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Pachelbel, Canon.
When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.
So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.
https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt
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Hmmm, that's quite a tough one. Antonín Dvorák's "New World Symphony" is lovely; Igor Stravinsky's "The Firebird" is powerful; anything and everything by 'Strauss is usually uplifting.
I also like the haunting and melodic "O Fortuna" by Carl Orff.
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"Pachelbel, Canon.
When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.
So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.
https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt
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Happiness is a cigar called hamlet. |
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"Pachelbel, Canon.
When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.
So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.
https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt
Happiness is a cigar called hamlet."
The play Hamlet is a profound source of pleasure, here, too x |
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I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.
My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.
Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.
Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again. |
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"Pachelbel, Canon.
When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.
So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.
https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt
Yes my favourite too and weirdly one of the best performances I've seen had the actor who plays Lord percy in black adder in the title role!
Happiness is a cigar called hamlet.
The play Hamlet is a profound source of pleasure, here, too x"
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"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.
My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.
Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.
Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again. "
Bach is paryicularly good for the brain. My mother had a stroke recently and luckily loves Bach because we have it on for her all the time. |
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"Pachelbel, Canon.
When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.
So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.
https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt
Happiness is a cigar called hamlet."
That’l be Bach then jazzed up by Jaques Loussier |
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"Pachelbel, Canon.
When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.
So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.
https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt
Yes my favourite too and weirdly one of the best performances I've seen had the actor who plays Lord percy in black adder in the title role!
Happiness is a cigar called hamlet.
The play Hamlet is a profound source of pleasure, here, too x"
I don't find that hard to believe at all - Richard Briers, so well-known for comedy, was excellent as Polonius in Ken's "Eternity Version".
If you have four and a half hours spare one week, I hope you'll find it as worthwhile as I have x |
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Ohhh, so much! Just been pootling through some Clementi on the piano. It's so clean and refreshing to play. I do love getting stuck into a Chopin nocturne or Beethoven sonata, though.
Choral wise, Whitacre's Sleep is a favourite, as are Rachmaninoff's Vespers.
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Nessum Dorma from Turandot. I have seen the opera and have that image in my mind, so when now listen to it the piece often moves me to tears.
On a side note, I think classic music often gets an “it is boring” wrap when it is truly endless complex, emotional, thoughtful and up lifting |
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I’ve been to see Einaudi twice now and he moves me in how at one he is with the music 
Another piece that completely draws me in is River Flows in You by Yiruma and Song for Sienna by Brian Crain.
If we are going old school then Bolero by Ravel was one of the first pieces I remember watching the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra play live and I was spellbound 
K
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"What's yours? Mine is Mozarts requiem. It's simply divine."
I could not pick a favourite as it depends on my mood. I play both violin and French horn , so very different choices for those.
I'm do however like the planets suite....and the four seasons. However there are some outstanding more modern pieces of music too.
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Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. Vaughn Williams.
Simply a genuine masterpiece in the layering of sound, best heard live or through a whomping great Hi-Fi.
Then I would say the works of Michael Nyman for a more modernist approach. |
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"Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. Vaughn Williams.
Simply a genuine masterpiece in the layering of sound, best heard live or through a whomping great Hi-Fi.
Then I would say the works of Michael Nyman for a more modernist approach."
I spent hours as a teenager learning the main theme from The Piano. That was pretty much all I could play. But I could for a time nonetheless! |
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"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.
My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.
Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.
Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again. "
Good call. I think the double violin concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. To think that 300 years ago someone could think up layer upon layer of contrasting and complimentary music, phrase upon phrase perfectly dovetailing with each instrument, with no technology other than Bach's imagination and the live instruments astonishes me. I have a wonderful recording of it with Jascha Heifetz. Utterly sublime. |
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By *eliWoman 38 weeks ago
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"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.
My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.
Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.
Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again.
Good call. I think the double violin concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. To think that 300 years ago someone could think up layer upon layer of contrasting and complimentary music, phrase upon phrase perfectly dovetailing with each instrument, with no technology other than Bach's imagination and the live instruments astonishes me. I have a wonderful recording of it with Jascha Heifetz. Utterly sublime."
Yes Barna! It's sublime. The first time I had the pleasure of watching it live I remember being transfixed by the grace of the violinists, the sheer delight of musicality filling the hall. I think it's always going to have a special place in my heart - I've listened to it whilst pulling all nighters studying, whilst being a classical emo. That's what great classical music does, stir something within you and evoke memories, a strong response. |
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Beethoven 7th symphony (2nd movement) (Fricsay or Klemperer)
Bach Chaconne (from violin partita 2) (Hilary Hahn)
Brahms sextet (1) movement 2
Mendelssohn violin concerto (Hilary Hahn)
Several other pieces, but 4 is a good start  |
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Shubert’s Serenade, the Meditation from Thais massanet, anything baroque especially Handel, operas, Phillip Glass, Chopin, Puccini… anything!
Lunchtime requests on classic FM haha |
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Mostly concertos as there is the chance for the musicians to play variations of cadenzas.
Hard to pick a favourite, so I won't.
I was fortunate in that I had a job where I could listen to Radio 3 much of the time and with the benefit of high quality equipment. I very quickly sampled virtually the entire classical catalogue many times over and eventually moved on to new musical pastures of infinitely greater variety. I heard the modern music scene grow from a handful of 1940s standards to the vast variety it is now.
I hardly ever tune into classical music nowadays but when I do I realise that timeless though it has been, it does less for me now than when it was exciting and often new for me.
It usually jogs some memories and it is always satisfying to know what to expect as the piece plays. That's what makes it classical, but how I also love so many 'classic' works from my own fantastic and constantly evolving musical era.
Until this era, one could potentially have heard, ad nauseam, every work known in your part of the world. We are so lucky now. |
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"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.
My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.
Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.
Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again.
Good call. I think the double violin concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. To think that 300 years ago someone could think up layer upon layer of contrasting and complimentary music, phrase upon phrase perfectly dovetailing with each instrument, with no technology other than Bach's imagination and the live instruments astonishes me. I have a wonderful recording of it with Jascha Heifetz. Utterly sublime.
Yes Barna! It's sublime. The first time I had the pleasure of watching it live I remember being transfixed by the grace of the violinists, the sheer delight of musicality filling the hall. I think it's always going to have a special place in my heart - I've listened to it whilst pulling all nighters studying, whilst being a classical emo. That's what great classical music does, stir something within you and evoke memories, a strong response. "
The funny thing is that I have a Christmas compilation album I pull put every year and for some reason it has the 2nd movement on it. I love listening to it on it's own, I completely forgot what it was part of and told myself that I really must treat myself to getting the rest of it one day. Imagine my surprise when browsing through my CDs one day, I pulled out one of my more rarely listened to Heifitz albums and discovered that I had totally forgotten that after Brahms' concerto for violin and cello and Mozart's symphonie concertante was exactly that which I intended to go out and buy. Get in! Thanks for the nudge to listen to it again. I followed it with some Jeff Beck. You can't beat a bit of Baroque 'n Roll. |
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Erik Satie gymnopedie 1
It's the only peice of media that's ever made me cry.
Never had another song evoke an emotion even close to that.
Never seen a film or TV programme that's had an affect close to it. |
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"What's yours? Mine is Mozarts requiem. It's simply divine."
There are simply too many to mention; however much of Strauss’s work, also the Nutcracker holds fond memories, with going into too much detail Griegs piano concerto in A minor; and finally Blue Danube to finish off.
I could go on & on… but won’t..
oh one more… Lark Ascending- Vaughan Williams…
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"Bolero by ravel is undoubtedly the sexiest piece of classical music written ever, at least after you watch the movie 10.
Also fascinated by Johan Strauss's the blue Danube"
@mclovin
Search On YouTube Argentinian Yourh orchestra at the BBC proms circa 2013–15, they did this… maybe the best performance I watched !
It’s sublime and the fella on the snare needed a flipping medal! I cannot recommend highly enough this performance. Seriously. It swells and surges and you cannot help but be taken by its power and its grace. Thank me later! |
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