Favorite classical pieces

[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.

[naut]

Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. The most relaxing music ever.

[Togakure]

Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. The most relaxing music ever.

I found this energetic version of Pachabel's Cannon on youtube recently:

New Cannon Rock

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. The most relaxing music ever.

Now that's a proper hit, though, apparently, a bit boring to play on a cello.

[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=VXU7...elated&search=
- Satie, Trois Gnossiennes, no. 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CK...elated&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=5ZRb...elated&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_0G...elated&search=
- Mussorgsky, Overture to Khovanshina, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAbSCsqn30
- Dvorak, symphony 9, 4th movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlci...elated&search=
- Sibelius, Finlandia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZOXNbBRxM