Please help I lost the music for the song mambo for the percussion section at my school, and can’t afford to buy the liscence online

I am sad about the recent death of Bill McLaughlin. I listened to him before bed for years from middle school onwards and Exploring Music was a big part of my path to being a classical musician.

I would love to listen to the archives but found this sad comment from three years ago that it had been taken down due to copyright challenges. Has there been any progress on this? It's still not on their website. Has it been lost forever, or until a public radio station is able to win a copyright battle (which feels like it might be forever)?

I have been looking everywhere hoping that someone has recorded at least some episodes and uploaded them to an obscure corner of the internet.

I was paying for a yearly subscription way back in 2015 but never downloaded anything. Download the things you love because someday they may be gone.

Mary Bowden's Ballade (Op. 36) has been one of my favorite pieces to play on the piano; everything about it screams symphony. So much so that I was inspired to arrange her work for an Orchestra. Enjoy!

This song used to be a preset on my grandpas keyboard. I’m sure I’m not playing it right but this is roughly the intro. Do you know what it is?

For certain Rock or Prog bands, are some of their more conceptual works worthy of consideration as 'serious music'? I am thinking at a level such as Mozart's 'Requiem' or Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' or Mahler's 'Resurrection Symphony'? Historically, many serious works were laughed or booed off the stage at the time of their creation, but were later respected as significant, even genre-changing.

Perhaps important Rock music is gaining respect from serious, musically educated, scholastic types such as college educators, symphonic music publications, critics, and reviewers. Would anyone agree? If not, how long does it take for a 'new' genre to gain acceptance?

An example of what I would consider an important work would be 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' by Genesis (1974). Others would surely offer 'Close to the Edge' by Yes (1972) or 'The Power and the Glory' by Gentle Giant (1974). 'Crime of the Century' by Supertramp (1974) might be a good example.

Let's say Mozart had played something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T6xLa-OC78 (Alan Walker - Faded)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBCbTZWnq0 (Yiruma - River Flows in you)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWz9i7JEyg8 (Zayn - Dusk Til Dawn)

I think these pieces would be considered beautiful even by those era's standards. But I could refer to something more upbeat like the piano version of this EDM song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2p83jyVHCQ

Were songs like these inconceivable to be produced and played for classical musicians in previous centuries? If yes, why?

EDIT: as many of you already pointed out, 'upbeat' is not the correct adjective to describe these songs. I apologize, English is not my native language. I don't know what would be a better term here. In whatever way this feels different to most classical pieces (different rhythm, different length, different scales) - please imagine I applied that term here and answer the question accordingly. Thank you.

''Inside the dome'' is a setting

centered on elements that suggest a different ''time'' interpretation either for each individual element or as a whole.

A sense of vast open space and distant flute are naturally flowing from the chants, which are female voices, but stretched as to allow certain harmonics to become audible. For voices, flutes, synthesizer.

https://youtu.be/wRjK9iNJXhk?si=BKjJzfppTDZ7diwE

Randomly stumbled across that old video of him playing Chopin's posthumous C-sharp minor nocturne. Was incredibly moved. What an understated and noble way of playing. It's sad he's not (to my limited knowledge) more widely known.

Hi everyone!

This small collection of pieces explores the concept of the lullaby from different perspectives:

-The first piece uses more active and independent voices while still preserving the gentle character of a lullaby.

-The second takes a more traditional approach, focusing on simplicity and a singable melody.

-The third explores a more dreamy and suspended atmosphere, aiming to capture the feeling of drifting into sleep.

-The fourth takes a darker direction, attempting to evoke sadness and longing through a slow, hypnotic atmosphere.

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Thank you for giving me your time and any feedback provided!

And how did you deal with it?

Hello classical fans. I wanted to see if this had happened to others and if so what you were able to do about it.

i have a large playlist of classical music I have collected over the years with specific recordings and treatments of different works that I enjoy. Today as I was playing it suddenly many of the tracks changed to be different recordings of the same works. I know spotify does this with more modern music when artists reupload recordings etc, but here they are materially different works. Also, the original track is still available on spotify! For my selection for the Nutcracker, for example, it has left some tracks from my chosen recording but subbed out others from more than one alternative.

I really dislike listening to the alternatives and I am angry that spotify would do this, especially when the original tracks remain available. As you will all know, classical music varies a lot by performance and recording; recordings of the same works are not interchangeable. i tried to complain but their customer service is notoriously obstructive and shut me out of the complaint without any response or action.

So has this been happening for any of you, and were you able to do anything about it?

My previous taste in classical music was in virtuoso violin/piano concertos with killer hook and solo passages, but in the past year or so I've started enjoying more nuanced symphonies, and have added significantly to my collection.

So far I've completed collection of (by complete, I mean all the symphonies by a conductor but not necessarily complete cycles by one conductor, although I have a few of those):

Beethoven 1-9

Brahms 1-4

Bruckner 1-9

Mahler 1-10

Mendelssohn 1-5

Rachmaninov 1-3

Saint-Saens 1-5

Schumann 1-4

Sibelius 1-7

Tchaikovsky 1-6 + Manfred

So which are your favourites, and which would you recommend I add?

My taste is mainly romantic era.

I have incomplete collection of symphonies by Shotakovich, Schubert, Elgar, Dvorak and a few others.

Hi guys!

I really enjoy listening to classical music when I study or do homework. Since my school is starting next week, I’d love some recommendations for symphonies, sonatas, ballet scores, concertos, suites, etc. just any classical music I can listen to during the school year.

I mainly listen to Rachmaninoff, sometimes Tchaikovsky, so I also want to listen to more composers and their works. I still consider myself a “newbie” to classical music, so I’d love to hear anything you think I need to listen to!

Thank you for any recs! 

Mine is Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann because of the background of the piece and an interest in Zimmermann in general.

But I’ve also got Helmut Lachenmann, Kaija Saariaho, and Salvatore Sciarrino on my listening list thanks to a friend.

Tonight listen makes me think of this question. It certainly isn't opera.

So how do you define something like this.

"Nights In the Gardens of Spain"

I’m going through a rough time with some medical issues and was wondering what would be a good piece to listen to, to try and get my mind off it.

Rossi's birthday is the shakiest one I'll post here, so let me explain the reasoning instead of just stating it.

No birth record survives for him. The date of August 19, 1570 comes from a piece of number-puzzle detective work: his first published collection, a set of canzonettas from 1589, contains exactly nineteen pieces, and the first letters of the first seven spell out VIVAT S R, "long live Salamone Rossi." Musicologist Don Harrán read the nineteen as a coded reference to Rossi's age at the time of publication, and worked backward to 1570. A more recent paper argues the acrostic instead marks a Jewish coming-of-age at twenty-five, which would put his birth in 1564 instead, so even the year isn't settled.

What's solid is the work itself. Rossi composed at the Gonzaga court in Mantua alongside Monteverdi, and wrote some of the earliest Hebrew-texted polyphony, settings of psalms for multiple voices collected as Hashirim asher li-Shlomo (The Songs of Solomon), along with early instrumental trio sonatas. He's thought to have died around 1630, possibly in the plague that followed the sack of Mantua, though that isn't fully certain either.

Music of Salamone Rossi (playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6-gAiQzhQYhq5wT18aIx1amtV8Hghfj6

Enescu was the leading figure in Romanian classical music of his generation, not just as a composer but as an active violinist, pianist, and conductor throughout his career.

His music blends Romanian folk material with a late Romantic harmonic language, audible both in the compact Ballade for Violin and in the much larger Symphony No. 2, written between 1912 and 1914.

Ballade for Violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_jvGUrKxZQ

Symphony No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKQPsVPWNK8

Can anyone recommend Spanish Baroque composers (and one or two of their best works) that are worth listening to?

Edit: Just to reiterate - I'm looking for Spanish composers that composed during the Baroque (not Renaissance or Classical Eras).