Psychedelia and Classical Music

[@sukhjeetsekhon3525]

Could you do a Classics explained of Ravel's: Daphnis et Chloé? Please, it's a beautiful piece, but I want to learn more about it!

[@ClassicsExplained]

Love this piece so much

[@bosccoh]

And Gaspard de la nuit !!!

[@edwardchen9619]

i just LOVE the expressions and body gestures when you're conveying any message. really cute.

[@leadbone1]

I micro-dose lsd for depression and anxiety. It works. Ravel and Debussy are two of the best composers to listen to while dosing.

[@markpaterson2053]

I hear so much Debussy in Ravel's music

[@ericleiter6179]

Berlioz, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, the Minimalists and Scriabin are all excellent choices...I may add, Varese, Xenakis, Alan Hovhaness, and especially...Morton Feldman

[@servusbanane1753]

I like these small bits. Keep them coming!

[@ClassicsExplained]

Thanks :)

[@Tr1sh4Lynn]

Agreed. It's a smart way to provide content between animated episodes.

[@waterglas21]

Great recomendations, I agree with all of them. I would personally add into the psychedelic classical genre: - Rautavaara (Probably Sibelius best student) - Erik Satie (Who also inspired Debussy sound) - György Ligeti (Athmospheres used in 2001 Space Odyssey is pretty psychedelic) - Jonny Greenwood (The Master OST is really dreamy and Debussy inspired) - Some Bela Bartok´s works are pretty eerie and mind-bending (Pe-loc and his music for strings percussion and celesta)

[@ClassicsExplained]

Fantastic suggestions - thank you. Ligeti needs to get better known outside of classical music fans. And Rautavaara is an extremely cool left field suggestion! Great!

[@bungalmcmoistal8524]

If you like Bartok, I reccomend King Crimson's album Larks' Tongues in Aspic, especially the first and last songs

[@waterglas21]

@@bungalmcmoistal8524 I was just listening to that album a few days and you are totally right. Thanks for the sugestion.

[@jackwilson4892]

Love your videos- keep up the good work!

[@robertpoole9258]

Definitely Scriabin's 4th Sonata - really feels like he's creating something completely new right in front of you.

[@ClassicsExplained]

:)

[@pinkled4429]

Bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and King crimson used Classical musical ideas mixed with Psychedelics of the 60s.

[@GekoPish]

I would love to see this show. Psychedelic music is my bag.

[@gregpreston3676]

I’d love to see a classics explained of Prokofiev’s 5th and Mahler symphonies :)

[@MiguelLopez-ep3cy]

My favourite psychedelic piece besides the one you recommended has to be "Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ" by Steve Reich... Absolutely mesmerising.

[@octavefelix8278]

Very interesting, looking forward to watching your video about the symphonie fantastique !

[@andrewnguyen1220]

Can you do Ma Vlast (My Fatherland) by Bedrich Smetana

[@StateoftheWorld]

So glad to see you guys still growing! Keep it up!

[@Jakubjbrunner]

This was so good, I will follow the prescription. Also Béla Bartók has some really good stuff . His string quartets opens new spheres.

[@ClassicsExplained]

Fantastic suggestion - a few people have mentioned Bartok. Love his stuff

[@pogeman2345]

I have a psychedelic piece to recommend: Sinfonia domestica. It is so... weird. It has a narrative, motifs, and a developing story much like Symphonie fantastique. It's supposed to depict a family and it sounds so chaotic and trippy sometimes.

[@ClassicsExplained]

Thanks so much for this - what I love about this suggestion is that this is the tone poem I know least well by Strauss!

[@pentaxel3905]

Could you do an explanation of Petrushka by Stravinsky? It's another part of the Ballet Russe by Diaghilev, and I'd like to know deep into its development and story of the ballet!

[@neilr5208]

Daphnis and Chloe please???

[@tirolerhut79]

Janacek’s weird and amazing music also comes to mind, Sinfonietta and Glagolitic mass

[@kadehoward6444]

Have you ever heard of the the album Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues? It is an album that is a mix of Psychedelic Prog rock and classical symphonies, making a quirky but interesting album. You should definitely check it out if you have the time!

[@bungalmcmoistal8524]

Reccomend it as well, the 1970s prog rock movement was really influenced by classical music

[@ClassicsExplained]

Yes! Thanks for this - great observation/suggestion

[@Superphilipp]

I really have to second the Scriabin suggestion ... especially the later _poèmes_ und _morceaux._ Maria Lettberg gives them an organic feel, as if the music itself were alive and breathing. Intense!

[@ClassicsExplained]

Thank you for this!

[@Superphilipp]

@@ClassicsExplained Thank _you_ for your fantastic content! Looking forward to the Berlioz

[@vicboi87]

Had no idea this guy would be this hot

[@Poeme340]

I discovered Scriabin’s late piano works during a dark period some 30 years ago and it was life altering. I was dreaming of a different, more intoxicating, more beautiful world and then I realized that he had already created it. Indescribable music.👍

[@ClassicsExplained]

Fantastic!

[@alonsoordonez6407]

do u think Julian Carrillo's music may be called "Psychedelic"? early 20th century composer. Lovely videos u got on this channel

[@asherperkinsmusic2767]

Bring on Berlioz!

[@robertoveloso2691]

Dude, I've got very hyped about the next video...

[@andrewhandley6793]

You're explanations are unrivaled on KZbin. A classics explained suggestions would be Camille saints-saen's 'Danse Macabre', it's my favourite classical piece.

[@ClassicsExplained]

This is really very much appreciated! I’m currently researching and writing a saint-Saens script :)

[@hoangkimviet8545]

An interesting theme to me.

[@jakemcnamee9417]

I can send the playlists that inlilento use when tripping.

[@americana3555]

Please do “Prince Igor” I really like the transition from Borodin’s work to Mussorsky’s and Korsakov’s.

[@hectorrbassoon]

Saint-Saëns bassoon sonata definitely, I sure you it's awesome even for not bassoonists, moreover it's op.168 which means he wrote it before dying

[@ClassicsExplained]

Great suggestion!

[@zackl7467]

Could you do a video on pierrot lunaire? Its a haunting cycle

[@WineConno1sseur]

Thanks for subtitling😎

[@chrishenniker5944]

My tastes are more towards Nuggets era garage and freakbeat, but this is a good guide to psychedelic classical music. I’m even thinking of suggesting a Victorian psychedelic ball to the organisers of the Proms, just to see how they react. There’s also a really good video on KZbin about the history of psychedelic music from Varese right the way through to music concrete through psychedelic soul to acid house and Shoegaze.

[@benjaminsteinmusic]

I really can imagine how fascinating this experience must have been to Debussy. It was to me, too, but unfortunately wasn't live. It should be pointed out that Gamelan music is also using other tonal systems and intonations that might sound really odd to some ears. So I'm really happy Debussy was open enough to take this experience as an inspiration and enrichment to his own compositions. I guess many other composers might have just thought this was weird out of tune music and the superior Western classical music doesn't need any taste of that. As I love both styles I like to add that in my opinion psychedelic and western classical music have lots in common. Psychedelic music other than most popular music is often taking its time to tell stories, draw pictures through its musical content and invites the listener to a journey. Several songs can be heard or even were composed in movements (just not necessarily divided by silence), parts can be very different in dynamics and intensity, tonality. Just a big difference is the lack of improvisation in classical music and in live situations the physical experience is different. Some years ago I was performing in the piece "Marco Polo - La Ruta de la seda" by Luis Serrano Alarcón" where a drug trip is performed by the orchestra.

[@ClassicsExplained]

Thanks so much for this really thoughtful and fascinating comment - yes, some admirably open ears and open mind

[@max-if7wk]

Stockhausen puts me in the best headspace

[@ClassicsExplained]

Big fan of the helicopter quartet here!

[@WildMen4444]

Or you could really go on a trip and listen to these while on Psychedelics! Best of both worlds

[@pinkchanelgirl5]

Mr Handsome is back 😍😍😍

[@timon7357]

Maurice Duruflé's requiem is pretty psychadelic I think

[@redbrian3655]

Wow.. you mentioned Scriabin whom I only knew by name, so I found his 24 Preludes, Op.11... and LOVED them. I am a trained Baroque artist, so Scriabin was a treat I might never have heard apart from your "drug induced" recommendation!-haha Thanks Benjamin.

[@ClassicsExplained]

I am so, so happy you took the plunge! That's what this channel is for. Scriabin can be quite tough to get into. For Baroque psychedelia, I actually Gesualdo is a good one!

[@redbrian3655]

@@ClassicsExplained I listened to more Scriabin today and really enjoyed it. Oh yes.. Gesualdo...me no likey him!

[@grisha4167]

Arvo Part, Schnittke, Ciurlionis

[@ClassicsExplained]

All great suggestions

[@markpaterson2053]

Yeah, if Ives (my fav composer) can be recognised despite being such an outsider, surely Scriabin is also worth looking into.

[@DynastieArtistique]

Scriabin Sonata 8...

[@asherperkinsmusic2767]

Very interesting! If Scriabin hadn't died too early, he would have taken classical in a much different (and I would speculate better) direction than Schoenberg and Cage and all them.

[@ClassicsExplained]

Great observation

[@jakemcnamee9417]

I don't like the dub music that they always try and associate with psycadellics. I listen to renaissance, medieval and classical while tripping. The synisthisia from tripping makes this the ideal type of music. My favorite thing to do is mix poppy tea , magic mushrooms and some cannabis edibles, and close my eyes and listen to this beauty.

[@pietrayday9915]

I think I could recommend just about all of these suggestions to heavy metal fans as well, with metal being sort of a cousin to both psychedelic and prog rock. (Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" famously inspired the boys in Black Sabbath to write what many would consider the first heavy metal song, "Black Sabbath", on the first heavy metal album of the same name!) I was just writing yesterday about how "The Rite of Spring" was "one of the most metal ballets ever!", and also about just how weird and nightmarishly trippy the whole production was, between the strange, discordant music, the bizarre choreography, and the surreal stage designs and costumes, and heavy metal does owe a debt in part to the futurist and avant-garde aspects of some of the modern "classical" music (absorbed into metal in part through metal bands' interest in horror movie soundtracks) - I think much the same could be said for psychedelic rock as well, for example the wonderfully heavy long versions of Iron Butterfly's supremely psychedelic "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida", to my ear, fits right into the avant-garde and futurist aesthetic, while a lot of Pink Floyd's darker music (e.g. "Atom Heart Mother") haunts that strange middle ground shared between psychedelica, the stranger side of prog, the trippier side of heavy music, and the avant-garde side of "classical" music....

[@markpaterson2053]

I'm such a snob. You mention the Beatles being inspired, I keep a straight face; you mention Debussy being inspired by the indonesian gamelan and suddenly my ears prick up.

[@logia7]

I am confused ngl

[@_rstcm]

Excellent work on your videos. Not that I am nit-picking or anything, but u r pronouncing Shankar as Shænkār, when it is supposed to be Shənkər.

[@ClassicsExplained]

Thanks!

[@_rstcm]

@@ClassicsExplained ur welcome. 😁