Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?

[walter raleigh]

I did now! Thanks for pointing it out, I really enjoyed it. Ode to Joy took a couple of attempts though...

[pete9012S]

... close second a modern classic, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Fancy Dress op.82 DUSK waltz...

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That was a lovely piece of music,thanks for posting.

[Moonraker]

By the way, did any other classical music fans enjoy the Beethoven Google Doodle game today?

Drat! I noticed that and meant to go back to it, but forgot,

Edit: Just noticed your link, so can still do it. Thanks, Courtenay!

[floragord]

... close second a modern classic, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Fancy Dress op.82 DUSK waltz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWbma_Gaels" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That was a lovely piece of music,thanks for posting.

Very pleased you enjoyed it, Pete - its fairly new to me, heard it for the first time on
Classic FM's late late show presented by Myleene Klass on weekends, and sat bolt upright to take down the details at the end of the piece!

[pete9012S]

It's great when that happens isn't it!
That happened to me too with this piece of music when I heard it for the first time.

Out of Africa - John Barry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=772MTLJZUp0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[floragord]

A heavenly piece of music, Pete, the sounds conjure up the sands and colours of Africa perfectly for me. The movie DANCES WITH WOLVES introduced me to another J B favourite, the magical John Dunbar Theme:

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v5nU148c3TCg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[joanne_chan]

Something I love in a performance on Super Audio cd that arrived today.
Antonio Vivaldi - L'Estro Armonico Op.3 - Concerto No 4 in E minor
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqVQqmQBVas

[joanne_chan]

Was playing Copland's Billy The Kid yesterday (Slatkin & The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra).

[Machupicchu14]

Absolutely obsessing with Shostakovich's 2nd waltz these days. It's the one piece of classic music, alongside Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 that is helping me through the stressful days of writing my thesis and wrapping up the last months of the degree. It's a piece that fills my soul with so much tranquillity, and with the knowledge that nothing lasts forever, good and bad things alike end, and that life is but a constant flow of moments, feelings, experiences.
And of course I am always imagining myself being the protagonist of a Russian novel and dancing the night away in the ballrooms of the palaces of St Petersburg. (A little bit of daydream never hurt anyone, right? )

https://youtu.be/5hTvc3f83Ws

[Barnard]

Two of my favourite pieces of classical music are Max Bruch’s violin concerto number one and the intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni.

[Boatbuilder]

My favourites in classical are probably too numerous to mention. However, like Barnard, one is the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni - probably because it was one of the pieces I played when I was a violinist in a youth orchestra in the early 1960s.

Maybe we should have a topic in which to list out 'top ten' classical pieces.

[Barnard]

I think that listing our ten favourite classical pieces is a good idea, John.

[Boatbuilder]

I'll start compiling my 'top ten' tomorrow, Barnard, but if you come up with your ten first then you can start the topic.

[Barnard]

I’ll have a think and try to post my list by tomorrow night.

[jrw]

I mostly seem to listen to Vaughan-Williams these days. I had a feeling The Lark Ascending would be mentioned. I think that's probably my favourite too, along with this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCpimLb7SPM

A few films I've recently seen with memorable soundtracks are

Somewhere In Time - John Barry (again)
Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone
In Love With An Angel - ? (Another Italian film. I don't know who the composer is but they're a match for Ennio in my view)