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Favorite piece of classical music

post #1 of 118
11/2/06 at 5:32pm
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This should be fun.

Nothing is able to consistently move me like Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23. The climax is pure majesty.
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post #2 of 118
11/2/06 at 5:35pm
Russian Sailor's Dance, by Gliere. A compact, whirling dervish of color and sound.
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post #3 of 118
11/2/06 at 5:53pm
Haydn: Opus three, no. 5, Quartet no. 68
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post #4 of 118
11/2/06 at 6:07pm
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Danse Macabre, as arranged by Liszt. Chilling.
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post #5 of 118
11/2/06 at 6:47pm
Ravel's "Daphnis Et Chloe," the complete ballet. I will say I'm partial to the second suite but the entire piece is a work of art.
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post #6 of 118
11/2/06 at 7:25pm
Ravel, Bolero
Vivaldi, Winter
Bach, Toccata und Fuga in R minor.
Chopin played by Vladimir Horovitz.
Rahmaninov played by Svyatoslav Rihter
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post #7 of 118
11/9/06 at 6:08am
Lots of liszt
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post #8 of 118
11/9/06 at 6:13am
Well as far as Clasical Style goes I really dig Shingeru Umebayashi and Peer Raben. Actually those two composers are the only two I listen to on a semiregular basis as they were on the soundtrack to 2046. I bought the movie about a year and a half ago, before it got press here in the states. I really liked the score so I downloaded the soundtrack.
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post #9 of 118
11/9/06 at 1:34pm
I am partial to Baroque period music and never tire of the classics:

Albinoni: Adagio in G minor

Pachelbel: Canon in D major

Vivaldi: Four seasons (Spring and winter but each has its own mood)

Also, Ravel's Bolero
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post #10 of 118
11/9/06 at 1:40pm
Another difficult question with the same problem of the others asking for a favorite. I love a lot of classical pieces. Two not mentioned so far:

Mozart's clarinet 5-tet
Brahms's clarinet 5-tet
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post #11 of 118
11/9/06 at 1:53pm
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Originally Posted by EL72
Also, Ravel's Bolero
I prefer Zappa's rendering. The others I'd hold with too.

Also at the mo. Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D. And the Choral Symphony, Mr Beethoven; quite long and gradually builds and builds with the well known climax. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh......................
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post #12 of 118
11/9/06 at 2:30pm
Beck's Bolero is great!
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post #13 of 118
11/9/06 at 3:55pm
Mostly ignorent about the genre, but I so far I enjoy Turkish March the most.
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post #14 of 118
11/9/06 at 4:03pm
Beethoven, quartet Op. 131.
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post #15 of 118
11/9/06 at 4:28pm
Robert Schumann Kreisleriana op.16/ Carnaval op.9
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