Favorite classical pieces

[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"

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 Golliwog Cake Walk Rocks!

[Pannonian]

I'd like to point out this performance of Beethoven's Fur Elise.

[Fragony]

I'd like to point out this performance of Beethoven's Fur Elise.

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

[Fragony]

hehehe once established people get away with everything



^--- 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/...ozartk465.html