Classical Music Favorites

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-01-06 04:00am

I did a search and didn't find any threads devoted solely to classical music favorites, so here it is.

I like most anything by Bach (I grew up on Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach), Gustav Holst's The Planets, Debussy's Clair de Lune on piano, but tonight I dug out an old tape that still moves me after 10 years of listening to it: the second movement of Vivaldi's Gloria in D. The tape I have is of a performance by the USSR Academic Russian Choir and the Moscow Conservatoire Students' Orchestra (which I like because it's not so 'operatic', read no vibrato), and there's just something about it that sends chills up and down my spine. *brrrr*

What are some of yours?

edit: added a piece, and clarified something

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-01-06 04:35am

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

'Nuf said.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-01-06 05:34am

I like the William Tell Overture

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-06 06:31am

1812 Overture takes it IMO.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-01-06 07:45am

Bach's Brandenburg concerts are my favourites.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-01-06 07:50am

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Can anyone can guess why, based on what you know about me?

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2003-01-06 10:33am

A Night on Bald Mountain

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2003-01-06 12:06pm

Holst's The Planets especially Mars. Albinoni's Adagio if I feel depressed. Finally Elgar's Pomp and Cirumstance

kheegster · Post by **kheegster** » 2003-01-06 12:42pm

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.3. Like Concierto de Aranjuez as well...my target is to get it in my rep within 5 years.

KG

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-01-06 03:21pm

Adedgeo for Strings by Barber

Makes me think of homeworld

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2003-01-06 03:25pm

"In the Halls of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg.

Just thinking about it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

"Morning Mood" by Edvard Grieg
"Nutcracker Suite" by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
"Spring" by Antonio Vivaldi
"Gaudete" bt the Midiaeval Babes

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
Le Nozze di Figaro.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Eine Musikalischer Spass

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-01-06 03:51pm

Beethoven's 5th, 9th, and Feur D'Elise.

Bond'sandTrans-Siberien Orchestra'smusic, which is really more like Neo-Classical, but still.

Ignorant_Boy · Post by **Ignorant_Boy** » 2003-01-06 04:50pm

La campanella by Franz Liszt...
Don't ask why; I don't know...

Artanis · Post by **Artanis** » 2003-01-06 04:54pm

Russian Sailors' Dance

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-01-06 05:00pm

St. Pauls opus - That guy that did the planets, can't remember his name

Sarabande - Handel (AKA that tune from the Levi's ad)

Palladio - ?

Fur Elisse - Beethoven

Nothing Else Matters - Apocolyptica (depends on your POV on whether or not their classical)

The Unforgiven - Also Apocolyptica

Peter and the Wolf - Some russian shap

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-01-06 05:01pm

Anthing in the origional Fantasia except for the very last one.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-01-06 07:57pm

Too many to name.

But, here are a few anyway...

Greig: Piano Concerto in A, Peer Gynt Suites
Copeland: Apalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man
Gershwin: What isn't good.
Mozart: Symphony #29, Clarinet Concerto
Beethoven: quite a few.
Mahler: Symphony #5

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-01-06 08:26pm

I take it we mean "classical" as in non-pop, non-rock, etc? Since someone cited some Metallica (which is good, but certainly not classical by any stretch), I think I'll be safe with my choices. Some are too modern to be truly 'classical,' but they fall into that general genre, so here.

"Waternight" by Eric Whitacre (a capella choir piece, most beautiful thing even written)
"String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor" by Ludwig van Beethoven
"String Quartet No. ? in C-minor" by Ludwig van Beethoven
"Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Paganini" by James Barnes
"Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber
"Lullaby" (the original piano version) by George Gershwin
"Requiem" (especially the Lacrimosa) by Wolfgang Mozart
"Watchman, Tell Us of the Night" by Mark Camphouse
"Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff
"The Erlkoing" by Franz Schubert
"Petrushka" by Igor Stravinsky
"The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Mozart
"Scheherazade" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
"Capriccio Espagnol" by Piotr Tchaikovsky
"Arabian Dance" from "The Nutcracker Ballet" by Piotr Tchaikovsky
"Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" by Richard Wagner

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-01-06 08:30pm

Zaia wrote: "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" by Richard Wagner

I have a reason for despising this piece.
Always used in Graduation. Ick.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-01-06 08:44pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
Zaia wrote:"Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" by Richard Wagner
I have a reason for despising this piece.
Always used in Graduation. Ick.

Oh, really? I've only played it once, with a professional orchestra in northern VA, and it was gorgeous....... It's the only part of my wedding I've thought about; I want that piece played at some point. Of course, to do it well, means I have to hire an entire orchestra...so I'm looking for a hella-rich man.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-01-06 08:54pm

"Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-01-06 09:05pm

Marche Funebre by Chopin.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-01-06 09:13pm

Gah! Forgot Chopin! Thanks, Andrew!

"Fantasie Impromptu" by Frederick Chopin

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-06 10:04pm

For "true classical":

Dies Irae by Verdi
The Planets by Holst
Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg
Firebird Suite (don't remember by who)

for more "neo-classical":

pretty much anything by David Holsinger (In The Spring When Kings Go Off To War; To Tame The Perilous Skies)
most of Samuel Barber (Overture to the School for Scandal; Adagio for Strings; Medea's Dance of Vengeance)

I've played all pieces mentioned except Firebird.