penderecki, John Adams, Phil Glass, Messiaen, Schoenberg, Berg, Vaughan Williams, Britten.

 

[Fletcher84]

I love Art Deco Piano Concertos (1920s & 1930s).

Bartok 1 & 2 (3 is good but 1945)

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Concerto in F
Second Rhapsody (very dark!)
I Got Rhythm Variations

Ravel especially Left Hand Concerto

Prokofiev (3) 4 & 5

Poulenc Concert Champetre

Khachaturian Concerto
Rachmaninov 4

(All vigorous exciting stuff)

 

[Rebekka]

I recommend:
Arvo Pärt
Philip Glass
Benjamin Britten

 

[UberLutheran]

"Neo-classical" composers begin with late Debussy and Ravel, and include Erik Satie, Arthur Honegger and Francis Poulenc.

German neo-classicists include Paul Hindemith, Ferruccio Busoni and Walter Bricht;

Russian neo-classicists include Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Igor Stravinsky;

Slavic neo-classicists include Bohuslav Martinu, Dinu Lipatti and Bela Bartok;

American neo-classicists include Walter Piston, Walter Hartley, Virgil Thomson and (to a lesser extent) Aaron Copland.

Neo-classical composers do not include composers such as Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Valen, Messiaen, Cage, Varese, Antheil, Berio, Boulez, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Crumb, or the minimalists.