What is your fav piece of classical music.....?!
Question: one that really works your emotions.
Answers: one that really works your emotions.
moonlight sonata
Holt's The Planets.
Dvorak New World Symphony.
What America could have been.
some of the newer remakes are interesting..
william orbit.. addagio for strings
rob d . clubb'd to death (as used in the matrix) based on barber..
various things I like.. depends on my mood =)
adagio for strings by samuel barber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyD...
either this version:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=etHOFmFF3FA
or this version:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A5jplg3i_hQ
they're really great.
Bach - Air on a G String
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZXM2eq46...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz2yvL8Q1...
Well Beethoven's immortal "to Joy"( "An Freude" in Deutsch) from his 9th Symphony...
One of the most uplifting pieces of music ever composed....although he only wrote the music... the words are by Friedrich Schiller.
e.g. (Translated!)
Joy, thou source of light immortal,
Daughter of Elysium!
Touched with fire, to the portal,
Of thy radiant shrine, we come.
Your sweet magic, frees all others,
Held in custom's rigid rings,
All men on earth become brothers,
In the haven of your wings. ......
Olivier Messiaen; La vierge et l'enfant - from La Nativité du Seigneur (1935)...but tomorrow it'll be summat different - maybe Jehan Alain, or Buxtehude. I know I'm a boring old fart for not mentioning the usual pieces played almost continuously on Classic FM...y'know the ones - Barber/Wagner/Beethoven/Bach....and the newies - William Orbit, etc., played basically for the short-attention dearies within the M25, but there is music out there which is hardly (or never, on Classic FM) played - indeed, the only time you'd hear something from, say, the ages of voice, around the 15th century wouldhave been either at school, or in continental Europe on holiday.
I never listen to classical but the other day there was an ad on tv late at night advertising some mp3 player for sale.
The deal included 300 odd free classical songs at no extra cost.
I could'nt believe that most of the demos that they played were so well known. The add was on for about 20mins..
There were a good few classical tracks that i knew so well but had no idea who sang them up until now.
Morning from the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg