I saw The Rite Of Spring performed live, ballet and everything, at the Royal Opera House. It was spectacular, absolutely loved it
as for other brutal classical music... L'escalier du diable
by Gyorgy Ligeti is pretty brutal. I mean what else can you say about a piece which includes the volume instruction "ffffffff".
Also, everything Galina Ustvolskaya writes is crazy as balls.
edited 19th Jun '11 12:37:33 PM by SunshineWerewolf
DUMB
Night of the Electric Insects?
edited 19th Jun '11 12:41:10 PM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
I have a feeling that this will be one of my favorite threads. Not sure if I caught the point of this, but...
Around 3:32 it gets so intense it's quite possible, thanks to the not-so-great youtube quality to mistake it for symphonic death metal if you're not paying enough attention.
No regret shall pass over the threshold!
Resident Hipster
I like the guys with the sunglasses and military uniforms.
edited 28th Dec '11 5:29:05 AM by Hatshepsut
A chub from the Grant Corporation
Lord of Flapdoodle
Thanks for the tips everyone. I'll have to check them out!
@ sunny — that sounds awesome. I wish I could see it live!
the pronoun system in Cherokee is just better. Need Scion GM.
I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE DEVIL'S STAIRCASE
I TOLD YOU DOG
...too bad the audio quality is atrocious. :(
Anyway, here's a thing:
edited 20th Jun '11 7:58:30 AM by Zudak
It's not atrocious, it's LO-FI
makes things more EMOTIONAL
edited 20th Jun '11 11:57:32 AM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
No, it's youtube.
Evil Mastermind
I'm surprised no one brought this up yet.
I'm surprised I didn't remember to bring that up. @__@
I freakin' love The Planets.
more Messiaen. He is the man.
edited 28th Dec '11 5:30:09 AM by Hatshepsut
Viergacht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIYT-MrVaI
Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt. It sneaks up on you . . . the awesome kicks in about a minute in a half in, but plz listen to the whole thing.
Y'know, I once went out of my way to track down just such music. Now, I can't think right off of any that hasn't been listed here.
Well, except Walkürenritt. (And yes, I'm aware that Wagner was a douchebag.)
Apparition in the Woods
Carl Ruggles' Sun-Treader. Look it up, kids.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
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That reminds me, I have it on the same cd as Ives' Three Places in New England, which has some nice loud dissonant bits.
A chub from the Grant Corporation
See also: The Dresden Interleaf by Gordon Mumma. The most terrifying use of toy airplanes ever!
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!
I'm A Dirty Cowboy
huh, all my favourite pieces of classical music are already in here.
EDIT: No, that pun was too incredibly lame. I have deleted it.
edited 24th Jun '11 3:25:26 PM by mmysqueeant
I can't find the piece my teacher was showing me today, but Luigi Nono's stuff is pretty fucking brutal.
Also, another Stravinsky piece. This has one of the best openings I've heard.
Does anyone out there have any recommendations for concert music that is truly brutal and harsh.
About the most brutal piece I can think of is the Dance of the Adolescents from Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. It features sections of 32 brutal hammering dissonant chords, played by all the strings, punctuated asymmetrically by a battery of eight (!) french horns. It is overtly sexual and highly violent.
Thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust — Thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust — Thrust, thrust — Thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust — Thrust, thrust, thrust — Thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust — Thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust — Thrust, thrust, thrust.
edited 19th Jun '11 12:27:16 PM by cancerlad
the pronoun system in Cherokee is just better. Need Scion GM.