A question for all classical music listeners?!
Question: can you reccomend something for me? i like classical music and i listen ocassionaly. but i have just started developing a taste for it, so please suggest some of the most popular peices.
Answers: can you reccomend something for me? i like classical music and i listen ocassionaly. but i have just started developing a taste for it, so please suggest some of the most popular peices.
I don't agree with some of the answers.... you mentioned you just started to develop a taste for it... so I am going to recommend music that is universal and I know you will love and from there on you can keep on experimenting.
BEETHOVEN-5th Piano concerto\
BEETHOVEN- "Pastorale" Symphony
VIVALDI- The 4 seasons
CHOPIN- 1st Piano concerto
BRAHMS- 2nd Piano concerto
MOZART- Jupiter Symphony
MOZART- Don Giovanni Overture
BACH- all the BRANDENBURG Concertos
ELGAR- Cello concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY- Violin concerto
hope this helps and welcome to the world of Classical music.. you are here to stay I am sure..
have fun
My personal favorite is Beethoven's 7th, second movement,
But as a whole, Vivaldi 4 Seasons is good.
If you like chillout/piano music, then Ludovico Einaudi is a contemporary classical composer. You can just drift away listening to his stuff.
I also love the Planets Suite by Gustav Holst, any of Tchaikovsky's ballets, Gabriel Faure's Dolly Suite and Handel's Water Music.
Have fun exploring music! :)
I think that the four symphonies written by Brahms are the most beautiful orchestral music ever written.
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is absolutely beautiful and peaceful
Pachebel's "Canon in D" is a very pretty one that's quite popular. I'm sure you'll have heard it before.
and of course there's the ever famous "Fur Elise" by Beethoven
Take a look at these massive best of classical music collections. Please note that these types of primers sometimes only include parts of whole pieces, but it's a good way to learn names of composers and some of their most popular works
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Classical-...
http://www.amazon.com/Masterpieces-Class...
http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Masterpi...
My personal suggestions of popular pieces
Bach -Goldberg Variations
Mozart -Horn Concertos (Dennis Brain is my favorite soloist)
Haydn -String Quartet No. 62
Beethoven -Symphony # 7
Schubert -Winterreise
Brahms -Symphony # 2
Richard Strauss - Till Eugenspiel
Stravinsky -Petroushka
ARVO PART
Te Deum
Arbos
Fratres
De Profundis
Spiegl im Spiegl
CARL OFF
Carmina Burana "O Fortuna"
RAVEL
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Jeux d'eau
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
BACH
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Prelude in A minor
Chaconne (from partita in d minor)
St. Matthew Passion
St. John Passion
Magnificat in D major
Concerto in D minor for Two Violins
BEETHOVEN
Appassionata, Opus 57 in F minor
Parts of Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 5
Piano Concerto No. 4
Fur Elise
Moonlight Sonata
Pathetique Sonata
Tempest Sonata
Waldstein Sonata
BERLIOZ
Symphony Fantastique (fifth movement)
BRAHMS
Shicksaslied
CHOPIN
Fantasie Impromptu
Prelude in E minor
DVORAK
9th Symphony
GRIEG
Piano Concerto in A minor
HANDEL
Israel in Egypt
The Messiah
JOHN WILLIAMS
any of his major film scores
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Sinfonia Antarctica
Dona Nobis Pacem
JOHN RUTTER
Requiem
Gloria
WAGNER
Der Ring Des Nibelungen (consisting of: Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung)
Parsifal
Lohengrin
Tristan und Isolde
The Flying Dutchman
VIVALDI
Violin suite L'estro armonico
The Seasons
RACHMANINOV
Any of the Rachmaninov preludes (especially the minor ones)
Any of the piano concerti
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major (especially the second movement)
Fire of Eternal Glory (in major but somewhat sad)
Festive Fanfare
MUSSORGSKY
Paintings at an Exhibition
Night on Bald Mountain
DUKAS
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker
Swan Lake
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 6
PROKOFIEV
Peter and the Wolf
MOZART
Don Giovanni
The Magic Flute
The Marriage of Figaro
Coronation Mass
Waisenhaus Mass
Alma Dei Creatoris
Requiem Mass
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Symphony 40
Symphony 41
Piano Concerto No. 23
HAYDN
Insanae et Vanae Curae (does not sound like his music, but guaranteed it is him!)
Joke String Quartet
Bird String Quartet
Symphony No. 94
HOLST
The Planets
Beethoven's 6th symphony...The Pastoral
Tchaikovsky......The Nutcracker
Rodrigo's guitar concerto ....Concierto de Aranjuez
Mozart Horn concertos , numbers 1 to 4
Tchaikovsky's violin concerto
Anything by Chopin for the piano
Anything by Fernando Sor for the guitar
All the above can be seen on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQpi9-RB...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2KkA1Jl...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJnLS4fbK...
Rimsky-Korsekov Cappricio Espagnol is really cool, as is Finlandia (Jean Sebelius), and English Folk Song Suite (R. Vaughn Williams).