Your most favouritest piece of Classical Music

Grunfeld

This aria from "La Wally"

Rocker

Beethoven - The Emperor Concerto.

Chopin Preludes

AlexC

Beethoven's 7th. Superb melody which just tears your heart out and punches you in the guts. 

Legionreturns

If I had to pick just one piece instead of my chosen 16 hour opera... It would have to be either... 


the Intermezzo from Cav



Or

The closing scene from Siegfried... (Yes, the incest scene!) 

Bucket

guitarmangler said:

Clair de lune. 

This.

It's a cliche now, I suppose, but there's a reason people love it.

I've heard it hundreds of times and that beautiful melody still makes the hair on my arms stand on end.

webrthomson

Dvorak Symphony 9 (new world) - amazing from beginning to end, Planets by Holst is good all the way through, oh and Delibes Lakmé (the flower Duet) as well for something shorter

Dominic

merlin said:

If you're asking about Classical Music as a broad description of composed Music then I would say Mahler's 9th. 
If you're asking about the specific Classical Period then I would probably say Mozart's Requiem. 

Any Era ....Baroque up to present day

notanon

Asturias la leyenda I need access to my main computer to find my favourite version but you will not be upset with this one :-)

frank1985

Mars by Gustav Holst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q

He was obviously a huge Diamond Head fan

axisus

Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, and in particular the last movement. It is heart-wrenchingly sad and tears at your soul. 

Nitefly

@notanon - exquisite!

notanon

@Nitefly  remind me tomorrow I'll find my favourite. 

Clarky

jeez I'm not sure I could choose just one

maybe Wagner Siegfried's Funeral March

HAL9000

webrthomson said:

Dvorak Symphony 9 (new world) - amazing from beginning to end,

^ Ooh. Good shout. A few years back, I took Mrs9000 on one of those helicopter trips that lands in the Grand Canyon. As the aircraft came over the rim the Largo from this piece was being piped through the headphones. Perfect.

equalsql

Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no 3 in C Major. Just massively wonderful:


I'm also a big Debussy fan, his Suite Bergamasque is sublime:

roundthebend

Erik Satie - Gnossienne #1

CabbageCat

roundthebend said:

Erik Satie - Gnossienne #1

Was just gonna post Satie's Gymnopedie.

I also really like that Con te Partiro which isn't really "classical" - it's modern operatic pop music - but I think it counts in a "you know classical when you hear it" way.

Megii

viz said:

Rach 2

Fixed that for you... (just kidding, forgive me! )

west

guitars4you

Rodriguez Guitar Concerto