What is your favorite classical music piece and artist?

by restrangled 57 Replies latest jw friends

  • Fleshybirdfodder
    Fleshybirdfodder

    Stravinsky's "the rite of spring"

    Bach's "bouree"

    FBF

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    I love Handel, especially Water Music and Music for Royal Fireworks. The Messiah is a mgnificent piece as well.

    I also like some opera, particularly La Traviata by Verdi

  • M.J.
    M.J.
    i really am a sucker for pretty much anything baroque.

    If it isn't baroque, don't fix it? (sorry...I think that was from a disney movie)

    Anyway...from what I can think of at the moment..Mozart's Piano concerto no. 20,

    Ditto w/ eyeslice on Sheherazade. Also Smetana's Die Moldau

    Sometimes like to listen to Brahms' Hungarian dances.

    Pretty much anything from Tchaikowski.

  • gaiagirl
    gaiagirl

    I second Stravinski's "Rites of Spring" and add "Firebird Suite" as well.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    I know almost everyone's favorite Beethoven symphony is the 9th, but not me....It's great, don't get me wrong, but I've always had a real soft spot for the 6th. That was my favorite music in 7th grade. That was right before I discovered popular rock music.

  • DanTheMan
    DanTheMan

    I like Beethoven's Sixth also. The Fifth is my favorite classical work, there's nothing quite like it.

    There's bits and pieces of a lot of Mozart that I like, but his symphonies have a lot of long, boring parts if you ask me, lol. Overall, his music is a little too happy for my tastes too. I like my music dark and angst-filled, thank you.

    I like Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man also.

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    Marche Triomphe from Verdi's AIDA

  • yesidid
    yesidid

    Hard to pick a favourite from the classics but the one I find the most moving is "The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves"

    from Verdi's "Nabucco"

  • r51785
    r51785

    I cast another vote for Beethoven's 7th, especially the second movement, Allegretto. My favorite recording of it is from Leonard Bernstein's Final Concert.

  • hubert
    hubert

    Ravel's Bolero.

    Heard it live at Radio City Music Hall, when I was 12 years old.

    Half way through, they had drummers in the balcoy, all along the walls, both sides.... It was so awesome, I almost pee'd my pants.

    Hubert

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