Post your favorite piece of classical music here.

Let's start by Chopin...

Prelude no. 15 "Raindrop" in D flat Major

An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube), op. 314 by Johann Strauss the Younger (1867).

The Blue Danube, conducted by Herbert von Karajan

Carmen Prelude, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado

The Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K 525, more commonly known as Eine kleine Nachtmusik, is one of the most popular compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787).

A Little Night Music

Radetzky March, Op. 282 is a march composed by Johann Strauss Sr. in 1848.

The Radetzky March, conducted by Claudio Abbado

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel. Originally composed as a ballet, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.

Ravel’s Bolero, conducted by Daniel Barenboim

The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music.

Spring - allegro, Mutter/von Karajan

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini in 1817.

Rossini's The Thieving Magpie - Overture

SHAM 69-if the kids where united.:devil:

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte, K. 620) is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Magic Flute - Overture - Sir Colin Davis

I would love to listen to more classical music, but it is daunting if you were weaned on Led Zep, Pink Floyd and Tomita. I often hear something I like but usually don't know what I am listening to. I am thinking that to fully appreciate it, you would need to start at some beginning, and understand the history of what you are listening to, and the order that the music arrived in history and so on. This is how we get an appreciation of other stuff. But it is a daunting task to wade through a couple of hundred years of classical music, knowing what is worth listening to, and what is not.

Quite true Dundee.

The world of classical music is large, daunting, and confusing, even for musicophiles. What I intend to do here, is not to write a book, just to give you the most widely-known classical pieces, and if you happen to find something you like, to give you the feeling of wanting to know more. If I manage to do that, I would be happy.

To sum up, I just want to share my passion for classical music, that’s all... Any help is most welcome

The Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, D. 929, was one of the last compositions completed by Franz Schubert, dated November 1827. It contains four movements, the second of them (the Andante con moto) appeared in the soundtrack of the film Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Trio No. 2 in E-flat major

Richard Strauss Death and Transfiguration. Verrry trippy…lol (Really)

Dundee, I too like Pink Floyd and one of their works, ‘UmmaGumma‘ is my favorite, along with Animals… ~rore

L'Étude Op.10 No.3 in E major is a solo piano work composed by Frédéric Chopin. This is a slow cantabile study, in which the right hand must maintain a singing tone in the melody whilst contributing to the accompaniment.

Etude n°3, Opus 10

I like Chopin but, Mozart is my favorite.
His Piano Concerto NO.21 is my all time favorite.He wrote this in 1785.

I can't agree more, Cricket

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major (K. 467) was written in 1785. It is one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most popular piano concertos, and has three movements, the Allegro maestoso, the Andante in F major, and the Allegro vivace assai.

Concerto pour piano no. 21 de Mozart

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral" is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the Ninth Symphony is one of the best known works of the Western repertoire, considered both an icon and a forefather of Romantic music, and one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces. In the last movement, it incorporates part of the Ode an die Freude ("Ode to Joy"), a poem by Friedrich Schiller.

Ode to Joy - Part 1

Ode to Joy – Part 2

This post has been edited by allison1597: Mar 18 2008, 02:25 AM

Nice, that one I have heard

Dies Iræ: The hymn ascribed to Thomas of Celano contains 18 rhymed stanzas (17 tercets, 1 quatrain), to which a later, anonymous writer added an unrhymed couplet, ending in Amen.

The impressive plainsong melody to which the hymn was sung was used by composers of religious works from the 16th century onward, either in its original form or as the basis of a polyphonic composition. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppi Verdi were among the composers of religious works who wrote original music on the text of the hymn.

Mozart included it in his Requiem Mass in D minor (KV 626), a piece he composed in 1721; here it is:

Dies Iræ