Classical music.?

Question

I answered a question recently, about what I was listening to
at that particular time. (the questioner didn't only mean music).

Although I like a wide range of music, I was the only person who stated a classical composition.

Are there any other people who like that kind of music and which is your favourite piece?

Hi radianca,
Yes I do that, you get a jolly good selection of music don't you. That way you can go out and buy the Cd if you really like it.

Thank you for answering my question.

Hi scruffy,
I love all the pieces you mentioned.
I also think Metallica is great, even have the tee shirt!

Ciao, trout,
Make sure your little girl chooses a light weight musical instrument to play. I chose the cello!
Let us know if she becomes famous.

Thank you for answering.

Hey everyone, so many wonderful classical pieces named. you will have me rummaging through my Cd selection to play them over again.
As I can't answer my own question,
I won't tell you I love Shostakovich.
"The Assult On Beautiful Gosky" ;-)

Many thanks to all, for answering my question.

Hi everystup,
You hit my weak spot, I love Dvorak's cello
concerto.
Many thanks for answering my question.

Answer 1

Yes, I love classical. When I was between 5th and 8th grade, it was just about the only thing I'd listen to.
My favorite pieces (not in any particular order):

Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger (for your Brits/Aussies out there)

Saint-Saens' Symph. No. 3 "Organ" (My favorite of all time; played it twice.)

Carmina Burana -- Orff (Played it; saw it performed with two pianos, percussion, dance troupe and chorus -- knocked my socks off)

Philip Glass -- "Heroes" Symphony; Symphony No. 5

Answer 2

I am a musician. I have played popular music for over 35 years now...but my Mother was a classical pianist and so I grew up with classical music and still love it as much as any of my modern music.

Favourite piece?...not possible really...but Dvorak's New World Symphony should be the American national anthem as far as I am concerned...it is inspiring. I am a Brit by the way.

Debussy's Girl With The Flaxen Hair is young love in any sense...

I love Eine Kleine Nachtmusik because the London Mozart Players once gave me a private rendition when I was working in a theatre that they were rehearsing in...I felt like a king!

So many...and so many more to come...enjoy your music my friend!


EDIT:

Well done predendos...a lovely selection. My respects for your inclusion of dear old Percy Grainger. He is dear to our hearts here in 'old blighty'.

Answer 3

My favorite classical piece of all time is:
Scheherazade, by Rimsjy-Korsakov.

The other favorites are:
Symphony no.3 'Eroica', by Beethoven

Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op.3, no.11, by Vivaldi

Concerto for Violin, Strings, and Continuo in A minor, by Bach

Caprice no.5 from the 24 caprices, by Paganini

Overture.from the opera "II Vespri SicilianI, by Verdi

Violin Concerto in D, Op.35, by Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto no.3, by Rachmaninoff

Answer 4

Spring from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi,Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart,The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss,Jr.In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Grieg,The March Of The Toreadors from Carmen by Bizet,don't like the atonal stuff so much,mostly pre-twentieth century.

Answer 5

Sure classical is great. 2nd movement from symphony no. 7 by Beethoven is a goody... and the overture to the magic flute by Mozart.. and the barber of seville by Rossini

and of course beethoven's symphony no. 9.. mm mmm mmm!

Still prefer Metallica though.. just a bit... at least with classical I can get some work done.

Edit: glad to hear it!

Answer 6

Pelleas et Melisande, Op.80: 4.Sicilienne by Claude Debussy is one of my favourite pieces of music, though I wouldn't normally listen to classical.
I like some other classical but I wouldn't know the names.

Answer 7

I do like some classical, although i probably couldnt tell you the exact piece, I'll just turn it onto the classical radio station and listen to it but I never really pay attention to the titles or that.

Answer 8

I like a contempory classical piece called "They Hung Their Harps in the Willows". I also love to hear over and over again "The Flower Duet" (more of an opera song though).

Answer 9

yeaaah i like some classical music. bit unoriginal i know but beethoven's 5th is a great piece. also i love dvorak's cello concerto. i like "finlandia" by sibelius. "the planets" by holst is a great piece as well, particularly mars what a chooooon. lots of others i cant think of right now....

Answer 10

Yeah i'll listen to classical time to time, my favorite composition hmmm. The Earl King, Prelude in E Minor, and the Canon in D.