Board 8 > What is/are your favorite piece(s) of classical music?

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Don't know how alone I am on this board as a lover of all things classical, but curious as to what else people around here enjoy. I'm rebuilding a Spotify playlist of my favorites.
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Gustav Holst's The Planets Suite

That's a favorite of mine too. Jupiter and Mars are my personal favorite movements. But I really love them all.
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Vivaldi's Four Seasons
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(I'm assuming you don't mean specifically the classical period from 1750-1820)

Cliche, but I really like Moonlight Sonata
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I feel sort of stupid now, because I listen to a fair bit of orchestal music (I have season tix to the seattle symphony) but I don't like, write down the ones I really like so I can remember them later

Paratroopa1 posted...

I feel sort of stupid now, because I listen to a fair bit of orchestal music (I have season tix to the seattle symphony) but I don't like, write down the ones I really like so I can remember them later

This is how it's been for me. It's a shame.
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This is making me want to listen to opera. No, I'm not being a smartass. No, I haven't had much exposure, but what I have listened to makes me wish I had the time and money to see more of them.

My favorite opera is The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, and of that I'm partial to the overture to Act III (I think it's called Barcarolle). Give it a listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOyhsDn01k

Oh that's a great piece. I'm usually more partial to an operetta myself. That's a very famous one, though.
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California Girls - Brian Wilson

I guess I should elaborate, I grew up with this CD
http://www.allmusic.com/album/telarc-sampler-vol-3-mw0001451534

Release Date
May 27, 1986
Duration
53:02
Genre
Electronic Classical
Styles
Symphony

1. Also Sprach Zarathustra/Introduction 1:58
2. Banditen Galop 2:47
3. Symphony No. 5/Fourth Movement 3:00
4. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik/First Movement Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3:31
5. Fanfare for Organ Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens 1:46
6. Sorcerer's Apprentice/Paul Dukas 3:52
7. Symphony of Psalms/Part 1 Igor Stravinsky 3:16
8. Diverse Kanons/Fourteenth Movement Johann Sebastian Bach 1:33
9. Les Nuits d'Été/Villanelle Hector Berlioz 2:21
10. Messiah/All They That See Him, He Trusted in God George Frederick Handel 2:59
11. Symphony No. 2/Third & Fourth Movements Jean Sibelius 3:50
12. Symphonie Concertante/First Movement Joseph Jongen2:58
13. Ein Deutsches Requiem/Fourth Movement Johannes Brahms 6:07
14. Symphony No. 2/Third Movement Sergey Rachmaninov 5:05
15. Requiem/Dies Irae Hector Berlioz 2:27
16. Fountains of Rome/Triton Fountain at Morn 2:38
17. California Girls Brian Wilson 2:54

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Tchaikovsky- Piano Concerto #1
Rachmaninoff- Piano Concerto #2
pretty much every Whitacre piece I've ever heard
Debussey- Sunken Cathedral
Hansen- Romantic Symphony
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Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jIaKjriPLg

Maurice Ravel - Sonata for Violin and Cello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbrVkXBGHU0

Antonin Dvorak - String Quartet No. 12

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

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gljRZ-3BlcM

Charles Ives - Variations on "America"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0VjhNWqn8

I could go on, but pulling up all these links has made me want to listen to all this stuff again and I'd be here for days.
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I'm quietly pulling all of these into my playlist for further editing later.

I'll throw out one I can't stop listening to recently - Enigma Variations, specifically Nimrod.
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I once saw a Charles Ives symphony and it was the strangest fucking thing I've ever heard, and that's considering that I've ALSO seen a Frank Zappa symphony

Paratroopa1 posted...

I once saw a Charles Ives symphony and it was the strangest fucking thing I've ever heard, and that's considering that I've ALSO seen a Frank Zappa symphony

Well, there's a reason Ives was considered a pioneer.
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Love Moonlight Sonata/Fur Elise, Four Seasons.....and a bunch of other things I can't name, lol.

Really a nice way to relax is just to listen to classical music....while drinking wine ;)
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metaIslug posted...

Pachelbel Canon

I fucking hate this song
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