All Time Favourite Classical Music Piece

DickSwiveller

For me it would have to be Schubert's String Quintet in C Major. The whole piece is astonishing, particularly the second movement, possibly the most beautiful slow movement ever written. If you haven't listened to it before you're really missing out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtZgIKZ_jrw&t=502s

filbert the fox

Romeo and Juliet Fantasy overture - Tchaikovsky

The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky

Troika from Sparticus - Khachaturian

bit of a Russian theme going on here.......

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Rachmaninov

Prelude in C# minor - Rachmaninov

Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis - Raeph Vaughan-Williams

Eroica -marche funebre from Symphony no. 3 - Beethoven

DickSwiveller

filbert the fox wrote: »

Romeo and Juliet Fantasy overture - Tchaikovsky

The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky

Troika from Sparticus - Khachaturian

bit of a Russian theme going on here.......

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Rachmaninov

Prelude in C# minor - Rachmaninov

Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis - Raeph Vaughan-Williams

Eroica -marche funebre from Symphony no. 3 - Beethoven

Thanks for the reply Filbert. Love all those pieces you mention.

filbert the fox

Fantasia on Greensleeves - Vaughan Williams

Canon - J.S. Pachelbel

Double violin concerto - J.S.Bach

Andante from piano Concerto no. 21 (elvira madigan) - Mozart (pure genius)

Dance macabre - Camile Saint Saens

Adagio G minor for strings and organ - Albanoni

Adagio - Barber

Queen of the night aria from the magic flute - Mozart (high notes)

midiofnowhere

beethoven symphony 7 2nd movement all day long

filbert the fox

midiofnowhere wrote: »

beethoven symphony 7 2nd movement all day long

"All Night Long" all day long. Sorry little joke.:D

How about for peace and quiet:

4'33'' by John Cage

(there was a composer called Cage,
for silence was all the rage,
no musician he found
ever made the wrong sound
or misread the notes on the page)

DickSwiveller

midiofnowhere wrote: »

beethoven symphony 7 2nd movement all day long

Yes, it's astonishing. I challenge anyone to listen to the 2nd movement and not get goosebumps.