Classical Music

[StephF]

Do you like classical music and if so do you have a favourite piece ?

I'm quite fond of Boccherini's String Quintet in E Major.

 

[Etzelaire]

I love it but I also listen to other kinds of music. I like nessum dorma but not sang by pavarotti but by one guy from x-factor. It's the only kind of music that can make me drop some tears from time to time. Hmm... I am very sensitive with music, I can easily be cheered up or brought to easement.

 

[StephF]

I've often thought that anyone who is cerebral rather than mundane cannot fail to be moved by the beauty of some classical pieces. The simultaneous complexity and simplicity is such luxury to me.

 

[IContainMultitudes]

One of my favorites, lots of Russian music just has such a magical sound to me:

 

[Cali Cat]

I do like classical music ... almost as much as heavy metal.

My favorite piece is Puccini's 'O Mio Babbino Caro' as performed by Kiri te Kanawa:

 

[AsheSkyler]

It was once suggested Beethoven was the heavy metal head of his era.

I have no one favorite, but Greensleeves has been most played on my computer lately. I'm about done with my current classical piano part of my rotation and it's about time to move to strings or guitar again.

 

[Judge]

 

[Meistersinger]

It was once suggested Beethoven was the heavy metal head of his era.

I have no one favorite, but Greensleeves has been most played on my computer lately. I'm about done with my current classical piano part of my rotation and it's about time to move to strings or guitar again.

Actually, that would have been Mozart (if you believe the playwright Peter Shaffer). Beethoven was a person of his own doing.

 

[Harrison]

I love classical music, couple of my favourites are -

 

[Spiller]

I love Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Holst's planet Suite, as well as various film and TV theme music.

 

[wyverary]

Me? Pick a favorite? Oh gosh... I wouldn't know where to begin. If I were to constrain the selection to music I've only listened to in the past month, well...

Let's try this one. I don't know why, but autumn weather seems to call for much Johann Sebastian.

Christian Hommel's rendition of BWV 1053 on the oboe d'amore is a particular favorite of mine. (starts at the 37 minute mark)

 

[clg114]

Bolero by Maurice Ravel.

 

[wyverary]

Bolero by Maurice Ravel.

As someone who has personally performed this piece, I can't help but say, "Better you than me!"

 

[You'llPokeYourEyeOut]

-Pachelbel's Canon in D
-Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
-Bach's Prelude in C Major
-Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G
-Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz
-Vivaldi's Four Seasons (especially Autumn and Spring)

 

[aj]

Do you like classical music and if so do you have a favourite piece ?

I'm quite fond of Boccherini's String Quintet in E Major.

That reminds me of a kids series program. I think it was something like art attach but a certain part. They had a black curtain behind them and they dressed in black, they was doing a puppet show i think with bright colour puppets. I hope i got it right but that song came on. I can see 2 people with white masks as well i just cant picture it correctly. Il have to look into it and send a link lol

I remember now lol i was close
Zzzap

 

[Meistersinger]

Mahler--Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)

 

[Laughingowl1975]

At present my favorites are-
Nights in the gardens of Spain by Manuel de Falla
Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofe
Nocturnes and La Mer by Claude Debussy
Gaspard de la Nuit by Maurice Ravel
The Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi
An Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss
I like what is called impressionist music or postcard classical music by some (basically music that depicts a scene or environment).

 

[Meistersinger]

Bruckner--Mass in E minor for double choir and wind orchestra.

 

[OdinTheAardvark]

Wagner - Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Bruckner - Symphony no 3
Beethoven - Ode to Joy from Symphony no 9
Mozart - Queen of the Night's aria from Magic Flute

 

[IAmParadiseSeekerJW]

Anything by Erik Satie...I am rather partial to the Gnossiennes...rather beautiful if I must say