Your favorite classical pieces!

[Trivun]

Clair De Lune .... and Bella's Lullaby off Twilight... They are piano music but still hit the classical range also. God I love them!

Someone else who likes that music, finally! Last time I mentioned that on this site someone told me "Carter Burwell needs to die". I just love the Twilight score in general, no matter what anyone else here thinks of Twilight...

EDIT: Double post, sorry...

 

[TheReactorSings]

I never really got into classical music; dropped out of music school twice as a result. (That's probably going to sound massively disingenuous in light of what follows, but trust me...being a real classical fan takes fucking years of practise, and I'm too lazy by far.)

Considering that most people are familiar with 18th/19th century stuff, I'd like to recommend a few of my favourites from the last hundred years or so:

Henry Cowell: Deep Color (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXXAJqioZUo)
George Crumb: Black Angels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHL54OPQBsc)
Gyorgy Ligeti: The Devil's Staircase (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTaiDHqs5s)
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-GwxyJ2ZY)
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIrlgRt8Dg8)

 

[RanD00M]

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This piece of beauty.This is on of the few songs that can actually bring me to tears.

 

[TheReactorSings]

Oh God, and I have to include Saint Saens' wonderful Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, timescale be damned (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD059jkt6bs).

 

[WayOutThere]

My favorite is easily Cannon Rock. Check out all this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/user/toleranceforsolitude#grid/user/2A6AE57E07C89AFA

 

[teutonicman]

Holst's The Planets specifically Jupiter and Mars.

 

[G1eet]

1812 Overture (Had to be said).

There are a few others, but I don't know their names.

Like the OP had to ask... lol.

It's super fun to play in a symphonic band/orchestra.

 

[cartzo]

1812 overture is everyones favorate, its the only one everyone knows.

mine personally is canon.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

Also suprised nobody has mentioned Clint Mansell's "Lux Aeterna" from the Requiem for a Dream, Although the film wasn't good it was a lovely sound track.

Edit: Also on a games related note Matt Uelman who was the composer for Blizzard back when they Made Diablo II the OST for that game is still second to nothing for setting an atmosphere.

 

[Magnatek]

*twitch*What? No...Mussorgsky...yet?


Potential crisis averted.

 

[DemonicVixen]

Clair De Lune .... and Bella's Lullaby off Twilight... They are piano music but still hit the classical range also. God I love them!

Someone else who likes that music, finally! Last time I mentioned that on this site someone told me "Carter Burwell needs to die". I just love the Twilight score in general, no matter what anyone else here thinks of Twilight...

EDIT: Double post, sorry...

lol. I love the movie. My boyfriend hates it to an extent (more the actors and the whole sparkle in sunight) but at least he does like the lullaby and has even tried teaching himself how to play some of it on piano. I love listening to it. I had it on last night and repeated it for ages. Finally it broke into my dream and still I did not wish to turn it off.
The only songs I dislike in Twilight is the when Robert Patterson's song is in the background. Cute as he is, he can not sing for toffee lol.

 

[johnzaku]

I must say I love Beethoven's 6th

Then his 9th and 3rd

And Pachelbel's 'Canon in D'

 

[Some bullets]

Liszt:No. 3 in D flat major, "Un sospiro"

http://www.last.fm/music/Franz+Liszt/_/No.+3+in+D+flat+major,+%22Un+sospiro%22

You heard it on KINGS from NBC

 

[Trivun]

Clair De Lune .... and Bella's Lullaby off Twilight... They are piano music but still hit the classical range also. God I love them!

Someone else who likes that music, finally! Last time I mentioned that on this site someone told me "Carter Burwell needs to die". I just love the Twilight score in general, no matter what anyone else here thinks of Twilight...

EDIT: Double post, sorry...

lol. I love the movie. My boyfriend hates it to an extent (more the actors and the whole sparkle in sunight) but at least he does like the lullaby and has even tried teaching himself how to play some of it on piano. I love listening to it. I had it on last night and repeated it for ages. Finally it broke into my dream and still I did not wish to turn it off.
The only songs I dislike in Twilight is the when Robert Patterson's song is in the background. Cute as he is, he can not sing for toffee lol.

I agree to a certain extent about the music, but I think Robert Pattinson's musical talents do exist. They just lie in the instrumental direction (I think he played his own instruments in that song he sings). As for the singing, he's like Robbie Williams - as Williams himself confesses, he isn't the world's best singer, but his success lies in the fact that he entertains even if he can't sing all that well. Although the main difference is that Robbie Williams actually can sing.

As for the film itself, I loved it (something that, as a guy and older than 14, I shouldn't really admit). Although I much preferred Alice and Jasper as characters to Bella, Edward and Jacob... same goes for the books, really.

 

[DJ Lord Destructocon]

Pachelbel Canon in G Major I believe is simply one of the greatest pieces of music ever made, along with Flight of the Valkyries.

 

[lwm3398]

Does Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre count? ... Screw it, yes it does. Danse Macabre.

 

[TheReactorSings]

The famous "Night on Bald Mountain" arrangement for orchestra is actually the work of Maurice Ravel, I think. Mussorgsky's version is for solo piano, but it's comparatively unknown. Like, totally ironic, yeah?

 

[Aqualung]

1812 Overture
Bach's Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor
Saint-Saens "Danse Macabre"
Mozart's 41st, the Jupiter
Kabilevsky's Sonata
Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King

EDIT: Oh Yeah! Clair de Lune is lovely, as is Moonlight Sonata.

And Hungarian Rhapsody

EDIT AGAIN: OH YEAH! And Mozart's Requiem, particularly "Dies Irae" and my favourite: "Rex Tremendae Majestatis"

Oh my god, I think I love you. That is exactly everything I was about to type.

I spent my spare working along listening to Danse Macabre, too. Love it, love it.

 

[Riccan]

Dies Irae-Mozart

Ninth Symphony-Beethoven

 

[GrinningManiac]

1812 Overture
Bach's Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor
Saint-Saens "Danse Macabre"
Mozart's 41st, the Jupiter
Kabilevsky's Sonata
Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King

EDIT: Oh Yeah! Clair de Lune is lovely, as is Moonlight Sonata.

And Hungarian Rhapsody

EDIT AGAIN: OH YEAH! And Mozart's Requiem, particularly "Dies Irae" and my favourite: "Rex Tremendae Majestatis"

Oh my god, I think I love you. That is exactly everything I was about to type.

I spent my spare working along listening to Danse Macabre, too. Love it, love it.

REALLY?!? I FOUND SOMEONE ELSE!!

HOORAY!

Have you heard the Organ version?

I love it

Oh, and Bald Mountain, gotta love Fantasia