Favorite classical

[korgul]

What is your favorite classical piece of music. No I am not saying Led Zepplin, Doors, ao anythng like that.

I would have to say that my fav is Fur Elise by Beethoven.

So lets have it.

korgul

[ben-the-slacker]

Um..Fur Elise is by Beethoven

[korgul]

Ooops sorry about that.
Changes made.

[Brainchild]

Beethovens 5th I would have to say.
But I do really like some of Mozart, and Chapin as well, but I'm not an avid listener

What about Classical Gas, does that count??

[Knothead]

I'm a huge fan of the tone poems of Claude DeBussy...

La Mer, Clair de Lune, even Golliwog's Cakewalk is good for a laugh!

Almost any arrangement of his work, from simple piano to the reckless synth flash of Isao Tomita, all good.

Big go-to's: A night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgski, particularly the arrangement by Stokowsky where he went to Russia and got Mussorgsky's original scores before what's-his-name got ahold of 'em and prettied it all up...the original, as Stokowsky finally presented it in 1974 will scare the crap out of you!!

Also, the Leonard Bernstein version of George Gerschwin's Rhapsody in Blue... an absolutely definitive version! Bernstein conducts and plays the cool piano parts, too!

There's lots of great music out there!

[Ruler2112]

If I had to choose one, I would have to go with The Planet Suite by Holst. In my view, it contains the essence of so many styles of music. (Even the basis for heavy metal in Mars, Bringer of War!)

[pickel]

The William Tell Overture...not just the Lone Ranger theme LOL

[Graham]

The first piece of classical music that "stirred" me when I was a young'un, was the 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky, especially when I followed the "story" in the music.
It is still "one of my favourites.
Handels Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba", is a terrific piece of music, well fitted to its title, powerful and regal.

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[SPEEDO]

The 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky is one of my favorites also.

I especially like the one by Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the one where they supposedly shot real cannons off under an underpass to get the right effect.

[Jonty]

Originally posted by korgul
What is your favorite classical piece of music.

Hmm... bit like being confronted with a basket of kittens and being asked to pick one!

Elgar, Bach and Beethoven are my favourites. I like Elgar's 'Nimrod', music by Handel is good too.

I am much more into classical now, I think as you get older classical music is appreciated more.