Favorite piece of classical music

[Connemara]

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.

 

[Thomas]

Russian Sailor's Dance, by Gliere. A compact, whirling dervish of color and sound.

 

[Ivan Kipling]

Haydn: Opus three, no. 5, Quartet no. 68

 

[Connemara]

Danse Macabre, as arranged by Liszt. Chilling.

 

[whodini]

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.

 

[dkzzzz]

Ravel, Bolero
Vivaldi, Winter
Bach, Toccata und Fuga in R minor.
Chopin played by Vladimir Horovitz.
Rahmaninov played by Svyatoslav Rihter

 

[Toiletduck]

Lots of liszt

 

[ratboycom]

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.

 

[EL72]

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

 

[bachbeet]

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

 

[Britalian]

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......................

 

[bachbeet]

Beck's Bolero is great!

 

[jpeirpont]

Mostly ignorent about the genre, but I so far I enjoy Turkish March the most.

 

[Manton]

Beethoven, quartet Op. 131.

 

[Swann]

Robert Schumann Kreisleriana op.16/ Carnaval op.9