Your favorite classical piece? [Archive]

Silock

01-22-2008, 12:34 PM

Mine:

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Donger

01-22-2008, 12:36 PM

A toss up between Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Beethoven's 9th and Tool's Stinkfist.

Extra Point

01-22-2008, 12:40 PM

"Moonlight Sonata," "Pictures at an Exhibition," and "Cocktails for Two"

Bowser

01-22-2008, 12:44 PM

Christy Canyon.

Nzoner

01-22-2008, 12:46 PM

Christy Canyon.

heh,great minds

although I was thinking

http://tinyurl.com/3x3lqu

OnTheWarpath15

01-22-2008, 12:46 PM

Christy Canyon.

LMAO

noa

01-22-2008, 12:47 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Wddtne7KSs

and

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wN2XskfFv7w

siberian khatru

01-22-2008, 12:50 PM

Holst's The Planets, especially Venus and Mars
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Stravinsky's Firebird Suite
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Debussy's Arabesque No. 1 as performed by Isao Tomita

Frankie

01-22-2008, 01:07 PM

Sheherazad by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Followed closely by:
Capriccio Espagnol by the same.

pikesome

01-22-2008, 01:13 PM

xbarretx

01-22-2008, 01:15 PM

Moonlight Sonata

Radar Chief

01-22-2008, 01:15 PM

A toss up between Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Beethoven's 9th and Tool's Stinkfist.

A Clockwork Orange has forever perverted Ludwig van for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdQNrk9lcI

Nzoner

01-22-2008, 01:19 PM

Does Apocalyptica count?

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Raiderhater

01-22-2008, 01:23 PM

Beethoven's Für Elise

Hydrae

01-22-2008, 01:24 PM

Holst's The Planets, especially Venus and Mars
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Stravinsky's Firebird Suite
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Debussy's Arabesque No. 1 as performed by Isao Tomita

First thing that came to my mind.

"Bob" Dobbs

01-22-2008, 01:25 PM

Dvorak - Symphony For the New World

"Bob" Dobbs

01-22-2008, 01:27 PM

acesn8s

01-22-2008, 01:43 PM

First thing that came to my mind.Agreed. Also like William Tell Overture-Gioachino Rossini

QuikSsurfer

01-22-2008, 01:48 PM

Chopin - Nocturne Op 9 No 2

ClevelandBronco

01-22-2008, 01:51 PM

...Beethoven's 9th...

That's it.

Bump

01-22-2008, 01:57 PM

This one is pretty sweet

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DanT

01-22-2008, 02:22 PM

Sibelius's Third Symphony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Sibelius)). The only version of it I have is from the Sir Colin Davis cycle with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (http://www.amazon.com/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-2-Jean/dp/B0000041BW), so I don't know how much of it has to do with particular performers and performances.

BucEyedPea

01-22-2008, 02:37 PM

One of my all time favorites...Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart. I like the faster version too. I just have a thing for Austrians.

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Hammock Parties

01-22-2008, 02:40 PM

Swan Lake.

Donger

01-22-2008, 02:44 PM

Holst's The Planets, especially Venus and Mars

If you've never heard Mars conducted by Andre Previn, you are missing out.

BucEyedPea

01-22-2008, 02:45 PM

This one is pretty sweet
Very Cool Version! Nice Post.

beach tribe

01-22-2008, 02:49 PM

1963 double chambered water bong

beach tribe

01-22-2008, 02:50 PM

J/k moonlight sanata

BucEyedPea

01-22-2008, 02:56 PM

Here's another very nice version of Pachelbel's Canon in D.

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Donger

01-22-2008, 02:59 PM

For some reason, I want to kill every living thing around me whenever I hear Pachelbel's Canon in D.

ClevelandBronco

01-22-2008, 02:59 PM

ClevelandBronco

01-22-2008, 03:02 PM

Here's another very nice version of Pachelbel's Canon in D...

Sorry, BEP, but that sounds like wallpaper looks.

Braincase

01-22-2008, 03:04 PM

Ever wonder what Jason Becker could do before ALS...

Paganini's 5th Caprice

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Hammock Parties

01-22-2008, 03:05 PM

Oh, I've always enjoyed this:

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And this one of course...

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noa

01-22-2008, 03:06 PM

I enjoyed the use of this piece in There Will Be Blood.

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Amnorix

01-22-2008, 03:07 PM

For some reason, I want to kill every living thing around me whenever I hear Pachelbel's Canon in D.

There must be a reference here I'm missing?

Donger

01-22-2008, 03:08 PM

Jeez, how could I forget this one. Great angry sex music:

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bowener

01-22-2008, 03:08 PM

Over used but I love O Fortuna by Carl Orff
and Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt.

In darker moods I like Chopin's funeral march and as mentioned before Bach's Toccata and fugue in d minor... greatest song ever written for the pipe organ!!

Amnorix

01-22-2008, 03:09 PM

Pachelbel's canon is my favorite.

Direckshun

01-22-2008, 03:09 PM

John Cage's "4'33""

Donger

01-22-2008, 03:11 PM

Pachelbel's canon is my favorite.

Die.

bowener

01-22-2008, 03:14 PM

This song has been used in many a nintendo video games and in Fantasia by Disney, but it is still pretty kick ass... Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky. I think this is the right guy, Verdi and his Anvil Chorus... I think that is it, pretty cool use of anvils as instruments.

Hammock Parties

01-22-2008, 03:14 PM

Donger

01-22-2008, 03:16 PM

That opening music is great for when I whip out my huge member.

Perhaps you should try the music from the opening scene of Conan the Barbarian? It's never failed me.

Hammock Parties

01-22-2008, 03:21 PM

Perhaps you should try the music from the opening scene of Conan the Barbarian? It's never failed me.

I think this would be great sex music:

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Adept Havelock

01-22-2008, 03:25 PM

Wagner's "Overture from Tannhäuser".

ZepSinger

01-22-2008, 03:39 PM

'Adagio for Strings' by Samuel Barber. Used in the movies Platoon and The Elephant Man. Was played at JFK's funeral. Awesome, depressing, emotional. My fav piece by far.

Messier

01-22-2008, 03:40 PM

Aaron Copland, "Appalachian Spring", "Fanfare for the Common Man", and his music to "Our Town". Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals. Especially the Aquarium.

BucEyedPea

01-22-2008, 03:48 PM

Sorry, BEP, but that sounds like wallpaper looks.

Guess that depends on the wallpaper. Your's and pikesome's must have pictures of canons on a battlefield with dead and bloodied men. What is wrong with most of the men's choices? Anger, war, seriousness and depression? NTTAWWT but anything light and happy?

Here's another I like. Summer reminds me of fairies ( not gays) fluttering through a summer field.

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HC_Chief

01-22-2008, 04:13 PM

Beethoven's 5th, 9th, Fur Elise
Mozart's Symphony #40, #41

Karajan is the only composer/conductor who gets them right (IMHO)

HC_Chief

01-22-2008, 04:32 PM

man, listening to Mozart: Symphony #40 In G Minor, K 550 - 3. Menuetto & Trio (Allegretto) right now.... pure brilliance.

Duck Dog

01-22-2008, 04:44 PM

I'd say 'Weird Science'. Man, I loved that movie.

memyselfI

01-22-2008, 04:49 PM

May be way cliche but Vivaldi's Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring). Actually the entire 4 Seasons are wonderful but that piece is my favorite.

DanT

01-22-2008, 04:50 PM

Beethoven's 5th, 9th, Fur Elise
Mozart's Symphony #40, #41

Karajan is the only composer/conductor who gets them right (IMHO)

My favorite Beethoven symphony became the 7th after hearing a chear recording of Karajan conducting it. I've gotten other versions, but Karajan remains my favorite conductor of that piece. His pace through the 3rd movement is just right!

I should get a Karajan cycle of the Beethoven symphonies one day.

Pitt Gorilla

01-22-2008, 04:53 PM

Moonlight SonataIt's difficult not to like that one. The beauty is in its simplicity, IMO.

keg in kc

01-22-2008, 04:53 PM

My real favorite's his Polish Requiem, but this will suffice for now.

This won't be popular.

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pikesome

01-22-2008, 05:09 PM

Guess that depends on the wallpaper. Your's and pikesome's must have pictures of canons on a battlefield with dead and bloodied men. What is wrong with most of the men's choices? Anger, war, seriousness and depression? NTTAWWT but anything light and happy?

Here's another I like. Summer reminds me of fairies ( not gays) fluttering through a summer field.

Actually I have a composite of Jared Allen pictures for a desktop. That might be considered more brutal than canons or dead and bloodied men though.

Simply Red

01-22-2008, 05:27 PM

Frankie

01-22-2008, 06:08 PM

May be way cliche but Vivaldi's Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring). Actually the entire 4 Seasons are wonderful but that piece is my favorite.
Can't go wrong with Vivaldi. :thumb:

Amnorix

01-22-2008, 06:10 PM

Jeez, how could I forget this one. Great angry sex music:

I love O Fortuna. Love it!

Frankie

01-22-2008, 06:17 PM

I love O Fortuna. Love it!
Just for you sir:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzAe_xWpJgM

listopencil

01-22-2008, 06:31 PM

Mars and the ol' 1812 as someone already mentioned. I have a place in my heart for Fanfare For The Common Man as it was our "breakaway" song in the Navy.

tiptap

01-22-2008, 06:57 PM

Braincase

01-22-2008, 07:13 PM

That opening music is great for when I whip out my huge member.

The Minute Waltz for Wee Willie Winky in D Minor by Peter Smalls and Richard Short?

Hammock Parties

01-22-2008, 07:20 PM

The Minute Waltz for Wee Willie Winky in D Minor by Peter Smalls and Richard Short?

Not at all. This is a good second option:

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Messier

01-22-2008, 07:46 PM

Smetana. All four Cycles of Tone Poems of "My Llast" but "Moldau" is premium. Then after that any Rachmaninoff.

I like to add I love when my son plays the Bach unaccompanied even when just practicing.

I love the Moldau! I was going to mention it, plus almost anything by Debussy particularly "Danse sacrée et danse profane".

pikesome

01-22-2008, 08:37 PM

Mars and the ol' 1812 as someone already mentioned. I have a place in my heart for Fanfare For The Common Man as it was our "breakaway" song in the Navy.

We used The Final Countdown theme on the Nimitz. I always chuckled when I heard that.

"Bob" Dobbs

01-22-2008, 08:43 PM

John Cage's "4'33""

:LOL: Awesome.

HC_Chief

01-28-2008, 12:03 PM

My favorite Beethoven symphony became the 7th after hearing a chear recording of Karajan conducting it. I've gotten other versions, but Karajan remains my favorite conductor of that piece. His pace through the 3rd movement is just right!

I should get a Karajan cycle of the Beethoven symphonies one day.

I have Karajan - Beethoven, The Symphonies, 1-9, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker... outstanding! It also includes a recording or the rehearsal for #9. I highly recommend the set. You are dead-on re: pacing. That's what makes Karajan so great - IMO he nails the tempo. I've heard Mozart's #s 40 & 41 by multiple conductors, but NONE of them come close to Karajan's.

Fire Me Boy!

01-28-2008, 12:04 PM

Lick My Love Pump.

HypnotizedMonkey

01-28-2008, 12:10 PM

The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)

gblowfish

01-28-2008, 12:42 PM

Wagner's "Kill the Wabbit".

Fire Me Boy!

01-28-2008, 12:52 PM

Wagner's "Kill the Wabbit".
aka The Ride of the Valkyries.

mylittlepony

01-28-2008, 01:02 PM

For some reason, I want to kill every living thing around me whenever I hear Pachelbel's Canon in D.

You should team up with this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

From my childhood I love:

Bolero by Ravell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw

I bergakungens sal(In the hall of the mountain king) by Greig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXAruiTSjk

Lately one of my favourites despite dismissing it at a younger age is:

Winter by Vivaldi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzCXjDuYQTA