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Old 03-07-2011, 11:34
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Or the piece that made you fall in love with Classical music?

For me Canon in D- Pachelbel. Here. It is so simple, yet so beautiful, you could imagine angels playing it.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:37
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"Morning" from Grieg's "Peer Gynt suite" is my favourite. I quite like listening to this version.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:38
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ach too many to mention, but this one made me pick up the guitar

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Old 03-07-2011, 11:40
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I Don't know if I have an all-time favourite, but I quite like Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8LL1x6J2rU
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:42
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Part of Elgars 1st symphony. Its quite a famous bit of music although I can not find a link for that part as I do not know which movement it is. if anyone could help I would be grateful. It actually makes me cry (being the soft sh*t I am)
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:42
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I love Crown Imperial by William Walton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WMrQe87gRk

Written especially for the 1937 coronation.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:44
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and you can't go wrong with mozart

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Old 03-07-2011, 11:44
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fur elise.

played by her.

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Old 03-07-2011, 11:46
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Part of Elgars 1st symphony. Its quite a famous bit of music although I can not find a link for that part as I do not know which movement it is. if anyone could help I would be grateful. It actually makes me cry (being the soft sh*t I am)
Enigma Variations is my favourite by him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsw4IhZ_uQ0
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:47
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A bit classic-poppy but Vaughan-Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis does it for me. As does his The Lark Ascending. And much more by various English composers. They have more of an effect on me than any from another country however much I might enjoy their music.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:48
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Countdown to when the thread will be moved to the appropriate forum ... 5.......4......3.....2....

Before that happens, I'll take the opportunity to add my favourite piece which is .. Bruckner's Locus Iste.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:49
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Thanks fo the link but thats not the tune. I think they have used it in a lot of war documentaries and films.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:49
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Heil Dir, Sonne! Heil Dir, Licht!
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:50
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Ein Deutsches Requiem and from that Denn alles fleisch.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:52
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Thanks fo the link but thats not the tune. I think they have used it in a lot of war documentaries and films.
Here's the whole of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXypj...eature=related

It is in four movements:

I. Andante. Nobilmente e semplice
II. Allegro molto
III. Adagio
IV. Lento — Allegro

The symphony is in a cyclic form: the incomplete "nobilmente" theme from the first movement returns in the finale for a complete grandioso statement after various transformations throughout the work.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:52
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"Für Elise." Beautiful and haunting


And Hummelflug , Flight of the bumble bee .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:58
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufuW3-f_Vp0

From 1:27 to 4:15

Beautiful.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:58
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"Für Elise." Beautiful and haunting
An integral of Timescape, one of my favourtie films (even if it was made for TV!)
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:58
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"Für Elise." Beautiful and haunting


And Hummelflug , Flight of the bumble bee .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE
Beethoven's Fur Elise is one of the few classical pieces that I can actually play with any finesse on the piano. A lovely choice imho.
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Old 03-07-2011, 11:59
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I grew up with Placido Domingo's version of this.

Always was a fan of Jose Carreras, though - voice more old-school. Bit more subtle.

But I prefer Rolando Villazon's voice. E Lucevan le stelle, esp this voice. (Can't find it with pretty moving pictures)

O Suave Fanciulla with my favourite tenor and soprano. Don't get much better than this (ropey on YouTube but amazing on TV).

My dad was a classical musician so it was never a case of 'falling in love' with music - grew up with Rachmaninov and Chopin being played 'live' all the time in our front room! (At one point he had the piano in the kitchen, which was even better). Opera was my thing though from when I was 9 and my mum took me to see a production of 'Tales of Hoffman'.
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:10
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Beethoven's violin concerto
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:12
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The overture to Mozart's late opera 'Die Zauberflöte' (The Magic Flute) was probably the first piece of classical music that absolutely blew me away and which also made me realise that here was a genre that was superior to every other art form on the planet. 24 years later and I'm still in awe of Mozart's sheer genius and for me he remains the single greatest artist in the history of the planet.

My favourite piece changes pretty much from month to month. On the Classical Music thread in the Music forum I recently said that it was the violin concerto by Sibelius but there are many things I regarded as personal favourites. The adagio molto e cantabile from Beethoven's 9th symphony is high on the list. 'Cosi Fan Tutte' is nothing but the most exquisite work of art from beginning to end (e.g. the so-called Wedding Canon from Act Two).

But if had to choose one single piece at gunpoint it would probably be the opening allegro from Mozart's Symphony in D major, No. 38. (K504). From an intellectual, technical and emotional perspective it is extraordinary, even by Mozart's high standards. You could write a book about this movement alone and still not get to the answer of how Mozart actually did it, how he managed to throw together something so complex and make it sound so easy. Every note is right. Every touch of orchestration is perfect and it is stuffed full of intricate counterpoint. For me this is what makes Mozart a greater composer than Beethoven. With Beethoven you're aware of the human effort involved in the process of composition even if the results often sound super-human. Mozart makes the hardest things sound like child's play, and IMO that takes a calibre of genius that is exceptionally special.

The allegro of the D major symphony begins at 02.34 in the video here (there's an expansive slow introduction first).

Part two continues here.

There are so many subtle details and touches that flash by in a split second that it's almost impossible for the mind to keep up with the pace of Mozart's invention. And there's so much power and energy, and a tremendous impression of sheer strength. It really is one of the greatest masterworks in music. I've heard it hundreds of times and it never fails to dazzle both the mind and the ear. Incidentally, one of the themes is very similar to the main theme in the overture to Die Zauberflöte.
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:14
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Recondita armonia
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:23
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Ah, and it's been shunted off into the inferno of the Music forum, to drown amongst the bleatings about Adele and Gaga and other people who won't even be remembered in 20 years time let alone 250. What a shame.
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:45
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Ah, and it's been shunted off into the inferno of the Music forum, to drown amongst the bleatings about Adele and Gaga and other people who won't even be remembered in 20 years time let alone 250. What a shame.
LOL. Maybe they'll learn summat.

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