Question Music to paint by?

[Harry Faversham]

Much as I hate to admit this. But I'm suspicioned that you shower are probably a tad more fookin' cultured... than an ex binman from Sheffield!
With this in mind suggestions for soothing classical musicy stuff to paint toys by, please.

[jon_1066]

Surely it depends on what you are painting?

Germans from WW2 maybe the Wagner Ring Cycle (would give you enough for a very long painting session, though not what you would call soothing)

British maybe Vaughan Williams?  Elgar would fit nicely also.

Fantasy - Lord of the Rings soundtrack

Sci Fi - Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss

In all seriousness Classic FM usually plays pretty accessible classical music (ie not something that sounds like 1000 monkeys let loose in the orchestra pit) so you could just pop that on.

[zemjw]

Rasio 3 is as good a place to start as any. The pieces don't tend to be too long so, even if it's opera (shudder), then something different will be on soon enough - and no adverts!

I have a couple of collections that I listen to from time to time (100 soothing classics kind of thing). I also paint along to Helen Jane Long, as it is nice relaxing piano pieces, with no cannon fire to make the brush jump at the wrong moment

[Kourtchatovium104]

It's a matter of taste of course, but I think Gregorian chants are very soothing. 

[boneio]

Being working class absolutely does not imply being less cultured, I can show you a lot of inverse examples 

If you have Spotify, I get really absorbed in a playlist called Choir Classics - it's really nice for setting a cosy atmosphere with a perhaps a couple of candles lit as well.. I'm getting old aren't I 

More specifically the Tallis Scholars do early music which is then period-appropriate for a lot of wargames... and it's pretty chilled out, no cannons going off and the like as another poster mentioned above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tallis_Scholars

[Daeothar]

Can't help you much there, as I'm a fully committed metalhead myself, and even though it's soothing to my ear, I'm fully aware that this is not to everyone's taste 

But I've never been limited to just one genre, and I do occasionally listen to (modern) classical music too. So here's the not much I mentioned: I find the Canto Ostinato by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt to be especially entrancing and soothing, maybe even hypnotising and I've painted many hours listening to it...

[Dubar]

Classical?!?!?!  Does Dead Can Dead sound about right??? BWAHAHAHAHA

Agnes Obel works too.

[Michi]

Any composition by Bill Murray for BBC‘s Doctor Who. You‘ll find a lot on Youtube.

[TWD]

4'33" by John Cage. On repeat.

[carlos marighela]

Millie Jackson.



Or maybe if you want to impress the neigbours a spot of Phillip Glass.



Now if you are doing 7YW, the choice is obvious. Anything from the soundtrack of the film Barry Lyndon. Schubert, Handel etc.

[Richard from Bruton]

Vivaldi - Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater. Dufay - anything. Lully - Ballet Music for the Sun King. Monteverdi - Vespro.

[Andy in Germany]

Being working class absolutely does not imply being less cultured, I can show you a lot of inverse examples 

Dead right.

I'm not much of a "music" person myself, but I listen to endless reams of podcasts while painting/modelmaking.

[Von Trinkenessen]

If it's speed painting it has got to be Motorhead 
Sorry Guys but for me 90% of classical music is a dead music genre.

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

For Napoleonics it has to be Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, popularly known as the Emperor Concerto, albeit for no valid reason. It’s a key work in the canon, without the cannon.

[2010sunburst]

Following on from the others…..Delius, pretty much anything.  Respighi, Fountains of Rome.  Bach, Brandenburg concertos. Beethoven, Pastoral symphony,  Missa Solemnis and pretty much any of the Piano sonatas.  Elgar, Cello concert (by Du Pres if possible).  Literally anything by Mozart.  Sibelius tone poems. Vaughn Williams, Lark ascending.  These should give you a good leg up.  Trouble is, you might find yourself stopping painting and just getting lost in the music.  Don’t do yourself down either.  My mum was a cleaner and she taught me how to enjoy this stuff….
Don’t bother with Classic FM, by the way.  It only plays bits and pieces of whole works.  Sort of like someone reading your favourite books to you by quoting random chapters….