Anonymous
Post 12/07/2015 11:18     Subject: What is your favorite piece of classical music?
Anonymous wrote:This toe-tapper:

Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA


This made me curl up into a ball and rock back and forth.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2015 10:59     Subject: What is your favorite piece of classical music?
19:27 - try to get a CD that has the 2nd concerto as well - I actually prefer it to the 3rd.

Barber's Adagio for Strings is wonderful.
Mozart's Laudate Dominum (I have it on a CD with his Requiem, which is also wonderful.)
The "Nimrod" movement of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, as played by Jacqueline du Pre
The main aria from i Pagliacci (by Leoncavallo)
This is a long-time obscure favorite: a choral prelude from Bach's Christ lag en Todesbanden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwgeKOgezg

I like dark music.
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2015 23:36     Subject: What is your favorite piece of classical music?
Anonymous wrote:Smetena, the Moldau

Vivaldi, Spring from the Four Seasons


Yes! Love the Moldau. One of my all time favs.
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2015 21:38     Subject: What is your favorite piece of classical music?
So many, but here are a few

Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPa7jjeKVR4

Chopin, Piano Contcerto No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_GecdMywPw

All the Chopin Nocturnes (someone else linked to some of them)

Really anything by Chopin

Schubert Impromptus (there are 2 sets of them, Opus 90 and Opus 142)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDVJkxGz_Tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06OBNoeKWBw

Schubert Piano quintet in A, "Trout"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T1IZ6r3A5w

Beethoven Piano Concerto no 5 "Emperor"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEYajsa8NeM

Beethoven Symphony no. 7 - second movement is one of the most beautiful things ever written
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpiEnY9ecZc

Mozart Mass in C Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGCUPyrk4Eg

Mozart
Piano Concertos, especially nos. 21 and 27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2uYb6bMKyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gvTKdZhD4

Mozart Requiem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII

Bach Mass in B Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKR7BaitxM

Bach Air on the G String
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMkmQlfOJDk


Happy listening!
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2015 20:58     Subject: What is your favorite piece of classical music?
Brandenberg Concerto #3
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2015 20:53     Subject: What is your favorite piece of classical music?
Bach Cantata, BWV 147, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWL8Y-qsJg

Pachelbel Canon in D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80

Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art (warning - it's really long!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Up3cZa0wI

Charpentier Prelude from "Te Deum"

Clarke Trumpet Voluntary in D

Basically any version of Ode to Joy