Everyone has a favourite calssical piece they just often don't know it.

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In light of the Classical song thread turning more into a classical music thread but limited to piano: what is your favourite classical piece, now we all have one be it the theme to Star Wars or Jaws or Star Trek I or whatever, everyone loves classical without even knowing it and some pieces are just sublime.

Feel free to post links to music I certainly wont be doing that as I think it might anoy people but here are some of my favourites from films and from the classical Genre.

http://jnjmuse.cnei.or.kr/musicbox/ravel_bolero.mp3

http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/s...=0&adult_results=&a_eml_search=1&email_type=2

chose the last link the rest aren't good^ Mars from Holsts the planets.

I wanted to include the 1812 overture by Tchaikovski but can find nothing decent that does it any justice

http://www.kendormusic.com/str2004/mp3/stra01.mp3

In the hall of the mountain king: Grieg

Not a good rendition as it seems to keep skipping or stopping but best I could do.

http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/s...auss+thus&x=0&y=0&a_eml_search=1&email_type=2

First link

I am of course a classical pleb so I'd expect further posts to make mine look like some sort of wierd conglomeration of nothing much and to be honest without spending all night I can't find some I like. But what's your favourite and why?

EDIT: forgot this one Carmina Burana by Bizet: from Apocolypse Now http://ozzyhead.com/sounds/mp3/ofortuna.mp3
 
In the hall of the mountain king, and the fourth instrumental on the Lion King soundtrack.
 
I just listened to Ravel Bolero. Excellent piece. I have listened to it before but I was too young to appreciate it perhaps.

P.S, Edit the title Sidhe
 
Does Duke Ellington belong more to Jazz or classical? I've heard him referred to in the context of both genres.

I love Duke.

The first thing Im going to do when I'm back home for the Summer is take a bath while listening to Duke Ellington and smoking a cigar.
 
Feel free, you could say the same about Gershwin. No holds barred here. Classical means old not classical in this thread, if you see what I mean. And Duke Ellington is both classical and classical :)

http://bulk.nicemice.net:65080/amc/music/songs/george-gershwin/rhapsody-in-blue/clip.mp3

I forgot one: Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue, check out An American in Paris too, one from the film of the same name and the other from Manhatten: Woody Allen.

This for me is just the perfect music for New York. The city that never sleeps from dawn till well you know what I mean :)

To me this shows Gershwins genius more than any other track, that he chose to forsake his classical roots is not a great loss because his musicals are rich with plenty of great pieces, e.g. Summer Time from Porgy and Bess.
 
Your logic is flawed Sidhe, even granting that everyone does like claissical music it doesn't mean that one piece is viewed as being above all others!
 
"Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" by Krycstof Penderecki is a favourite of mine. I'm also partial to Beethoven's 8th.
 
Just one?
From the top of my head:
Le sacre du printemps - Stravinsky
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
From the New World - Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven
 
sysyphus said:
I'm also partial to Beethoven's 8th.
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Yikes! If I really promise not to make disparaging comments, could you explain what attracts you to this one ? It's generally regarded as the weakest of (at least) his last 5 symphonies by a good country mile.

To allow others to take pot shots back, I have a bundle of stuff I love, and it really depends on my mood. To take the three I have most recently fallen in love with all over agian:

Debussy - La Mer (the Abbado & Luverne Festival Orchestra recording)

Schumann's String Quartets (the Zehetmair Quartet's perfomance of the 1st & 3rd)

Walton - Belshazzar's Feast (I have the Previn / LSO & the Hickox /LSO recordings, but the best performance I ever heard was by Rattle and the CBSO, shortly before he left them).
 
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana, O Fortuna I first heard it in the movie "Excalibur", but always thought it was from R. Wagner
Ludwig van Beethoven - Für Elise When I was a kid, my parents had a plastic-rose. When you moved it, it played this melody... wonderful.
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 No other song is so full of emotion
Charles Gounod - Ave Maria Don´t confuse it with the more popular version by F. Schubert. Gounod mixed his work with J.S. Bachs first prelude from the Well Tempered Clavier.
(You can find small samples from amazon when clicking on the links)
 
Lambert Simnel said:
Yikes! If I really promise not to make disparaging comments, could you explain what attracts you to this one ? It's generally regarded as the weakest of (at least) his last 5 symphonies by a good country mile.
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If that's what the general population thinks then fine, but I quite like it.

Lambert Simnel said:
To allow others to take pot shots back,
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Yay!

Lambert Simnel said:
Debussy - La Mer (the Abbado & Luverne Festival Orchestra recording)
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Ugh! Debussy's music is good for Disney soundtracks, but nothing else.

Of course, your Schumann choice was a good one, I'm not famillair with Walton.
 
I'm more of a metalhead, but Dvorak's -- New World Symphony is right up there. Pachebel's -- Canon, Holst -- The Planets
 
"Fur Elise", Beethoven.
 
sysyphus said:
Ugh! Debussy's music is good for Disney soundtracks, but nothing else.

Of course, your Schumann choice was a good one, I'm not famillair with Walton.
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I suppose the point with the 8th is that it's almost impossible to have that as a route into Beethoven, because no-one plays it (well, not no-one, but hopefully you get what I mean). So you must have heard the majestic 7th, overpowering 9th, revolutionary 3rd, dramatic 5th or the sublime 6th as well. And then still gone for the quite nice 8th. Weird :confused:

I'm not aware of Disney making use of La Mer at all. He did intend the quite slight "Claire de Lune" to be included in Fantasia (but it got cut). Are you possibly confusing him with another composer ?
 
Ravel's Bolero was my favorite a few years ago
Beethoven's 5th symphony was my favorite for many years

Favorite composer right now is Vivaldi, although I dont have a particular favorite of his


@Fifty - if you define Jazz as American classical music - then The Duke is spot on.
 
Perfection said:
Your logic is flawed Sidhe, even granting that everyone does like claissical music it doesn't mean that one piece is viewed as being above all others!
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Spare me your philosphical rhetoric :lol: the titles fine btw it's rubbish grammar but, perhaps Erik could explain why and bore us all rigid with trite nonsense.
 
The richest classical music soundtrack for a PC game I've had is the game 'Victoria' (by Paradox) - pretty good list for that one.

I am a classical music fan that enjoys a pretty good range of variety, but I mostly prefer to listen to the 'heavy' stuff, not the artsy-fartsy dancing through the rose garden types.

Bach's organ music is probably my favorite, overall. I get more intellectual stimulation & emotional tug from many of those, than anything else. That man was a genius. Not to mention work-aholic (fortunately).
 
I think it was Bachs desire to write music that even God would admire or at least do him justice, I put up a link to his most famous Organ piece in the last classical thread, I must go and listen to it again. Organs, instruments you can hear several miles away :)
 
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