What is your favourite piece of classical music?

Question

And who is it by?

Mine is Pachelbel's Canon.

RIDLEY, that is a great link...I just spent ages there. It's such a calming piece of music!

Answer 1

Canon is my favorite too. I've been learning how to play it on the keyboard for the past few years now. I think I do pretty well. Christmas Canon by the Trans-Siberian Choir is so beautiful. It melts my heart every time I hear it. Try this link to youtube and listen for yourself. Pachelbel was a genius. No words can describe his Canon!

Answer 2

The most moving piece I know of or have ever heard, is a very short piece from Sibelius' Kuolema (typical Finish, it means death). the piece is translated "Scene with Cranes."

It all depends on the skill of the first violin, but if he or she correctly interprets the piece, You are suspended on an unresolved passage several times repeated and then you are brought to earth as the piece resolves with a soul wringing sob on the violin in the tonic.

I have a wonderful recording of it; its lasts only a couple minutes, but whenever I play it for guests who are unfamiliar with it, the room is just hushed when it dies away, and I have seen moist eyes and even unbidden tears around the room. Why is that music can reach into us and do this to us?

The Valse Triste is from the same opus.

The only thing I fear about death is that I shall never hear Schubert or Puccini again.

Answer 3

do you really consider that ' Classical ' as opposed to ' Baroque '? Since you picked the period he composed that in, I'd have to say anything Bach wrote as a concerto for Harpsichord and strings. To be on the safe side, I'd also include; The Divertimento in D K.136 by W.A. Mozart - Iona Brown Conducting, The Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields. Great stuff.

Answer 4

I like your choice too. That is such a wonderful meditative piece of music. Like spirals constantly turning. Wonderful. Other than that, Vivaldi is nice. Beethoven's 5, 9, and 6 are materpieces. Bach is a genius. Mozart is fun.

Answer 5

Too many. I could draw up a list of 50 pieces that I *love*. One favourite is Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher. But the last piece I listened to was Stravinsky's Les Noces.

Answer 6

Ahh! Rhapsody in Blue is completely one of my favourites too! It makes me smile each and each and every time I hear it! I keep in mind even as i became 12, my mom and that i performed a duet for 2 pianos of it. Kudos to you! yet except that, there are such diverse products that I savor! nicely, Debussy is my accepted composer so something by technique of him. Chopin is likewise fantastic. :) The Nutcracker suite by technique of Tchaikovsky is pleasing The Planets by technique of Gustav Holst The renowned Bach Toccata & Fugue in d minor Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 (even although i'm not a wide Beethoven fan) yet i imagine my ultimate accepted is the Hungarian Rhapsody in c# minor by technique of Franz Liszt. that is in order that efficient! the reason i love it a lot is in all likelihood because as a cushty baby, I keep in mind observing this piece being finished by technique of insects Bunny and the mouse. i became in finished awe the first time I said it. in spite of the indisputable fact that the orchestral version in basic terms blew me away. Yay for classical music!

Answer 7

The Bachman Overdrive and Handel's Messiah

Answer 8

Canon in D by Pachelbel

as well as Air on the G string

Answer 9

"In the hall of the mountain king", Grieg.

A highly moody and evocative piece, and quite a contrast to much of the classical music availble

Answer 10

The Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner