If you're going to look at Rachmaninoff again, I'd suggest his (arguably) most well-known: Prelude in C# minor. Very dark and moody; very 'metal' if you will.
I never found any "classical" music that peaked my interest until I heard one of my upperclassmen in college rehearsing Moment Musicaux no. 4 for their recital. The song was fast, intense, and exciting which really captured me. I found the 6 Moments Musicaux on Apple music along with his Piano Concerto no. 2 which is also a "banger" as the kids say.
Here are some things you might try (with recordings that I like): - Beethoven Symphony No. 9, 2nd movement (Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony. Mono recording from 1954, but still great, crisp and driven.) - Dvorak, Symphony No. 7, 4th movement (Vaclav Neumann conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) - Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement (Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) - Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 (Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra) - Brahms, Symphony No. 1 (Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra) - Mahler, Symphony No. 1, 4th movement (Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) - Chopin, the four Scherzos (I have an odd personal favorite: Alice Hwang, aka Nahre Sol, in a very unknown recording that was part of MusOpen’s public domain Chopin project). Try also the Prelude #22. - Midori Goto playing Sarasate’s Zapateado - Brahms, Piano Quintet 3rd movement (Zukerman, Kavafian, Hoffman, Neubauer, Golub) - Stravinsky, Infernal Dance from The Firebird (Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony at the Proms) The first piano concertos by both Brahms and Tchaikovsky are also powerful works. And don’t miss Yuja Wang playing encores, such as the Prokofiev Toccata, Mozart/Volodis Turkish March, and the Tritsch-tratsch Polka.
Princess Miyako from LOVEBITES is big into Rachmaninoff. She is a concert-level pianist as well as a guitar jedi! The whole band is top-level talent. Haruna the drummer is so amazing. 4'9" tall.... and she plays like Ingo Schwichtenberg! ALL of us old-school metal nerds can't get enough of Lovebites! Because they sound like Maiden, Priest, Helloween, Metallica, Slayer, Sonata Arctica, Angra, and so much more! Miyako is influenced by Gary Moore, and she can NAIL his style! Miho the bassplayer is like a female version of Steve Harris! Midori, the other guitarplayer, is a total goddess on stage! Gorgeous shredder! I love all the faces she makes when she is tearing it up! I can't say enough about this band. They are at the top of the mountain right now. EVERYONE needs to check them out!
Shame on me, I forgot to mention Princess Asami... the singer! She is not even from a metal background. She is from soul, blues, and R&B! She also makes the extra effort to sing in English, because they want to be a band that plays other countries besides Japan. Well, Asami took to metal like a duck to water! She has a unique voice that is different than anything I have ever heard. In a good way! She glides around the stage like a beautiful swan, singing like an angel!
@@benpietrzykowski9216 He definitely wrote some of the most difficult music for violin, but there are some other composers that wrote music at the same level. Ernst and Sarasate are two violin nerds that wrote music in the "Paganini tier."
This piece has so many hidden chromatic scales. I LOVE it. When it transitions to the b sections there is a downwards chromatic scale in the bass/low melody. When it transitions to the main theme again there's a chromatic scale, this time upwards. And after the second triumphant section, there are these chromatic upwards lines sprinkled in the part we already know.
Yes please, I would love to hear your breakdown on the world of classical music. I've been ripping off classical to make metal the whole time I've been playing guitar. This makes job sooo much easier. 😜
For metalheads that like classical music, recommend checking out Elend (Start with: Les Tenebres Du Dehors). The darkest, heaviest,and most metal (non-metal) group in the world.
Oh man I love this!! I played euphonium all throughout middle and high school and always loved the concert band setting for the reasons you noted early in the vid. And the only genre that gave me the same feelings was metal. Love this man I know you’ve done your due time cause you’re extremely intelligent. Good shit my dude
I was expecting this to be the C#m prelude. That has some pretty dark and powerful sounding stuff in it. The chromatic descend in the main theme sounds pretty "metal" to me.
5:06. You can't tell me this wouldn't make an amazing metal riff! Rach is probably one of my top 3 composers. Thaikovsky is in there too. Something about those Russians...
I always thought some of the harmony used by some Romantic composers like Chopin could be really interesting if applied to metal. If I had the musical ability to reverse-engineer what he was doing I’d love to try myself and apply it
It's funny you posted this today. I've been working on making the opening movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 into a metal song. I'm specifically referring to the passage that starts about 7 minutes in, where the pianist really starts pounding the hell out of the keys. I'm not sure I'll be successful, but it's a fun project.
That s yuja wang, the best rach player out there to my knowledge. She is an incredible piano concertist. Rach is very emotional indeed, probably my fav composer 🔥🔥🔥
Shredster, I'm totally digging your appreciation for classical music. I'm a classical guitarist and metal/rock player. I dip into jazz too. Good stuff!
I'm a violinist, so I'm a bit biased. Try the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. That was very difficult to learn, and I think it would sound great on electric guitar.
Hilary Hahns concert, another sweet face with a black classical Metal heart deep inside :) That piece would suit very well indeed to do a Metal epic. @Shred, Scheherazade: II. Die Geschichte Vom Prinzen Kalender, this one sounds kind of friendly, though you might think until it's been played on your 7string...
Hi Shred, my brother Hector says that Mr. Brahms was the first heavy metalist in history, please let me know what the hell you think about, meanwhile i got my blood droop ready to paint the paper, kudos from Guadalajara, México april 5, 2021 ✌🏻😎
Great content, Shred! Tks for sharing your knowledge....please, do this analysis with the Valentina Lisitsa interpretation of the Franz Lizst Totentanz
Thanks for this video, and all the others! 👍 This one asks a question: what is metal?🤘😬🤘 I think that it's not sufficient that a technique has been used in some metal compositions to say that it is metal. From a historical point of view and if we look at its origin in Black Sabbath, metal is basically the music of horror movies played with a "rock" orchestration. The members of Black Sabbath talk about how they purposely oriented their music by noticing that people were going to see horror movies. At that time (in the 1960s in the UK), Hammer films were important, and especially their main composer: James Bernard, famous for the Dracula theme. In their early days, Black Sabbath rehearsed in a cinema, and they chose the name of Mario Bava's horror film "Black Sabbath". The influence of the cinema is obvious. But the horror movies of that time didn't use just any music. There are obvious influences from the 19th and early 20th century, as you show very well in your video "The first METAL SONG ever". But not everything is metal. I'm not sure that Rachmaninoff is a decisive step in the advent of metal as a specific musical genre, or that one can find in its music elements that are typically metal.🤔 In my humble opinion, it is more interesting, as far as metal is concerned, to note only the elements that are specific to it, i.e. the dark, black, brutal, mysterious elements that differentiate it from other styles. Otherwise, nothing can be excluded from metal, and metal becomes everything, that is to say nothing. If you have any doubts about my point of view, ask metal pig! 🐷🐽
His c# minor prelude is his most metal. When I was learning piano my teacher thought Rachmaninoff sounded like film music, but she was wrong. Film music sounds like Rachmaninoff.
Incredible! I'm listening to this piece every day for about 2 weeks now and I found your video in my UA-cam thread, awesome! Hungarian March by Hector Berlioz is a piece you shloud look at Master Shred. LOVE your vids, your humour and the knowledge you're trying to share, all of this is great! Ohhh by the way my evil laugh is way better! 😁
Great video shred! And i think the piece was metal AF Would like to see you react to devil's trills (sonata in g minor) by Tartini. Just the story behind the piece is Muahahaha
I was waiting for some guitar when you pitched the tabs. Soo, maybe going forward, you could "totally steal" the chord progressions and write your own riffs. Show us how it's done! And do Pagani.
I don't know why but when I sense evil, I come crawling faster… to obey my SHREDMaster. I'll get to a stable job once I am done with my graduation, and I assure you my soul, Shredआचार्यः!! 🙏🙏
I started getting into classical after metal and this is one of my favorite pieces. Bach’s Partita No. 2 Sinfonia (preformed by Glenn Gould) is such an underrated gem, the later half (about 2:30 minutes in) is astonishing.
Love this video, if you want classical metal you can't forget Sergei Prokofiev, check out his music for some heavy stuff. I recommend any of his piano concertos or his piano sonatas. Also symphony no. 3 is heavy...
If you haven't already seen it look up Yuja's performance of Liszt's transcription of Saint Saens' "Dance Macabre". Definitely metal. And great interpretation of Yuja's name. I'm going to use that in future rather than trying to get around the fact that her name always comes out as sounding like "HUGE WANG" as in "that guy has a huge wang".
Prelude No. 2 in C-sharp minor is pretty metal as far as his more popular pieces go. Depends on the interpretation, but some players go absolutely nuts with it. It almost sounds like black metal to me (really complex black metal, anyway).
One of my favorites pieces. Also you must check out Dvorák symfony no 9 from Berliner Philharmoniker a 3min video edition. Maybe one of the symphonic metal must do.
Shred!!! Been awhile since I picked up an axe. You have inspired me and I’ve always dug your comedic take on that satanic side. Thank you for sharing your love and knowledge my friend. All for the low low price of one soul 👿😈
His Symphony No 1 is the most metal thing he wrote. Well no I take that back. Forgot about the Bells 3rd movement (aka OST to orientation day...in Hell).
Oh hell yeah, dude! Rachmaninoff's Opus 32 book of Preludes and his Op. 39 book of Etudes-Tableaux are two of the most metal albums written for piano! Also hard as ***** to play well! Dude was a *monster* pianist!
Check out this shit - This pianist is un-*******-believable too. Like check out how light and accurate she is on some of those left hand notes, even after the thing has crashed in like a freight train. ua-cam.com/video/tVuP1BjbhAg/v-deo.html
This is one of my favorite recordings of all time, period. The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz live back in 1975. I've never heard a piano roar like that. It's something that Rachmaninoff really mastered in is composing for the piano, and I've never heard anyone *really* master that push and pull, and swell and calm and violent crash and withdrawal like Horowitz. Horowitz and Rachmaninoff were actually close friends until Sergi died in the early 40's. SUPER intense stuff. ua-cam.com/video/yIM0FM0cHb8/v-deo.html
Okay, one more and I'll stop, I just had to make sure I included a Prelude!! Little bit of a different pace for this one. It's so friggin' amazing how he's able to use these super quick, chunky chord progressions to create this awesome internal motion, and make the piano feel like it's literally a living, breathing thing. And the way he uses timing and these crazy changes on off beats to make tension. It's a ****** ride. ua-cam.com/video/IsUJg83ly40/v-deo.html
I subbed my other channel. like stuffing ballot boxes: "It's the American way" edit: being so close and yet so far must be frustrating. good call upping your video frequency game. having different series is a good way to always have timely content without running out of material. go100k!!!
"Rock-maninoff" joke is so nice, that I feel kinda bad for the fact it doesn't work in Russian... Also, about part on 2:33... I'd argue it's fragmentational quoting/variation on song Kalinka by composer Ivan Petrovich Larionov (so popular and well-known, that often called folk song even by Russians). Why I bring it here? Because original piece is anything but evil. But in this prelude harmony makes all the difference. Fun little detail, i think.
Might I suggest "The Gnome" part rom Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for a future episode, that's the most metal classical thing I've ever listened to
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O Fortuna, Some of the Planets, Beethoven's Unfinished...
I really wanna learn music theory, and I wanna get so good that I can just pick up a guitar and shred
If you're going to look at Rachmaninoff again, I'd suggest his (arguably) most well-known: Prelude in C# minor. Very dark and moody; very 'metal' if you will.
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My favorite his work and one of the most favorite pieces in classic/academic music in general.
Andre Antunes did this piece on electric guitar here:
ua-cam.com/video/K7GmWdUSxfc/v-deo.html
I never found any "classical" music that peaked my interest until I heard one of my upperclassmen in college rehearsing Moment Musicaux no. 4 for their recital.
The song was fast, intense, and exciting which really captured me. I found the 6 Moments Musicaux on Apple music along with his Piano Concerto no. 2 which is also a "banger" as the kids say.
there is so much diversity in "classical" music i bet everyone can find something they like :))
Here are some things you might try (with recordings that I like):
- Beethoven Symphony No. 9, 2nd movement (Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony. Mono recording from 1954, but still great, crisp and driven.)
- Dvorak, Symphony No. 7, 4th movement (Vaclav Neumann conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement (Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 (Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Brahms, Symphony No. 1 (Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra)
- Mahler, Symphony No. 1, 4th movement (Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
- Chopin, the four Scherzos (I have an odd personal favorite: Alice Hwang, aka Nahre Sol, in a very unknown recording that was part of MusOpen’s public domain Chopin project). Try also the Prelude #22.
- Midori Goto playing Sarasate’s Zapateado
- Brahms, Piano Quintet 3rd movement (Zukerman, Kavafian, Hoffman, Neubauer, Golub)
- Stravinsky, Infernal Dance from The Firebird (Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony at the Proms)
The first piano concertos by both Brahms and Tchaikovsky are also powerful works.
And don’t miss Yuja Wang playing encores, such as the Prokofiev Toccata, Mozart/Volodis Turkish March, and the Tritsch-tratsch Polka.
....or prokofiev suggestion diabolique lol@@matthewv789
This man is a gem of the country. Death metal cat approves!
D Metal cat for president
I'm born just in time to see a metalhead reviewing Yuja performing Rach. What a time to be alive
thank you for introducing people the the ultimate genius of classical music these people are so good its beyond comprehension of most people
it really does blow your mind if you give it a few minutes of time
@@ShredmasterScott and thank you for pointing out cardi b songs are not technically even a song they are so basic.
Definitely agree thier skill level! Is off the charts
Princess Miyako from LOVEBITES is big into Rachmaninoff. She is a concert-level pianist as well as a guitar jedi! The whole band is top-level talent. Haruna the drummer is so amazing. 4'9" tall.... and she plays like Ingo Schwichtenberg! ALL of us old-school metal nerds can't get enough of Lovebites! Because they sound like Maiden, Priest, Helloween, Metallica, Slayer, Sonata Arctica, Angra, and so much more! Miyako is influenced by Gary Moore, and she can NAIL his style! Miho the bassplayer is like a female version of Steve Harris! Midori, the other guitarplayer, is a total goddess on stage! Gorgeous shredder! I love all the faces she makes when she is tearing it up! I can't say enough about this band. They are at the top of the mountain right now. EVERYONE needs to check them out!
Shame on me, I forgot to mention Princess Asami... the singer! She is not even from a metal background. She is from soul, blues, and R&B! She also makes the extra effort to sing in English, because they want to be a band that plays other countries besides Japan. Well, Asami took to metal like a duck to water! She has a unique voice that is different than anything I have ever heard. In a good way! She glides around the stage like a beautiful swan, singing like an angel!
Got a thing for Paganini. One of the original shredders. 🤘🎻
I've been playing violin for around 12 years, and I can tell you from experience, Paganini is very difficult.
@@knightofcaliban146 hardest composer no?
@@benpietrzykowski9216 He definitely wrote some of the most difficult music for violin, but there are some other composers that wrote music at the same level. Ernst and Sarasate are two violin nerds that wrote music in the "Paganini tier."
Someone else practicing evil laugh since shreds videos ?
No it doesnt work for common mortals.
Nice. Rachmaninoff wrote some of the heaviest piano riffs of all time.
The triumphant bridge sounds so much like something Symphony X would do... it's why we love them so much.
"Make music theory your bitch"
This needs to be your tagline, Shred.
This piece has so many hidden chromatic scales. I LOVE it.
When it transitions to the b sections there is a downwards chromatic scale in the bass/low melody.
When it transitions to the main theme again there's a chromatic scale, this time upwards.
And after the second triumphant section, there are these chromatic upwards lines sprinkled in the part we already know.
Sounds like something Iommi would listen to get inspiration for his riffs.
no doubt
2:17 damn that woman just mini headbanging while playing a piano
thahaha, you noticed that very well indeed!
Cool idea on the video series... Good follow-up to the Mars video. Looking forward to seeing what you do next.
The band Muse take a lot of influence from Rachmaninoff, as well as from composers like Bach, Lizst, Berlioz and Chopin! Muhahaha
Exactly right
Yes please, I would love to hear your breakdown on the world of classical music. I've been ripping off classical to make metal the whole time I've been playing guitar. This makes job sooo much easier. 😜
awesome work
For metalheads that like classical music, recommend checking out Elend (Start with: Les Tenebres Du Dehors). The darkest, heaviest,and most metal (non-metal) group in the world.
the first movement of rachmaninoffs piano concerto in c minor is absolutely amazing and covers so many emotions
FUCK YEAH!
P.S. Sorry Shred, but I've already sold my soul to Beelzebub, some years ago, you'll have to negotiate with him :/
Oh man I love this!! I played euphonium all throughout middle and high school and always loved the concert band setting for the reasons you noted early in the vid. And the only genre that gave me the same feelings was metal. Love this man I know you’ve done your due time cause you’re extremely intelligent. Good shit my dude
You are awesome Shred🤟
I was expecting this to be the C#m prelude. That has some pretty dark and powerful sounding stuff in it. The chromatic descend in the main theme sounds pretty "metal" to me.
that's a great one too
5:06. You can't tell me this wouldn't make an amazing metal riff! Rach is probably one of my top 3 composers. Thaikovsky is in there too. Something about those Russians...
tchaikovski fucking legend tho
Chopin up there too but I agree , those Russians and their art man
I always thought some of the harmony used by some Romantic composers like Chopin could be really interesting if applied to metal. If I had the musical ability to reverse-engineer what he was doing I’d love to try myself and apply it
Phrygian Dominant harmony is so evil
great idea for a series. the chord progressions are key for me.
It's funny you posted this today. I've been working on making the opening movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 into a metal song. I'm specifically referring to the passage that starts about 7 minutes in, where the pianist really starts pounding the hell out of the keys. I'm not sure I'll be successful, but it's a fun project.
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Awesome video Shred. Thanx and staying Evil!!!!😈
I love these harmonic analysis videos
That s yuja wang, the best rach player out there to my knowledge. She is an incredible piano concertist. Rach is very emotional indeed, probably my fav composer 🔥🔥🔥
Really good video. I enjoy these reviews very much
Rachmaninoff's 'Piano Concerto No. 2' is the greatest piece of music ever written.
fuck yes it is
I have always loved classical and metal, I love the breakdowns on this channel.
🎵🎵🎵THANK YOU, SHRED!!! THIS SERIES IS VERY INTERESTING!!! GREAT JOB!!! 🎵🎵🎵
Another superb post. Keep them coming.
Shredster, I'm totally digging your appreciation for classical music. I'm a classical guitarist and metal/rock player. I dip into jazz too. Good stuff!
I'm a violinist, so I'm a bit biased. Try the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. That was very difficult to learn, and I think it would sound great on electric guitar.
Hilary Hahns concert, another sweet face with a black classical Metal heart deep inside :) That piece would suit very well indeed to do a Metal epic. @Shred, Scheherazade: II. Die Geschichte Vom Prinzen Kalender, this one sounds kind of friendly, though you might think until it's been played on your 7string...
Hi Shred, my brother Hector says that Mr. Brahms was the first heavy metalist in history, please let me know what the hell you think about, meanwhile i got my blood droop ready to paint the paper, kudos from Guadalajara, México april 5, 2021 ✌🏻😎
Great content, Shred! Tks for sharing your knowledge....please, do this analysis with the Valentina Lisitsa interpretation of the Franz Lizst Totentanz
True, or if you likely have build up for an intro: Franz Liszt - Hunnenschlacht (1857) Symphonic Poem, No. 11
Thanks for this video, and all the others! 👍
This one asks a question: what is metal?🤘😬🤘
I think that it's not sufficient that a technique has been used in some metal compositions to say that it is metal.
From a historical point of view and if we look at its origin in Black Sabbath, metal is basically the music of horror movies played with a "rock" orchestration. The members of Black Sabbath talk about how they purposely oriented their music by noticing that people were going to see horror movies. At that time (in the 1960s in the UK), Hammer films were important, and especially their main composer: James Bernard, famous for the Dracula theme. In their early days, Black Sabbath rehearsed in a cinema, and they chose the name of Mario Bava's horror film "Black Sabbath". The influence of the cinema is obvious.
But the horror movies of that time didn't use just any music. There are obvious influences from the 19th and early 20th century, as you show very well in your video "The first METAL SONG ever". But not everything is metal.
I'm not sure that Rachmaninoff is a decisive step in the advent of metal as a specific musical genre, or that one can find in its music elements that are typically metal.🤔
In my humble opinion, it is more interesting, as far as metal is concerned, to note only the elements that are specific to it, i.e. the dark, black, brutal, mysterious elements that differentiate it from other styles. Otherwise, nothing can be excluded from metal, and metal becomes everything, that is to say nothing.
If you have any doubts about my point of view, ask metal pig! 🐷🐽
Brilliant - more of this please Scott :)
His c# minor prelude is his most metal. When I was learning piano my teacher thought Rachmaninoff sounded like film music, but she was wrong. Film music sounds like Rachmaninoff.
Incredible! I'm listening to this piece every day for about 2 weeks now and I found your video in my UA-cam thread, awesome!
Hungarian March by Hector Berlioz is a piece you shloud look at Master Shred. LOVE your vids, your humour and the knowledge you're trying to share, all of this is great!
Ohhh by the way my evil laugh is way better! 😁
5:50 this is EXACTLY why i searched for this, i love metal covers of classic, and when i heard this, it was an open goal for a metal cover!
Dude, get down with the Sibelius Violin Concerto!
Dude - If you vibe with Rach, you'd be in another galaxy listening to Stravinsky's Rite of the Spring
Even more metal in the third piano concerto.
Great video shred!
And i think the piece was metal AF
Would like to see you react to devil's trills (sonata in g minor) by Tartini.
Just the story behind the piece is Muahahaha
I need to do that one
keep em coming shred...
One ir My Fav composer
Bro thanks for showing me this awesome music.
muhahaha
I was waiting for some guitar when you pitched the tabs. Soo, maybe going forward, you could "totally steal" the chord progressions and write your own riffs. Show us how it's done!
And do Pagani.
I don't know much about the composition, but Yuja Wang is pretty fucking metal
Keep Growing boss.. Need a red glowing horn after 100k subs \m/
I don't know why but when I sense evil, I come crawling faster… to obey my SHREDMaster.
I'll get to a stable job once I am done with my graduation, and I assure you my soul, Shredआचार्यः!! 🙏🙏
100% behind this being a series.
I started getting into classical after metal and this is one of my favorite pieces. Bach’s Partita No. 2 Sinfonia (preformed by Glenn Gould) is such an underrated gem, the later half (about 2:30 minutes in) is astonishing.
Love this video, if you want classical metal you can't forget Sergei Prokofiev, check out his music for some heavy stuff. I recommend any of his piano concertos or his piano sonatas. Also symphony no. 3 is heavy...
Cool series
Rondo Alla Turca is METAL.
Vivaldi is metal as fuck. That's a great place to get ideas.
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If you haven't already seen it look up Yuja's performance of Liszt's transcription of Saint Saens' "Dance Macabre". Definitely metal. And great interpretation of Yuja's name. I'm going to use that in future rather than trying to get around the fact that her name always comes out as sounding like "HUGE WANG" as in "that guy has a huge wang".
I love that in 2021 you can still say "It helps to have a hot babe playing the piano" :)
man i tried to learn this piece on piano, and i couldn't keep up. It was fucking brutal to hit the chords and play it with any sense of musicality.
One of my favorite pieces of all time.
amen
Shostakovich's 8th string quartet!!!!
As a metalhead who is a classical music fan (with rachmaninoff and beethoveen being my favorite composers), I liked the video before I even played it.
Prelude No. 2 in C-sharp minor is pretty metal as far as his more popular pieces go. Depends on the interpretation, but some players go absolutely nuts with it. It almost sounds like black metal to me (really complex black metal, anyway).
How about Stravinsky? Isn't some of his Rite of Spring also metal?
that's a long piece for one video but maybe I'll do an excerpt
@@ShredmasterScott I'd be delighted to see that. And hear your comments on this composers work.
Chopin - Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15 ("Raindrop"). Combination of a dreamy, romantic with a dark, necromantic vibe. Must hear.
One of my favorites pieces. Also you must check out Dvorák symfony no 9 from Berliner Philharmoniker a 3min video edition. Maybe one of the symphonic metal must do.
Sergei rachmaninoff is probably my 2nd favorite composer your awesome shred
he is evil AF
Shred!!! Been awhile since I picked up an axe. You have inspired me and I’ve always dug your comedic take on that satanic side. Thank you for sharing your love and knowledge my friend. All for the low low price of one soul 👿😈
Hey Shred you make me love the music theory. Im preparing to sell my soul to Metal gods...
Barok string quartet 4. Movement 5. Pure metal.
His Symphony No 1 is the most metal thing he wrote. Well no I take that back. Forgot about the Bells 3rd movement (aka OST to orientation day...in Hell).
Oh hell yeah, dude! Rachmaninoff's Opus 32 book of Preludes and his Op. 39 book of Etudes-Tableaux are two of the most metal albums written for piano!
Also hard as ***** to play well! Dude was a *monster* pianist!
Check out this shit -
This pianist is un-*******-believable too. Like check out how light and accurate she is on some of those left hand notes, even after the thing has crashed in like a freight train.
ua-cam.com/video/tVuP1BjbhAg/v-deo.html
This is one of my favorite recordings of all time, period. The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz live back in 1975. I've never heard a piano roar like that. It's something that Rachmaninoff really mastered in is composing for the piano, and I've never heard anyone *really* master that push and pull, and swell and calm and violent crash and withdrawal like Horowitz. Horowitz and Rachmaninoff were actually close friends until Sergi died in the early 40's. SUPER intense stuff.
ua-cam.com/video/yIM0FM0cHb8/v-deo.html
Okay, one more and I'll stop, I just had to make sure I included a Prelude!! Little bit of a different pace for this one. It's so friggin' amazing how he's able to use these super quick, chunky chord progressions to create this awesome internal motion, and make the piano feel like it's literally a living, breathing thing. And the way he uses timing and these crazy changes on off beats to make tension. It's a ****** ride.
ua-cam.com/video/IsUJg83ly40/v-deo.html
@@BrassicaRappa I can understand. Anyone can go on for a day talking about rachmaninoff. He's THAT good
Also I love the 5th prelude from the book opus 32
I subbed my other channel. like stuffing ballot boxes: "It's the American way"
edit: being so close and yet so far must be frustrating. good call upping your video frequency game. having different series is a good way to always have timely content without running out of material. go100k!!!
i appreciate you calling it a piece and not a song
Yuja is insane !
Vivaldi's "La Follia" is incredibly metal too (overall in the 7:41 minute)
"Rock-maninoff" joke is so nice, that I feel kinda bad for the fact it doesn't work in Russian...
Also, about part on 2:33... I'd argue it's fragmentational quoting/variation on song Kalinka by composer Ivan Petrovich Larionov (so popular and well-known, that often called folk song even by Russians). Why I bring it here? Because original piece is anything but evil. But in this prelude harmony makes all the difference. Fun little detail, i think.
Nice dood, I commented on an earlier video that Rachmaninoff was metal
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Great video man!! You should check his 2nd piano concerto. Imo the most beautiful piece of music ever written :)
Oh you should check out his 2nd sonata (1913 version)! That shit rocks.
Hello Shred
Dies irae of the Verdi requiem is pretty metal i would say . Would be cool, if you could cover that. It is quite short as well.
Followed up with Tuba Mirum, goosebumps guaranteed when the metal wind instruments come on up!!
Verdi's Tuba Mirum...
@@SimonFlex Yes, indeed!
Might I suggest "The Gnome" part rom Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for a future episode, that's the most metal classical thing I've ever listened to
Also prokofiev concerto N2 and scriabin sonata 9 sound so metal
Damn He lived a long life....
I think I read a comment from wolf Hoffman or KK downing that classical music was much heavier than metal could ever be
I wonder what some of these composers would think of distorted guitar and heavy metal
Sounds Metal to me. Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyrie" and Carl Orff "O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana".
Love to see you analyse Mozarts 25th. Almost seems like it's arranged like a metal song, at least the 1st movement!
Can you make a video about the difference between, and/or similarities between rock and metal.
I like this dude’s persona. It works. Huhahaha (Evil metal laugh.)
Hell yeah do Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian at some point in the series! Muahahaha
Can you make a classical playlist I don’t know how to find this this type of classical music please and thank you