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03 Apr 2007, 5:35 pm

What are your favourite pieces of 'Classical' i.e. Western art music?

Here are a few of mine in no particular order:

Chopin: Opus 10, no. 1 in C major

Ravel: La Valse - piano reduction arranged and played by Glenn Gould

Ravel: Jeux d'eau - played by Martha Argerich

Debussy: Images, Book 1

Debussy: Arabesque No.1

Debussy: Le sons et les parfums tournet dans l'air du soir, Brouillards and Les fees sont d'exquises danseuses from Prelude Books I and II

Penderecki: Stabat Mater

Penderecki: In Pulverem Mortis from The Passion according to St. Luke

Ligeti: L'escaliber diablo - Etude no. 13 from Book 2

Ligeti: Atmospheres

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03 Apr 2007, 6:08 pm

I haven't listened to nearly as much classical music as I should've, but I lately discovered Tristan Perich, who's a modern artist who's doing some classical-style music.

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03 Apr 2007, 7:13 pm

Let's see...
Ravel, Rhapsodie Espagnole
Beethoven's Eroica symphony
Smetna, The Moldau
Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake
Falla, Nights in the Garden of Spain

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03 Apr 2007, 9:52 pm

Stabat Mater Dvorak
te Deum & several Masses Bruckner
St Matthews Passion Bach
Great Mass in C Mozart
Missa Solemnis Beethoven
Vespers Rachmaninoff
Mass in G Vaughan Williams

Isle of the Dead Rachmaninoff
Symphony #5 Vaughan Williams
Mass for Double Choir & Organ C. M. Widor
Rap. in Blue Gershwin

and many many many more......... I am nuts about orchestral music!

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03 Apr 2007, 10:21 pm

Voxsolemnis wrote:

I am nuts about orchestral music!

I need to listen to some more orchestral/symphonic music really; I mostly only listen to piano stuff at the moment.

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03 Apr 2007, 11:06 pm

Nothing beats the 9th by Ludwig Van... at least in my book, the CD format is set to its average length

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06 Apr 2007, 8:25 am

Just remembered another favourite that I hadn't listened to in a while:

Bruch - Violin Concerto in Gminor

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08 Apr 2007, 3:59 am

Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D
Beethoven - Symphony 5
Beethoven - Moonlight

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15 Apr 2007, 5:21 pm

I'm not very musical, so I'll divide my favourites into two categories:

Very Slow stuff

Gymnopedie No. 1, Eric Satie
The Protecting Veil, Tavener
The Last Sleep of the Virgin, Tavener
Symphony No. 3, Gorecki
Saturn, Holst
Summertime, Gershwin

Less Slow stuff

Jerusalem, Edward Elgar
Jupiter, Gustav Holst
Oboe Concerto - Allegro, Tomaso Albinoni
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Bach
The Piano, Michael Nyman
Turkish Rondo, Mozart
Hungarian Dance No. 5, Brahms
Akenaten, Philip Glass

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15 Apr 2007, 8:06 pm

John Glass

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15 Apr 2007, 11:13 pm

hartzofspace wrote:

Smetna, The Moldau

This is my favorite

(Though to be technical, it's romantic, not classical. But it's still the type of music most people would call "classical".) I'm also fond of some of the works of Brahms but I can't remember the names at the moment.

Also, Schubert's Erlkonig, which is an art song (a bit off the classical track but of interest to the same listeners), is very powerful and has haunting lyrics.

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16 Apr 2007, 2:30 am

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15 – Largo - Beethoven

Violin Concerto in D major op.61 - Beethoven

OVerture - The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart

Symphony no. 5 in C minor - IV: Allegro - Presto - Beethoven

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16 Apr 2007, 6:31 am

chairbreak wrote:

(Though to be technical, it's romantic, not classical. But it's still the type of music most people would call "classical".) .

I meant 'classical' in that sense i.e. Western Art Music; none of my choices were really classical.

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20 Nov 2013, 2:39 pm

Firebird Suite and Carnival of the Animals

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22 Nov 2013, 2:51 pm

JakeG wrote:

I could listen to Glenn Gould's interpretation of La Valse a million times. I love that song. Glenn Gould never ceases to amaze me. Gotta love Ligeti's Atmospheres, as well.

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22 Nov 2013, 3:50 pm

Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 - Mozart

Flower Duet, Lakme - Delibes

Pie Jesu - Webber

Anything by Chopin or Bach :-)

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