What is the best piece of classical music ever?

[dada]

the power of youtube.

absolutely love this!!!

 

[MysteryGuest]

the other night was listening to this one, gave a different rendition)
cello always gets me.

Thanks for posting that, it's achingly beautiful. I actually played a viola version of that, back in the days when I could actually play the viola...

 

[Cloo]

Bach's Double violin concerto in D minor is a candidate. Just sublime, basically and with the mist fantastic counterpoint.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Fauré's Requiem for me.

Hooked me at an early age and I always keep coming back to it.

 

[brianx]

Thanks for posting that, it's achingly beautiful. I actually played a viola version of that, back in the days when I could actually play the viola...

That's beautiful, very John Cale.

 

[jayeola]

Mozarts Requiem, incredible choral singing.

Yeah! Would've been on my post above but I wanted to keep it short.

 

[Cid]

Beethoven's moonlight sonata movement 3 is a masterpiece, but I'm a sucker for Beethoven, absolutely love the 9th which is a really stereotypical piece to choose.

Some absolutely hilarious and stunningly well performed skits by Dudley Moore, guy was an absolute genius:

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Where do you start with classical music?

Those are two different questions.

A good place to start might be Dvorak's New World Symphony. Smetana's Moldau is another idea.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

This one starts slow, you have to give it a couple of minutes.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[subversplat]

I like the 1812 Overture, it's got cannons and everything and makes me imagine exploding buildings

 

[Barking_Mad]

most things by Tchaivovsky for me

Or Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor.

 

[theledge]

Ahhh youtube

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor
Faure's Pavane

and for anybody who hasn't heard it RVW Tallis Fantasia


I defy anybody who considers themselves English to not feel moved by that last piece. Sublime.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Dunno, too many to choose from - different pieces evoke different emotions so it's hard to have a favourite . . .

 

[Andy the Don]

Johann Sebastain Bach - The Brandenburg Concertos

Totally sublime..

 

[dash_two]

Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Shostakovich's 10th and 15th Symphonies

Schoenberg's Six Piano Pieces

 

[danny la rouge]

Schoenberg's Six Piano Pieces

Yay!

 

[Meltingpot]

the power of youtube.

absolutely love this!!!

Yeah, that is good; I also like the "Three Cornered Hat" by him (Falla).

I don't think I can choose one piece; it depends on mood, and classical music has so many. There's soft and hauntingly beautiful like Barber's "Adagio" (also mentioned earlier), Bruch's "Kol Nidrei" or Massenet's "Thais Meditation", or there's loud and crashing like Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" or Bizet's "Farandole" (from the "L'Arlesienne Suite").

One that would be in my top ten would be the finale of Saint Saen's "Organ Concerto"; it's very joyous and uplifting. There's a pop song written around the tune from that called "If I Had Words", I forget the artist but it was from early 1978.

 

[serifrat]

Mars by Holst

 

[kyser_soze]

LWB, 2nd movement, 7th Symphony
Ligeti's Requim
Fauré's Miserere
Crumbs 'Black Angels'

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije Suite