Favourite piece of classical music?

[Doc Lynam]

To start off Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending.

 

[Norman Potting]

Relatively recent in Classical Music terms - written for the last Coronation I believe. Wonder what the music for the next one will sound like?

 

[sams dad]

http://youtu.be/ul9OTShQ_rc

 

[wunt be druv]

To start off Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending.

You are bang on the money there mate,can't be bettered.

 

[Cappers]

Escape by Craig Armstrong
http://youtu.be/ZhP6F-vxeZI
Recognise it?

 

[BensGrandad]

Cant find a you tube or video but mine is Jupiter from HOLST Planet Suite I also like Ashogans Farewell played by the Royal Marines and as regards vocals I like Andre Bocelli and Sarah Brightman singing Time to ay Goodbye.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

 

[Biffer]

Mozart's requiem for me.

Couldn't get married to a requiem so we had Albinone's Addagio at our wedding.

All that said, how can anyone ever suggest that Vivaldi's Four Seasons isn't the most wonderful thing you ever heard in your life?

These are the 3 for me, but I just can't choose a pecking order.

 

[pipkin112]

 

[Doc Lynam]

This is also quite a cute piece of modern composition by Line Adam, especially if you enjoy train journeys!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Love Mahler. So it's the 2nd symphony for me.

 

[Pat McCrotch]

Pachelbel's Canon.

 

[LargeHadronZugzwang]

 

[banjo]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450

 

[willow147]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450

I have to second this one, fantastic piece of music.

 

[Mad as my Mother]

Way too many to say one definitive piece but this is right up there for me.

 

[Guinness Boy]

John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Modern classical, it's the piece that most inspired Goldie when he was challenged to write a score for the Proms following Maestro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi4A9bPDvTc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[wolfie]

A few corrections:-

It is the Ashokan Farewell,
Albinoni's Adagio (one 'd')

As for me - Shostakovich - "The Gadfly"

 

[brixtonA23]

Debussy, expectation, trepidation, worry, hope, interspersed with moments of complete joy. A football fan's lament on a season in under five minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIsQPdC9YnY

 

[warmleyseagull]

Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSU8MDLJCVM - the most moving item I have ever heard on the internet. The Ashokan Farewell backs up the famous letter from Sullivan Ballou. Sort of puts things in context.....