Classical music evokes so many thoughts!

[WiffingWaffles]

Please list your favorite pieces here.

Mine is so far - Études, Op. 10: No. 9 in F Minor

 

[Raggamuffin]

Ed

 

[AutistAcolyte]

i don't know if it counts as classical music (are you referring to orchestral pieces or just older music?), but i like listening to church chants. lots of russian and greek, but there are also a few albums of french chants ive enjoyed, and its nice to understand the english ones, but they often aren't as aurally pleasing.

 

[Georgia Galaxy]

I like some of these types of songs, I find them relaxing <_3_>

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Stravinsky's A Soldiers Tale and The Rite of Spring. All of JS Bach's Brandenburg concertos. Beethoven's 9th. Copeland's Rodeo and Billy the Kid.

 

[Laughingowl1975]

An Alpine Symphony by R. Strauss
The Pines of Rome by Respighi
La Triade by Brusa
"Aurora Borealis" Piano Concerto by Tviett
Nocturnes by Debussy

 

[AprilR]

Tchaikovsky- basically everything period.
Especially 1812 overture. It's like watching a movie or reading a story.

Also Rachmaninov piano concertos. So dramatic!

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Chopin Nocturnes
Schubert Trout Quintet, Death of a Maiden
Bach fugues
Beethoven late string quartets and symphony #6, the Pastoral

 

[Mr. Stevens]

Steve Reich - Octet; Music for a Large Ensemble; Music for 18 Musicians; Vermont Counterpoint; Six Marimbas
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite; Swan Lake Suite
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
Beethoven - Seventh Symphony
Debussy - La Mer; Clair de Lune
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Penderecki - string quartets; Fluorescences; Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Benjamin Britten - Noye's Fludde; War Requiem; Four Sea Interludes
Frederick Delius - A Song Before Sunrise
Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy; London Symphony Orchestra Vols. I & II
Henry Purcell - Funeral Sentences/Music for the Funeral March of Queen Mary
Rachmaninoff - Isle of the Dead
John Cage - Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz
John Adams - Chamber Symphony; Road Movies
Charles Ives - Fourth Symphony; Central Park in the Dark; Unanswered Question
Wagner - prelude to Tristan und Isolde
Benny Goodman, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould - Meeting at the Summit

Does Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed count?