Classical Music

[Eliebelli]

Hey. I was just wondering what your favourtie calssical pieces were. What are the most powerful ones do you think?

[goldenboy]

romeo and juliet by prokofiev is powerful, and the moldau by smetna is quite evocative.

[mfewell]

Very difficult, so much choice ! Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2, Saint-Saens 'Organ' Symphony, Brahms Symphony No. 1, Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius'.

 

Anything Mozart !!

[sddsddean]

Scherezade by Rimsky Korsokov

The Planets by Gustav Holst

plus loads of others I can't immediately think of!!

[Clanad]

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky whose most famous work is undoubtedly the Four Seasons, but his flute concerto La Notte is also well-known and very good listening

It's only become politically correct again, within the past decade or so to admire anything Wagner... but the evocative blending of instruments by Richard is unsurpassed. Consider Lohengrin... Having said that, Johann Pachebel, especially Canon in D Major, is still a moving author.  Neither of these hold the mystique of some lesser known works, but are steady standby's...Who'll ever forget the opening of 2001 A Space Odyssey and  Also sprach Zarathustra by Strauss?

[mfewell]

Can I have another go ? Crashing start of 4th movement of Rachmaninov's 1st Symphony - the Panorama theme, Sibelius 'At the Castle Gate' - theme for 'The Sky at Night', Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto, main theme in the 1st movement where rushing orchestra calms down to glorious piano melody.

[Machecoul]

Clanad - didn't Vivaldi write the Four Seasons?

How about the 1812 Overture?

Great Gates of Kiev - MUSSORGSKY

[bracknell]

one fine day from Madame Buttlerfly and Maria Callas version of o mio babbino caro and finally Mars the Bringer of War the most descriptive piece of music I have ever heard

[brachiopod]

The second movement of Dvoark's Serenade for Strings in E major, Op.22, (and no, that's not the Hovis advert).

And Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring - but that's partly because it reminds me of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

[Clanad]

Gotta blame the keyboard, Machecoul... don't know where the errant Four came from... obviously meant Tchaikovsky's Seasons, an extensive work of 12 segments, one for each month of the year... not as well known as Vivaldi's composition, but enjoyable, nonetheless...

[AndrewHunt]

'In Paradisium' by Gabriel Faur� is truly powerful and absolutely beautiful.

[joko]

carmina burana by karl orff. its the one off  the omen