Favorite classical pieces

[Fragony]

Well we did composers, can't love everything one does. I am of the minimalist church, less is more.

My favorite classical piece: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=MqAqQiP61co&mode=related&search=

Ravel, Tzigane, a haunting piece that only a few can play.

My second favorite, Gnossiene #3 by Satie. Surprisingly hard to play.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=d974kMNcVlQ&mode=related&search=

Third, also Satie

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=IR2J32l_2JU&mode=related&search=

Gimme.

[Moros]

Beethoven: 14th sonata "Quasi una fantasia" opus numerus 27 n°2 in C-sharp. Or like the English call it: "moonlight sonata".

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=O6txOvK-mAk

[Fragony]

Gah I could write that. Don't want to be insulting to people without taste ~;) but Beethoven, and especially Mozart, with a few exceptions, wrote hidiously straightforward music, make a few notes and wrap an orchestra around it.

Bleh.

[Moros]

Gah I could write that. Don't want to be insulting to people without taste ~;) but Beethoven, and especially Mozart, with a few exceptions, wrote hidiously straightforward music, make a few notes and wrap an orchestra around it.

Bleh.
if you don't want to be insluting to people without taste, try not to be insulting on people with taste next time.:yes:

[naut]

Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpPk8qk3uQ). The most relaxing music ever.

[Pannonian]

Well we did composers, can't love everything one does. I am of the minimalist church, less is more.

Presumably your favourite piece must be 4'33".

[doc_bean]

Well we did composers, can't love everything one does. I am of the minimalist church, less is more.


Sometimes (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ENl4JK6LJ0Y&mode=related&search=) more (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=GSKL5E3zSjs) really (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=49IOKnhX0Sk) is (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=nU96Yvk310s&mode=related&search=) just (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=mwaAtVgsl4E) simply (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw)
much (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=50lmd0ngwPc)
more (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCB6-h3wbs)

I confess, I love completely over the top pieces :jester:

[Martok]

In no particular order:

Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor

Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Handel's Messiah (yes, all of it)

[Moros]

I confess, I love completely over the top pieces :jester:
The 1812 Overture indeed is a very good composition.

[Bijo]

There aren't really classical pieces I adore that much I would deem them "favourite", but... The Valkyries piece is nice. Sometimes listening to Classical music makes my mind lazy.

[Fragony]

I confess, I love completely over the top pieces :jester:

Well I have to admit that Carmina Burana is a great piece, seen it live in Amsterdam concerthall, it's LOUD. Another over the top good one, fast forward 1:30

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCS7on6igXg

Also listen http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=yg7sU5B_ibM&mode=related&search=

[Banquo's Ghost]

As noted in the other thread, my very favourite piece is Allegri's Miserere (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZL3POaATn8&mode=related&search=). The authentic voice of God.

I'm also extremely fond of Ungar's Ashokan Farewell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx6dxrhqPZY&mode=related&search=), used as the theme for Ken Burn's Civil War documentaries. Haunting and beautiful.

For reflective moods, I love Albinoni's Adagio in G minor. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4dpbk8YBs) Such longing, such deep melancholy. I have a recording of it with trumpet rather than organ, and it is sublime.

Of course, this is from a man who collects Requiems. :wink:

[Fragony]

How did you end up so cheerful :beam: That is a great piece indeed but it really makes me want to hit things with a hammer for some reason. If you like requiems (is there anyone who doesn't write requiem wrong on first try?? Same with dungeon, always have to look it up) check out second one in my previous post, best part of a deutsche requiem (DAMNIT again) by Brahms. You will probably like this one too;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ywyRbaMHg

[Ramses II CP]

Mozart's String Quartet no. 19, k. 465 'Dissonant'

Look this up and listen to it. Sometimes a limiting format can force a composer to exceptional brilliance. I think the limits of the string quartet did so for Mozart here.

Bach... everything. Esp. Goldburg Variations, The Art of Fugue, both books of the WTC, BWV 812 (D minor) and 815 (E-flat major) from The French Suites, urgh, a lifetime worth of brilliantly listenable music just from one man.

Liszt's Totentanz.

Faure's Pavane.

Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Mussorgsky's whole Pictures at an Exhibition.

Wagner's Flying Dutchman Overture.

Chabrier's Espana.

Brahm's Hungarian Dance #5.

J. Strauss's Pizzicato Polka.

Tried to pick favorites from a variety of different moods and styles there, but if you asked me next week I'd probably have a completely different list below the top two.

[Banquo's Ghost]

How did you end up so cheerful :beam: That is a great piece indeed but it really makes me want to hit things with a hammer for some reason. If you like requiems (is there anyone who doesn't write requiem wrong on first try?? Same with dungeon, always have to look it up) check out second one in my previous post, best part of a deutsche requiem (DAMNIT again) by Brahms. You will probably like this one too;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ywyRbaMHg

Both are real favourites. :2thumbsup: I hadn't come across the Scholl version though, so thanks for that.

[Togakure]

I should distinguish between piano, my first and primary instrument, and orchestral works.

Orchestral:
So many, but these stand out at the moment:

- Barber, Adagio for Strings
- Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet
- Vivaldi, "Four Seasons"
- Mozart, "A Little Night Music"


Piano:
much easier off the tip of my fingers

Chopin:
- Etudes Opus 10, numbers 1, 4, and 12
- Nocturne in E-flat major, Opus 9, no.2
- Fantasie Impromptu, Opus 66, no. 4
- Ballade in G minor, Opus 23, no. 1
- Piano Concerto, Opus 21, no. 1

Beethoven:
- Piano Sonata Opus 27, no. 2 "Moonlight"
- Piano Sonata Opus 13, no. 8 "Pathetique"
- Piano Sonata Opus 53, no. 21 "Waldstein"
- Bagatelle in A minor, "Fur Elise" :beam:

Rachmaninoff:
- Prelude Opus 3, no. 2
- Piano Concerto, Opus 30, no. 3

Liszt:
- Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6 in D-flat major
- Liebestraum, no. 3

Debussy:
- Claire de Lune
- Children's Corner suite :clown: Golliwog Cake Walk Rocks!

[Pannonian]

I'd like to point out this performance of Beethoven's Fur Elise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa837PCtXAQ).

[Fragony]

I'd like to point out this performance of Beethoven's Fur Elise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa837PCtXAQ).

That, is seriously awesome, bookmarked, filed. And what is this 4'33"?

[Pannonian]

That, is seriously awesome, bookmarked, filed. And what is this 4'33"?
You said you preferred minimalist pieces, and 4'33" is notoriously as minimalist as it gets.

4'33", performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E)

[Fragony]

hehehe once established people get away with everything :beam:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/malevich/sup/malevich.black-square.jpg

^--- you can probably not afford this magnificant painting

[Warmaster Horus]

Fur Elise, the 1812 Overture, and Carmina Burana.

[Ramses II CP]

If you're curious you can hear K.465 here (Though in an unfortunate format, couldn't find it all easily elsewhere as only the first movement is available on YT):

http://library.thinkquest.org/27110/repertoire/mozartk465.html

[Hooahguy]

The 1812 Overture indeed is a very good composition.

agreed!

[Togakure]

Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpPk8qk3uQ). The most relaxing music ever.
I found this energetic version of Pachabel's Cannon on youtube recently:

New Cannon Rock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAj5LiXG5w)

Perhaps you've see this or similar ones before as they're popular on youtube. This guy is particularly tasteful in most parts (he gets a bit carried away in others). There are other versions on youtube where they managed to sync clips from a bunch of guitarists all over the world doing this--pretty innovative from a i-collaboration standpoint. Enjoy.

[Innocentius]

Biased as I am I must say that the Drottningholm Music by Johan Helmich Roman is great.

Unfortunately, the only thing I found searching for it on YouTube was this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l0uP1H1UwsY. Disregard the video and enjoy the music...

Otherwise it's Bach's Brandenburg Concerto (No.3 - i: Allegro Moderato), Mozart's Confutatis (from Requiem) and Vivaldi's Quattro Stagioni, La Primavera.

Also, not classical, but I've found out that Josquin Desprez is awesome (along with many other medieval to renaissance composers): https://youtube.com/watch?v=LUAgAF4Khmg

[The_Mark]

Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpPk8qk3uQ). The most relaxing music ever.
Now that's a proper hit, though, apparently, a bit boring to play on a cello (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM).

[Rodion Romanovich]

I disagree with you Fragony - more is more!

Piano:
- Debussy, Deux arabesques, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15afUxNFsoY
- Rachmaninov prelude giss moll, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXU7I_Yyi2Y&mode=related&search=
- Satie, Trois Gnossiennes, no. 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CKvbE-1Sg&mode=related&search=

Few instruments music:
- Dvorak, American Quartet (FWD to 0:20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdwzsT9ors

Orchestral pieces:
- Rachmaninov piano concerto no. 2
* movement 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRbko3UsnQ&mode=related&search=
* movement 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXnorFwfPA
- Mussorgsky, Pictures on an exhibition, Great gate of Kiev, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCqyyLdIk08
- Mussorgsky, Night on the bald mountain, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_0GekZl7YA&mode=related&search=
- Mussorgsky, Overture to Khovanshina, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAbSCsqn30
- Dvorak, symphony 9, 4th movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlci-kCEaKE&mode=related&search=
- Sibelius, Finlandia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZOXNbBRxM

[Rodion Romanovich]

Well I have to admit that Carmina Burana is a great piece, seen it live in Amsterdam concerthall, it's LOUD. Another over the top good one, fast forward 1:30

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCS7on6igXg

Nice, one of my favorites!

[Pannonian]

Just to add some cheese to proceedings, here's Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXkLghuoIJc). Banquo will remember the bit beginning around the 4 minute mark.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Just to add some cheese to proceedings, here's Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXkLghuoIJc). Banquo will remember the bit beginning around the 4 minute mark.

:smitten:

[Pannonian]

Reviving this thread for a good cause. CATcerto, by Nora the Cat and Mindaugas Piecaitis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeoT66v4EHg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_%28cat%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindaugas_Piecaitis

[TevashSzat]

I've always loved the works of Shostakovich, especially Festive Overture. I have particularly fond memories of playing an excellent arrangement of it for a Wind Ensemble.

[quadalpha]

We got to the second page without anyone mentioning Mahler.

[Myrddraal]

One of the top rated comments on that youtube video bears repeating here:


definitely a French Impressionist - dare I say, Clawed DePussey? heh heh heh..

Is Gregoshi GFLJOboss on youtube?

[Raz]

My second favorite, Gnossiene #3 by Satie. Surprisingly hard to play.

Oh, Erik Satie is my first favourite!! And I too am of the minimalist church! :smitten:
My favourite of his would be Gymnopédie No.3 though. Nevertheless, all his pieces were quite amazing (or at least what I've heard, many times people play Satie too fast though, it's not meant to be rushed IMHO).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNdDoL3s8aA