What're your favorite pieces of music

Not the most beautiful sounds. . .not your favorite songs, necessarily -- but your favorite music. The most beautiful, the most awesome, the most touching -- whatever. Just your favorite music. I guess my favorites are Beethoven's Ode to Joy and Holst's Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity. I guess I'm just a joyful person.

 

Hmm, that's a tough one. A VERY tough one.

I'm not entirely sure if it's my absolute favorite since there's so much I like, but i think this one may be my favorite.

It's Tennessee by Hans Zimmer from Pearl Harbor. I always listen to this. It's so beautifully done.

Aren't I weak?

 

Mastadge, excellent choices. Those are two of my favorties. My favorite classical piece is probably the 1812 Overture; it has beauty and power. Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture, also by Tchaikovsky, is worth mentioning.

To keep the topic on music used in films, two beautiful pieces that stand out are Canon In D (used in Ordinary People, among many others), and The Blue Danube (used in 2001: A Space Odyssey -- one of the great movie scenes of all time).

As for music compsed for films...

I love Apollonia from The Godfather, and Suo Gan from Empire Of The Sun.

And then there's all that Star Wars stuff...

 

::smiles:: I like this thread!

Beethoven's Ode to Joy really is beautiful. I think my favorite music to listen to is Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherezade, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (which is fun to play on the piano as well!), and the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (any one else see K-19 Widowmaker? Took me the second time seeing it to hear that music...)

 

I like Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni. It was in Raging Bull and The Godfather Part III.

 

My favourite piece at the moment is Berio's Sinfonia, especially the third movement.

My fave bit of film work at the moment is Nigel Westlake's score to Solarmax.

Has anyone here heard either of these?

 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Reunion
Search for the Blue Fairy
Monica's Theme

APOLLO 13
The Launch
Re-entry and Splashdown

ARMAGEDDON
The Launch
Music when the asteroid goes nuclear

BRAVEHEART
For the Love of a Princess
End Credits

FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
The Bridge of Khazad-dum
Breaking of the Fellowship

GLADIATOR
Am I Not Merciful?
The Battle

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
Harry's Wondrous World
The Chess Game
Christmas at Hogwarts

JURASSIC PARK SERIES
Journey to the Island
The Raptors Appear
High-Wire Stunts
My Friend, The Brachiosaurus
T-Rex Rescue and Finale
Tiny Pecking Pteranodons
Rescuing Sarah

PEARL HARBOR
Tennessee
2nd Trailer Theme
War
Heart of a Volunteer

PRINCESS MONONOKE
Main Theme

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Hymn of the Fallen
Omaha Beach

THE LAND BEFORE TIME
Discovery of the Great Valley

THE LION KING
The Stampede
Pride Rock
Music when Mufasa dies

THE MATRIX
The Lobby Shootout

THE TWO TOWERS
2nd Trailer Theme

TITANIC
Tracks 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15

THE STAR WARS SERIES
All of it



If I remember anymore, I'll update.