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I would have to say that a couple of my favorites are:

Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata', and the song 'Ave Maria'. I don't know who originally wrote this piece, but it is a beautiful piece of Classical Music.

EDIT: If you are Classically uneducated these links will aide you:

'Ave Maria' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=aQVz6vuNq7s) There are several versions of 'Ave Maria' but this one is fantastic.

'Moonlight Sonata' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck)

The links take you to a sight where you can here the songs/compostions

"Wellington's Victory", by Beethoven.

Everyone always oohs and aahs over the 1812 Overture for its use of cannon, but Wellington's Victory uses a hell of a lot more and does it dozens of times better.

"Wellington's Victory", by Beethoven.

Everyone always oohs and aahs over the 1812 Overture for its use of cannon, but Wellington's Victory uses a hell of a lot more and does it dozens of times better.

I agree with you on that. I still love 'Moonlight Sonata' better, the song just gets to me. It calms me down.

It is sad...no one appreciates the beauty of the music written by Classical artists like Bach, Mozart and Beethevon. What has the world come to?

I like the Rite of Spring. Also, Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony is good.

I like the Rite of Spring. Also, Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony is good.

Those are good. Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony more so than the Rite of Spring. But both are good nonetheless.

It is sad...no one appreciates the beauty of the music written by Classical artists like Bach, Mozart and Beethevon. What has the world come to?

Movie Producers that don't want to create a sound track for their trailers do.:(

Movie Producers that don't want to create a sound track for their trailers do.:(

Yeah, well sometimes it is not that bad. Have you heard of the new 'Hitman' film coming out in October? I think that film could make some use of Jesper Kyd's compositions....among other Classical renditions.

Yeah, well sometimes it is not that bad. Have you heard of the new 'Hitman' film coming out in October? I think that film could make some use of Jesper Kyd's compositions....among other Classical renditions.

*Is reminded of Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Trailer* *Shudders*

Never been a Hitman fan, but If Lu Bowl(SP?) is behind it, I'm definitly not going to see it.

*Is reminded of Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Trailer* *Shudders*

Never been a Hitman fan, but If Lu Bowl(SP?) is behind it, I'm definitly not going to see it.

Yeah, the trailer sucked balls, but since I'm a fan of the video game series I will probably see the movie. And I don't know who Lu Bowl is....inform me please.

Yeah, the trailer sucked balls, but since I'm a fan of the video game series I will probably see the movie. And I don't know who Lu Bowl is....inform me please.

sorry, its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe Boll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll). He has a Terrible track record, and a nasty disposition.

sorry, its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe Boll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll). He has a Terrible track record, and a nasty disposition.

Oh him! Holy shit, that bastard directed Alone in the Dark, he shouldn't be allowed to interact with the breeding public. ALL his movies suck! Every! Last! One!

EDIT: I looked and the 'Hitman' film is going to be directed by Xavier Gens. I don't know much about him, and I can't find anything about him. So....I got my fingers crossed.

Probably the second movement of beethoven's seventh symphony. Or the Waldstein sonata.

Then again there are a lot of Chopin Waltzes that I really like.

Oh him! Holy shit, that bastard directed Alone in the Dark, he shouldn't be allowed to interact with the breeding public. ALL his movies suck! Every! Last! One!

Be careful, he may what to box you.:eek:

Be careful, he may what to box you.:eek:

Aaaahhhh! The horror! :) I'd love to see him try...

Probably the second movement of beethoven's seventh symphony. Or the Waldstein sonata.

Then again there are a lot of Chopin Waltzes that I really like.

Beethovens Seventh Symphony is good. I haven't heard much of Chopin Waltze so I can't give an opinion.

Aaaahhhh! The horror! :) I'd love to see him try...

somebody beat the crap out of the guy directing this movie (http://imdb.com/title/tt0398913/).

somebody beat the crap out of the guy directing this movie (http://imdb.com/title/tt0398913/).

Well if it anything like the games (which are crap) than I won't be paying much attention to the actual content (if I see the movie) but rather to the lucious Japanese (or American, doesn't matter to me) breasts/melons/ect... [The in-game graphics were practically obessed with the upper area of the female charactors. So I am assuming the movie will do the same.]


(If I offended anyone, get over it and get a life. I'm a grown man and I like female anatomy. ;))

Beethovens Seventh Symphony is good. I haven't heard much of Chopin Waltze so I can't give an opinion.

If you like piano, you probably should check some of them out.

Pines of Rome Respighi, some peices of Mahler's that I can never remember, Four Quartets Philip Glass, Different Trains Reich (probably spelled it wrong), Lacrymosa performed by the Kronos Quartet and Dawn Upshaw (can't remember the composer), Music for Two Prepared Pianos (or something like that} Cage, I can't think of any others right now that I would say are my 'favorites.'

Of the traditional cannon (aside from Rossini and Mahler) most of what Beethoven did, the Bach Cello Concertos...some other stuff. Richard Strauss...

If you like piano, you probably should check some of them out.

I will, can you provide a link to some of them? If not, then I will go searching the Net.

Pines of Rome Rossini, some peices of Mahler's that I can never remember, Four Quartets Philip Glass, Different Trains Reich (probably spelled it wrong), Lacrymosa performed by the Kronos Quartet and Dawn Upshaw (can't remember the composer), Music for Two Prepared Pianos (or something like that} Cage, I can't think of any others right now that I would say are my 'favorites.'

Of the traditional cannon (aside from Rossini and Mahler) most of what Beethoven did, the Bach Cello Concertos...some other stuff. Richard Strauss...

Bravo, a very refined taste hear. I love several of the compostions you mentioned.

Aaaahhhh! The horror! :) I'd love to see him try...

He's called that bluff in the past, he was a boxer before he became a film butcher, he knocked the hell out of some of his harsher internet critics recently.

He's called that bluff in the past, he was a boxer before he became a film butcher, he knocked the hell out of some of his harsher internet critics recently.

Ooops. *quivers in fear* But wait! I'm here and he's there. And he doesn't know who I am. Yes!

I will, can you provide a link to some of them? If not, then I will go searching the Net.

Opus 18, E flat major (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kiHTxOSF4)

Ooops. *quivers in fear* But wait! I'm here and he's there. And he doesn't know who I am. Yes!

Uwe goes boxin' (http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2006/09/viral_video_uwe.html)

Uwe goes boxin' (http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2006/09/viral_video_uwe.html)

You were telling the truth! Holy crap. Well, all that being said...I still feel reletivly secure. :)

Opus 18, E flat major (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kiHTxOSF4)

:cool: I like it.

-Waltz from "Beware of the Car", Andrey Petrov
-Mazurka from "Masquerade", Aram Khachaturian
-Nocturne, Alexander Borodin
-Carnival des Animeaux, Camile Saint-Saens
-Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune/Syrinx (both compositions), Debussy

I also like "The Moldau" by Bedrich Smetana, Symphony No. 1 from Shostakovich's "Age of Gold, and the waltz from Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky

So, those are my favorites.

-Waltz from "Beware of the Car", Andrey Petrov
-Mazurka from "Masquerade", Aram Khachaturian
-Nocturne, Alexander Borodin
-Carnival des Animeaux, Camile Saint-Saens
-Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune/Syrinx (both compositions), Debussy

I also like "The Moldau" by Bedrich Smetana, Symphony No. 1 from Shostakovich's "Age of Gold, and the waltz from Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky

So, those are my favorites.

I know "The Moldau" and the one by Tchaikovsky. They are pretty good.

I know "The Moldau" and the one by Tchaikovsky. They are pretty good.

If you've seen some older Russian/Soviet films, if you heard them you might also recognize the waltz from "Beware of the Car". Andrey Petrov is one of my favorite film composers. Borodin's Polovtsian Dances are also good...the originals, of course, not the version used in the musical "Kismet".

If you've seen some older Russian/Soviet films, if you heard them you might also recognize the waltz from "Beware of the Car". Andrey Petrov is one of my favorite film composers. Borodin's Polovtsian Dances are also good...the originals, of course, not the version used in the musical "Kismet".

True. I haven't seen to many Russian/Soviet films, which is a shame, because some them are supposed to be really good. I can't recall who composed it, but I like the 1977 version of the Soviet National Anthem. No really high-caliber compared to some older Russian compositions, but pleasurable nonetheless.

George Friedrich Handel's "Wasser Musik."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C ("Elvira Madigan").

Ludwig von Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."

and lastly, the symphony "Faust" by Franz Liszt.

~S

Puccini: Turandot
Bach: anything
no Händel, no Mozart

and this particular Ave Maria (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck)

Puccini: Turandot
Bach: anything
no Händel, no Mozart

and this particular Ave Maria (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck)

Pity, no Mozart. I agree with you on Bach, everything he wrote was genius. What do you mean by 'and this particular' and then the Ave Maria link?

Puccini: Turandot
Bach: anything
no Händel, no Mozart

and this particular Ave Maria (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck)

I demure on the no Mozart thing. Mozart wrote some most excellent pieces.

Some personal favorites:
-New World Symphony - Movement IV, Serenade for Strings in E Major (Antonín Dvořák)
-Dance of the Goblins/La Ronde de Lutins (Antonio Bazzini)
-The Four Seasons Suite (particularly, I enjoy the first movements of Winter and Summer, and Summer is fun to play for solo violin, for anyone who plays.), Violin Concerto in A minor (Antonio Vivaldi)
-Simple Symphony (Benjamin Britten)
-Danse Macabre, Bacchanale (Camille Saint-Saëns)
-In The Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg)
-Serenade for Strings in E minor (Edward Elgar)
-Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Tarantella (Franz Liszt)
-Badinerie, Revolutionary Etude, Butterfly Etude, Raindrops Prelude, Fantaisie Impromptu, Grand Valse Brillante, Minute Waltz (Frideric Chopin)
-The Barber of Seville Overture, The William Tell Overture (Gioacchino Rossini)
-The Planets Suite, The St. Paul's Suite (Gustav Holst)
-Csikos Post (Hermann Necke)
-Hungarian Dances (any of them), Double Concerto in A minor (Johannes Brahms)
-Two Part Inventions (No. 13 in A minor in particular), Fugue in G Minor the Great, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Johannes Sebastian Bach)
-5th and 9th Symphonies, Dies Irae, Turkish March, Tempest, Moonlight Sonata, Sonata Pathetique, Für Elise (Ludwig van Beethoven)
-24th Caprice (Nicolo Paganini)
-Tales from Scheherazade Suite, Flight of the Bumblebee (Nikolai Rimskij-Korsakov)
-The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Paul Dukas)
-Waltz of the Flowers, The Nutcracker Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
-Russian Sailors' Dance (Reinhold Moritzovich Glière)
-Ride of the Valkyries (Richard Wagner)
-Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber)
-Korobeiniki, Kalinka, and Korobushka (Traditional Russian, songs that everyone recognize as "Tetris" themes.)
-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Fantasia in D minor, Carmina Burana - O Fortuna, 2th and 40th Symphonies (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Palladio (Karl Jenkins, and not just 'cause of the damn diamond ring commercial! lol)
-The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods (Johann Strauss)
-Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Johann Strauss Jr.)
...Ok, so that was a lot more than just "some", but yeah. Anyway, I think these are all great, some are more mainstream than others, but you get the picture. :D

Greensleeves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ItNxpwChE

(though I like orchestral versions better I do not have any to share YET!)

I found the waltz from "Beware of the Car" online:

http://sandyber.spymac.com/audio/beware.mp3

I found the waltz from "Beware of the Car" online:

http://sandyber.spymac.com/audio/beware.mp3

That sounds like petrov. No? Yes?

I found the waltz from "Beware of the Car" online:

http://sandyber.spymac.com/audio/beware.mp3

Sounds great! Though to me, personally, I think its a bit light. Other Russian compositions I've heard were heavier with a darker tone to it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have only heard a limited amount of Russian Music.

That sounds like petrov. No? Yes?

Exactly! Andrey Petrov is my favorite film composer, and "Beware of the Car" is one of his most famous film scores (not to mention one of the highest-grossing films in Soviet history).

Puccini, La Boheme :)

Exactly! Andrey Petrov is my favorite film composer, and "Beware of the Car" is one of his most famous film scores (not to mention one of the highest-grossing films in Soviet history).

So three whole rubles then? .... I kid.

But we should take this thread as an opportunity to post moar good music, like you did.

I'll start the project. It's a little cliched but worth a listen.


Horowitz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh26Ui1TAmU)

I would have to say that a couple of my favorites are:

Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata', and the song 'Ave Maria'. I don't know who originally wrote this piece, but it is a beautiful piece of Classical Music.

EDIT: If you are Classically uneducated these links will aide you:

'Ave Maria' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=aQVz6vuNq7s) There are several versions of 'Ave Maria' but this one is fantastic.

'Moonlight Sonata' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck)

The links take you to a sight where you can here the songs/compostions

That Ave Maria is by Schubert, by the way.

Pines of Rome Rossini, some peices of Mahler's that I can never remember, Four Quartets Philip Glass, Different Trains Reich (probably spelled it wrong), Lacrymosa performed by the Kronos Quartet and Dawn Upshaw (can't remember the composer), Music for Two Prepared Pianos (or something like that} Cage, I can't think of any others right now that I would say are my 'favorites.'

Of the traditional cannon (aside from Rossini and Mahler) most of what Beethoven did, the Bach Cello Concertos...some other stuff. Richard Strauss...

The Pines of Rome is by Respighi, not Rossini. You're about 80 years too early! Good piece, though, as are some of those others.

-Waltz from "Beware of the Car", Andrey Petrov
-Mazurka from "Masquerade", Aram Khachaturian
-Nocturne, Alexander Borodin
-Carnival des Animeaux, Camile Saint-Saens
-Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune/Syrinx (both compositions), Debussy

I also like "The Moldau" by Bedrich Smetana, Symphony No. 1 from Shostakovich's "Age of Gold, and the waltz from Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky

So, those are my favorites.

Some good pieces there, especially the Shostakovich and the Debussy.

and this particular Ave Maria (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck)

You mean Gounod's version, or Bobby Mcferrin's performance of it?


Anyway, my favourites....hmm....a few too many to name all. I'll try keeping it concise:

Shostakovich - pretty much anything, especially 1st,5th,9th,10th symphonies, piano concertos
Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice
Whitacre - Sleep
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (infact all 3 of the 1910-3 ballets are excellent)
Mussorgsky - Night on a bare mountain
Many Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin pieces. Also, I'm a great fan of choral music, pretty much from any age (Palestrina, Bach, Bruckner, Stanford, Walton, Britten, Whitacre)

I like Shostakovich, particularly his Symphony No.12.

Zadok the Priest- Handel
The 9th variation 'Nimrod' - Elgar
I was glad - Purcell
Triumpanth March -Verdi
anything by Berlioz
The Battle of Britian March -William Walton
My Ladye Nevells Brooke -William Byrd
Judas Maccabeus - Handel

I could fill up the entire forum with wonderful classical music, but I'll try not to :p

As a pianist, there's a lot of piano/keyboard music in my list:

Bach 48, Goldberg Variations and English Suites
Beethoven, piano sonatas, esp the Appassionata, the Pastoral, and the last one in C minor
Schubert, Wanderer Fantasie and the impromptus, esp D899 in A flat (this impromptu is responsible for me playing the piano)
Schumann, Kriesleriana
Granados, Goyescas
Lizst, Concert Study no 3, Un Sospiro and no 11 from Transcendental Studies (Evening Harmonies)
Shostakovic, symphony no 7 "The Seige of Leningrad" (I saw / heard an amazing performance of this at the Barbican with the LSO and Rostropovic - just wow).
Cesar Frank, Symphonic Variations
Lecuona, San Francisco El Grande
Grieg, Peer Gynt Suites and Holberg Suite
Smetana, Ma Vlast
Dvorak, New World Symphony
Bruckner, Symphony no 8
Purcell, Dido and Aenaes, esp "When I am laid in earth" - it's exactly the right sentiment, in my opinion. "Remember me, but forget my fate"

and more... :)

just a thought - if anybody is interested in discovering more classical music, I can recommend this radio show: http://www.classicfm.com/article.asp?id=227085.

It's David Mellor (yes, I know, but he really knows his stuff when it comes to music and makes it very approachable) starting with a well known piece and moving on to lesser known ones, either by the same composer, or in a similar style etc.

It is sad...no one appreciates the beauty of the music written by Classical artists like Bach, Mozart and Beethevon. What has the world come to?
I don't think their popularity is waning -- you're just in the wrong place to discuss them. When we go to see a concert in Atlanta, there aren't many open seats. And how many civic and church orchestras are there? Quite a few if Metro Atlanta is any indicator.

Beethoven's 9th, 5th, and 3rd symphonies, his Grosse Fuga, and various piano sonatas.

I demure on the no Mozart thing. Mozart wrote some most excellent pieces.Mozart was a sissy making sissy music. Too infantile for me. Sorry.

Pity, no Mozart. I agree with you on Bach, everything he wrote was genius. What do you mean by 'and this particular' and then the Ave Maria link?I like the Bach prelude, but I don't like the Gounod Ave Maria, except in this performance ;)
I also like the Ave Maria by Schubert a lot.

Pines of Rome Rossini, some peices of Mahler's that I can never remember, Four Quartets Philip Glass, Different Trains Reich (probably spelled it wrong), Lacrymosa performed by the Kronos Quartet and Dawn Upshaw (can't remember the composer), Music for Two Prepared Pianos (or something like that} Cage, I can't think of any others right now that I would say are my 'favorites.'

Of the traditional cannon (aside from Rossini and Mahler) most of what Beethoven did, the Bach Cello Concertos...some other stuff. Richard Strauss...

Meh, I liked Roman Festivals better. And it's by Respighi, not Rossini. But they're both Italian and their names sound similar, so I guess nobody really cares.

Probably the second movement of beethoven's seventh symphony. Or the Waldstein sonata.

Then again there are a lot of Chopin Waltzes that I really like.

Cowboy: Hey, is that "Old Dog Tray"? Sounds like "Old Dog Tray".
Doc: What?
Cowyboy: You know, Stephen Foster. Oh, Susanna. "Camptown Races", Stephen-stinkin'-Foster!
Doc: I see, well this happens to be a nocturne.
Cowboy: A which?
Doc: You know, Frederic-fucking-Chopin.

Mozart was a sissy making sissy music. Too infantile for me. Sorry.

Listen to his Clarinet Concerto in A - it's one of my favorite pieces, both as a performer and a listener. Other favorites include Beethoven's 9th Symphony (I know, I know) and pretty much anything by Shostakovitch. Generally my tastes run towards more Romantic and Classical composers, rather than Baroque or more modern works, but there are exceptions. Vivaldi's 4 Seasons is beautiful, as is Holst's The Planets.

The Pines of Rome is by Respighi, not Rossini. You're about 80 years too early! Good piece, though, as are some of those others.


Goddamit...I knew that, too. I don't know why I put down Rossini...fuck that's embarrassing...

Depends on the mood and the performer.

On beautiful summer days, I tend to get Maria Callas as Bizet's Carmen in my head.

When I'm making love, Pachelbel's Canon.

When I'm riding downhill at unsafe speeds, Weber's Requiem.

Coming home around 7am after a heavy night of clubbing, there's nothing quite like lying back on the sofa to some Handel's Water Music.


Regarding the thread title - Why do people keep abbreviating etcetera to ect? It's etc.