Favorite Classical Song?

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  1. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I have two polar opposites.

    "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The most beautiful, upbeat, lyrical piece I've ever heard for chamber orchestra. I heard it done live once, and it was like spending twenty minutes in heaven.

    "Metamorphosen" by Richard Strauss. This was written after the end of WWII, his eulogy to his beloved Germany after it died from a virulent infection. The most moving, sad, introspective piece. It was written for an odd assortment of a dozen or so stringed instruments, each playing a solo part. I heard it done live once. When it was over, the audience sat quietly, stunned, without even thinking to applaud.

    Depending on my mood, I've got the best song for it.
     
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  3. isis25 Registered Senior Member

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    anything by rachmaninoff, especially piano concerto no.2
     
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  5. cato less hate, more science Registered Senior Member

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    rachmaninoff? I don’t really like his stuff, I am a Vivaldi guy when it comes to full symphony. for a sonata I should have to go with Beethoven’s Sonata no. 8 in c minor, op. 13 'Pathetique'.

    although, Gustav Holst's Mars, bringer of war is a good one. (Not sonata)
     
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  7. marv Just a dumb hillbilly... Registered Senior Member

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    Anything baroque like Händel or Vivaldi - peaceful, relaxing like "Water Music" or "Four Seasons". Spare me the German Sturm und Drang.
     
  8. VossistArts 3MTA3 Registered Senior Member

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    i dont know about the classical era really i was never terribly ford of it really . i like stuff from the renaissance and modern and contempory times but if you mean classical as in general style of music.. i still dont know heh. of course i love spanish guitar because i play it. so whatever. but my fav all time song with piano and apparently a smalll chorus is green bird by yoko kanno. check out a listen if youd like http://www.msnusers.com/vossistcarvings/mymusic.msnw?fc_a=0&fc_p=/My Music
     
  9. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    "O' Fortuna!" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.
     
  10. NooFas Registered Member

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    I probably like Chopin's Nocturne No. 1 the best. Does anybody else around here like him?
     
  11. NooFas Registered Member

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    I've tried to listen to some G. F. Handel and haven't really enjoyed his music as much as other baroque composers. Do you have any specific recommendations from him?
     
  12. Ozymandias Unregistered User Registered Senior Member

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    I've been listening to a lot of Copland recently. Usually it's Debussy and Gershwin (although he's not really "classical"), with Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saens and Liszt. They form up the majority of my favorites. I like a lot from a lot of different composers, though.
     
  13. My Sexy Blue Feet Out sunbaking, leave a msg... Registered Senior Member

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    definetly Fortuna. Mozart's Requirum is right up there too, it's used brilliantly in the first scene of X-men 2. Stan Lee has a tendancy to use good classics in his works.
     
  14. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    OK. I'm a nitpicking bastard, but more than half the pieces people are nominating are not songs. Songs have words or lyrics. Otherwise they are pieces or music or melodies or tunes or works. But not songs. Everybody got that now.

    And since I think you meant the latter, then for me anything by Bach, but especially the Brandenburg Concertoes - any and all of them. Although, I will pause to listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony when conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Sir Alexander Gibson, or any conductor who understands the value of a stop watch when performing this particular work.


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  15. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    I was trying to imply that I am really out of touch, out of date, passe, yesterday's news.
     
  16. Gmcglothern Registered Member

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    Moonlight sonata
    I can play all three movements
     
  17. certified psycho Beware of the Shockie Monkey Registered Senior Member

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    ANything militant sounding
     
  18. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35

    * Goosebumporama ...
     
  19. Cottontop3000 Death Beckoned Registered Senior Member

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    John Williams' soundtrack for Star Wars.
     
  20. Jenyar Solar flair Valued Senior Member

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    All of the above, but if had had to name one now: Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto, 2nd movement.
     
  21. Facial Valued Senior Member

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    For me, it's Beethoven's 7th Symphony (in any key between A and E min.) allegretto, no contest.

    Impressive. Do you have any advice on how to practice the third?
     
  22. Hector Berlioz Registered Senior Member

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    Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (1830)

    By yours truly
     
  23. Professor Marvel Registered Member

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    I realize that it isn't considered Classical (yet) .... but I would put Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue up there with the best of them!


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