what is some really dissonant classical music w/ lots of feeling???

Question

name some from the top of your head and il go from there.

i listen to metal so i know dissonant. i want craziness w/ lots of drums and all kinds of crazy singing with instruments going wild.

Answer 1

go for Poulenc. I played some of him in college, but didn't do a LOT of dissonance. As far as *far out* goes, I really enjoyed him.

Answer 2

This may not be quite where you expected to be going, but have a taste of Gesualdo's madrigals from books V & VI of 1611, for instance the madrigals 'Moro, lasso, al mio duolo' or 'Beltà, poi che t'assenti', while, from quite another age, Chopin's a-minor Prelude op.28 no. 2, just as startling now as when it was written, should never be overlooked.

From the 20thC, I'll add Hans Werner Henze's 2nd Piano Concerto of 1967 to the roll-call.

Answer 3

Try Five Piano Pieces Op.23 - Arnold Schoenberg
or... Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op.42 (Schoenberg again).

Well you did say dissonant!

Answer 4

Dmitri Shostakovich, really passionate, lots of percussion in the symphonies.
Also try Bela Bartok, 'Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste', and other works.
If you want to leap about and never be depressed again try Zoltan Kodaly's 'Hary Janos' suite.
And of course, for the singing, Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana'.
Enjoy.

Answer 5

I'll give you a very good one - the Mahler 10th symphony, the 1st movement (which he completed) is both dissonant and extremely emotional.

Also some of the Vaughn-Williams symphonies, and the Elgar 2nd symphony have these qualities.

Answer 6

Debussy - L'apres Midi D'un Faune
Wagner - Prelude to Tristan and Isolde

Answer 7

Here's some of my favorites:

Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celest"
Prokofiev 7th Piano Sonata
Stravinsky "Rite of Spring" (of course)
Ligeti "Lux Aeterna"

Answer 8

The soprano aria "Se pieta" from Handel's Giulio Caesare ..... I love it but it is a bit spiky, now that I think of it .... and certainly full of feeling: "If you do not feel pity for me, o Merciful Heavens, {surely} I will die ...." and the ever-so 'spiky' aria, same role, same opera, "Da tempeste" .....

The opening of "Come scoglio", Fiordiligi's aria from Mozart's opera, "Cosi fan tutte" is quite a zinger! Amazing, in fact.

the opening of the scena "Ocean, thou mighty monster" from "Oberon" by Carl Maria von Weber also might fit your specifications very nicely ...

from Bellini's opera, "Norma", 'Deh! non volerti vittime'

or "Ombre pallide" from Handel's opera "Alcina"

and, last .....heheh .... but not *least*!!! the opening bars of the overture of Hans Werner Henze's "Der Junge Lord" of which I could stand just about 20 seconds of listening, and then it was consigned for ever and ever to my "no no" list.......aaaaaargh. But, for your purposes, it might be of use!

Answer 9

One of my favorites is 'O Magnum Mysterium'. Both the choral and ensemble arrangements are good.