What is your absolute favourite piece of Classical music?

mine is Beethoven's symphony no.9

PS: you can list more than one

Fond of Chopin Nocturne Op.9 right now if you consider that classical.

Paganini's 24th Caprice.

Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

my favorite, however, would probably be Pachelbel's Cannon, or any variation thereof.Tylendal

Hmm. I'm fond of O Fortuna... my favorite, however, would probably be Pachelbel's Cannon, or any variation thereof. Pie Jesu is nice, if you don't think Classical has to be old. Ave Maria is also amazing. Also, not really relevant, but I heard a really good quote once. "Movies and Videogames are the last great bastion of classical music."Tylendal

i agree about that quote. The music on Modern warfare 2 is some of the best i've heard.

[QUOTE="Tylendal"]my favorite, however, would probably be Pachelbel's Cannon, or any variation thereof.v13_KiiLtz

I can't even decide which Beethoven symphony I like best. There are way too many to choose from, all of which are masterpieces in their own right.

[QUOTE="v13_KiiLtz"][QUOTE="Tylendal"]my favorite, however, would probably be Pachelbel's Cannon, or any variation thereof.Tylendal

Fond of Chopin Nocturne Op.9 right now if you consider that classical.

UserBane

Gymnopédie No. 1

In the Hall of the Mountain King. It kinda reminds me of an on coming goblin invasion, and I love goblins. Kinda like this.

Metal version.

I love the dissonant stuff. I don't really have a favorite, but the Rite of Spring was the piece that got me interested in classical music in the first place, so I guess I'll go with that.

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and Chopin's Raindrop Prelude.

[QUOTE="UserBane"]

Fond of Chopin Nocturne Op.9 right now if you consider that classical.

funsohng

I love ride of the valkyries, but I tried to watch that opera once and it was just excruciating.

[QUOTE="UserBane"]

Fond of Chopin Nocturne Op.9 right now if you consider that classical.

funsohng

haha i must have heard the flight of the valkryie song a thousand times because i used to play this game called "the flight of the hamster",

edit: i've associated that song so much with that game that i called it flight of the valkryie, rather than the ride of the valkryies

[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="UserBane"]

Fond of Chopin Nocturne Op.9 right now if you consider that classical.

Guybrush_3

I love ride of the valkyries, but I tried to watch that opera once and it was just excruciating.

In the Hall of the Mountain King. It kinda reminds me of an on coming goblin invasion, and I love goblins. Kinda like this.

Metal version.

Guybrush_3

I suggest you give this metal version a listen as well.

Dmitri Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No. 1

Gyorgy Ligeti - String Quartet

Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F Major

Ludwig Von Beethoven - Piano Sonata Opus 53 (Waldstein)

Gregorio Allegri - Miserere

Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Giacinto Scelsi - Pfhat

Josef Suk - Asrael Symphony

And of course there's lost of J.S. Bach, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Janacek, Sibelius, Purcell, and the like.

[QUOTE="Guybrush_3"]

In the Hall of the Mountain King. It kinda reminds me of an on coming goblin invasion, and I love goblins. Kinda like this.

Metal version.

RAMRODtheMASTER

I suggest you give this metal version a listen as well.

Yeah. I like that version, and the apocalyptica version is good too.

[QUOTE="Tylendal"]my favorite, however, would probably be Pachelbel's Cannon, or any variation thereof.v13_KiiLtz

Holy ****! Thanks for the link, that's a sweet rendition.

Brandenburg No. 3

Nessun Dorma sang by Pavarotti. (Is that CIa$sical?)

Air by J. S. Bach. It's soo peaceful, it just calms me down everytime and I love playing it on viola.

also, Bach'sConcertos for Violin and for Two Violins are just amazing. So much fun!

Mozart's Ein musikalischer Spaß, KV 522 is the only correct answer (@ 0:43 and 2:01 - brilliant!)

Fur Elise is also a pretty cool guy. eh was deaf and still composed the ninth symphony.

Probably Beethoven's 7th symphony. I haven't listened to all that much classical music though.

Don't think anybody mentioned Dvorak's New World Symphony yet, which is one of my favorites.

Mine would have to be Amazing Grace played on bagpipes

Also another favourite is Over The Hills And Far Away off sharpe but on youtube theres a version that is done by a orchestra with no singing and is beautiful

Edit: oh and how could i forget Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture i have loved it since i first heard it on V for Vendetta