Favorite Classical Song?

[JohnRM]

"Moonlight Sonata" Beethoven

 

[Hirachi Dinavo]

O Fortuna from Carmina Burana is my favorite.

 

[Guildenstern]

I can't narrow it down to one favorite, so I'll list several favorites:

Bach: Brandenburg 3, 6 Suites for Unaccompanied Cello

Bartók: Six Romanian Dances

Beethoven: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 9th symphonies, "Tempest", "Pathétique", and "Mondschein" piano sonatas, and basically anything else he ever wrote or considered writing.

Borodin: 4th movement of 2nd symphony

Brahms: 4th movement of 1st symphony, Hungarian Dances Nos. 2 and 5

Delibes: Sylvia ballet

Dvorak: 8th symphony

Grieg: A minor piano concerto

Handel: Water Music and Fireworks Music suites, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Holst: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter from The Planets

Mahler: 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th symphonies

Mendelssohn: 4th movement of 5th symphony

Mozart: 25th, 29th, 39th, 40th and 41st symphonies, overture to Die Zauberflöte, Requiem (especially Introitus, Kyrie and Dies Irae)

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (both piano original and Ravel's orchestration), prelude to Khovanshchina (Dawn over the River Moscow)

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé suite

Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C# minor

Ravel: Jeau d'eau

Respighi: The Pines of Rome

Rimsky-Korsakov: Cappriccio Espagnol, 1st and 4th movements of the Tale of Tsar Saltan, 4th movement of the Snow Maiden

Rossini: overtures to William Tell, Barber of Seville, Siege of Corinth, and Othello

Saint-Saëns: Aquarium, Volière, the Swan, and finale from Carnival of the Animals, A minor cello concerto, Danse Macabre, 3rd symphony

Shostakovich: 24 preludes and fugues, 5th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, adn 15th symphonies, 2nd piano concerto

Strauss (Richard): Don Quixote

Stravinsky: Firebird and Rite of Spring

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th symphonies

Verdi: overtures to Nabucco and Un Giorno di Regno, Requiem (especially Dies Irae)

Vivaldi: Concerto alla Rustica, Spring and Winter from The Four Seasons

 

[puglover]

1812 Overture is the coolest. Not just because of the Lone Ranger. It was the song in the introduction to one of my games, Risk 2. Now whenever I hear it I can hear cannon and musket fire in the distance.

 

[Alone]

1. All DVORJAK's Slovens dances
2. Most of the MOZZART
3. Bramhs - Hungarian dance (nr5, I think) and "Beautifull Blue Danube" (River of my born city) if he wrote this
4. Tchaikovsky Overture 1812


I must notice that "comercial radio/tv" and "heavy metal bands" are by far bigest users of classicals theme, tho I knew some old westerns with that kind of music

 

[Guildenstern]

Johann Strauss II wrote "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", and many other waltzes which made an appearance in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[Smellincoffee]

"Fur Elise", Beethoven.

 

[Archer 007]

Shastakovich, Mussorvsky, Stravinksy, and Rimsky-Korsakav

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Holst's Planets suite is always high on my list.

I guess Gershwin doesn't really count, but I still cant get enough of Rhapsody in Blue. Not quite classical, not quite Jazz. But it is in that modern form that I just love. I've heard one Debussy piece, its great too.

Definitely stuff romantic era and beyond. It's that freedom where there are no set forms. Otherwise things are just too predictable.

 

[OneFastWarrior]

I think my favorite would have to be Jupiter, by gustav holst.

I also love Coplands Appalachian Spring.

 

[Eastern Knight]

Mozart's Figaro
Chopin's Military Polonaise
Pachelbel's Canon
and Brandenburg

 

[Narz]

Beethoven Moonlight Sonate I : put it on right now. I love this f***ing song!! I want it at my funeral!!

I like Bolero my Ravel too! That is a great one to have sex to!

- Narz

 

[Narz]

"Moonlight Sonata" Beethoven

+10moreabc

 

[Johann MacLeod]

well im never listening to bolero again....

 

[Sir Bugsy]

OneFast Warrior - You're right I forgot about Copland The entire Appalician Spring is great.

I also forgot about the great Mozart symphonies as Guildenstern pointed out I love the ones he named. Also Piano Concertos 21 & 23.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Christian Cannabich: Andante from Symphony 47 in G major.