Need a little help getting into Classical Music

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I would like to expand my listening with a little bit of Classical but have no idea where to start as there is a ton of different types.
The only real disk I have aside from a few low quality samplers is "Mark Gorenstein CD Russian Symphony Orchestra Schnittke Tikhon Khrennikov"

I would like to find music that has some flow to it and easy to follow and not the stuff that is all over the place with nothing to follow. I love Piano and Violin, the likes of Secret Garden although I know it is not classical.

I did just listen to Scheherazade from Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall which is classical done rock style.

Please give me a starting point and TIA.


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George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue might be a good way to ease into classical music.

 

[NewAlkyogre]

The trouble with Classical music (as you have already found out) is that is covers such a wide range of periods and styles, requires a variety of performers (orchestras, solo instruments, singers, choirs, etc) and was written over many hundreds of years. You really need to sample lots of pieces before you can decide what style of classical music you enjoy. Personally, I don't enjoy much Early Music, Renaissance, or Baroque, but others love this stuff. I listen mainly to music written since Beethoven's time, so what is known as the Classical, Romantic and Modern periods - music mostly written since about 1800.

Your best bet is to tune into a classical music radio station and listen to their varied offerings and you'll soon find what you like and what you don’t. I suggest Classic FM, a UK-based radio station that's available worldwide via internet services such as TuneIn that most streamer should be able to provide. This station plays constant, relatively "light" and popular classical music and each piece is introduced (without too much babble), but there are adverts to annoy you! Your streamer’s screen or control app should show you what’s playing at any time, so you can make notes of pieces you enjoy.

Other more serious stations such as BBC3 also play plenty of music but there are also long and often heavydiscussions on music or composer subjects - and much of that is rather too obscure for newcomers to classical music.

Good luck – there’s lots of truly great music out there to enjoy.

to be precise, classical music started at the ancient Greek from at least 6 centuries before Christ.

From there it was spread to the Roman empire and the rest of Europe.