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What is your favorite piece of Classical music? [MERGED]

Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

I don't think I have one specific favorite, but a couple would have to be Debussy - Clair de Lune:





and one I've been listening to more often recently, Gioachino Rossini - The Barber of Seville (Overture):





Edit: I decided to add one more. It's from a video game, but I love listening to it... Nobuo Uematsu - Aerith's Theme:

 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Bach: Fifth English Suite, flute sonatas, Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, St Matthew's Passion, Cantatas
Corelli: Christmas Concerto
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Telemann: oboe concertos
Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Even more recent ...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKb_Xd37Q8&feature=related[/ame]

Keep smilin'!! :kiss:(*8*)
Chaz ;)
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Not to forget Bach's St John's Passion:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzjIe14SoA[/ame]
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

I can only play about the first 6 pages of this song, but it's unbelievable:



And I can also play this one :)



Finally, my personal favorite, that won me a "1" at the state level competition here in Missouri. I love from about 2:10 on! :D





There are so many more song that I absolutely adore. I miss playing the piano so much...
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Wow. Talk about one heckuva re-mix this thread would make on CD/DVD.

I enjoy a wide variety of music, from the classics to classic rock.

Many of the pieces named above are fondly remembered.

I, too, like it when the classics are presented in a jazzed up version - not instead of the originals, but as a lively contrast to.

They don't qualify as from the period, but Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed Rock Symphone is great, AND I am a big fan of Rick Wakeman's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "King Arthur".

One piece of classical music I have always enjoyed immensely is the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg. My dad had an old, mono- "Hi-Fidelity" Classic Vinyl LP of this in a tryly "Jazzed" up rendition - Hall of the Mountain King to a Jazz Beat - I can still remember dancing to it in the basement as a young teen.

The syncopation was phenomenal. I wish I had the LP on mp3 or wmv so I could play it.

Bach - "Switch on Bach" was great.

Has anyone listened to the humourous parodies of PDQ Bach? "Oedipus Tex"?

:D
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

+1 for Pachelbel's Canon in D

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHw9uyj81g[/ame]
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

What I don't quite "get" is that many "Music Purists" INSIST that nothing might be considered "Classical" unless it is "Ancient"! But ... when you think about it, just who were the "Classic" Composers other than the "Pop" Musicians of their Time??

Music is FLUID!! Yes, it changes with different eras, tastes, and technological advancements. However, Great Music is still GREAT MUSIC, that will endure through time! There are so many Fantastic Composers, TODAY!!

As an example ...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI[/ame]

Keep smilin'!! :kiss:(*8*)
Chaz ;)
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

I really like Pachabel, too - We even have variations on it in our Church Hymnal.

Lest we take ourselves too seriously, here's a Musical Comedian who took Cello as a Child - he has bad memories of the Cello part of Pachabel's Canon in D.

Perhaps this is the most pervasive piece of music in history -
enjoy . . .

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM[/ame]
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Um, I also play Bohemian Rhapsody every year on the piano at Thanksgiving, and my whole family sings it. !oops! Lyrics printed out also, just in case anyone forgot them.
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Speaking of Queen - We will Rock You comes in at around 3:15 of this clip.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DcHMxnrpVs[/ame]

Followed, later on , by David Bowie's "Golden Years"
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KGgaI-WuI[/ame]
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

I love anything Prokofiev, but I particularly like The Montagues and the Capulets from Romeo and Juliet, especially when they used it in that Chanel commercial, haha.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3sd2BAxys&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3sd2BAxys&feature=related[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5a2JH_BVE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5a2JH_BVE[/ame]
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Oh, by the way, did you know that "Albinoni's Adagio" (which I do happen to like very much), is not in fact by Tomaso Albinoni who was a respected baroque-era composer, (1671, - 1751) but by a 20th century musicologist called Remo Giazotto, who attached Albinoni's name to it?

-T.
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Mahler Symphony # 10

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZaP7X9PFk[/ame]
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

I love classical music from almost every period, as my 900 classical cd collection attests.

Too many favorites to name, but a piece that I have really enjoyed getting to know recently was Brahms' Piano Quartet N. 1 in G Minor. Here's the last movement, expertly played:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxJrElIewok[/ame]
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Kyanimal said:
What I don't quite "get" is that many "Music Purists" INSIST that nothing might be considered "Classical" unless it is "Ancient"! But ... when you think about it, just who were the "Classic" Composers other than the "Pop" Musicians of their Time??

Music is FLUID!! Yes, it changes with different eras, tastes, and technological advancements. However, Great Music is still GREAT MUSIC, that will endure through time! There are so many Fantastic Composers, TODAY!!

As an example ...

[link to Bohemian Rhapsody]

Keep smilin'!! :kiss:(*8*)
Chaz ;)
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Well, I think there's a particular thing called "Classical Music" which, granted, is still done today, but it's no longer the "popular music" of the culture. Yes, Franz Liszt was the first rock star; no, he wouldn't be a rock star today (unless he did rock music).

There are many differences between classical and pop music that don't depend on the former being ancient and the latter being current, but one of the most salient is this: in classical music, the live performance is considered the primary form of the realized piece, whereas in popular music today the recorded form is primary and the live form is an imitation. (This is particularly true of nothing-but-tits-and-hair "artists" who need heavy AutoTune help to pretend they can sing even in a recording...I won't name them, it would start a fight, but also: even artists who really can sing (like Freddy Mercury could) do much more intense work in the studio (even though Mercury was a god on stage as well).)

Moreover, in classical music generally the written form of the piece is its core existence, even above a live performance. So I can say that I like Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, but that I hate the way Seiji Ozawa conducts it. The piece exists independently not only of Ozawa's performance of it, but of any performance of it, and note that it's "by Berlioz," never "by Ozawa."

In popular music, public credit for a song is generally given to the first artist to record it, even if they didn't write it. Cher did not write "Believe"; in fact according to Wikipedia the single as released contains the work of six different songwriters, none of whose names you'd recognize unless you were in the business. Does the name Diane Warren mean anything to you? How about Mark Taylor and Paul Barry?

Now I'm not saying that pop music is bad for these reasons, just that pop and classical today are very different things, and while there have been crossovers (generally to the detriment of both), it's generally not difficult to tell which one you're looking at/listening to.

As for Freddie Mercury, he wasn't so much doing classical as he was Bollywood. Yes, Bollywood, with a B. He was born Farrokh Bulsara on Zanzibar and raised just outside of Mumbai. He realized that the world at the time had no place for an Asian popstar, any more than it did for an openly gay one, so he concealed both. But the sensibility of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was that of a short Bollywood movie like the ones he loved growing up. And since it more or less invented the genre of music video...people often say that Bollywood movies look like music videos, but it's the other way around.
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Since my beloved Beethoven's Ninth symphony has already been posted, I submit to your appreciation this, the Toy Symphony, most probably written by Leopold Mozart (Father of Wolfgang Amadeus):

 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Mozart's sonatas for piano and violin, Brahms pieces for clarinet, & Satie's Gymopedies are some instrumental favorites, but nothing moves me like opera. Verdi & Puccini in particular. P.S., some really beautiful choices you guys listed so far!
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Not strictly speaking the specific genre of the Classical Era (1750-1820) but rather the general Common Practice period which is really anytime from the Renaissance up to the early 20th century.
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Just out of curiosity... why do you limit it so, Jockboy? I'm getting into an early music phase, and some things by Ockegham, Tallis, and Byrd would have to go on my list.
Well, I think there's a particular thing called "Classical Music" which, granted, is still done today, but it's no longer the "popular music" of the culture. Yes, Franz Liszt was the first rock star; no, he wouldn't be a rock star today (unless he did rock music).
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I think it's fair to say that so-called "classical music" was never popular music, especially before the French Revolution. When 95% of the population are rural peasants who've never seen the inside of a concert hall, I think that folk music would have to be counted as the most popular music of the day. That changed later on, of course, especially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but I'm not sure classical music ever achieved the popularity of folk songs, marching bands, and so on.

I appreciate the analysis in your post, Críostóir. One other thing I'd add regarding the difference between classical and popular music is that (I don't quite know how to say this) their diversity is different. Popular music is mostly melodically and timbrely diverse -- that is to say, most of its appeal comes from the catchiness of the tune and the uniqueness of the instrumentation. Classical music tends to be more diverse in terms of harmony and rhythm. Popular music rarely goes beyond basic tonal harmony (the Beach Boys, of all people, are a notable exception) and rhythmically, despite widespread belief, it is quite four-square (when's the last time you heard a pop song in 9/8 or 5/4 time?).

As for my favorites -- it changes every couple of weeks or so. :) I like my harmony a bit more spicy than most, so I am a pretty big fan of 20th century music. Anyway, for now, in no particular order:

Walton, Symphony 1
Barber, Cello Concerto
Milhoud, Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Bartok, Piano Concerto 1
Roy Harris, Symphony 3
Sibelius, Symphony 3

I've also got a soft spot for the Russians:

Rimsky-Korsakov, Sheherazade, Russian Easter Overture
Borodin, Symphony 2
Balakirev, Symphonies 1 & 2
Shostakovich, Symphonies 4, 13 & 15, Cello Concerto 1
Miaskovsky, Symphony 6
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto 3
Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances
 
Re: What is your favorite piece of Classical music?

Vivaldi's 'Summer' from the Four Seasons.
 
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