Your favourite classical pieces?
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Topic: Your favourite classical pieces?
Posted By: zeqexes
Subject: Your favourite classical pieces?
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 01:37
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Thought it would be interesting to see your favourite classical pieces. Mine would probably be 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. Or maybe his first Piano Concerto. ------------- 
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 01:38
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I like the one with the cello. I think it had a base too. ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 02:33
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Most of the things Steve Reich has done, "Music in 12 Parts", some Beethoven, "Mars: Bringer of War", Glenn Branca's stuff (although I really need to listen to more), "Etude in F, Op.72 No.6", "O Fortuna". ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 03:17
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My experience with classical music is waaaay too limited, but I will mention four pieces: Petrushka and Le sacre du printemps by Stravinsky, Beethoven's Große Fuge and Deux arabesques by Debussy. |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 04:32
In terms of classic music compositions, this is brilliant and no it's not the banana song, listen and you'll agree  Symphony No. 9 ~ Beethoven, right from the start it's good!  and it gets better hihi it progresses here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI&list=FLW3NlyKPJqFL8OnvvATV4YQ&index=2" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI&list=FLW3NlyKPJqFL8OnvvATV4YQ&index=2 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 04:41
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It varies - probably The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives at the moment ------------- What? |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 04:56
I have a bit of a popular taste in classical music (maybe also in prog  ).My faves: Rachmaninow's 2nd Piano Concerto Grieg's Peer Gynt suites Grieg's Piano Concerto The Schumann Piano Concerto Beethoven's 5st and 9th symphonies Sibelius' En Saga and The Swan Of Tuonela Dvorak's 9th Symphony Polowetzer Dances from Borodin, and his Steppes of Central Asia Brahms 5th Hungarian Dance Peter And The Wolf by Prokoviev
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 05:07
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One of two: Rite of Spring or Turangalila Symphony: ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: johan.jack
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 07:16
| I like this one. |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 07:21
Dean hugs  Actually Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question is really good, seriously. it almost doesn't feel classic moozik really and builds up most beautifully
 however you need to change that very bored plus grumpy avatar pic you have on right now tho'  |
Dean wrote:Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 07:28
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Messaien's Turangalila Symphonie and Shostakovich's 5th Symphony. I went through a very brief period in my early twenties when I was seeking out stuff like this, and these are the two pieces that have stayed with me. For the most part I don't listen to orchestral music anymore. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 07:41
 Exactly, who wants to look like a grumpy old man when Kati's around I have to listen to Charles Ives, and the other suggestions in this thread; makes me curious. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 07:48
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I've always loved Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky korsakoff for some reason. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 08:00
Hahahaha Moodtron you are very Cheeky yay I like you! mhwoaaahhxxHoly Moly, wow! You know so much! Shostakovich's 5th Symphony is very in my face too clever classic for me and so is Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie Mvt. 1 a bit too dramatic and too classic good for me.
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 08:09
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I personally love the piano, in most genres and this is an excellent classic example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V60USaluxGA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V60USaluxGA FREDERIC CHOPIN - NOCTURNES complete
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 08:15
Whoohaaaa you cute puppy avatar!!!! You woke me up lol yay that you! the terlimtetuterlimtetum yay!!! But seriously good!!! terereum tererirerereum and bom bum bum bum babumbumpapubumbum  Too fab disney fab for me tho'! Scary good
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 08:19
Holy Moly, this is for you
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1fiE0U1qA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1fiE0U1qA Andre Rieu - Shostakovich' Second Waltz hugs |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 08:53
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I actually prefer solo piano pieces to full orchestral works. Debussy and Satie have some good stuff. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 08:58
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 09:06
Yeah, I'm fascinated with near all of Satie's shorter compositions...the 'songs'.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 09:42
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I love too many works to be able to choose one. Classical music is my life passion. And going with that word, I'll choose JS Bach's St Matthew Passion. But that's just a quick choice. Might have mentioned so many other works by so many other composers. ------------- 
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 09:50
| You should give me a classical primer, T, a thorough list of every single classical piece you love. Every couple months I slam myself into that massive collection of music and only come out a little wiser. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 10:23
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Every classical piece I love? I'd need a lot of bandwidth for that . For sure I'd love to. Just starting with my favorite pieces from my favorite composers (those in my signature plus 5 more) would be a great primer and seconder -------------
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 10:47
| Well, so far I'm very fond of Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Ravel, Satie and Chopin. I tried listening to a 14 hour long recording of Wagner's entire ring cycle. I made it about an a hour and a half in. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 12:09
| Satie: "Gymnopedies"; Chopin: "Nocturne in C#m-Posthumous", "Revolutionary Étude in Cm", "Prelude in Em, op. 28, n. 4". Pretty much the Chopin appreciation guide tracks, so to speak. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 12:14
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Of those composers, I love Beethoven the most. His nine symphonies (9, 7, 3, 5 and 8 my favorites in that order) are my first recommendation. I love Mussorgsky and have 4 recordings of the entire Boris Godunov opera (one of my 5 favorite operas) and 2 of Khovanschina but I'd suggest to start with the safe: Pictures at an exhibition, first the original, then the Ravel's orchestration. Tchaikovsky is another great, I'd start with the symphonies specially the Pathetique but his piano and his violin concertos are great starting points, later to dig into his operas and ballets. Chopin? Piano solo works, including his sonatas (though the Chopin of the little pieces is the best). Ravel and Satie are a little farther from my favorites group, though from the former I like quite a few pieces.
Also, one Ring opera at the time works better, though you didn't finish even one it seems . Try Tannhauser or Die Fliegender Hollander for a more friendly opera, then jump into Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg, and then make the climb to Tristan und Isolde and the Ring. Easier that way . -------------
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 13:37
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As with The T, classical music is my life passion. My favorite works are the 11 Symphonies (9 numbered and two not numbered) of Anton Bruckner. I would go as far as to say his 8th Symphony is the greatest piece of music ever written. Other favorite works are from Hector Berlioz-Symphonie Fantastique, the Funeral and Triumphal Symphony, and Harold In Italy and the overtures. Also big on my list would be the tone poems of Richard Strauss, my favorite being Ein Heldenleben. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 14:28
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Bruckner Bruckner, I love his symphonies above anybody else's but Ludwig (he's in my sig too ). Your favorites Presdoug? I can't live without the 7th, the 8th and the 9th, plus the 4th and the 3rd and nowadays it seems the 5 is catching up. The 00 and the 0 and the first two are way inferior to all the rest but this symphonic cycle is second to none in quality in my view (even Beethoven has a couple symphonies that really fail to speak to me like the 4th and, surprisingly, the 6th). -------------
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 14:40
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With Bruckner, my favorites are 7,8 and 9, with 3 and 4 close behind. Yeah, i couldn't live without 7,8 and 9 especially. With Beethoven, my favorites are 5,7 and 9, though i like them all. |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 15:37
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At the moment it should be Scarlatti's keyboard (i.e. harpsichord) sonata k147 in E minor.
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Posted By: docall27
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 16:40
| Beethoven Sym 3 & 9, Bruckner Sym 8 & 9, Dvorak Sym 7 & 9, Brahms Sym 4, Shostakovich Sym 5, Mozart Sym 40 & 41 plus too long a list of sonatas and concertos to list. On just piano, Bach the Well Tempered Klavier and virtually everything by Chopin. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 18:07
Let's try to cover the different eras : - Chant Byzantin (performed by Soeur Marie Keyrouz) - Guillaume de Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame - Guillaume Dufay - Missa sine nomine - Hildegard von Bingen - Canticles of Ecstasy - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Madrigals / missa L'Homme Armé a 5 vocum - Michael Praetorius - Dances from Terpsichore - William Byrd - cantiones sacrae - Josquin Desprez - Motets - Carlo Gesualdo - Leçons de Ténèbres - Roland de lassus - Lamentations of Jeremiah / Requiem / magnificat / moteti - Thomas Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah - Jacob van Eyck - Der Fluyten Lust-Hof - Johann Joseph Fux - Concentus musico-instrumentalis - Marin Marais - Pièces à 2 et 3 violes - Mr de Sainte-Colombe - Concerts à 2 violes esgales - Georg Friedrich Telemann - Tafelmusik - Giuseppe Torelli - The original brandenburg concertos (concerti musicali op. 6) - Tomaso Albinoni - Concertos - Johann Sebastian Bach - Motets / Musikalisches opfer / die Kunst der fuge / Partitas/ Matthäus Passion / Johannes Passion... - John Blow - Ode on the death of Mr henry Purcell - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Ballets de village et sérénades - Francesco Antonio Bonporti - Concertini e serenate - Dietrich Buxtehude - Sonatas op. 1 / cantates, préludes & fugues - André Campra - Cantates - Marc-Antoine Charpentier - les arts florissants / Te Deum / litanies à la vierge - Arcangelo Corelli - Concerti grossi - François Couperin - Les Nations / Concerts royaux / pièces de viole / pièces de clavecin / leçons de ténèbres - George Fiderich Handel - Water music / music for the royal fireworks / concerti grossi / organ concertos / harpsichord suites / gloria / dixit dominus... - August Kühnel - sonatas & partitas for viola da gamba - Jean-Marie Leclair - violin sonatas - Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Concerti grossi - Jean-Baptiste Lully - symphonies, ouvertures & airs à jouer / petits motets / dies irae... - Giovanni Benedetto Platti - Concerti grossi - Henry Purcell - fantasias for the viols / music for a while / the fairy queen & the prophetess... - Jean-Philippe Rameau - pièces de clavecin en concerts / les Indes galantes / Hippolyte et Aricie / grands motets... - Jean-Fery Rebel - sonates 1 à 7 (with probably the first dissonance ever in music as an overture to sonata 1) - Guillaume de Bouzignac - Motets / Te Deum - Claudio Monteverdi - Vespro della beate virgine / motets / madrigals - Heinrich Schütz - Musikalische exequien / symphoniae sacrae / kleine geistliche konzerte - Tomas Luis de Victoria - tenebrae responsories / cantica beatae virginis - Mikolaj Ziekenski - offertoria - Antonio Vivaldi - concertos for piccolo / the four seasons / stabat mater / gloria... - Bartlomiej Pekiel - masses / motets - Luigi Boccherini - quintets for guitar & strings / cello concertos - Joseph Haydn - harpsichord concertos / trios for transverse flute / symphonies / quartets / die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - piano sonatas / symphonies / violin concertos / piano concertos / requiem / masses - Johann Baptist Vanhal - symphonies - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - symphonies / cello concertos - Ludwig van Beethoven - string quartets / symphonies / sonatas for piano and violoncello / piano concertos / piano sonatas / missa solemnis - Anton Arensky - préludes / essais / études / arabesques... - Franz Berwald - symphonies - Johannes Brahms - cello sonatas / piano concerto n°1 / string quartets, quintets & sextets - Anton Bruckner - symphonies / mass / motets - Ferrucio Busoni - concerto for piano - Emmanuel Chabrier - oeuvres pour piano - Fryderyk Chopin - polonaises / études / waltzes / nocturnes / préludes / ballades / mazurkas / piano sonatas / piano concertos - Antonin Dvorak - symphony n°9 - John Field - Nocturnes / piano concertos 1 & 2 - Antonio Fragoso - complete chamber music for violin - Franck César - préludes / variations symphoniques - Edvard Grieg - piano concerto / piano sonata / cello sonata - Adalbert Gyrowetz - string quartets - Franz Liszt - sonate h-moll / nuage gris / la noitte / la lugubre gondola II / funérailles / via crucis - Gustav Mahler - symphonies / das Lied von der Erde - Ignacy Jan Paderewski - piano concerto in A minor / polish fantasy - Albert Roussel - oeuvres pour flûte - Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony n°3 "Organ" - Maurice Ravel - le tombeau de couperin - Franz Schubert - string quartets & quintets / piano sonatas / moments musicaux / impromptus / Winterreise / symphonies - Robert Schumann - symphonies / Carnaval / Fantasiestücke / Kinderszenen / Waldszenen / impromptus / piano concerto - Piotr Tchaïkovsky - The seasons / piano concerto - Gabriel Fauré - nocturnes / barcarolles / préludes / impromptus / quintettes pour piano & cordes / quatuors avec piano / cello sonatas / requiem - Jehan Alain - works for organ - Hugo Alfven - symphony n°5 - Louis Aubert - piano works - Bela Bartok - works for piano - Arnold Bax - symphonies 2 & 5 - Benjamin Britten - string quartets 2 & 3 / cello symphony / cello suites / double concerto - Claude Debussy - préludes / nocturnes / la mer / l'après-midi / jeux / 1ère rhapsodie / quatuor / sonates / syrinx - Frederick Delius - orchestral works - Paul Dukas - piano works - Maurice Duruflé - requiem / oeuvre pour orgue - Henri Dutilleux - piano works - Georges Enescu - symphonie concertante / suite n°3 - Manuel de Falla - Nights in the garden of Spain / The three-cornered hat / la vida breve - Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki - kleines requiem / symphony n°3 / miserere - Percy Grainger - works for chamber ensemble - Howard hanson - symphonic music of Howard Hanson - Jacques Ibert - Miniatures - Charles Koechlin - oeuvres pour hautbois - Zoltan Kodaly - Psalmus hungaricus / missa brevis - Francis Poulenc - litanies à la vierge noire / les animaux modèles / concert champêtre - Ralph Vaughan Williams - violin sonata / string quartet n°2 - Gustav Holst - The planets - Witold Lutoslawski - symphonies 3 & 4 - Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Visions de l'Amen - Federico Mompou - piano works - Bohuslav Martinu - piano concertos 2 & 4 - Carl Nielsen - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 / string quartets / chamber works for wind / piano works - Edmund Pendleton - concerto alpestre pour flüte et orchestre / prélude, fanfare & fugue / concerto pour alto et orchestre - Sergei Prokofiev - Symphonies 1 & 5 / sonata for cello & piano - Sergei Rachmaninov - préludes / piano concerto n°2 / sonata for cello & piano - Ferdinand Rebay - quartets for guitar, flute & strings - Erik Satie - piano works - Giacinto Scelsi - choral works - Alfred Schnittke - cello concerto / sonata for violoncello & piano - Alexandre Scriabine - sonatas & poems - Déodat de Séverac - piano works - Dmitri Shostakovich - symphony n°8 - Jean Sibelius - symphonies / works for violin & orchestra - Wilhelm Stenhammar - symphonies 1 & 2 / piano concertos 1 & 2 - Igor Stravinsky - Les noces / mass / cantata / suite italienne for cello & piano - Karol Szymanowski - masques / piano sonata / métopes / stabat mater - Germaine Tailleferre - piano music / chamber music - Alexander Tcherepnine - piano concertos - Arvo Pärt - Summa - Zbigniew Preisner - 10 easy pieces for piano / requiem for my friend / silence, night & dreams - Urmas SIsask - starry sky cycle - Erkki-Sven Tüür - oratorio / symphony n°2 - Steve Reich - the desert music - Martin Romberg - Valaquenta / tableaux fantastiques - Claus Ogermann - two concertos - Gabriel Jackson - choral works - Wojciech Kilar - Missa pro pace / Requiem Père Kolbe / Magnificat / Victoria - Pawel Lukaszewski - Via crucis ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 18:22
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^Damn that must've taken some time. I'll try when I'm home and have some time to spare. Good list! -------------
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 18:48
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^I register any new record in an excel spreadsheet with possibility to filter on artist and genre. This way it's easier for me to select artists for a given genre. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 19:00
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 21:32
. 1876 and counting (I'm waiting for the arrival of -at last- a complete set of Bach's Cantatas on Hannsler). I could use the same to come up with a list like that. On Monday when I have my morning at home I definitely will, it sounds like an entertaining idea. -------------
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Posted By: truedefiance
Date Posted: January 12 2013 at 22:32
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I assume we are including Baroque music here so here it is... Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso No. 4 in D Major Pachelbel's Canon in D (Can't believe I'm the first one) Bach-Everything I mean, he's Bach. Handel- Lascia Ch'io Pianga Beethoven-Fur Elise ------------- Broken teeth, a shattered jaw Ten to one, behold my God Wicked sons of Heaven’s loss Raise your own inverted cross Storm the Gates of Hell-Demon Hunter |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 13 2013 at 13:59
Beethoven is not Baroque, he belongs to late classical era, and is the forefather of romantic music. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: January 13 2013 at 14:26
| ^ ... and it does not have to be just Baroque. |