Favorite Classical Piece

[aiwass]

What's your favorite piece of classical music?

Mine would have to be Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring".

That intro melody is to die for, and the whole thing is soooo experimental.

[zepp_rules]

my absolute favorite is Pachabel's Canon in D. i love the melody and its overall a great composition.

i also like Toccata Fugue in Dmin

[joshldoherty]

I saw the score for "The Rite of Spring" today. IT was insane, Stravinsky changed the time signature literally every measure. I dont really have a favorite piece, but the Golterman Concerto is really cool. Im learnin it for the cello right now, and is insanely difficult.

[malweth]

Eine Klein Nachtmusik is excellent (all four movments)(Mozart String Quartet)

I also like Lacrymosa from his Requiem - this is a choral piece, and I might not like it as much if I didn't sing it in all-state.

[aiwass]

The Rite of Spring has some insane rhythmic subdivisions, too. Like quintuplet sets with double and triple grace notes within the set. Pure genious.

[SLY]

My fav is Bach's "Toccata & Fugue in D min"..

I also love Beethoven's "Fur Elise", Paganini's 5th & 24th Caprices.

[chris mood]

I'm also very partial to the Rite of Spring, one of the 1st classical peices that got me excited about classical music. But Flight of the Bumble Bee has to be one of the coolest peices ever written. Who could have ever imagined the sound of a Bumble Bee inspiring somebody to write a peice of music.

[Alan Green]

To listen to it's gotta be Spring from Vivaldi's four seasons.

Guitar specific - Tango. Isaac Albeniz

To play - Vivaldi, Concerto in Em for mandolins - the slow movement

Cheers,


Alan :-)

[iamthe_eggman]

I would say Claude DeBussy's "Clair de lune" - it has no time signature and is not in any key. It feels so free, but some people have done some horrible interpretations of it.

I second the vote for "The Four Seasons" by Vivaldi, but I lean more towards Winter than Spring.

[jesse sutton]

paganini's caprices

preferrably 5, 24, 16 and 11

they rule for violin, and when played on guitar they are incredible.

thats my opinion anyways.

jesse sutton (canada kicks ass)

[aiwass]

Claire de lune is awesome.

[zepp_rules]

there's also Dee

[chris mood]

Your joking, right?

[zepp_rules]

yea, of course. it's great, and even though its classical guitar, it doesn't fit in with the others

[Azrael]

well.. where to begin.. here are my alltime favs:

Bach "Chiaconna"
Dimitri Shostakovich "Preludes"
Bela Bartok "Music for strings percussion and celesta"
Jean Sibelius "En Saga" and "the swan of tuonela"
Claude Debussy "La fille aux cheveux de lin"
Agustin Barrios Mangore "La Cathedral I,II and III"
Conlon Nancarrow "studies for player piano" (wierd stuff)
Johannes Brahms "Tragic Overture"
William Walton "5 bagattelles for guitar" (performed by Julian Bream!)
and last but not least:
Toru Takemitsu "All in Twilight"

Bet most of them are nto too well known.. :D - but worth dropping an ear on 'em

[aiwass]

I almost forgot:

Leo Brauwer: "Etudes simples".

Randy Rhoads ripped it off for Diary. It's a short piece for classical guitar with some really cool chords in it.