In need of Classical Music Recommendations

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2004-01-12 11:12pm

Alright, I need some beautiful yet sad classical songs. Any suggestions?

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-01-12 11:26pm

I've always liked Mozart - Greensleeves, but that's just me.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2004-01-12 11:53pm

It's not strictly classical, but it's darn close...Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings. It was used for President Kennedy's funeral, and in the movies Platoon and Lorenzo's Oil.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-13 12:15am

Vivaldi - Winter (from The Four Seasons)

Wagner - Funeral March (from Twilight of the Gods)

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-01-13 12:23am

The Four Seasons was by Vivaldi, iirc.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-13 12:26am

Bach's Cello Suites as performed by Yo-yo Ma.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2004-01-13 12:37am

Requiem, K 626 by Mozart

Air on a G-String (seriously) from Suite No. 3 by Bach

St. Matthew Passion, Final Chorus by Bach

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-13 12:51am

Nathan F wrote:The Four Seasons was by Vivaldi, iirc.

Shit on a stick, you're right! That's what I get for not getting enough sleep.

Another good one:

Chopin- Etude In C Minor Op. 25 No. 12

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-01-13 02:16am

kojikun wrote:Bach's Cello Suites as performed by Yo-yo Ma.

koji doesn't know what he's talking about. Get 'em by Pablo Casals. (and ver has more say, being a classical instrumentalist - Ma doesn't have *nearly* the amount of tone or passion Casals does)

Or check out this thread for loads of classical reccommendations.

~ver

Baron Scarpia · Post by **Baron Scarpia** » 2004-01-13 10:29pm

Nathan F wrote:I've always liked Mozart - Greensleeves, but that's just me.

I don't recall Mozart doing a "Greensleeves," but Ralph Vaughan-Williams certainly did.

Speaking of him, check out his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Would fit the bill nicely.

How about Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata? Also, the Allegretto from his 7th Symphony.

Brahms - his songs can be quite melancholy. Highly recommend them for somberness. Also, the third movement from Symphony No. 3 is justly famous as a bit of sadness.

Mahler - Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children).

Mussorgsky - Songs and Dances of Death. Also bits from his opera Boris Godunov are quite gloomy.

Puccini - "E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca is a rather despairing tenor aria.

Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor - finest chamber work of the 20th century.

That's but a smattering.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2004-01-14 03:42am

First and fourth movements of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-14 04:12am

J.S. Bach - Ich Ruf' Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 and Prélude and Fugue in f# (don't have the bwv on me sorry, but book two of the well tempered clavier) and "The B Minor Mass" BWV 232

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-01-14 06:34am

Another "contemporary" classical composition I quite like is Of Hearth and Home by Brandon Strevell. I might be a bit biased, since the composer is something of a friend of mine

, but it's a really, really nice piece, regardless.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-01-14 10:58am

Baron Scarpia wrote:
Nathan F wrote:I've always liked Mozart - Greensleeves, but that's just me.
I don't recall Mozart doing a "Greensleeves," but Ralph Vaughan-Williams certainly did.

I was thinking that Mozart was the original composer of it...but I'm very possibly mistaken.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2004-01-14 04:20pm

Does anyone know who truly composed the "Greensleeves" that King Henry VIII supposedly composed?