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Favorite Classical [music] Piece?
roboman
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Anyone here a fan of classical music? If so, what's your favorite piece. I'm currently listening to Pachelbel's Canon in D performed on the piano. It's a lovely piece for anyone who has not heard it. I wholeheartedly recommend it. Very stirring and poignant.
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I like beethoven's 9th symphony, and his 5th. It depends on the mood I'm in.
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Mars is my favorite of the whole suite.
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Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade (sp) is for when I'm practicing trigger pull.
DeBussy's Claire de Lune for gun cleaning.
Mario Lanza's album The Student Prince for getting ready for an IDPA match.
Ravel's Bolero for reloading pistol, Al Jolson's Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder for reloading Rifle.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons for when Friends is on.
Tchaikovski for morning exercises (lather, rinse, repeat).
Mozart for drinking beer while reading Shakespeare.
Classical Irish drinkin' ditties for when I'm out of Shakespeare.
Sade for workin' on tiny metal pieces that seem to magically appear when I finally get the sideplate off of most revolvers.
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Very tough question.
The violin cadenza in the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D is pretty fancy fiddle'in.
And within the Prokofiev piano sonatas, there are passages of pure brilliance; nearly impossible to totally appreciate; like shooting in the "xx" at 100 yards open sites blindfolded.
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Overture. That really winds things up.
Liebestraum(spelling) is probably my favorite piano piece.
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Each composer was studied, and out of all of them there may be 10 pieices I dont care for...Favorite?...dont have one, each one can move me to tears or lift me higher than the clouds...
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Yes, before I sold out to rock 'n roll, [8D] I grew up with classics, and you remind me how hard it would be to pick any favorites. I like anything by Bach or Mozart and much of Rachmaninov, Chopin, Beethoven, some of Mahler and Wagner (without the vocals, thank you), and many of the basics including Sheherazade (sp?), the Grand Canyon Suite, Peter & the Wolf, and so on. I even enjoy the motion picture work of Herrmann (Hitchcock films), Max Steiner (King Kong '33) and Korngold (The Sea Hawk, Robin Hood). If you doubt me, try the Marco Polo CD of the Moscow Symphony playing the score of King Kong, sometime. Wow. I'm also amazed at what John Barry can do with simple themes in the 007 movies and in the remake of Kong, and I have enjoyed some of John Williams, even though I've read catty claims that everything he writes, he borrows in some fashion from "The Planets." Yes, a tough question.
I got a kick out of your mention of Pachelbel's Canon because that popped into my head right away, as did a couple others mentioned above. Pachelbel's underappreciated by musicians, though it appears on many "popular" collections of classical music. Like Ravel's Bolero, Pachelbel is sort of a love session set to music that builds to a passionate *. But it's less appreciated than Bolero among classical purists (including an ex-girlfriend of mine who turned up her nose at it) only because of its first-glance simplicity and its popularity, I think. I find it hypnotic and clever, not simple-minded. Less is more -- it's a textbook study in how much can be done with one single theme.
And you can't mention Classical Gas without also mentioning Richard Harris' "Someone left the cake out in the raaaaain..." Or, not... [:o)]
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Chopin 'Barber of Seville' [:)]
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[img]Lol, chopin didn't write the barber of seville, rosini did.[:D] My personal favorite is mozart's requiem mass, although I'm a huge fan of Chopin's nocturnes keeping in line with my polish blood (they're equally good in my opinion). Frog Frog[/img]
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Pachelbel's underappreciated by musicians, though it appears on many "popular" collections of classical music.
That's because it is extremely simple ( I've played like 3 different arrangements) and everyone and their dog uses it in their weddings.[8D][8D][:p][:p]
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The second one, and the best rendition I've heard of it, is on the soundtrack for the movie The Shawshank Redemption. It's played during the part when the guy locks himself in the wardens office.
The name of that aria is "CHE SOAVE ZEFFIRETTO" from the opera, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, by Mozart.
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My baby girl had a bed time gizmo that played Fur Elise.
Like all favorite songs it brings back memories...
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It would be hard to pick a favorite. But, there are two songs that come to mind that I really enjoy. The first one is Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. The second one, and the best rendition I've heard of it, is on the soundtrack for the movie The Shawshank Redemption. It's played during the part when the guy locks himself in the wardens office.The duet? It's hard to believe that there are only 2 women singing. It's Mozart, from "The Marriage of Figaro", it's called "L'ho perduta".Don't ask me what it means as I don't speak Italian. Genius!
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On my tombstone:"Keep you eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel..."the Lizard King
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
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Just double checked, you were right! Duettino by Suzanna and Contessa. The one I mentioned is a cavatina.
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On my tombstone:"Keep you eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel..."the Lizard King