5 Best Classical Music

[dominie]

After my last thread here goes, no particular order
Grieg morning
Beethoven 9th
Handel Hallelujah
Pachabelle
Jerusalem

[Buenchico]

Pachabelle???

I assume that you mean (Johann) Pachelbel, who was a composer, not a piece of music! (Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, perhaps?)

[Mamyalynne]

Samuel Barber's Adagio

Albinoni's Adagio

then too many to choose from.

[Buenchico]

I'd find selecting just five 'best' pieces very difficult but I think that this would have to be in there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtLuyWuPDs

[Elina]

Solveigs song sung by Anna Netrebko. Una Furtiva Lugrima ..Pavarotti / English Chamber Orchestra.

[dominie]

Yes the canon buen, sorry and love barbers adagio Mamy, you might have that as your night song lol :-)

[donny48]

My first would have to be Miserere by Allegri.

[Mamyalynne]

I've posted it many times on AB, even been very wicked and played the dance/trance version much to the annoyance of the purists.

I'm a rebel you know.

[Elina]

Whisper of a thrill .. City of Prague Orchestra/ Arrival of the birds .. Cinematic Orchestra .. River flows in you .. Yiruma.

[donny48]

Fanfare for the common man aaron copland

[Elina]

At this moment in time dominie ;0)

[mikey4444]

Oh dear Dominie...what a choice to have to make! But I will have a go, and these are in no particular order ::

Anything by Bach....Goldberg Variations perhaps ?
Anything by Mahler....Probably Symphony No. 2! Or maybe No. 3 !
Debussy...any of his piano works.
Wagner...am I allowed the complete Ring ?
Vaughan- Williams...."The Lark Ascending" of course !

But to pick only 5 is next to impossible. Like Donnie, I would like to include Miserere by Allegri as well....good choice ! And some Palestrina !

[Captain2]

I'll try

Benedictus from The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins
Faure's Requiem
Mahler's Fifth
Sibelius' Finlandia, and
Orff's In Paradisum

(I was going to put 'Arrival of the Birds' but Elina's just beaten me to it.)
(I also toyed, tongue in cheek, with 'When the World was Woken' by Barclay James Harvest - well it has got a full orchestra in it and hits the spot for me)

[mikey4444]

Here is The Lark Ascending, a near perfect peice of music as I have ever heard.

I hope this works ::::

[mikey4444]

For peice, please read piece !

[dominie]

Love the full Wagner mikey listened to it as a student getting drunk and emotional with port; 63 years now though so include brandy with the port lol

[donny48]

It is amazing that people who say " I don't like classical music " are surprised when they hear so many familiar pieces that they never realised were "classical".

[dominie]

True donny

[mikey4444]

dominie....as a treat last summer, I bought the latest New York Met Ring Cycle, the Robert Leparge production, with Bryn Terfel, on DVD !

Perhaps you would allow me also include a link to the very first Ring ever recorded, with Birgit Nilsson, under Solti !

[naomi24]

Puccini.