Since around 2007, a friend of mine has been getting me into serious classical music. And as my name suggests, I am a Buxtehude fan, but I'd say my favourites are:-

1. Handel: Zadok the Priest
2. Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
3. Bach: St John's Passion (esp. Es ist Vollbracht)
4. Orff: Carmina Burana
5. Allegri: Misere

I make a point of listening to The Early Music Show on Radio 3 on Saturdays, these days.

Also, on a recent trip to Rochester cathedral one Saturday, the Choral Evensong featured Zadok the Priest on the pipe organ... Lovely Can't beat a bit of Ton Koopman, either

'just one cornetto' is a decent track

Copland. Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring
Lascia Ch’io Pianga - Handel (Rinaldo)
Four Sea Interludes Brittan
Cantate Monteverdi
Cello Concerto in E Minor Elgar
In Trutina - Orff (from Carmina Burana) (and all of it)
When I Am Laid In Earth ('Dido's Lament') Purcell
What is Life. Orfeo ed Euridice. Gluck.
I Know that my Redeemer Liveth. Messiah. Handel
Stravinsky Rites of Spring
Gershwin. Rhapsody in Blue
Mendelssohn Hebrides
Lark Ascending/Folk Songs Suite Vaughan Williams
Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne (sung by Kiri)
Sea Pictures Elgar (sung by Janet Baker)
Elizabethan Serenade

Some of my faves, too.

I think I'm going to get my Messiah disc out


Last edited by Buxtehude : 06-10-2009 at 14:25

Barber's Adagio For Strings, I feel like I am melting in to the chair when I play the cd and the album I have has a vocal version to. I love this music.

Bach's Fugue
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries

Mozart - Jupiter Symphony
Beethoven - Symphony #6
Beethoven - Symphony #9
Bach - Jesu, joy of man's desiring
Albinoni - Oboe concerto #2
Schubert - Symphony #8 ("unfinished")
Haydn - symphony #94 ("surprise")

I love the odd bit of classical, however im not overly clued up on the majority of it. However, Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons has got to be one of my absolute favourites, just stunning. Also love Camille Saint-Saens, The Aquarium.

Chopin Nocturnes
All good but 1, 8 & 3 are probably my faves.

1. Mahler: Symphony No.6
2. Mahler Symphony No.9
3. Mahler Symphony No.8
3. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
5. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
6. Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
8. Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
9. Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazaurus
10. Finzi: Introit
11. Britten: War Requiem
12. Elgar: Cello concerto
13. Elgar: The Spirit of England
14. Bruckner: Symphony No.9
15. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
16. Barber: Adagio for Strings
17. Nielsen: Symphony No.5
18. Nyman: Memorial
19. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
20. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis