Your Favourite!

Yo!

Post your 5 (or more) favourite Classical Pieces and/or composers and if possible a short explaination why you like it so much!

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring -always been a favorite, so peaceful and relaxing.

Air On a G String -Another relaxing symphonic piece. Simply dashing. lol.

My favorite piece right now is Mendelssohn's "On wings of song". It's got the most beauty melody I have heard, and if you play piano I suggest learning it. You'll really woo the chickies with this one. You can transpose it for 3, or if your good at classical guitar, 2 guitars. I've been trying to learn it on piano though.

Anything by Mozart is great.

Although I am not a fan of opera, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is incrediably inspiring. Also his late string quartets are beautiful as well.

Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture is probably my favorite work of his. The last movement just makes me want to stand up and shout... Well, no it doesn't but it's still cool.

Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire is very nice as well. Great choral, I don't what else to say.

Vivaldi's 4 seasons (all of them) are awesome.

Lizst's Faust Symphony. What can I say it's named after the devil. hehe

I'll stop there.

What about the thread starter, huh???

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 03-01-2004 at 12:53 PM]

I like Stravinsky very much. Petrouchka(sp?) is my favorite.
Also some Bartok.
I am not really into classical music, but I find it quite relaxing to listen, to take a break from all this alternative stuff I am usually listening.

I like Antonin Dvorak alot.

Koyunbaba I,II, III, IV - Carlo Domeniconi, this peice is so amazing, it goes from being so haunting and beuatiful
to, ahh i can't even explain it I love it so much

Toccata Fugue in Dm - Bach, so haunting and dark... badass

Prelude in Dm - Bach, really cool chords in this song, check it out

Study no. 6 - Leo Brauwer, again really cool chords and overall sound, interesting picking pattern

Sesquialtera - Gasper Sanz

Leyenda - Gaspar Sanz? (I can't remember) just an incredible peice of music, the epitome of spanish finger picking

Phantom of the Opera Overture - Really badass sounding song

Jubilation - this is a really bizarre peice, I can't remember who wrote it and I can't find music to it, but its really cool

there's hundreds more

Debussy - Clair De Lune - its so great. I've always loved this piece, it flows so well has so much expression.

Stravinsky - Rites of Spring - This sounds sooo cool. Its just so out there, I could head bang to it.

Beethoven - Sonata no. 2 op. 3 for the piano - Beethoven has some great piano stuff, so fast and tuneful. I like this one a lot. I also like Fur Elise, and of course symphony no. 9

Bach - every organ and harpsichord piece I've ever heard of his. I love the Baroque era, its just great.

Paginini - 5th caprice - I love the chromatic runs on this one, some good stuff. My jaw dropped when I heard it.

Anything by Mozart. Wolfey is the man (its funny how I call him wolfey). He just would whip out stuff. Requiem is cool.

J. L. Small - This guy wrote some serious etudes for the sax, some of them sound really great.

Well then theres Hayden, Chopin, Schubert, Tchaikovsky....
O theres just too many of them man! Classical kicks ass!

Isn't Rite of Spring the strangest thing you have ever heard?

I mean it is so insane

have you ever heard about how that song is supposed to make people go insane and start hallucinating about Vikings?

amazing

Bolero de Ravel is another cool classical peice

prokofiev - montagues and capulets is amazingly haunting

modest mussorgsky - night on bare mountain - cus i like to dance to it, very insanley

arvo part - de profundis

anything by bethoveen, mozart, shostakovich,

that 2001 space odessy song, i think its by strauss [the one when the ape grasps the bone for the first time]

steve reich and philip glass more contemporary.

and the nutcracker hehe

Here are some composers i like alot:

Antonio VIVALDI (esp. 4 Seasons)
Bela BARTOK (esp. Microkosmos and Music for Strings,Percussion and Celesta - VERY cool)
Fernando SOR
Augustin Barrios MANGORE (esp. La Cathedral, El Ultimo Tremolo and alot of other works)
Gustav MAHLER (Symphony No 5 and No 2)
Toru TAKEMITSU ("Raintree Sketch" and "All in Twilight")
Benjamin BRITTEN ("Nocturnal Op 70" - fantastic mood)
William WALTON ("Five Bagatelles" and some other works like "Crown Imperial")
William BYRD (Galliard)
Igor STRAVINSKY
Georges BIZET (L´Arlesienne - esp the "Prelude")
Johannes BRAHMS (Tracgic Overture - KILLER!)
Claude DEBUSSY (claire de lune, Girl with the Flaxen hair)
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS
Francisco TARREGA (Sueno, Recuerdos De La Alhambra)
Johann Sebastian BACH (too many to name them all)
Antonin DVORAK
Conlon NANCARROW (Studies for player piano - now THAT is sick!!)
Frank ZAPPA (esp. Yellow Shark)
György LIGETI (String Quartett No. 2 - one of the sickes pieces i know)
Johan Friedrich FASCH (his trumpet concertos)
Edvard GRIEG (Hall of the Mointain King)
Zoltán KODÁLY (Háry János Suite)
Franz LISZT
Modest Petrovich MUSSGORSKY (Pictures at an exhibition - blows me away! especially the "great gate of kiev" - VERY heroic)
Carl ORFF (Carmina Burana all the way)
Nicolo PAGANINI (24 Caprices and Grande Sonata in A)
Sergei PROKOFIEV
Sergei Vasilyevich RACHMANINOV (isle of the dead)
Maurice RAVEL (Bolero)
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (bumblebee)
Camille SAINT-SAENS (Dance of the Dead)
Domenico SCARLATTI
Franz Peter SCHUBERT
Alexander SCRIABIN
Dimitri SHOSTAKIVICH (24 Preludes and fuges for piano)
Jean SIBELIUS ("En Saga" and "the swan of tuonela" - both excelent pieces)
Peter TCHAICHIVSKY (Symphony No 1 )
Guiseppe VERDI (Aida)
Richard WAGNER (Ride of the Walkyres)
Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER (Te deum - wicked piece)
John DOWLAND (i just love all of his works)
Claude GERVAISE
Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA
Michael PRAETORIUS
Christobal HALFFTER (Codex I - killer piece to play)
Richard Rodney BENNETT (Impromptus)
Hans Erich APOSTEL (6 Musiken)
Heinz KRATOCHWIL (Triptychon)
Isaak ALBENIZ (Leyenda [Asturias])
Anton RUBINSTEIN
Johann PACHELBEL (Canon in D)
Leonard BERNSTEIN
George GERSHWIN
Paul HINDEMITH
Heiner GOEBBELS (Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten)
Dimitri KABALEVSKI
Aram Il'yich KHACHATURIAN (Sabre Dance)
Withold LUTOSLAWSKI
Ignaz PADEREWSKI
Max REGER
Arnold SCHÖNBERG
Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN
Kurt WEILL


... to name just a few

*Man you don't like anybody Azrael. I thought you were supposed to be the expert on this! Sheesh.

*Note the sarcasm.

Yes. But notice how he conviently left out some major players like Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Handel. Hmmm...:eek:

Anything composed for violins :) Except some yellowcard, but that's not exactly classical.

Fiddler on the roof is awesome, if you consider it old enough. It's a fossil compared to me. I personally love Bach, especially that Jesu thing.

Originally posted by noticingthemistake
Yes. But notice how he conviently left out some major players like Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Handel. Hmmm...:eek:

i never realy liked them.. some of the rather unpopular beethoven stuff is cool though

I really like Beethoven's only opera... forget what it's called now, but I remember hearing it on the radio and being completely amazed that I was actually thoroughly enjoying the music.

Originally posted by iamthe_eggman
I really like Beethoven's only opera... forget what it's called now

The Missa Solemnis. Yeah it's amazing aint it, if you get a chance look on the internet for the dialoque. I would send a link but I don't know how interested you would be and I'm at work now. Don't have time to look for it also. But it will give you chills, and really give you inspiration in humanity.

I don't like Hadyn much either, maybe one or two pieces. Handel's "Messiah" is cool though. As some have said Beethhoven's best works IMO are his early piano pieces, his string quartets (some don't know Ludwig has also an accomplished violist), Stuff around the time when he first started going deaf were awesome cause it's so dramatic. Stuff like Hammerklavier.

I'm a big fan of...
Vivaldi
Brahms
Grieg
Liszt
Chopin
Bartok

Originally posted by noticingthemistake
The Missa Solemnis. Yeah it's amazing aint it, if you get a chance look on the internet for the dialoque. I would send a link but I don't know how interested you would be and I'm at work now. Don't have time to look for it also. But it will give you chills, and really give you inspiration in humanity.

Hmmm.. I don't think so... I just took the time now to Google it, and it's called "Fidelio". I knew it started with an "F"; I wanted to say "Figaro" yesterday, but I knew that was wrong.

Aside from *most* of the composers/pieces names I really enjoy playing/listening to 'Io Vorrei Pur Fuggir'. I'm pretty sure it's just some really old anonymous song, although I could be wrong.

A question, is this to find a new project to transpose since your last was *stolen*??

..who knows *LOL*