what is your favourite classical music work?

Drinklicafix

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organ

Really tough question. I guess one of my favourites is Bach's Passacaglia & Fugue BWV582 (played slowly!). Another organ work I really like is Prelude & Fugue BWV543.
 

giovannimusica

Commodore de Cavaille-Coll
Yes!!!

Passacaglia & Fugue in c-minor is the best organ work of JSBach - I can never get enough of it.

Cheers,

Giovanni :tiphat:
 

JLS

Member
Well, I suppose I'll make my first music-related post on these fora an easy one...

I know it's conventional, but I think Beethoven's 5th Symphony is the greatest thing ever produced by humanity.
 
Gareth

Gareth

Commodore of Water Music
Hmmm, although I do like the sound of the 1812 overture... Or Clair De Lune...or Moonlight Sonata or Chopins Waltzes...ahhh too many.
 
rojo

rojo

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JLS said:
I know it's conventional, but I think Beethoven's 5th Symphony is the greatest thing ever produced by humanity.
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It`s a 'classical classic', and not without a reason... don`t think anyone would argue with your choice...

Gareth- aw, come on- keep going... :grin:
 
ParryHotter

ParryHotter

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Ok, this is a tough question, but I'll take it as "if you only had one piece to listen to".

Absolutely have to be Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, a piece which has everything.
 
the Nightingale

the Nightingale

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I can't say this is my ALL-time favorite, but a piece I keep coming back to is Sibelius' Valse Triste, Op. 44 No. 1 from Kuolema.

I'll have to take a little more time to think about my absolute favorite, though...that's such a cruel question! :p
 
Museo

Museo

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My favourite is "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber which is a very emotive piece of work. I first heard this at the Last Night of the Proms in 2001 just after the 9/11 events. The piece always moves me to tears when I hear it.
 

Kromme

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Beethoven 5th Symphony
Rachmaninov 2nd Symphony
Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Shostakovich Symphony No.10(2nd movement espeially)
Mozart Jupiter Symphony (The finale especially)
Bach Mass In B Minor
There were too many candidates and this is the end of the elimination for me
 
Gang_Warily

Gang_Warily

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Bach: Magnificat, Prelude (Fantasia) and Fugue in G Minor,
Lotti: Crucifixus á 8,
Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Don Giovanni, Requiem,
Elgar: Cello Concerto,
Victoria: O vos omnes,
Vivaldi: Double Cello Concerto,
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings,

That's the best I can do at narrowing it down - and I'll probs have different answers by next week :grin:
 
Sybarite

Sybarite

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Like many others here, I would have difficulty nominating a single work – and of course it varies as time passes.

Beethoven has been firmly established as my favourite composer for some years, but my current favourite individual work is Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra (Berlin Phil, Herbert von Karajan); indulgent and lush, listening to it is like bathing in honey – perhaps this is the apotheosis of the Romantic era?
 

Kromme

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Also Sprach Zarathustra...It should be added to my earlier list.This is a wonderful piece.The book is my favourite and i think strauss got it all right expressing it in notes.I like Klaus Tennstedt's London Philharmonic recording better than Karajans' though
 

JaneSalmon

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The Marshes of Glynn by Andrew Downes

My favourite work is The Marshes of Glynn by British composer Andrew Downes. Composed in 1985, it is scored for tenor soloist, chorus and large orchestra. It is a setting of the wonderful 19th century American poem (by the same name) by Sidney Lanier, and describes a gorgeous coastal landscape in Georgia. It lasts around 40 minutes. If you want to hear an excerpt, or indeed purchase a CD online, go to andrewdownes.com
 
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Stik_Around

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Favorite pieces of classical music.

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra

Would be my favorite right now...

However, these are in the Pantheon:

Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique
Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 9
Brahms - Ein Deutches Requiem
Mahler - Symphonies - Das Lied von der Erde
Nielson - Symphonies - Alladin Suite
Poulenc - Sinfonietta
Prokofiev - Symphony no. 3 - Romeo and Juliet
Ravel - La Valse (only when the brass is clearly in the picture)
Rimsky-Karsakov - Sheherezade, Russian Easter festival overture.
Saint-Saens - Phaéton - Introduction and Rondo capriccioso - Symphony no. 3 "Organ"
Shostakovich - Symphonies
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - Firebird - Petrouchka
Tchaikovsky - 1812 - Marche Slave - Symphonies - Manfred
 
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