Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyy34u7B4Zc

Beethoven - Symphony No 7 part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4

Debussy - Clair de Lune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI

Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre

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

An excellent selection. I found the Litolff: "Scherzo" in the opening credits to the 1963 film "Billy Liar".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbujIWb_6E

Can anyone identify the song between 2:22 and 3:00 minutes into the film, it might have been Mrs Richie's favourite tune but what is it? Unfortunately the presenter doesn't tell us.

Edward Elgar - Nimrod

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhnMd1Jl7SA
Pure Bliss

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique" is one of my favourites. Not what you'd call 'light' though
It's on a grand scale and hugely emotional.

Niice selection.

Especially Tchaikovsky ‘The Nutcracker’

It is The Nun's Chorus from Johann Strauss II's Casanova

I knew all along that it was 'The Something Chorus', and thought the singer was either Kathleen Ferrier or Joan Sutherland

After extensive searching on the interweb yesterday through (mainly) the works of Verdi and Rossini, I gave up and decided to 'sleep on it'.

I woke knowing not only the work but also the singer who is of course Gracie Fields.

Her version (as in Billy Liar) is amongst the 50 or so on iTunes - search "Gracie Fields Nuns Chorus" into YT for a different version.

I'm going to include some modern classical as well

Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

Gassenhauer - Carl Orff

18th Variation - Rachmaninov

I never get tired of these.

Greensleves and this

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

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata I don't think that's its offical name but it's what I've always called it and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Ah, a thread for serious music.

Erbarme Dich from the St. Matthew Passion
Prelude to Act III of Tristan Und Isolde (and the Liebstod)
The adagio of Beethoven's 15th String Quartet
The opening movement of Bruckner's 4th symphony (And all of his 7th, 8th and 9th symphonies)
Sibelius's 7th Symphony
Janacek's 2nd String Quartet
Winterreise by Franz Schubert (And his String quintet)
First movement of Beethoven's 6th (And all of the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th of course)
Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 3
Elgar's Cello concerto
The Tallis Fantasia
The scherzo from Dvorak's 9th
Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem
Stravinsky's Symphony Of Psalms

Have recently acquired Ian Bostridge singing "The English Songbook"...

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


If I had to pick one piece it would be between Bruckner's 8th Adagio and the Beethoven String Quartet Adagio

I'd probably go for The Planets Suite. Also Dance Of The Knights.

Got an album by legendary drummer Cozy Powell,"Over The Top",the title track uses part of the 1812 Overture as its base.

I have too many to pick a single favourite. I would include:

Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights from the ballet Romeo and Juliet

Prokofiev's Troika from Lieutenant Kijé

Camille Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre

Khachaturian's Sabre Dance

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (this is the organ version by Otto Winter) and here's Vanessa Mae's version

Stravinsky's score for the ballet The Firebird (Inferno Dance)

Delibes' Pizzicato from the ballet Sylvia
Delibes' Mazurka from the ballet Coppelia

Carl Orff's Oh Fortuna from Carmina Burana

Paul Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain

Saint-Saen's Carnival of the Animals The Swan

Bach´s Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1

Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D

Gustaf Holst's Planet Suite Jupiter Bringer of Jollity

Antonin Dvorak's 9th symphony ("From the New World"), 2nd movement "Largo"

Elgar's Nimrod from Enigma Variations

Johann Sebastian Bach's 3rd Orchestral Suites Air on a G String

Debussy "Clair de Lune"

Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante Defunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess)

Ravel's Bolero

Schubert's Ave Maria from the Opera based on Sir Walter Scott's epic poem The Lady of the Lake

Tchaikovsky - anything, but specially his ballet scores like the Sleeping Beauty Waltz or the Dance of the Swans from Swan Lake or the associated Dance of the Little Swans (Cignets) or his Allegro Moderato for violin

Rossini's William Tell Overture (finale)

Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries

Edvard Grieg's In The Hall Of Mountain King from Peer Gynt

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, op. 30

I could go on for hours but I'll finish with the master Sergei Rachmaninoff playing the first movement (Moderato) from his own Piano Concerto No 2

The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise - Michael Nyman

Schubert's Ava Maria gives me the chills.

But I guess the song in general just gives me goosebumps. Reminds me that I haven't been to church in about a year!