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An orchestrated piece based on a piano piece from the video game Final Fantasy X. This song is entirely responsible for getting me into the orchestra! If you haven't heard it please give it a listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLnZ5jcsRpc Beautiful!

No, not the program you idiot, the composer! Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius!! I've recently been listening to him A LOOOT. Obviously his symphonies, and a lot of his other orchestral works, my favorite being En Saga, so far. I still need to find more of Sibelius' stuff... There are his solo vocal works, too, sets of songs for soloist and piano, and they're so remarkable and so Jean Sibelius! yeah, so if you agree that he's basically the scraggy, *daps* otherwise, go listen to his scraggy, man, RIGHT NOW *goes back to listening...to Bartok, actually, but maybe Sibelius later* :phones: :phones: :phones: :phones:

Berlioz' Lacrimosa texture is interesting! ... for 4 measures

I have played his 2nd Symphony. It was marvalous, seriously. The first two movements really demostrates his unique and fatastic way of using the sonata form, especially in such a late romantic stage, it's great to see composers being faithful to this form. I would say the first movement is best in terms of orchestration, 2nd the stormiest, 3rd the most exciting, and 4th the grand finale. Try listening to that.

A very interesting video, followed by the performance of Schoenbergs' Fantasie op. 47 for violin and piano... and the performance It shows that Gould was very much into understanding such music (remember that this video takes place 50+ years ago if not more), and that Menuhin was not too fond of that, but showed great respect and a will to learn even at that age.

I LOL'D. One of the "greatest" figures in western music huh? The "individual kind of modernism" is particularly hilarious. No, seriously, you're talking about someone who's right alongside Les Six, Stravinsky, etc etc in terms of neoclassical and I wouldn't even dare call Sibelius modern by any stretch of the word. The bit with Webern is just ridiculous. But whatever.