O/T Classical music post your favourite

[Horsham Gull]

A highbrow NSC thread for the appreciation of classical music

 

[brakespear]

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[sod1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AlEvy0fJto

 

[vegster]

With you on Sibelious, thats a lovely piece. You can add Finlandia by the same composer.

Beethoven's 7th, 8th and indeed, the 9th are all awsome symphonies especially when you consider that he was almost totally deaf by the time he wrote the last one.

Can't go wrong with Handel either

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

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[dougdeep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M1JJ8fAXHo

This is a classic.

 

[defrocked priest]

Handel's Organ Concerto with Trumpet, in D Minor. It's eeriely wonderfull.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

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[Jam The Man]

Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Intermezzo

I first heard this in 1990 aged 15 as it's featured at the back end of The Godfather Part 3.

Gorgeous and emotional...

 

[defrocked priest]

I'll tell you who I can't stand is the blind Eyetal opera singer Ballsachinchu or whatever the f*** the prats name is, f***ing arefull.

 

[pasty]

Way too many to pick a favourite, but being an ex trumpet player...

Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb, 3rd Movement

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[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

This ain't too shoddy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pkNpl-tZIw&feature=related

 

[jcdenton08]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUmGz4INLo8

 

[sams dad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul9OTShQ_rc

 

[Bry Nylon]

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[Tony Towner's Fridge]

So so many

in no particular order

Beethoven's 6th (Pastoral)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan-Williams (Britain's Greatest who funnily enough also did a luscious Pastoral Symphony)
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus by Ralph Vaughan-Williams
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan-Williams (imagine yourself soaring over the South Downs to this one)
Finlandia by Sibelius
Cello concerto no. 1 by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
Organ concerto by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
Cello concerto by Sir Edward Elgar
Violin concerto by Sir Edward Elgar
Fantasia para un gentilhombre by Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo
Tons of Mozart especially his Mass
Most of Frederic Chopin's mesmeric piano work especially Etude Opus 10 number 3

plus much much much more

TNBA

TTF

 

[BensGrandad]

Jupiter from The Planet Suite by Gustav Holtz,Ashogans Farewell and Che Gelida Nanina preferably sung by Placido Domingo

 

[skipper734]

 

[Sam Ovett]

Ludovico Einaudi

 

[RexCathedra]

Seconding the Vaughan Williams "Lark Ascending" and "Dives and Lazarus".

Mahler's Second (Resurrection) Symphony. I saw Abbado and the Boston Symphony do this in '79, and when they finished the piece nothing happened -- for ten full seconds. Then the place went absolutely ape-shit -- like a Celtics playoff game. Never heard a classical audience act that way before or since.