favorite classical music pieces

[pete]

post your faves: songs, pieces, arias, movements, etc.

i prefer strings, myself violin or cello concertos
bach's shit is almost 300 yrs old and it fucking rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVm3ftHhrzs
(violin concerto #1 in A minor, part 1)

 

[pete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNEFxL9bFug
(bach violin concerto #1 in A minor, part 3)

 

[pete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCicM6i59_I
yo yo ma, playing bach.
'nuff said.

 

[pete]

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

mozart, the marriage of figaro

 

[SkAoUt]

Speaking of Bach. How about some on a moog synthesizer. Thats right, Wendy Carlos Switched on Bach that influenced how I looked at classical as a wee nipper.

Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29

 

[phrodeau]

Mahler's Titan Symphony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVBHqprbfgg

 

[Dionysian Beast]

Greatest piece of music ever composed, IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR8DeIjUIZs

 

[1sickbastard]

Habanera, the aria from Carmen is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, imo.
Always going to have a soft spot for Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
Love nearly all of Rossini's overtures.
Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies is hauntingly beautiful when preformed on the glass armonica.

 

[pete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3YuDSl9lik

la traviata, verdi

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

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

mozart, the marriage of figaro

My favorite is the Bugs Bunny version.

 

[imrhapsody]

I think I am in love with all of you. *sigh. I love classical music.

 

[pete]

Habanera, the aria from Carmen is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, imo.

indeed, and it's especially great when sung by the amazing maria callas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lspRhX5Vhhg

 

[pete]

My favorite is the Bugs Bunny version.

i have that on my ipod, it's good music to run to

 

[pete]

Speaking of Bach. How about some on a moog synthesizer. Thats right, Wendy Carlos Switched on Bach that influenced how I looked at classical as a wee nipper.

Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29

i've heard these before, very cool

 

[pete]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3zetSuYRg

verdi, rigoletto, sung by luciano pavarotti

 

[pete]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9Dipgqdtw

puccini, madame butterfly, beautifully sung by maria callas

 

[pete]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul9OTShQ_rc

another haunting puccini piece (gianni schicchi )

 

[yossi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWV14bJY4LM

 

[subdued_passion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCicM6i59_I
yo yo ma, playing bach.
'nuff said.

Strings are my weakness too... the cello [sigh]. There is a Sexy Songs thread in the PG you should check to know the class of perv I am.


I love this re-arrangement of the classic.

 

[Octavian]

Mine would be the trio and the duet from Act 3 of Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.

 

[colddiesel]

Beethoven - Sonata 8 the Patetique - particularly the slow movement.

 

[bluegypsy]

No matter how many times it shows up in movies, commercials, etc., I'll never get tired of hearing Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Movement 2. One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

http://youtu.be/bDbtj9tFSS8

 

[trysail]

N.B., Kindly forgive my inevitable errors of spelling and punctuation— this is a lot of typing and I don't feel like spending three hours proof-reading it.
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This is an ( admittedly ) eclectic and mixed list of symphonies, concertos, ballet scores and operas. I had to compose its analogue once upon a time to prevent myself from inadvertently purchasing multiple copies of stuff I already owned. Any list is going to betray the preferences of its compiler; it's obvious that I have an affinity for the Romantic orchestral composers, the Italian operas, the Russians and the incomparable Beethoven. I've got no problem with J.S. Bach— I'd rather hear him fart than any of the noise that goes by the name "rap" ; unfortunately, he ( and the Schuberts and the Hadyns and the "Baroques" ) just doesn't set my soul afire.


Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold
Die Valkyrie
Siegfried
Gotterdamerung

Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto
Requiem
La Traviata
Aida

Georges Bizet
Carmen

Giacomo Puccini
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
La Boheme

Richard Strauss
Salome
Also Sprach Zarathustra

Bedřich Smetana
Má vlast ( contains "The Moldau" )

Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances
Symphony #9 in E minor ( the "New World Symphony" )

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt suite ( contains "In The Hall of The Mountain King" )

Ralph Vaughn Williams
Symphonie Antarctica
A Sea Symphony
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Fantasia on "Greensleeves"
The Lark Ascending

Igor Stravinsky
Firebird Suite
Petrushka
Rite of Spring

Ottorino Resphigi
The Pines of Rome
The Fountains of Rome

Jan Sibelius
Finlandia

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Gustav Holst
The Planets

Maurice Ravel
Daphne & Chloe
Bolero

Claude Debussy
La Mer
Afternoon Of A Fawn

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Rodeo
Fanfare For The Common Man
Billy The Kid Suite

Johanne Strauss
The Danube

Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta
Taurus Bulba

Manuel de Falla
The Three Cornered Hat

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Capriccio Espagnol

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony #1
Symphony #7
Symphony #9

Sergei Prokofiev
Peter and The Wolf
Symphony #6 "Classique"

Gustav Mahler
Symphony #5

Aram Khachaturian
Gayane ( contains "Sabre Dance" )

Aleksandr Borodin
Prince Igor ( contains "Polovtsian Dances" )

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Nutcracker Suite
Swan Lake

Johann Sebastian Bach
The Brandenburg Concertos

George Frideric Handel
Water Musik

and last— but hardly least— the immortal

Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle ( poco moto ) in A minor ( "Für Elise" )
Piano Sonata No. 8 ( "Pathetique" )
Piano Sonata No. 14 ( "Mondschein" )
Piano Sonata No. 23 ( "Appasionata" )
Symphony #3 ( "Eroica" )
Symphony #5
Symphony #7
Symphony #9 ( "The Choral Symphony," possibly the most magnificent piece of music ever composed. If the 4th movement doesn't make your pulse race, check to see if you've got one ).

 

[gravyrug]

A nice selection there, Try. Nothing there I don't like, but you're missing a few that I do.

Ravel- Pavanne pour une infante defunte

Mussorgsky/Ravel- Pictures At An Exhibition (especially The Great Gate of Kiev)

Mussorgsky- Night on Bald Mountain

Prokofiev- Lt. Kije Suite

Beethoven- Symphony 6

Wagner- Prelude to the third act of Lohengrin

Holst- First Suite in E flat and Second Suite in F

 

[Recidiva]

Modern Classical. I have a background of choral singing and I played French Horn in orchestras.

John Rutter, Esurientes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlKNQBOeQqQ