Favourite Classical Pieces?

Shostakovich - 7th Symphony
Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky
Wagner - Parsifal
Schubert - String Quintet, D.956
Glass - Akhnaten
Mozart - Requiem

 

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("The Resurrection")...my favorite music of all time.

Beyond that, there's really too much to mention. I'm into a lot of the great composers, especially the late romantics. Dvorak, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Bruckner...the list goes on...and 20th century composers such as Copland, Bartok, and Shostokovich.

 

Beethoven - "Fur Elise"

 

Oh, Tchikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 in B Flat Minor.

 

Check out Shostakovich!

 

for a gorgeous lush heart wrenching sound it has to be rachmaninoff. listen to the second movement of 2nd and 3rd piano concertoes but also the andante cantabile from the paganini variations. but the most beautiful piece of music he has written must surely be the slow movement of his piano and cello sonata (I despair that he wrote only one).

puccini too has some beautiful huge sweeping melodies and they can be as over the top mushy as rach can . whenever I wish to hear a piece of music heavy with unshed tears these are the two composers I come back to.

 

Bach: 'Largo ma non tanto' from Concerto for 2 violins in D minor
Berloz:'passion et reveres' from Symphony Fantastique
Tchaikovsky: La Fee des Lilas, and serenade for strings
Faure: 'pavane'
Brahms:hungarin dance no 5

 

I noticed I am among good company with the fans of Moonlight Sonata, by Beethoven...how's about Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt? I also dig some Tchaikovsky pieces.

 

Clarinet Concerto in A Major (Adagio) - Mozart

Such a beautiful piece. The first time I heard this I was in love. I've been obsessed with the song for a while, I'd like to learn how to play it.

Water Music - Handel

The piece, or pieces I should say that got me into classical music. I heard a certain recording of the Andante movement which had the bassoon playing the melody! Also I pretty much love Baroque music. This is no exception, all of the movements are fantastic, from the fast movement to the slow (and somewhat saddening) slow movement.

Vivaldi

He's my favorite composer for a reason. I have so many pieces I love by him. His Oboe sonatas are really awesome. I also love the Summer and Spring movements of his Four Seasons. His Bassoon Concertos are among my favorites (with Weber's being my favorite.) The guy was a genius. As I said I love Baroque music, I don't know what I'd do without it.

Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

Finally, a popular piece that everybody should recognize. It is by far my favorite piece that's played exclusively by the piano. It's just really beautiful, I don't know what else to say about it. XD

The Rite Of Spring - Stravinsky

The bassoon solo at the very beginning. Enough said.

There are so many other pieces that I like, such as Marcello's Oboe Concerto, but it would take forever to list them all and I have some homework to do. XD

 

i guess people are refering to the first movement of the moonlight. good correction on the canon vs moonlight sonata played on the guitar. i don't think a guitarist can play the 3rd movement .if i'm not mistaken it starts with the ripping arpegios in c#m, then G# etc.. havent looked at the piece in a while.. you've all named so much, what's left for an absolut lyrical condensation of beauty, look at that tenor aria near the end of Tosca.. should bring tears to your eyes.. much more powerful to me than maddam butterfly's un belle di vendremo but the duo in that is powerful too.. man, so much good music to listen to, so many great books to read, so many nice people to chat with.. life expectancy needs to be expanded a couple hundred years a least!

 

My favorite I was watching the Tom and Jerry version on youtube :&

 

luciano berio - sinfonia

 

ode to joy from beethovens 9th synphony.. i could listen to that piece all day everyday

 

moonlight sonata... ^_^

 

and this bach piece by tenacious d...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93mby5Iym0

 

Lute Suite No 1 in Em BWV 996, Bouree
That is the first part of the song he is playing, I didnt watch the whole video but if I remember the clip correctly, they move onto, I believe, something by Mozart? I have to watch the clip though

 

Chopin's Berceuse Op. 57.

I'm not really into classical music but this peice is awesome.
I'm trying to learn how to play it but i suck at piano so i dont know...

JOn

 

"Aretusa's Spring", "Narcissus", "Litany to Virgin Mary", Violin Concerto No.1, op.35 by Karol Szymanowski
"Syrinx" Claude debussy
"Festina Lente", "Fratres", "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten" Arvo Part
"Apollo" Igor Stravinsky
"Winterreise" Franz Schubert
Eric Satie
"Songs on the Death of Children", "The Youth's Magic Horn", "Symphony no. 3 and 5 by Gustav Mahler
"Nessun dorma" from "Turandot" by Puccini
"Requiem" Mozart
"Tristan and Isolde" Wagner

 

I very much like *PLEASE FORGIVE ME ON THE SPELLING* Beethoven's...Le Pathetique (is that right?)

I like so many different classical pieces, though I always forget the names. Normally I listen to them without seeing the name of the piece.

 

Debussy´s Claire of lune, from Bergamasque suite and ¨La catedral sumergida¨.( I dont know how to write it in english).