Post A Favorite Classical Music Selection Of Yours Here (Video If You Can):

[Dinger]

The last part of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor:

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

[Zuni]

1. anything by Schubert

but since we are coming up on Advent, I'll go with "Ave Maria".

[elleng]

2. Mendelsohn Violin Concerto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZs6D-w0Ex4

(KID Itzak Perlman!)

[lukasahero]

40. Another Mendelssohn violin concerto

in E minor
NY Philharmonic
Sarah Chang at 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCLxso5XDN4

[mcctatas]

3. I love Vivaldi Spring...

I know, how boring right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St9wYu_WeAM

[redqueen]

42. No, it's beautiful.

:)

I love them all... I think Autumn is my favorite though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXUqWVIPAc&feature=related

[DarkTirade]

45. I wouldn't say boring.

Overplayed as (*&%. But that's because it's good.

As a violinist who's had to play it a few hundred times, I think I'll pass on listening to it again though... :P

[KitchenWitch]

4. Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n2DsfQdg9o

[Dinger]

30. That Is Beautiful And Powerful

I like that one a LOT too!

[KitchenWitch]

37. I have a snippet of it for a ringtone

:)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Proof that Pachelbel wrote more than his exceptionally famous 'Canon"

The motet "Singet dem Herrn," performed by one of Germany's most renowned cathedral choirs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lw08i3Jlo

[tjwmason]

26. Pachelbel is this week's Composer of the Week

on B.B.C. Radio 3. If you like him and want to learn more with plenty of his music thrown in you might want to listen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cotw/ for more information and links to a listen-again facilty thing.

[Rhythm]

6. Saint-Saëns - "Danse Macabre"

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

[lumpy]

60. Interesting- A one time myth- Danse Macabre could drive

people to suicide. Must have been perpetuated by people who hate classical music.

[elleng]

7. Mozart Rondo a la Turca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CtaG5QS24

[Dinger]

32. I've Tried To Play That Before

Challenging is an understatement.

[elleng]

8. THANKS Dinger!

You've made my night!

[Dinger]

31. Really, Thanks!

I love classical music!

[Tom Kitten]

9. The Lark Ascending

by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Two renditions here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsKi7KBrhJ8&feature=related and/or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKz6XJlI_jk

[nytemare]

10. "Claire de Lune" Debussy.

The beauty in this piece of music is beyond words. When I hear it, I almost transport myself into a breezy, cool starlit evening. Really, I feel transported to "Starry Night" by Van Gogh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfSV_k3MhCw

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

[Maraya1969]

11. It starts at aroun:40 Pomp and Cirumstance......has made me cry many times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxqFdcZz974

[Aristus]

12. "Musica Notte De La Strada Madrid" by Boccherini. With a nice, narrative intro.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDlqgcMs1n4

[Doc_Technical]

13. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 second movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mkA-xrdykM

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Not just a musical masterwork

but also a comedy classic. :D



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhF-7suDsM

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Oh, that's wonderful!

:rofl:

[JackBeck]

15. Debussy 'L'isle Joyeuse'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeBZT5_iEeA

[JackBeck]

18. Interesting factoid:

The ending hits the highest and lowest note on the piano.

[The empressof all]

17. Sogno ad Occhi Aperti by Sollima

And this particular Video is Amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldPf3yqq3-8

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. I didn't know Kali was a cellist

That is an exceptionally cool video, and a lovely piece as well... :hi:

On edit: And the second part rocks!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Ravel Sonata for violin and piano in a minor

Not my favorite version, but it's not bad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzeNvOoPuc8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jANw08ZGi2U&feature=related

Let me know if you're interested in purchasing it, and I'll post info on a truly masterful recording.

[Lucian]

21. Beethoven

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

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

22. Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"

conducted by Sir John Barbirolli or Rachmanininoff 2nd PC conducted by Jascha Horenstein with Earl Wild as soloist.

J.S. Bach's Passacaglia and Double Fugue in C Minor, but only as played by Bach's greatest interpreter, the late, great, and inimitable Virgil Fox, whom I was fortunate enough to see twice before he died.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. the greatest and most passionate string player of the 20th century.

Jacqueline du Pre, Elgar Cello Concerto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH0jUQTCCQI&feature=related

A true and tragic story told in the movie "Hilary and Jackie".

And I was lucky enough to see the real Jacqueline du Pre perform this piece with the Houston Symphony in about 1968.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

24. Jongen, Symphonie Concertante...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFoWxTj9Ws

:toast:

This is the recording I actually own...very amazing performance:

[MissHoneychurch]

25. Georges Bizet's "Carmen"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpUJXC57pDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Ult8x-doE

actually every part of that opera :)

Edvard Grieg "Peer Gynt"

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

Franz Schubert "Ave Maria"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYrmYXsujI

[cemaphonic]

27. One of the most underappreciated masterpieces of all of Western culture:

Allegri's Miserere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71jgMx0Mxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZ0K8vCdbo&feature=related

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

28. "Kill da wabbit" is my favorite

Like many, the basis of my knowledge of classical music and opera comes from Looney Tunes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lKUOhvdlug

[RandomThoughts]

29. ummm.

That never worked out to well for Elmer Fud :rofl:

[CBHagman]

33. From my "Baritone Mania" file.

Simon Keenlyside's take on Papageno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD5J9Alt188

[redqueen]

34. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

I used to love to play this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

[lukasahero]

43. Third movement is the best

I think this is Ashkenazy playing here but tags include Kempff?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz6Z0IclEJA

[B3Nut]

35. Jehan Alain's "Litanies"

performed by his sister Marie-Claire. Mme. Alain is one of the greatest living French organists, and her gripping ride through one of her late brother's most famous pieces is jaw-dropping. Jehan Alain was shot by the Nazis while on a motorcycle patrol in WW2, cutting short the life of an intensely creative genius. Yet another reason to freaking hate Nazis, Illinois or not!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibFI9xEaON8

Lots of fire and passion in this one.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[Lydia Leftcoast]

49. I'd heard that piece--never knew the story behind it

Thanks.

[sarge43]

36. Elgar's Nimrod from the Enigma Variations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE

[MilesColtrane]

38. Glenn Gould performing Bach's Art of the Fugue Contrapunctus XIV

Intended to be a quadruple fugue of four themes in four voices.

He was at the point in the piece of introducing a countersubject based on notes that spelled out his name B A C H (Bb A C B) when he suffered a stroke, leaving it unfinished.

The abrupt ending is chilling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vacZrMF32Y

[motely36]

39. Shostakovich - Festive Overture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7o_3aBIeyU

[Bertha Venation]

41. Barber - Adagio for Strings.

[redqueen]

44. No one's said Bach: Air on the G String?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVwokQnV4M

I'm shocked.

[DarkTirade]

46. This one's a nice, light piece. Bach's Cello Concerto #1.

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

*edit* I was looking at one thing and typing another. :P

[DarkTirade]

47. And for something a little more layered, here's Beethoven's 7th, second movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5pH4GKYkI

[lukasahero]

48. Chopin played by my favorite romantic pianist

Horowitz plays Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat Op.53 (without even trying - look at those hands! :cry:)

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

And again, Horowitz performing Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x93pwAvUkAA

[Dinger]

52. Ahhhh, That Is Beautiful

I heard Horowitz play in Milwaukee when i was a teenager. In those days, he only played recitals, and only on Sunday afternoons. The clip of the Poloniase looks like it was from when he returned to Moscow after 50 years. I think there was a Sunday morning special on it, hosted by Charles Kuralt I think. I recorded it, and I borrowed it to someone who didn't return it. Hey, I wonder if I could purhchase that somewhere?

[Xipe Totec]

50. Va pensiero ('Nabucco', G. Verdi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K68tdN3fYw

[jpgray]

51. I like Beatus Vir by Monteverdi

Here's a charming performance of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiXDoAKk3vs&feature=related

[Lydia Leftcoast]

54. Ooh, I LOVE Monteverdi!

:7

[Mr. McD]

53. Weber: Viola de Arco, Andante & Rondo Húngaros (Bashmet)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f8aEZ8UCsE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m37Qfgsa3Wo&feature=related

[sohndrsmith]

55. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, specifically 4, 5 & 6: Sir Neville Marriner:

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - only. I love the others too, but these are favorites.

Non di scordar di me, sung by Luciano Pavarotti, by Curtis, conducted by Mancini

Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D major (only because it was composed for my great-great uncle, Leopold Auer, though I've never heard it I'm still partial to it) and much of the Nutcracker Suite I find magical and fresh again and again.

Mahler can bring me to tears, but I can't name anything specific.

One I can exclude is Vivaldi (temporarily) I got way too burned out on his work. It won't last.

There are too many.

[martymar64]

56. Bizet's L'Arlesienne Prelude

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KA76yUSK44

[CBHagman]

57. I've been looking for "The Lark in the Clear Air."

I've got the Cambridge Singers' version of it on CD but didn't see it listed on YouTube. So here's Loreena McKennitt's instrumental version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnzi0KhRpg

[Sancho]

58. Hmmm...Rach II....

but if you have to include everyone in town and make the audience happy: 1812 Overture!

[lumpy]

59. Georg Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody

beautiful