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What’s your favorite piece of “Classical” music?
Mine is the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, composed in 1960.
Following along with the score allows one to see the efficient brilliance of his musical language and the intertwining phrases that couldn’t have been written in any other way. But there’s nothing like watching four musicians hacking away at this piece. It’s the kind of hoe down that brings one to tears.
Considering that our planet is careening towards a third world war, it’s worth noting that above the score’s title Shostakovich himself wrote a dedication.
“To the memory of the victims of fascism and war”
So what’s your favorite piece of Classical music?
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Rachmaninov
Here’s another Saint Saens. Not my favourite piece as such but Heifetz’ playing is da bomb! 💣
By ‘Classical’ I assume this means a broad definition including all formally composed orchestral music rather than specifically music from the Classical Period.
Not sure I have a favorite, but recently I have really enjoyed listening to Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Violin.
Tie between Beethoven’s Symphony 3 and Symphony 9.
Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto.
Stravinski's "Le Scare du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring)
or
Prokofiev's "Romeo of Juliet"
depending on my mood.
Hmm, don’t really have a top favorite, but If Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is considered classical I’d say it’s near the top. I use to play trumpet in orchestras and especially loved when we played anything by Claude Debussy.
Another „not my favorite piece“, but Hilary Hahn is my favorite violinist...
On topic: Wagner‘s Rhinegold, in particular the 7minute crescendo of the intro, one of the best pad sounds ever.
No ultimate favorite but this comes close…
Oh yeah... Did you see the John Boorman movie "Zardoz"... the score features this theme throughout to great effect.
It’s interesting that music is one of the few art forms where watching the performer/music creator adds to the artistic experience. It’s because of the direct expression of emotion/feeling through vibrations that does it. We watch dance, but it is the movement we observe, not the course of feelings that runs side by side with the expression.
Have to add this beauty…
No single favourite here (and also assuming you are meaning ‘orchestral/choral’ music) but a list would have to include Bach - maybe even just the C major Prelude for its beauty and simplicity. No, wait, all the violin concertos as well. Then perhaps Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Or the Dvorak violin concerto or the Seventh Symphony. Hmm, now that I start to think the list is expanding after than I can type. Adam Taylor’s ‘We Can Stay’ from the Handmaid’s Tale. Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel. Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and the Fifth Symphony. Rimsky Korsakoff’s Scheherezade. Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto. Philip Glass’ piano works - or Mishima. Fauré’s Requiem. I can’t keep going or my day is blown.
But for me, not Beethoven at all and frankly not much else from the nineteenth century. Not a lot of piano concertos or string quartets. No opera (my sister is an opera singer so maybe I’ve heard enough).
It’s all so wonderfully personal.
Nothing else like it. An incredible piece of music.
Prokofiev R&J is right at the top for me as well. When I was 16 my parents took me to London during school break and we happened to catch the Royal Ballet’s R&J. I couldn’t believe the finale where Juliet is dead but they were still dancing a choreographed duet with her lifeless body. I wept for days. Years later when I was in college and playing guitar in a rock band, the last song in our set always ended with Juliet’s death music and me playing the melody with really fast picking but slow line until all my strings broke. End of set.
Who is your sister? (Maybe I know her)
I think this is a great observation and I’ll add to it that music has a built-in sense of loss.
To explain what I mean, consider standing in front of a painting, or a sculpture, and looking at it. You can do this for hours, learning more and more about it as you do.
With music, the moment you hear any one part of it, it’s gone. That beautifully crunchy semi-tonal dissonance that touched your soul? Gone. Finished, leaving you aching to get it back.
For me, this is the core of why music is so powerful. There are other aspects of course: it’s the only art form that makes you want to move bits of your body. It’s cooperative like no other art form (unless you’re a solo artist or a bedroom musician). But this built-in sense of loss drives its emotional impact.
Discuss.
Aram Khachaturian Gayane Suite No. 3: IV Adagio. Never been a better piece of music paired with sci-fi movies! Plays in 2001: a space odyseey and Aliens.
I would have gone with the ninth up until two years ago when i saw the local orchestra play the seventh and was blown away. Still, the ninth is a staggering accomplishment for one human being to create.
I don’t care how played out it is, the theme that comes about 10 minutes in is the most noble and beguiling piece of music ever written.
Bach's Chaconne from the Partita for Solo Violin in D minor. In particular Hopkinson Smith's arrangement for lute. There are two recorded versions I've found of it. The newer one is recorded better, but I love his playing on this version,
My apologies if my choice takes the thread into a slightly less serious direction
Flight of the Bumblebee
Very unlikely. She’s lived in Germany all her professional life and they have an orchestra, a theatre and an opera company on every street corner.
Which is fantastic, of course! But she’s one of many and is now, in effect, retired. Just does guest solo gigs.
Bach Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Major, BWV 1061
First movement:
Second movement:
Third movement:
Any of these:
Mozart, 40th Symphony, 2nd Movement
Beethoven Violin Sonata No.9.Op.47."Kreutzer"
Petrushka by Stravinsky.
Daphnis et Chloe by Ravel (if you like the 3 great Stravinsky ballets you will like this)
Eclogue by Gerald Finzi (a beautiful slow piano and strings piece in the great British pastoral tradition)
The bit at 7:03 always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. So so good