I've gone through a phase with just about every genre there is, no matter how alternative or obscure, and I have come to the conclusion that classical (and baroque) music is the only music that is comparable to the literary experience.
It's ironic, as often there are no words, but it feels like the ideas being expressed by the music are just as vivid as lyrics, if not more. Well-made classical music pleases your brain with its timing and harmony, regardless of whether you want to like it or not. This is much like the effect of well-formed writing, when it flows with a pleasing and excites the brain with visceral vocabulary.
The 'storm' movement from Vivaldi's Summer (the second of the four seasons after winter) recreates the feeling of a storm so vividly that you can feel it with all five senses. The movement even raises your adrenaline like a real storm does. It feels exciting and slightly terrifying at the same time, like a real storm does.
I would say that (good) classical music actually goes beyond the reach of literature in terms of the vividness and complexity of emotions it can illicit in an audience.
This is coming from someone who has always considered music pleb shit compared to lit, by the way.
I do like old classics, and i listen to them often. however lately i've found artists that have just as nice a sound to them as some other Victorian era music.
Listen a bit to it OP and maybe you'd like it, and look up more of the artists if you like it
Praise your good taste, fampai! Sharing with you this piece, lets rejoice in our superior art choices which make us better than the other pesants (for today at least :D :D) youtube.com/watch?v=YHicGx0iI0Q B A R O QUE O P
Adam Howard
Op if you're on a Baroque kick then up your game with some John Bull or a more modern take by John Holloway -- Pavans and Fantasies and Basically Bull are pretty good releases...
Check out A.C.R.O.NYM Oddities and Trifles for some really good Baroque...
Non lo so...these days I'm more interested in recent work by Ades, Adams (Absolute Jest is great), Johnston, and Rautavaara's work (RIP) are great...good things happening in classical these days if you search it out.
ACRONYM playing Valentini Sonata a 5 in Gm ...fucking incredible. Listen to how he created an echo effect with the violins starting at :43... voglio andare al venezia adesso grazie... youtu.be/iNAdOrp7XZ4
Anthony Smith
sorry but it sounds like anime music
Isaac Thomas
I know that the romantic era is seen as the least artistic in this thread, even though it's not explicitly said, but there is nothing in the world more satisfying than reading russian literature while listening to russian classical music
