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Favorite Classical Music Piece


I know it obvious but I'm going with this..https://youtu.be/Hu7hscHkfPw

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Satie's Gymnopedie #2
Debussy's "Claire De Lune"

and other stuff by Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven... I've been wanting to expand my classical music library, but I seem to like a particular kind.... Slow tempo, minor key, melancholic, piano and violin. I never liked the happy Nutcracker shit. I don't like happy music in general... I usually like dramatic music when it comes to 60/70s prog rock, but not so much with classical, unless it's something from "Barry Lyndon"

It's so damn hard to remember all the SONGS with such similar titles.. Nocturne in G#minor, etc etc.

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Love Gymnopedie. Makes me picture a lonely monk wrapping himself against the cold on his way to quiet solitary study.

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A very popular number, with it's quirky under statement.
I think more of a Bare Trees vibe, walking in winter, observing the landscape alone.
But also pleasant, like you could share it with someone. Winter coats arm-in-arm.

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I've always been fond of Claire the Loony.

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Bugs Bunny and the Barber of Seville

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Even more than “Kill the Wabbit!”?

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Bugs was better than Alfalfa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKkJAu16yJ0

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I can't pick just one
Scheherazade - Rimsky Korsakov (I think 3rd movement is my fav?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y

Some Gershwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLTManObB40

12th symphony - Dmitri Shostakovich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srh97TbXN8A

This arrangement of Fac ut portem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgHhIS2xow

Beethoven
7th 2nd movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHxmAsINDk&t=2s
or
9th 4th movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChygZLpJDNE

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Just thought of more
Largo from Xerxes - Handel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMlxM69ZJFA

Bach Cello suite 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQLXRTl3Z0

Something more modern
Benedictus - Karl Jenkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibwxzxER_pY

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Vivaldi's Four Seasons

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I own three

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Connecticut Early Music Festival Ensemble
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni - Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque
The Four Seasons: The Vivaldi Album - Anne Akiko Meyers, English Chamber Orchestra & David Lockington

All great, the Connecticut Early Music Festival Ensemble is probably my favorite of the three.

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My favorite was on an old cassette tape. I have never found its equal. The data on the tape was worn off in my teens when I didn't think twice about the possibility that this was the best and worth writing down. Closest to that quality that I have found was by Il Giardino Armonico.

I love everything by Vivaldi.

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He made some good music with Frankie Valli. :-)

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Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the whole of the Mozart Requiem.

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I own two Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik & Posthorn Serenade - Sir Charles Mackerras, Prague Chamber Orchestra
Mozart: Serenades & Divertimenti - Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

I have a special fondness for the Prague Chamber Orchestra one because it is one of the very first CDs I ever bought, way back in 1986.

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Many years ago I obtained a free copy of the Cambridge Buskers doing EKN. Kind of a novelty item, but done with great affection.

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Antonio Vivaldi - Winter Concert, Norway, Mari Samuelsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQDZ623uWSw


This one's not classical but it is a great orchestra piece. Same amazing violinist as the first one posted.

November (Live from the Forbidden City, Beijing / 2018) Mari Samuelsen – Max Richter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jinOTQ9BaU

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So many that I love, but Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is one of my favorites. The first time I ever heard it was when I was a child at a planetarium and it sent chills up and down my spine.

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i'll throw in Carl Orff's carmina burana. though it feels boring as o fortuna is seemingly in everything moviewise but the london orchestra shreds it.
https://youtu.be/d801fHGW1yk?t=380
(starting at Fortune plango vulnera)

Dvořák: The Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
https://youtu.be/O_tPb4JFgmw?t=1745

P.Tchaikovsky Suite from the ballet "Swan Lake"
https://youtu.be/OSVSlddJMn8

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