Classical Music

To people who enjoy classical music I would like to hear from about some of your favorite symphonies, and pieces. Which piece really does it for you?

Ride of the valkyries —Wagner
Also Sprach zarathustra-- Strauss
los toreadors – Bizet from the Carmen suite
Brahms – Hungarian dance number 5

I didnt know you listened to classical music Marshall. Facinating, i shall have to see if i can download any of those off IMesh. I always wondered about its sublimity.

Wow great choices I especialy liked Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries, it seemed to lift me to new hieghts and put me into a frenzy of delight.

Anyone else care to add some?

A few nice peices I enjoy are Beehtoven’s Flight of the Bumble Bee & Fur Elise
Also Tchaikosvkies 5th Symphony though long and not nearly as intense always seems to send me on a pleasnt journy and invigorates my being.
This was the piece that opened me up to classical music when I heard it at age 9 and loved it since then.

Do you ever notice how you can absolutly never get tired of a good classical piece and movies that have classical music playing throughout them can be watched over and over again and again and be even somtimes more delightful then the first time, contrary to movies without.

Stravinsky- Firebird

i like stuff by chopin, debussy, rachmaninoff beethoven and liszt.
specifically:
chopin’s fantasie impromptu, various mazuras and ballade no.1.
beethoven’s sonatas and of course, symphony no 5
tchaikovski’s piano concerto 1 & 3
franz liszt’s hungarian rhapsodies and piano pieces.
debussy’s impressionist pieces.
saint saen’s danse macabre
somebody’s sabre dance.

phillip glass OST the hours.

i like getting drunk and reading to these songs, they sometimes make me tear. tres beautiful.

its got to be Rimsy-Korsakov - Scheherazade in is entirity!!! (if that is how you spell ‘entirity’?!)

I almost forgot Rachmaninoff piano concerto #2 and Tchaikovsky piano concerto #1. I suppose i’m partial to piano concertos. I also like Mussorgsky, the great gate of Kiev from pictures at an exhibition. I listen to National Public Radio a lot.

Along with a lot of the pieces you’ve already mentioned, I find something about tchaikovsky’s piano concerto 3 somewhat…erm… seductive (?) - perhaps it’s just because I enjoy playing it so much.

Excellent i know so little about classical music great recomendations.

And I also listen to NPR a lot :]

Here are some of my favorites,

Mozart, Symphony #44
Vivaldi String Concerto in A
J.S. Bach, Violin Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (All time favorite!)
J.S. Bach, Double Keyboard Concerto #2 and #4
J.S. Bach, Partita #6 for Keyboard
J.S. Bach, Violin Concerto #2
J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion (especially Erbarme Dich!)
Johan Hertle, Trumpet Concerto #1
Schubert, Violin Concerto in G Minor
Schubert, Polynaise in B Flat for Violin and Orchestra
Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D
William Boyce, Overture #12
Dvorak, Moravian Duet
Dvorak, Rondo in G for Cello and Orchestra
Hayden, Symphony #27
J. Brahm, Violin Concerto in D
Handel, Violin Sonata in D (Sublime!)
Handel, Carmalite Vespers
Delibes, Dome epais le jasmin (the well-known Flower Duet)

My favorite radio station is on the Internet:
swissclassic.ch/index.php

Enjoy,
Michael

:astonished: ???!!!

Rimsky-Korsakov is probably turning in his grave right now!

One of my favourites is Beethoven’s 4th movement of his third symphony which I have given a name, “The Children’s March into Heaven’s Gate”. Don’t ask me why I arrived at that title.

Great stuff, esp. Wagner and Bizet (powerful!)
To this list I would like to add:
Beethoven Concerto for Violin…Beethoven
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso…Saint-Saens
Nimrod/Marches…Elgar

my faviorite peice to play on the piano are all three movements of The Moonlight Sonata.

Chopin The Minute Waltz No.6 (which I’m listening to right now, and I prefer over Flight of the Bumble Bee, because I find it harder to play)

Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King

Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 2nd Movement

Tchaikovsky Dance of the Reeds from The Nutcraker ( if fact the whole Nutcraker Suite ), Waltz from Sleeping Beauty, Dance of the Cygnets from “Swan Lake”, Piano Concerto No.1

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Grieg Morning

J.S. Bach Prelude C Major

Tigermoo, I agree with you on playing Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 3.

Michael, impressive list! You really have a thing for sax and violins!

I love choral music.

It is surely the most beautiful and moving of all music…sometimes taking the listener to a different realm.

My favourites:

Zoltan Kodaly- Missa brevis
Mozart- Ave verum corpus
Stanford- Magnificat and nunc dimittis in b flat ( and the one in f is good too)

There are many more!!!

If anyone’s interested in these…download themand tell me what you think…

Oh and perhaps the most sumlime of all:

Schubert- The lord is my shepherd
Allegri - Miserere mei deus

Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor op. 125 “Choral” 4th Movement. I have that on my Beethovan’s greatest cd right now. I like it alot, but that is the only Choral that I think I know.

Can someone verify if this is actually a Choral. See I love Classical, but all I know is what I buy in Wal-Mart.

Choral music is sung by a choir- and is intended to be performed in cathedrals.

It is usually accomapnied by the organ.

muchas gracias for letting me know.