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What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 6:22:30 PM   
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Short: Blue Dambue

Long: Der Fledermaus (instrumental versions only)

My father was a musician (classical violinist and jazz bass player) and I heard a lot of classical music (and jazz) growing up. I liked the classical, didn't appreciate the jazz so much. When I was four, I used to invent plays to Der Fledermaus and get my sisters to dance-act them out with me. I never lost my love for that piece of music.

What is your favorite classical piece? (I'm always looking for good music suggestions.) And please tell the story of how you ran across it!

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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 6:27:44 PM   
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Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.....or....there are too many to pick just ONE!!!!!

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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 6:35:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Requiem Mass in D minor of Mozart is magnificient, without a doubt. But there's a certain movement, which is quite known, bears a indescrible awe. It's Lacrimosa.

And Death Is The Road To Awe by Clint Mansell can't be forgotten when we talk about awe.

Those are just favourite ones.



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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 6:41:58 PM   
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 6:42:22 PM   
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 7:03:30 PM   
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Vivaldi - Four Seasons

anything from the Nutcracker Suite

Anything from Swan Lake


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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 7:25:35 PM   
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For Opera, it would be Nessun Dorma


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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 7:42:05 PM   
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Poulenc - Concerto for organ, strings & timpani in G minor
Saint-Saens - Symphony #3 (Organ)
Widor - Toccata from Symphony No 5 (Organ)
 
and for good tension relief there is always:
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 the 4th movement.  It has a nice soothing middle section before it comes to a crashing finish.

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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 8:18:31 PM   
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 8:24:08 PM   
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 8:28:38 PM   
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 9:02:48 PM   
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 9:33:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: CaringandReal

What is your favorite classical piece? (I'm always looking for good music suggestions.) And please tell the story of how you ran across it!


der fledermaus is a great piece and i enjoyed the opera immensely. in regard to my favorites, the list is long. but these have touched me in a way that is profoundly personal and have a special place in my heart.

samuel barber - adagio for strings
the music speaks to me and i believe this is when i really began to connect on a very personal level with classical pieces.

joshua bell - anna's theme (from the red violin soundtrack)
when i heard this one i remembered the longing. words were unnecessary because the pain was right there. beckoning you closer.

un bel di - maria callas
i had to include this because it is my favorite and echoes the beauty of how one person can bring a song to life. she put her soul in her voice and this piece captured the essence of butterfly completely.

i see a lot of myself in all of them. nice thread op!

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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/5/2009 10:12:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have to say Bolero.....actually, most anything by any of the great masters......but when I listen, it's more based on what the actual instruments that seem to be the foremost in the music.  I love classical piano, and strings.  Horns are okay, but again, I have to be in the mood.  Yeah, ok, I'm a little strange that way!

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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/6/2009 4:44:10 AM   
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J. Strauss - Emperor Waltz
Handel , Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
there are just so many to choose from tho
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/6/2009 5:17:59 AM   
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That's the about the only piece of classical I can listen to and enjoy in its' original form. However, almost everything Trans-Siberian Orchestra "covers" is music I can really get into.

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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/6/2009 6:36:13 AM   
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ORIGINAL: soul2share

Horns are okay, but again, I have to be in the mood.  Yeah, ok, I'm a little strange that way!


Not at all.  Most of us need to be in the mood to be horny.

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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/6/2009 8:15:54 AM   
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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/6/2009 9:04:45 AM   
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Die Zauberflöthe by Mozart,
Peer Gynt by Grieg,
much chamber musik by Hayden, Mozart, and some others.


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RE: What is your favorite piece of classical music? - 9/6/2009 9:28:43 AM   
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If that isn't considered pure classical then.

Adagio For Strings

or

A Fifth of Beethoven by Transmutator (ok that isn't classical exactly)

Temple of Five by Bear McCreary???

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