I follow a channel called 'Real Russia' and he posts daily videos of actual life in Russia

and I'm just obsessed with the classical music. Like Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev etc

Very goofy avatar, but I subbed

It seems like they respect history more than a lot of the west

Yeah I listen to classical music on the radio, pretty much nothing else, except for the metal channel sometimes

Baltimore has their own symphony hall so its always pumping out tunes

I listen to those composers, Beethoven, Chopin and the jam band Phish

I posted my edit of Stravinsky's Petruska by the bolshoi ballet and it has 120k views

I wish I could keep track of all the ones they play. They conduct pieces from everywhere in the world and never stick with any one composer, too many to process in my brain

Yeah it's intimidating. I'm 3 years in to my deep dive into classical, and still haven't even strayed from the 10 most widely known composers

There any definitive books on russia history you could recommend?

I've listened to a bit of the Russian Rules History Podcast

good so far

not a book guy tbf

No worries, podcasts are great too

Only books I read are composer biographies. And music score books I guess

Post a link to one of your favorite pieces. 😃

uh oh

*floods you with a tsunami of music*

You have to pick a favorite

Do it

🗡

Jk. I’ll post an accessible great piece from Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Chopin

Do it

Chopin 4 the win

https://youtu.be/4Bqp2C098UI this piece describes the spirit of heroic individualism as it first started to arise in the mid 19th century, which also accompanied nationalism. Many would agree that Chopin might be the most important figure for Poland’s cultural identity

https://youtu.be/ikTkMaPyZWM Rachmaninoffs 1st concerto is greatly overshadowed by the 2nd and 3rd but it’s a perfect concerto, and the pianist is just amazing

I love the Polish

https://youtu.be/7XGyWcuYVrg?t=20m59s Scriabins 2nd piano sonata is only 2 movements, and the first is very calm and reflective and has an epic middle section, and the second is fast paced and quite dark

That video contains 3 different performances of the same piece. The time stamped one is the best imo

I hear Tumblr is getting woke

I swear I used to know what all that meant back in my Music Appreciation elective class

In the sense that they’re banning all pornography, which floats 99% of Tumblr? Yes

@RoadtoDawn and I thought I was being outsider friendly 😣 Still top tier pieces

a concerto is basically a 3 movement piece with a full orchestra centered around a single instrument playing as a soloist

I insist on not adjusting your terminology for my sake, proper language is always important

Oh right

Yh the problem is it’s a whole field of study that hasn’t really been active in the past 50 years in regards to new *actually* famous composers

So people kind of shy away from it because of how complex it is but also because it seems outdated

> famous composers

> modern ones