Favourite Classical Pieces?

Personally I love Albinoni's Adagio. I think this is the most emotionally gripping piece of music I know. I always feel so sad after listening to it

Bach's Jesu Joy of Mans Desire always seems so mathematically correct somehow. Kind of simple I suppose compared to other works or his.

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet puts this very strong visual of a horrid lanky dictator marching past peasents taking what small change they have... kinda weird huh?

 

Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances is my number one.

 

at the moment i've been hooked on corelli's christmas concerto. i love it!

i also love 'the lark' quartet by haydn.

 

One of my favorites is undoubtedly Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Other notable mentions are Borodin's Polovitsian Dances, In the Steppes of Cental Asia; Moussorgsky's A Night On Bald Maountain; Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite; Ravel's Bolero; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, just to name a few. FTR, Romeo and Juliet was composed by Tchaikovsky not Prokofiev.

 

Rachmaninoff's Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14 sets the mood.

 

Beethoven, Grieg, & Rachmaninov

 

Canterloube - Songs Of The Auvergne

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I'm not a classical aficianado... But Beethoven's Ode to Joy, especially the 2nd movement, Mozart's Requiem, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons I have all enjoyed.

I also really like Walter/Wendy Carlos Williams album "Switched-On Bach" on which she recorded a bunch of Bach pieces on the moog.

 

Pachobel's Canon

 

Mozart Horn Concertos
Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro
Beethoven EVERYTHING (almost)
Mahler Symphony No. 5
and a lot more, especially baroque

 

Stravinsky - The Rites Of Spring

Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition

Vaughn Williams (English composer but the Ozzie film 'the year my voice broke' uses it) - 'The Lark Ascending'

 

Hmm... at the moment, most likely Brahms cello sonata in e minor and his other in f somithing... major i think. And Dvoraks serenade for strings. lovely And i love Schumann, Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Faure isnt bad!
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Rachmaninov's 3rd concerto

 

Debussy Prelude a L'apres midi d'un faun
Schubert Death and the Maiden string quartet

 

Beethoven' s Moonlight Sonata....Isn't it just...beautiful? peace

 

Chopin's Preludes and Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'.. I also love Thomas Newman's work on the movie 'Road To Perdition'.

 

The 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata is the bestest.

Lot's of guitar music by greats such as Villa Lobos,Tarréga and so forth. Namely Villa Lobos' Prelude no. 5 and Tarréga's..everything.

 

you mean Pachelbel's Canon......that's my favorite piece, too......very relaxing.....

 

the lark ascending vaughan williams
einstein on the beach,satyagraha philip glass
l'apres-midi d'une faune debussy
rothko's chapel morton feldman
the seasons john cage (great collection of stuff on there)
miserere allegri
aida guiseppe verdi
monteverdi (pretty much anything really)
different trains steve reich
stravinsky rite of spring
benjamin britten
phrygian gates john adams
clarinet sonatas brahms
quartet for the end of time messiaen
vincenzo galilei
anything by these guys, des pres, du fay, palestrina and byrd.
i am stopping now or i will go on forever and ever.

 

i forgot, on the transmigration of souls john adams