And here’s classical music that slaps (actually one of my alltime favourites), although the composer had short hair.
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Vivaldi was able to compose what Spring initially feels like.
The violins are the optimism. The cellos give the feeling of preparing for something. It’s two cleverly contrasting moods simultaneously.
Then Spring 2 comes in with its more ominous nature… Spring 3 feels to me like building fortitude.
It’s a healing piece for me. I feel content after listening to it.
I know it’s not cool and has been killed by shitty theme park adverts, but this is actually a pretty crazy piece of music, if you imagine yourself hearing it for the first time… my seven year old and I enjoy bouncing around to it.
At the other end of the scale, probably the only piece of music that can make me cry
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Wrong type of long hair?
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Size on that bass guitar!
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Needs more Motörhead.
Which I now associate with the descent into madness in:
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Rite of Spring is a classic slapper 
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…with all due respect, but vivaldi was a punk, not a hippie…
don’t be fooled by the wigs…that was all just snobbery camouflage back then…
as always, brilliant mindset beats shady attitude…
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Varèse was serious
Long hair for long hair
Fuck you, Hitler!
My favourite Xenakis
No-one knew how to fuck a piano like Bartók
Almost forgot Ligeti
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Must be a generation after the 70s because ‘long hairs’ to my mum’s generation refers to hippies, hence why I thought this would be a thread about folk!
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Steely Dan were punks too!
Well, I heard it from my maternal Grandmother regarding my father, who became a lawyer after being stationed in Germany during the cold war and never had long hair. I guess my Grandmother was a part of the “greatest generation” she was certainly the greatest Grandmother I could ask for but I think regarded classical music as a snobbish pursuit.
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Here’s Jascha Heifetz as an old man, playing a bit of Bach on the telly (1971):
The piece (Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. “Chaconne”) was written by J.S. Bach at the height of his creative powers, after arriving home from a big work trip to discover that his wife was dead, and had been for a month. She was fit and healthy when he left, so it came as quite a shock.
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A couple more.
Here’s a nice bit of Liszt:
Jorge Bolet - Un Sospiro: Allegro Affettuoso [Franz Liszt, Étude S. 144 No. 3]
And here’s some Scriabin, recorded to piano rolls by the composer himself, back in 1910. It’s a bit like discovering antiquated MIDI tracks:
I go through waves of listening to classical music. There’s a great radio station for it in Finland. I’ve tried a lot of stations from everywhere and it’s the best I’ve found:
Come to think of it, here’s a famous “tone poem” about a Finnish swan:
Jean Sibelius - Lemminkäinen In Tuonela [Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, 1929]
Also, I think it’s worth noting that there are so many different versions of everything out there - recordings of different orchestras and conductors etc. - it can be worth trying out a few if you feel that something’s not slapping, but it could slap. I gravitate towards early 20th century recordings, myself.
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can’t go wrong with:
I went and saw some ballet at Lincoln Center last night “21st Century Choregraph” at Lincoln Center. One piece (the only one I liked) used compositions from Du Yun including this piece which was interesting and speaking of metal it had these metal guitar bits which wafted in. I thought they were prerecorded or something until I saw the guitarist in the pit 
Beautiful.
One of the few pieces of music that makes me well-up every time I listen to it.
The same happened to a student when I played it during a music lesson.
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