Your favourite Classical Music Piece.

[Malty Milk Whistle]

Well, as the title implies, what's yours?
Mine's Gymnopédie No.1 by Erik Satie.
I would be very much appreciative if someone told me how to link the youtube video into the post without it being all mucky.

Go ahead! Share your love of tinkling strings or thundering conclusions!

 

[Wadders]

To link videos from Youtube:

Copy and paste the url from youtube onto here,
delete everything apart from the word 'youtube' and the '=', and the digits that follow the '=',
open and close the whole thing with brackets,
job done!

I think my favorite would be Jean Sibelius' Karelia Suite, my avatar might also be a give away! I'm not a Finn, I just love his music.

Here are the three movements:

Spoiler: Karelia Suite

 

[M K Ultra]

Argh this is a tough one...

Spoiler: There is one piece that makes me cry every time I listen...

Camille Saint-Saens: "Maestoso" from Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78

I only listen to it a few times a year so it doesn't lose it's impact.

Spoiler: Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

I want to link all of it, I'll restrain myself

Spoiler: Then there is Gustav Holst's The Planets

Again I love the entire thing, Neptune is probably my favorite planet.

There was a really cool electronic version of the Planets done by Isao Tomita

Spoiler: Vivaldi's variations on La Follia

I remember my Dad loved this piece & always had it playing in his car. I love my Dad for showing me great classical music as a child.

 

[thesilentman]

Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven.

Spoiler: Moonlight Sonata

Anything by Beethoven is awesome. A hell load of songs that I like take inspiration (in song structure) from his music.

Vivaldi's pretty good too. I like Two Cellos in G minor.

Spoiler: Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor

Dat cello. I want to play violin again...

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Argh this is a tough one...

Spoiler: There is one piece that makes me cry every time I listen...

Camille Saint-Saens: "Maestoso" from Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78

I only listen to it a few times a year so it doesn't lose it's impact.

Spoiler: Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

I want to link all of it, I'll restrain myself

Spoiler: Then there is Gustav Holst's The Planets

Again I love the entire thing, Neptune is probably my favorite planet.

There was a really cool electronic version of the Planets done by Isao Tomita

Spoiler: Vivaldi's variations on La Follia

I remember my Dad loved this piece & always had it playing in his car. I love my Dad for showing me great classical music as a child.

I freaking love The Planets, and Mars is my particular favorite, but a ***** to play.

OT: I have so many! D:

I will say that my absolute favorite is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

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Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in C Major is another favorite of mine.

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[M K Ultra]

I freaking love The Planets, and Mars is my particular favorite, but a ***** to play.

Mars was my favorite piece to play when I was in high school orchestra. I played trombone so it was fun trying to be the loudest brass instrument. Fuck them trumpets they ain't got shit King Kong TROMBONE!!

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

There are so many pieces that I love but my absolute favourite has to be Holst's Ode to Death:


It's just such a dramatic and powerful piece.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I freaking love The Planets, and Mars is my particular favorite, but a ***** to play.

Mars was my favorite piece to play when I was in high school orchestra. I played trombone so it was fun trying to be the loudest brass instrument. Fuck them trumpets they ain't got shit King Kong TROMBONE!!

The Trombone (and the brass section in general) does have a pretty cool part.

I play the violin so I'm a little biased when I say I think my part was the shit.

It was a lot of fun when I played it and I remember that being a long concert since that was one of the longer pieces we played.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

I have a soft spot for the Bach cello Suites, particularly number 3. They're fun to play, and they can be interpreted so many different ways that listening to two different people play them is almost like listening to two different pieces. Absolutely brilliant.

Spoiler

 

[Nouw]

Spoiler: Going for one of the more popular ones.

Now if we're counting neo classical, I'll have to chuck in some symphonic metal.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. It has cannons bitches! Also, it makes me nostalgic for playing Risk 2 on my windows 95.

 

[e033x]

Oh god, where to begin...

One of my favorite symphonies is Brahms' 4th:

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I am also quite fond of some tidbits from Sibelius, like 2nd. symphony 1st. movement, and 5th. symphony 3rd. movement. Didn't find any good recordings on youtube, but at least for the 5th. symphony, there is a good one with London Philharmonic and conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste on spotify.

Music for the Royal Fireworks by Händel is another favorite, especially the recording by Roger Norrington and London Classical Players on spotify.

In the category of Norwegian composers (seeing as i come from Norway), my favorites are:

E. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A-minor:

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J. Svendsen: String Quartet no. 1, also in A-minor:

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A. Hurum: String Quartet no. 1.... you guessed it, in A-minor.
- Sadly, no recording on youtube. Chech Spotify.

 

[Eddie the head]

Well you have to like "Ride of the Valkyries" I'm not going to link that one we all know it.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "The Pastoral" I like the KH version more than the original (same song, just sounds cleaner)

Cleaner?! ... Cleaner?! ... CLEANER?! ... dude, apologise to Beethoven, like now!!

...

Seriously though, I like it too, and what you've posted is actually just the first two movements played back to back, there're three other movements.

OT:

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As always... I'll be a jerk and ask: define 'classical'... 'Classical' as in the Classical period... or what laymen consider to be " " " " "classical" " " " " music? -_O' ... -_-

I'll base this answer on the second option and divide as follows:

Spoiler: Baroque - Bach & Organ

Spoiler: Baroque - Bach & Solo Harpsichord

Spoiler: Baroque - Bach & Solo Violin

Spoiler: Baroque - Bach & Ensemble

Why yes, I do enjoy much Johann Sebastian!! Listen to this and tell me baroque is emotionless! *grrr*

Spoiler: Baroque - Other

Spoiler: Classical

OK OK... this is 'classical romantic' more than anything else, piss off! -_-

Spoiler: Romantic

Spoiler: Undefined

The Trombone (and the brass section in general) does have a pretty cool part.

I play the violin so I'm a little biased when I say I think my part was the shit.

It was a lot of fun when I played it and I remember that being a long concert since that was one of the longer pieces we played.

Jupiter all the way... violin part's murderous at times... but damned good piece to perform.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

The Trombone (and the brass section in general) does have a pretty cool part.

I play the violin so I'm a little biased when I say I think my part was the shit.

It was a lot of fun when I played it and I remember that being a long concert since that was one of the longer pieces we played.

Jupiter all the way... violin part's murderous at times... but damned good piece to perform.

Never played Jupiter, but I have seen the sheet music for it.

All I can say was that I just chuckled a few times and put it back on the shelf in the music store.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, on the other hand, I've played and hated it. Can't stand Wagner.

Also, I feel like I must put this down too because it's pretty damn awesome.

Spoiler

I forgot how great a composer Prokofiev is.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Also, I feel like I must put this down too because it's pretty damn awesome.

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I forgot how great a composer Prokofiev is.

Whoa... haven't heard that in too long... thankee kindly for the reminiscence...(!)

My turn:

Spoiler: Epic intro...

Yeah... I prefer Rach 2/3 over 2/1 -_-

 

[Calibanbutcher]

How is this not already in here?

Spoiler: Air

and these two I'll throw in as extras:

Spoiler: Dancing shoelaces ho

Spoiler: Bonus round

 

[SckizoBoy]

How is this not already in here?

Spoiler: Air

No disrespect meant (to either yourself or JSB), but because every ClassicFM DJ and his/her cat/dog has played that half a million times over it's enured me to the artistic merits of the piece... so I don't find it that appealing. Other's may feel differently. *shrug*

Thank god I don't listen to the damned channel any more...

Speaking seriously, though, even on its own merits, I think that Bach wrote better emotive 'slow movements' e.g.

Spoiler: BWV1042 Adagio

Different format and the soloist is being a bit dramatic, but I get a better sense of melancholy out of it.