do you have a favourite piece of classical music you love to listen to?

[Bobbisox]

xxx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6JN0l7A_mE

[Quassia]

em, loved that last one of yours!!

[emmie]

quassia, beautiful isn't it.

[DTCwordfan]

overture to one of my fav operas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h018rMnA0pM

[Quassia]

Loved it em! It's only just dawned on me to open two Answerbank windows so I can chat 'and' listen at the same time! Doh!!

[DTCwordfan]

and for inspirational sad music, I have to go Amadeus again.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI&feature=related

[AlBags]

Tchaikovsky's Gadfly Suite
Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto (written for that old movie 'Dangerous Moonlight'
Elgar String Music (William Boughton - ESO)

[emmie]

quassia indeed, that Mozart sure could write a tune. i have yet to listen to anything on this thread i didn't already know and love.

[AlBags]

Oh! ... and Puccini's Madame Butterfly : )

[Quassia]

I want to eat a flake to postdogs ... listening now!

[erin-x]

Philtaz mentioned Craig Armstrong already but I just love his work. Not classical but beautiful none the less...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Juy0ZYkcY

[emmie]

The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged from the composition by Dmitri Shostakovich,

sorry not Mr Tchaikovsky

[Brenden]

Albags, Maria Callas?

[DTCwordfan]

vote there, Al, and I would also go for Dvorak's Cello Concerto.....

[emmie]

last one promise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBW5a77wINQ

[erin-x]

I think this is just the epitome of gorgeousness ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI

[Quassia]

Forget the flake .. I'm having these instead to eat while I'm listening!http://www.thorntons.co.uk/p/1940sp
romo/3606.html

[Quassia]

http://www.thorntons..../1940spromo/3606.html

[Quassia]

Buy me buy me ;0)

[AlBags]

Sorry Em .. I was busy looking for something else! .. Shostakovich of course. I still have this on vinyl album from the 80's!

[Barmaid]

One of my favourites. My mother is RSM trained and quite an astounding musician. I've got some spare cash now, so tomorrow I am going to buy a piano!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0Z6g1XJkU