Favorite piece of classical music

My Favorite Music:
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos 1 and 3
Beethoven's Fur Elise

My favorite instruments:
Woodwind: Clarinet (I play it)
Brass: French Horn (So mellow!)
String: Cello (I play it)
Keyboard: Pipe organ.
Percussion: Bells

 

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Movement no.2 Those cello themes are so catchy and I listen to it every night. Mozart's Requiem is kickin, and Beethoven's third movement of the Moonlight has been a favorite of mine for years..



Also Check out William Bolcom "the Serpents Kiss" It's the coolest piece ever (even more radical to play). And the guy is a professor at U of M. it's a set of 4 rags set in the "garden of eden" and this is the third one. GREAT piece, great ragtime stomin wild nutz piece.

 

The most evil song to play is Flight of the Bumblebee, but I love listening to it. My band accompanied the principal clarinet when she played it this year. Was I ever glad that I was second chair!

 

Siegfried's Funeral Music by Wagner

Nimrod by Elgar

 

oh, god. there are so many its hard to choose. I like Tchaikovsky in general. everything of his is cool! (hes not acctually a classical composer, but im not going into that debate) But my favorite acctual piece. theres three. I like Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, but only the first movement. "The Planets" my Holtz, "Jupiter" especally (Love that woodwinds part ) and "Mars". Pomp and Circumstance, the whole thing. but i like number two the most.

 

My favorite classical piece would be Fur Elise, mainly because I can play it all the way through.

 

LOL, I love Für Elise...

but I can only play a few meaures.

 

Depends. i can play the whole thing on an arranged version, but i can play everything but the last page on the real one.

 

I actually have two one is a vocal piece called Salamo 150.

The other one *even though I have so many* would have to be New World Symphony No.9 4th movment. It was the first symphony I ever got to play, and it is still one of my favorites to listen to.

 

L.V. Beethoven - "Moonlight Sonata"
P. Tschaikowsky (sp?) - Swan Lake opening
W.A. Mozart - Regviem Lacrimosa

 

Verdi--Grand March from Aida
Suppe--Light Cavalry Overture
Strauss--Blue Danube Waltz
Ravel--Bolero
Mozart--Sonata K.545 in C major ( I think that's how it is titled)
Vivaldi--"Spring" from the Four Seasons
Mozart--Eine kleine Nachtmusik

 

Beethoven's 5th Symphony (my absolute favorite)
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
"Winter" from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
"Summer" from The Four Seasons
Pachelbel's Canon in D
Mozart's 41st symphony
Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony
Dvorak's 9th Symphony ('From the New World')
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Bach)

 

I'm a multi-instrumented person, so I get to choose a few.
Beethoven's 9th
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto
Mozart's 3rd Violin Concerto
Beethoven's Egmont Overture
Bach's "Zion Hort die Wachter Singen" from the "Wachet auf ruft uns die stimme" cantata
Brahm's "Behold all flesh is of the grass" and "The trumpet shall sound" from the Requiem
The Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem
The Liberame Domine from Faure's requiem
Handel's "He was despised"
Durufle's Notre Pere
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

 

I just listened to Rhapsody In Blue the other day for the first timein awhile. It really is a fantastic piece.

Of Mozart's symphonies, I am partial to the ones in minor keys, #25 and #40. #40 is one of my all-time favorite symphonies.

 

I just listened to Rhapsody In Blue the other day for the first timein awhile. It really is a fantastic piece.


Since when is that Classical?

Yes Rhapsody in Blue is great. As for favorite Classical piece, I would have to go with Haydn's Trumpet Concerto.

 

Wow, did that guy know how to write Trumpet parts!

I still like "The Planets"

never been a big fan of Mozart, no matter how musical i am. Just too...prepy...

 

What would you call Rhapsody In Blue?

Symphonic Jazz? ?

The version I own is performed by the Chicago Symphony.

I think we are using "classical" very loosely in this thread...

not even getting into Baroque, Romantic, Post-Romantic, etc.

 

It does bother me, I must say, when people use "Classical" to refer to "serious music" as a whole. For in this sense "Classical" is twice removed from its etymology - it is already short for "Neo-classical" when applied to the period of Mozart and Haydn - this period corresponded to a movement in the other media that returned to the style of the true classical period (i.e., ancient Greece and Rome). So generalizing it to Baroque, Romantic, modern, and so on corrupts the meaning by one more degree. Sort of like the use of "Latin" to mean to Spanish or Hispanic - for Latin truly refers to the ancient Latin people and is removed by two degrees from its source (first generalized to mean "Roman", then corrupted to refer to the Spanish language, a "Romance language").

So call me a purist geek if you must, but I still flinch every time I hear Bach or Holst called "Classical".

 

OK, music geek!

Join the rest of us geeks here!

Your feelings are totally understandable.

But don't expect anyone around here to use the terms "neo-classical" and "baroque" too much.


edit: Hey, wait a minute... Are you implying that Weird Al isn't "serious" music??

 

baroque



I love that style!

 

gotta love...

Bach: father of twenty and Modern Theory
Handel: composer of Fireworks Music, and the Messiah
Vivaldi: Composer of the Four Seasons

yep, Baroque was a great time for music.

But then again, the Classical (neo-Classical) and the Romantic periods of music are truly wonderful as well.



Yes join the Geeks here in the music forum

 

"I love "the inferno" from Dante's divine comedy. It's composed by Robert W. Smith. My high school used it for our 2001 field show."


Robert W. Smith rules, he wrote our high school's fight song. Go Warriors!

 

In no particular order:

Gustav Holst The Planets (esp Mars & Jupiter)
Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Ottorino Respighi (sp?) The Pines of Rome
Beethoven's Ode to Joy as well as just about anything else.

Anything with a full orchestra and lots of brass and bombast I'll like.

 

I'm not much of classical music fan, but I absolutely love Gustav Holst's The Planets.

 

Pachelbel's Canon

and

El concierto de Aranjuez (Joaquín Rodrigo)