Favourite classical piece

I love le Onde by Einaudi.

Geranium wrote:

I love le Onde by Einaudi.

I like that too.

Rachmaninov Prelude in C Sharp Minor Op. 3/2 is one of my all time favourites. Those first chords are magical. In fact, I love all of Rachmaninov's music.

I also enjoy most of Chopins work (esp. Minute Waltz in D flat Op. 64/1), aswell as Mozart (k331 Sonata).

oh, Beethoven aswell!

Brahms....Lizt....Debussy.....Schumann.....Einaudi.....Nyman......man, there's so many!

Minor key pieces always move me more than a piece in a major key.

Clare de Lune by Debussy , Romeo And Juliet Overture by Tchaikovsky and of course Moonlight Sonata download them now if u never heard them (or buy them if u wana be proper bout it)

Just listening to Lizts Mephisto Waltz No.1.

So so cool.

When the question was asked about your favourite piece of 'classical' music, did that mean music from the classical period or was it the more generic term which throws all music played by an orchestra into the same banal pit?

Well, many of you will disagree, but my favourite peices are all Mozart. Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat, 3rd movement D.960 and his Moment Musical No.3 in F minor "Air russe" D.780 are close behind along with Haydn's String Quartet No.5 in D major Op.64 "The Lark": (1-4) - but Mozart's fearful symmetries are just too amazing to have any other peices come into the same catagory. (No offence intended) I say that particular statement because most people don't realize just how much Mozart hid his genuis. Beethoven's peice are very pleasing to the ear, but are nothing in comparison to having a beautiful symmetry take you completely by surprise and fill your eyes with tears from not only "happy" tears, but sad ones also. It is sad because how can one man create so many masterpieces so unlike any other composer. (I've counted rughly about 50 genuine symmerical MASTERPIECES) I can list about 40 of Mozart's top slow and fast compositions but i will only go to 5 each.

Favourite Slow
i) Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor: Larghetto (K.491)
ii) Piano Sonata No.11 in A major: Andante Grazioso (K.331)
iii) Piano Concerto No.19 in F major: Allegretto (K.459)
iv) March from his opera Idomeneo <

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Would be my fav but too short
v) Serenade No.10 in B major "Gran Partita": Adagio (K.361) <

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(ingenuities aren't very hidden so most will like this one the best, the reason I don't is because it is exactly that. I had to put it never-the-less because once in awile there is nothing like "Gran Partita" to examplifly Mozartean grace and perfection)


Favourite Fast
i) Piano Sonata No.11 in A major: Rondo: Alla Turca (K.331)
ii) Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major: Allegro (K.482) <

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I listened to it so much in the past I totally forgot about it. Kinda bored of it now, but it is an incredible peice never-the-less.
iii) Piano Quintet in E flat major: Rondo: Allegretto (K.452)
iv) Overture to Marriage of Figaro: (K.492)
v) Violin Concerto No.2 in D major: Rondo: Andate Grazioso-Allegro Ma Non Troppo (K.218) <

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just try and find ONE note that isn't absolute PERFECT
vi) Violin Concerto No.5 in A major: Rondo: Tempo Di Minuetto (K.219)

There are about 40+ other compositions that are relatively weaker in attack, but still far surpasses the next leadind composer. (Haydn)


To give you an idea of just how many masterpieces the man created... Listen to his Oboe Concerto in C major: Rondo: Allegretto (K.314) This particular peice probably isn't even in the standard Mozart concert repetoire but it is a very nice MASTERPIECE. (40-51 seconds in there is a very nice bass line) Even his Basson Concerto written when he was about 18 is in my mind ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr superior to anything any other composer has create at that particular age.


P.S. Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" is very complex (individual fugues written for each change in key and form) but as many a composer has said in the past; "Music, no matter what the situation, no matter what the theme, must never cease to be music." In other words, music must be symmetrical unless it is bubblegum music. Symmetrical sounds are beauty, not coarse violent ones heard in Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel, etc... The reason most composers resort to coarse junctions or passages or orchestral statements is because the ability to create thirds, fourths, and fifths (notes that are the same but diff octave) as a statement or theme itself demands a symmetrical outlook or concept in relation to music. Haydn and Schubert did this very well and that is why they are in MY mind 2nd and 3rd place. (D.960 to prove it)

"Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name. He has taste, and what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition." -Joseph Haydn to the simpleton Leopold Mozart

P.S.S. One last example. (sry) Listen to Piano Concerto No.19 in F major:Allegro (K.459) It doesn't seem like an incredible masterpeice at 1st, but just keep listening to it so you are able to understand the main theme, then try to listen to the relatively hidden woodwind and ochestral string conversations in the backround while the piano plays the main theme and initiates the developement.

P.S.S. I didn't mean to undermine any other composer and I also didn't intend to cause offence to anyone. It is just.....

"Many people make a mistake who think that my art has come easily to me. Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not studied over an over." -trazoM suedamA gnagfloW

P.S.S.S. I don't personally like vocal compositions as they tend to make me shiver and my ears hurt. (No offence intended) ie. whenever I fall asleep and forget to create a playlist on a CD that has singing, I am ALWAYS violently awaken by the vocals even if it is an aria. (I never am awaken by his instrmental works)

Thanks for the info dude. I also like Symphony No.40, but haven't listened to it enough to hear that... maybe I'll start right now. I forgot to state that I haven't listened to any of his Piano Concertos that are under the #19. I'm 100% confident that the ones you suggested are indeed incredible masterpeices and thats why you and I probably love Mozart so much. Another one is the last movement of "Jupiter". The 2 climaxes are played by the Bass! If you send me your e-mail I can send you a wonderful Harp Concerto in C major. The reason I want to send it to you is because you can't find it anywhere else. Go ahead and try, then send me your e-mail when you can't find it. It is truly beautiful.

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Oh and Vivaldi's Winter is probably my favourite, at the moment anyway.

My top ten for what it's worth, in no particular order....

1) Albinoni - Adagio in G major
2) Allegri - Miserere Mei Deus (will sing this before i die)
3) Barber - Agnus Dei (ditto)
4) Part - De Profundis (double ditto)
5) Gorecki - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (beginning to see a pattern here? Yeah, I'm a miserable git)
6) Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D major (Oh, what's this? Uplifting music? No way Kompo!)
7) Bach - Organ Fugue in G minor
8) Fauré - Pavane
9) Williams - Schindlers (Oh does this count, what a sad loser I am)
10) Mozart - Lacrymosa from Requiem in D minor (Oh, sung this one!)

Dreadfully obvious I know, I'm only a classical novice ya know....