Favorite Classical Song?

[Garbarsardar.jr]

J.S.Bach(preferably played by G.Gould

Having both names in the same sentence it's a sin!!!
Gould was playing Bach as if it were Brams for chrissakes!!!Try Jarrett...

 

[polymath]

Prokofiev's 'Lieutenant Kije', too.

 

[King Alexander]

Having both names in the same sentence it's a sin!!!
Gould was playing Bach as if it were Brams for chrissakes!!!Try Jarrett...

I'm sure that if Bach were alive, he would "order" Gould to play exclusively his masterpieces.

 

[storealex]

Mozart is the King. My favorite song (People singing) is his Grosse Messe c-moll KV427, and mabye Exsultate, jubilate KV 165.

My favorite song (No one singing) is Beethovens Romance for violin and orchestra No. 2 in F major Op. 50.
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Motorcycle Tires

 

[DvR]

I like Bach alot.. Especially the prelude from the first cello suite, toccata & fugue in D and ofcourse Air..
Other than that: Beethoven Moonlight sonate, Vivaldi's four seasons, Chopin's nocturnes in mineur..

EDIT me mixing up beethoven and mozart

 

[Suppersalmon]

1812 Overture or Holsts planets Jupiter

 

[Bozo Erectus]

The one that goes: Da da da dumm, da da da DUMMM. Know what I mean?

 

[Johann MacLeod]

the 4th movement of beethovens 9th symphony, Mozart's Symphony no 41 in c major "jupiter", and vivaldi's flute concerto in d major are some of my favorites

 

[Laughing Gull]

the Bolero

 

[Xen]

"classical gas"- no joke, its a real song, and features such niceities as classical guitaring (and yes, this IS classical music, and not classic rock )

 

[Goldflash]

I'm also a fan of the 1812 Overture. I think it has something to do with the Cannons
Applician Springs is a good one too.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

(not really, but Ive been waiting for years for a chance to say that)

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I'm a big fan of Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Eine Klein Nachtmusik (K. 525) by Mozart
Fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th (Ode to Joy)
Overture to "Le nozze di Figaro" by Mozart
New World Symphony by Dvorak
Largo al factotum (Figaro!) from "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" by Rossini

 

[insurgent]

Verdi's Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco
Mozart's Requiem (particularly the Dies Irae and Lacrimosa).
Verdi's Requiem Mass (particularly Dies Irae as well)
Carl Orff's O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
Beethoven's Symphony no. 6
Bizet's L'Arlesienne

I kind of like Elgar's Pomp and Circumstances, a lot of Tchaikovsky pleases me. Wagner is good. I can also recommend much of the Soviet choral music, particularly the Navy Hymn (was in The Hunt for Red October) and the national anthem.

Much of the lighter music is good as well. Mozart's Elvira Medigan, Rondo alla Turca, The Marriage of Figaro is very good. Rossini's The Barber of Seville is great as well. Strauss' waltzes and polkas and Brahms can be good, if you don't overdo it. Bach is great renaissance music.

BTW, seeing your choices, I think people should look into modern composers, such as Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfman, John Williams, perhaps Howard Shore, and - if you stretch the definition a little - Enya and Adiemus.

 

[Siegmund]

My first choice, Beethoven's 7th symphony.

Lots of fine pieces already mentioned in this thread... here are a few more I am fond of: the closings of Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung (Wagner);
Ma Vlast (Smetana), especially Vltava and Sarka;
Eine Alpensymphonie (R. Strauss);

if you have a taste for more modern music, there is Shostakovich ... 5th and 10th symphonies, the string symphony to the victims of fascism and war, the violin and cello concertos....

 

[addiv]

At the moment Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

The Planet Suite by Holst, with Mars the Bringer of War and Pluto Lord of the Underworld being highlights.

 

[Halcyon]

My precise favourites are classified information, but since noone else will, I'll put a word in for these two: La Danse Macabre et Bacchanale, both by a certain Camille Saint-Saens.

The Planet Suite by Holst, with Mars the Bringer of War and Pluto Lord of the Underworld being highlights.

Uh.. Pluto in Holst's Planets? I think you're a little confused, there.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Maybe I was joking?