any recommendations?

[Ariella]

hi i want to find some classical music which mostly features strings ... but i don't know any names to look out for? can anyone recommend any? thanks

 

[stonetoflesh]

By "classical", what era do you really mean? Here are some I like, just off the top of my head:
George Crumb's Black Angels: 13 Images From the Dark Land for electric string quartet.
Bartok's string quartets.
Ligeti's micro-polyphonic Atmospheres for orchestra.
Stockhausen's Gruppen for 3 orchestras.
Steve Reich's Violin Phase.
The overplayed but still heartwrenchingly glorious Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.

Let me think of some more and get back to you...

 

[Paisley]

Itzhak Perlman

 

[CSMR]

hi i want to find some classical music which mostly features strings ... but i don't know any names to look out for? can anyone recommend any? thanks

If you want only strings:
Chamber music: string quartets by Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Bartok, Shostakovich, quintets by Mozart, Schubert, sextets by Schoenberg, Brahms.
Orchestral: Baroque violin concertos tend to be strings plus harpsichord. Bach, Vivaldi. The third Brandenburg is also strings plus harpsichord.

If mostly strings, well all orchestral music is mostly strings!

 

[Raindrop]

String quartets - Dvorak
Bagatellen - Dvorak (this is one is quite cool!)

 

[MusicalProgrammer]

Some good string orchestra pieces:

Dvorak's String Serenade
Elgar's String Serenade
Tchaikovsky's String Serenade
Dochnanyi's String Serenade
Stravinsky's Apollo Variations
Barber's Adagio for Strings (transcribed from the quartet)
Janacek's Idyll
Bartok's Divertimento
Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen
Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht (transcribed from the sextet)
Shostakovich's transcription of his 8th String Quartet for Orchestra


...to name a few.

 

[navybig]

Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 for 2 Violins and Orchestra

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 op. 130 in cavatina

Makes me want to learn violin

 

[Simonline]

Yo-Yo Ma

Vanessa Mae

Nigel Kennedy

Joshua Bell

Stephan Grapelli

 

[Ariella]

oh great, thanks for all your help ..... i need to look into some of these and see what they are like