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Wondering if anyone else out there really digs some classical... some of it makes me want to drive a screwdriver into my brain, but other songs put me on cloud 9. Anyways...

A few of my favorite classical pieces:

1.First, my favorite composer, Chopin. Every single piece he ever wrote I LOVE. But here's a few of my absolute favorites:

YouTube - CHOPIN　： nocturne no.19 op.72 Fujiko Heming
YouTube - Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Étude Op. 10, No. 3
YouTube - Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Prelude Op. 28, No. 15
YouTube - Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Nocturne in C Minor
YouTube - Chopin - Nocturne in C sharp minor / The Pianist (2002)

(plus the chick in the middle 3 is hot too so she gets bonus points---like her with the hair short though)

Honestly I could post all his stuff up here. He can (could) do no wrong. Listen to the above with some strong dank and you'll be in another world.

2."Vorspiel" by Wagner from one of his operas (don't worry, no singing here
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, think this could actually be remixed into a kickass trance song)

YouTube - The New World - Vorspiel

sorry best version I could find... too bad about the fish and boat noises and stuff
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3. "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" (split in two parts unfortunately)

YouTube - FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS. PT.1.
YouTube - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Pt.2.

1:08 is one of the most epic music peaks I've ever heard. Shivers down my spine every time. If you like it get it on CD... the quality's ****e on youtube. I recommend this recording:

http://www.amazon.com/Fantasia-Thom...92426877&sr=8-5

4. And of course the classic "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. sadly been WAY overused in movies and such... still, it's beautiful:

YouTube - Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber)

5. I also enjoy Beethoven's 6th symphony a lot... despite my being unable to get images of Mickey Mouse in a wizard hat out of my head when listening to it.

YouTube - Toscanini Conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" (1/7)

(you can find the other 6 parts yourself
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I'm a violinist, among other things. I really enjoy playing some of the more technical baroque pieces - Bach's Partita #3 in E Major comes to mind as a specific one - but for listening, I'm a big fan of the Russian composers. They've got a much heavier feel than the Italian and French, and so much more passion than most of the German stuff.
 
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Big fan of Modest Mussorgsky, and Carl Orff - only 2 composers I own more than 1 piece by.

A fan of the big names - Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, also worth a mention are Mascagni and Elgar
 
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Loads of stuff Me likes...
YouTube - Nigel Kennedy, VIVALDI-Summer I
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Ya I really dig Vivaldi's seasons stuff for the most part. Summer and Winter are the best by far IMO.

Best movement from Summer is a tie for me between mvmt 1 and 3... find 2 a bit dull:

YouTube - Vivaldi Summer III

And all of winter is just kickass.

YouTube - Antonio Vivaldi.Four seasons.Winter.

I do hate harpsichords with a passion though :D. I try to ignore them and just focus on the strings :cool:

I actually learned the entirety of the third movement of summer on electric guitar (some dude's transcription for solo guitar... did a really good job) Took me two years. Course I'd only starting practicing a year before so... It certainly helped me... playing all those fast scales over and over and over (slow at first of course)... great practice.
 
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God bless good organists when paired with good organs: Louis Vierne's Final from Symphony no.1 Op 14
YouTube - Louis Vierne Final from 1st Symphony

Mmmm.... I love me some Mussorgsky in the morning. Coronation scene chorus from Boris Godunov:
YouTube - Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov. Coronation scene. Bolshoi


How 'bout some Wagner? BEAUTIFUL trumpet fanfares here in the Entry of the Guests from Tannhauser.
YouTube - Wagner Tannhäuser - Entry of the guests

And of course, some Bizet (and it's the Atlanta Symphony, even better!)
YouTube - Georges Bizet: "Les Voici" from CARMEN (Robert Shaw: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

Beethoven's classic, the Adagio Cantabile from Sonata Pathetique
YouTube - Horowitz plays Beethoven Pathetique Sonata - second movement

And some other favorites which you can always look up:
Sibelius's Finlandia
Tchaikovsky's full 1812 Overture with choral accompaniment (got to play that one with the ASO)
 
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SheepDip said:
Big fan of Modest Mussorgsky, and Carl Orff -
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i bet you get a buzz off the scene in Excalibur when arthur rallies his knights and they ride though the apple blossom.
And, err, the maxell tape commercial from the 80s featuring night on bare mountain.

Keeping the John Boorman conection going my fav beethoven symphony is probably the 7th, for the 2nd movement.

I'd love to come out with some more obscure classical composers but in truth my favourtites are beethoven, prokofiev, shostakovich and bach, plus the well known favorites of the others.
 
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dogbadger said:
i bet you get a buzz off the scene in Excalibur when arthur rallies his knights and they ride though the apple blossom.
And, err, the maxell tape commercial from the 80s featuring night on bare mountain.
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Actually, I've never seen Excalibur, although I do remember the Maxell advert.

There was a TV series called "The Battle For..." way back when I was a child, and they were always scored outstandingly well. Just simple documentary programmes, about an hour on certain battles, Warsaw, Berlin etc. "The Battle for..." Barbarossa was scored with Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky and the Prokofiev and Temirkanov score for Alexander Nevsky...****ing outstanding. Was in love with it from then.
 
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Actually, I've never seen Excalibur....
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you should check it cos besides being completely awesome you'll never again risk thinking of 'old spice' (or the CKY boys in a shopping trolley) when you hear 'o fortuna'

not only that, it's main tune is Wagners 'siegfreid's death and funeral march' excert from gotterdammerung - which is amazing.
Both of these are used brilliantly in the film.

and not only that, i'm pretty sure you get to see helen mirren's cracking tits into the bargin.
 
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I love classical music and opera as well; I have a huge record collection and have taped a lot of classical music off of CBC-Windsor Radio 2.

I have chosen some works with mostly beginning classical music listeners in mind.

I have picked works spanning from the 18th to 20th Centuries both comic and serious, sacred and secular, composers of different nationalities, who are representative of the Classical, Romantic, and Russian Romantic Nationalist music periods.

I also included a work from a 20th century art music composer.

I did not necessarily chose the videos for the best sounding performances of the music but ones that may appeal to the listeners that do not know much about classical music; so some of them are similar in a sense to a modern music video, with images from nature or the movies.

A real basic level of listening is to try to discover if the music impresses your imagination with any images or emotions.


Enjoy:


Mozart: Magic Flute: Papageno's aria: Der Vogelf
 
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