Classical/Orchestral music thread
 

Anyone here listen to orchestral/classical music?

Personally it's my favorite genre of music. But this forum seems to focus purely on J-pop and J-rock. Classical deserves some attention too!

If you have any classical/orchestral Japanese music you'd like to share, please post it here!

anyways, don't know if anyone has heard of this album or not.
Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou is a surprisingly good collection of orchestrated songs from the TV series. It's definitely no Mozart or anything, but since many of you like anime I thought it would be cool to start off with something familiar.

such as:


I think it's all arranged and played by the Tokyo Philharmonic.
enjoy!

Not hard to believe at all. I've been listening to all of those guys since I was about 14, and I still do. I actually just recently went to a Rachmaninoff concert. It was awesome.
Do you know of any old Japanese classical composers? I guess there weren't really that many. Classical music from Japan seems to be either imported or more modern/recent.


Anyways, Here's another one.
My favorite piece by Joe Hisaishi, whom you should all know.

Requiem


By Touru Takemitsu.

One more by Joe Hisaishi

Easily the most beautiful piece in Mononoke Hime.

Some of my favourites:

Joe Hisaishi - Summer



Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Live (I would be a sin for this song not to be in this thread)



Yoko Kanno - East of the Peninsula



Yoko Kanno - The Man in The Desert



Yoko Kanno - The Ascension Rain

I love classical music. i have a few songs conducted by Jeffrey Tate. heres one of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkk3IPuoOU

I love a bit of classical music every now and then. It's nice to break away from the heavy guitars and singing every so often =]
:rheart:

I was just about to give up on this thread. But it seems like there are a couple people here now. I'm glad I'm not the only one lol.

@Aniki - thanks for posting these videos! Can't believe I forgot about Ryuichi Sakamoto.

@Kyousuke - thanks for posting Kyousuke :)

@coolforcats1 - haha, I feel the same way. although, after a while i get a little tired of classical and have to switch back to rock lol.


anyways, heres my personal favorite by Sakamoto:



It's a bit repetitive, but still really beautiful.

EDIT: the second song in this video is by Gustavo Santaolalla. And if you haven't seen babel. Go see it now.

This thread makes me happy,
it's nice to know other people enjoy this type of music :)

glad to hear that :)

Sakamoto - Solitude


Kou Outani

Haha yep that's same with me!! Too much classical music can get on my nerves and can put me off of listening to it (depending on my mood).

Give me rock any day and I'll be fine :p

I really like classical music, but I don't get around to listening to it very often. When I do listen to it, I tend to focus on the music more than with other music genres, making it difficult to multitask to classical. The music is more of an "experience" than with most modern music forms.

Baroque music is awesome, too. (As is this thread!)