There are three songs which I used to play on piano that send shivers down my spine:
Alla Turca, third movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata 11 in A major.
Moonlight Sonata, third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata 14 in C# minor (well I tried to play this one).
Pachelbel's Canon.
Singing in Handel's Messiah is good fun.
I forget the names of most pieces. They should make the names more catchy.
Bach's Prelude No.6 --------> Living in a bin on a Sunday night.
"They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do." - Barack Obama.
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Fratres is mindblowing, as is the whole set of recordings on ECM's Tabula Rasa release from 1984.Originally Posted by Rantzien
Still have to hear some Gorecki myself.
My current favorite classical pieces (mind you that I haven't been exploring it for too long) -
Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 5
Claude Debussy - La Mer
Igor Stravinsky - La Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring")
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
I need to get my hands on some Beethoven symphonies. I've been eye-balling a really good deal on Karajan's 1960s cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic on Deutsche Grammophon, but even though it's only $25, something keeps staying my hand. Probably the fact that 9 symphonies would be more than I could digest in a reasonable span of time.
You lucky son of a gun! xD
I love The Planets! And you're right, Neptune is definitely a beautiful piece. An eerie kind of ambiance that mystifies you!
Listening to Uranus-The Magician right now!
I also love how the entire series is entirely astrologically based!
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I don't really know the names of many classical pieces, but I love the orchestra version of You're Not Alone.
i havent listened to classical music for a while but a tune i'll always enjoy will be Two-part intervention in C minor by Bach
Making a slow come back since 2008
Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven would be the only one I can think of right now, mainly because I love a "solo" piano playing on its own slowly.
Tried learning it on the guitar but its too difficult for someone that only plays chords.
I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet; You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
Well, I wasn't going to mention Bach since he's baroque and not classical, but the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is pretty much my favorite composition of all time.
But that's just me being pedantic.
I guess Handel's Sarabande and Chopin's Prelude No.15 are some of my favourites.
When the common person refers to classical, it's usually an umbrella term for music from the Baroque period, from the Classical period, from the Romantic Period, etc etc. Those who want to refer specifically to Mozart-era style will probably say "music from the classical period". So it's OK for the sake of this thread to call Bach classical
And yes, Toccata and Fugue is friggin excellent.
Oh god , where to start...
I've loved everything of Tchaikovsky's that I've heard.
Beethoven - Fur Elise
Ravel - Bolero
Stravinsky - Firebird Suite
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyires
Schubert - Ave Maria
Mozart's Requiem
And nearly everything on Manus's list..
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt)- Grieg
Der Hoelle Rache (Die Zauberflote)- Mozart
Entry of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)- Handel
O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)- Orff
The Lost Chord- Sullivan
Speaking of Sir Arthur Sullivan, I'm not sure if G&S counts as classical, but I absolutely love their stuff, especially the Mikado and HMS Pinafore.
I really do wish to expand my knowledge of classical music, but it's proving to be harder than it was to expand my knowledge of things like death metal.Now, which people like classical music and which just like to think of themselves as the type of people who like classical music?
And I don't know much about classical, but I'm partial to the Moonlight Sonata, most of Paganini's Caprices, Mozart's Requiem and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.
Kaycee says (12:06 AM):
whos' obama?
I agree that it's very difficult to approach classical in this day and age. It's not very popular among younger people (teens and 20s) so it isn't talked about much and can be hard to find recommendations. Not only that, but once you have finally found composers you feel you enjoy, they all have dozens and dozens (sometimes hundreds) of compositions that span many diverse ends of the musical spectrum - from violin sonatas to trombone concertos to operas to ballets and symphonies. It's so hard to get a handle on all of that!I really do wish to expand my knowledge of classical music, but it's proving to be harder than it was to expand my knowledge of things like death metal.Now, which people like classical music and which just like to think of themselves as the type of people who like classical music?
And I don't know much about classical, but I'm partial to the Moonlight Sonata, most of Paganini's Caprices, Mozart's Requiem and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.
As if that weren't difficult enough, actually *acquiring* good classical can be a very time-consuming and money-intensive process. It's difficult to just go about randomly downloading classical music like you could with any other genre (as you suggested, death metal). You have to first pick a piece you're interested in, and then seek out a quality recording with a reputable conductor and orchestra (and/or soloist), which is often difficult to do while browsing p2p or other filesharing methods, so... one has to spring the cash and actually purchase the stuff to truly get what they want / know what they're getting.
Oy.
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