Favourite piece of classical music?

[Icy Gull]

Can Gershwins's Rhapsody In Blue be considered classical music? I think it can so will nominate that but I have to confess to knowing quite a few bits of classical music that I like without actually knowing what they are called.

 

[OzMike]

Last one from me and I'll catch you on line tonight.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qx2lMaMsl8

 

[tubaman]

There is just too much to choose from and it all depends on your mood at the time. Mine is usually something moody by Mahler but if you asked me this morning what I fancy listening to it will be Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz.

 

[JoshFanner]

Has to be Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, it is simply beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0cpKzDoOdA

 

[pasty]

Biased opinion as an ex-trumpeter, Haydn's trumpet concerto in e flat major

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or Jupiter from The Planet Suite

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[Grombleton]

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto 1 - B Flat Minor. Beautiful.

 

[ofco8]

Banks of Green Willow, by Butterworth. Just makes you feel you are in perfect English countryside.

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[Titanic]

Impossible to pick a 'favourite' but for all sorts of reasons, this is a very special piece of music for me...

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[Buckley's Mad Eye]

This

Dvorak: New World Symphony - 2nd Movement

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[Uncle Spielberg]

One of the greatest pieces of Classical music ever written. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU2isKnpLqE

 

[Govinda Tim]

This

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

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Symphony of sorrowful songs - Used in the BBC Series "Auschwitz"

 

[Trufflehound]

Rachmaninoff was exceptional as highlighted in the film Rush. He wrote on the basis that he had a reach far wider than an octave. If you can play his second then the stage beckons.

Rach 3 is harder to play than Rach 2, and the real career maker/breaker. Both sensational pieces of music though.

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

 

[Mowgli37]

Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner, sensational composition.

 

[Questions]

Nabucco and chorus of the Hebrew Slaves is haunting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHOfwLpXkY8

but the anvil chorus is quite superb

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

Jo Green AC Milan 1850-75.

The hebrew chorus... oh my, most definetly a yes from me. We were trying to see Nabucco at la Scala next year but have decided on Aida later in the year at The Arena at Verona. I can listen to that chorus though time after time.

 

[moggy]

Time to say goodbye

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Introduced to me by my old music teacher, Dr Neil Cox.

Gorecki - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

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[Blue Valkyrie]

Pavane by Faure.

Was used I think as the TV theme to the 1998 world cup.