Favorite Classical Pieces

[Pupil]

We all have a few classical songs that really get to us. The best, for me, come from movie composers. So share your favorite pieces, whether they be from movies, guys who lived 250 years ago, or anywhere else. I'm eager to hear them! Here are some of mine:

The Haunted Ocean by Max Richter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9upYbkGTo)

Comptine d'un Autre été by Yann Tiersen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZJDNSp1QJA)

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM)

American Beauty Soundtrack Thomas Newman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3mBZbRs-44)

The Hours by Philip Glass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FniHgiyaTY)

Artifact of the Living by Michael Andrews (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or61p5W1qFI)

Glassworks by Philip Glass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbwn6iVryQ)

Gymnopédie 3 by Erik Satie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w48h_beG54)

Knee 5 by Philip Glass (also known as Einstein on the Beach) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmX_GgozpQs&feature=related)

[Jimmy Snyder]

The Chicken Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH8ea0M-r8o), by the Philharmonic Pick-up String Band of Northern South Jersey.

And Nessun Dorma (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4), by Puccini always knocks me out too.

[Vanadium 50]

Anything by Portsmouth Sinphonia.

[Kronos5253]

A little cliche but Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven

And Cello suite No. 1 - Bach as played by Yo-yo Ma

[Pupil]

The Chicken Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH8ea0M-r8o), by the Philharmonic Pick-up String Band of Northern South Jersey.

And Nessun Dorma (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4), by Puccini always knocks me out too.

Puccini has some good stuff. The link you shared wasn't of the greatest quality. In fact, in the related links there was a 2006 version of Nessun Dorma -- the last time he sang it before he died.

[humanino]

Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (Op. 110) must be listened live and with historical perspective to fully appreciate.

[signerror]

A little cliche but Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven

And Cello suite No. 1 - Bach as played by Yo-yo Ma

Excellent taste! (You are named after the Kronos quarted, I imagine?)

[Pupil]

A little cliche but Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven

And Cello suite No. 1 - Bach as played by Yo-yo Ma

Good stuff. I think the Cello suite No. 1 by Yo-yo Ma is in a new movie with Robert Downey Jr. about a cellist, I believe.

[OAQfirst]

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Here is the first movement, The Sea and Sinbad's Ship. This one made me fall in love with his music and won my interest in classical in general. This man was way ahead of his time.

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Scheherazade (Sheherazade; Шехерезада in Cyrillic, Šekherezada in transliteration), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights,[1] this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music and of Rimsky-Korsakov, in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and an interest in the East, which figured greatly in the history of Imperial Russia, as well as orientalism in general. It is considered Rimsky-Korsakov's most popular work.[2] The music was used in a ballet by Michel Fokine. This use of the music was denounced by the Rimsky-Korsakov estate, led by the composer's widow, Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova.[3]

[Pupil]

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Here is the first movement, The Sea and Sinbad's Ship. This one made me fall in love with his music and won my interest in classical in general. This man was way ahead of his time.

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I rather enjoyed that. I'll have to listen to some more of his stuff.