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Copeland's "Appalachian Spring" Any Bach, especially the "Little Fugue" and "Air for the G String" Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" Gershwin's "Rapsody in Blue" (if that counts) I also like Mozart, though not as much as most people do. Beethoven is good too.
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That's so hard. I don't have a favorite anymore.
I think Mozart was non pareil, anything he ever wrote.
Wagner is completely off my list now although I used to like his music.
The only thing I like about Beethoven is the Ode to Joy.
Cherubini's Requiem Mass
Faure's Requiem Mass
Various things by Mendelsohn
I like narrative ballet music (favorite: Sleeping Beauty)
Smetana (because anyone whose bday you were born on has to make your favorites list unless you were born on someone like Hitler's b'day): The Moldau (the first piece I ever loved )
Puccini: Turandot
and lots of others I just can't think of just now.
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Me too - only on Moonlight I did only the (relatively easy) first part, and From my favorite list I also did part 1 of Pathetique.
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I love Moonlight Sonata. My sister used to play it on the piano quite a bit at home. I miss hearing her play. Posts: 2149 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Interesting timing, I just finished a semester of Music Appreciation 101, and had to do a write up on 10 compositions.
My favorites we listened to this year:
From the Baroque period - it doesn't get better than Handel's Messiah. Yes, I know we hear the Hallelujah chorus every year, but it's just amazingly beautiful.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons, especially Spring Even though you hear it all the time on the Weather Channel, it's still wonderful music.
The Classical period didn't really appeal to me all that much.
The Romantic period, I loved. Chopin's piano music, Tchaikovsky's ballet music, and Brahm's.
I have to agree with amira on Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini That was wonderful.
My favorite piece we listened to in the entire course was Smetana's Moldau Perhaps it's just my Bohemian ancestry coming out - my grandfather was of Bohemian descent.
Twentieth Century art music I can take or leave. Mostly leave.
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So how many years does it take to get to classic? Cars it’s like 20-30 right? So 40 years should cover it right? (Somehow I doubt it, but I’ll still put in my favorite)
I have been avoiding this thread. I can't possibly narrow anything down, I like so many compositions for so many reasons. I'm an instrumental music listening nerd, a choral music conducting and teaching nerd, and a solo music listening, studying and singing nerd. There's no way to narrow down favorites.
Ahem. Maybe I'll list 3-4 of my favorite CDs. Yeah. I'll do that!
I've given this CD as a gift no less than 5 times simply because I think that everyone should own a copy. And I know that it's music that everyone can relate to and enjoy. He is one of the most talented contemporary composers out there and I promise that you'll love his stuff. He sets the most beautiful poetry too, some Octavio Paz, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinsen, and Charles Anthony Sylvestri.
It's cruel for me to ask myself to pick one CD, but I actually listen to this one purely for fun and driving, so I figured I'd better suggest it. Respighi was not a composer in the "Ancient Airs and Dances" time period. He was much later. Yet he writes in the old style and comes up with some delightful pieces. I love them all!!
This CD has more than Berlioz, but it is all French composers. Some of my absolute favorite compositions by Ravel, Debussy, and Poulenc are also on this CD, sung by one of the silkiest and most fantastic mezzo sopranos voices that God ever gave to anyone. Get this if you love the sexy French style, get it if you love Debussy...I promise, you'll like it.
Sorry. I totally derailed your thread, but now I feel better. Cleansed.
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I really like Leopold Stokowski's orchestral arrangement of Bach's Tocatta and Fugue. (It's the one they use as the first piece in Disney's Fantasia.
I also like Beethoven's 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th symphonies and Fur Elise.
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I don't know names of some of the pieces I like.
Tocatta and Fugue, Fur Elise, Flight of the Bumblebee, (whats the name of the Beethoven one that became a song in the mid-50's "How Gentle is the Rain" or something like that) Rhapsody in Blue, Bolero, several others that I just don't know names. Sometimes I'll tune in the "classical" channel in hopes of being able to identify one or two - or of finding new-to-me pieces to like.
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So many too many to name Like, various operas... Mendolsohn's Heberdes overture, Faure's Dolly Suite, Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor. So many!
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