Fav piece of classical music

[fluffy]

ok i'm trying to add some culture what with poetry and classical music
but we have the 'what are you listening to thread'.
this is different what are you most beloved classical pieces??

i confess i adore REQUIEM. by Mozart.

played very loudly in a darkened environment it is absolutely awesome.

so let's share some culture.

Fluffy

[nicesock!]

I love Pacabels' Canon, Beethoven's 5th symphony, and anything by Handel.

[quirky]

Clair de Lune and the Moonlight Sonata.

[fluffy]

oh and i confess i adore really religious stuff.......you know monks singing their Vespers etc.........such a purity in their voices.....even though i don't understand what they are saying.............

Allegri's Miserere.................is just amazing.........it really is stunning
and this piece by John Tavener: Song For Athene (Alleluia. May Flights Of Angels Sing Thee To Thy Rest) ...........at the funeral for Princess Diana they played this and i was boardering on hysterical whilst watching.......not because of Diana particulary, but the music was just so awesome.....it could even melt 'Bubba''s heart.......... (a steroeotypical 'hard man'....)

and Barber's Adagio for strings ...(platoon....) gets me too..........

fluffy

[quirky]

I also love Grieg. Norway is one of my favorite countries. I got to spend a week in a cabin on Hardanger fjord on a trip with my parents and some family friends who owned the cabin. It was SO idyllic. I actually picked fresh blueberries off the side of a slope along the water and went out in a little boat fishing for mackerel with my dad. So perfect.

After the rustic week, we drove to Oslo, but we went to Bergen on the way and visited Grieg's home. And my father bought cassettes that had been recorded by an artist playing Grieg's music on Grieg's own piano.

So we drove through the countryside listening to them and let me tell you, that was some of the most beautiful scenery I'd ever seen. There were wildflowers bursting with color and sometimes you'd be on a road that seemed one-lane and to your right was just a sheer rocky drop-off straight into the ocean. I would have been terrified if I wasn't just transfixed by how beautiful all of it was.

I can hear "Wedding at Troldhaugen" in my head even as I reminisce.

[fluffy]

i very nearly went to live in Stavanger.........i consider it a narrow escape but i was amazed at how alike the North East of Scotland and Norway are............
no trolls living in the mountains here though........only escaped, wild Haggis

fluffs

and i love Faure's Requiem too................

[Canadian Jayne]

I love Pacabel too!
I like to listen to Classical usually on a Sunday.
I just makes the day seem different and special.
Quiet, calm, refreshing music.

[fluffy]

HHHmmm............a Sunday in the garden, the birds are singing the sun is streaming through the trees and you sit sipping a cold drink whilst reading the papers....and in the background some sublime classical music plays...............then friends come round for a light lunch.....
sounds pretty close to perfect......

fluffy

[lammy]

Sounds RELAXING.

[wonderbunny]

Fur d'elise (I'm not sure if I spelled it correctly)

[quirky]

I also love Grieg. Norway is one of my favorite countries. I got to spend a week in a cabin on Hardanger fjord on a trip with my parents and some family friends who owned the cabin. It was SO idyllic. I actually picked fresh blueberries off the side of a slope along the water and went out in a little boat fishing for mackerel with my dad. So perfect.

After the rustic week, we drove to Oslo, but we went to Bergen on the way and visited Grieg's home. And my father bought cassettes that had been recorded by an artist playing Grieg's music on Grieg's own piano.

So we drove through the countryside listening to them and let me tell you, that was some of the most beautiful scenery I'd ever seen. There were wildflowers bursting with color and sometimes you'd be on a road that seemed one-lane and to your right was just a sheer rocky drop-off straight into the ocean. I would have been terrified if I wasn't just transfixed by how beautiful all of it was.

I can hear "Wedding at Troldhaugen" in my head even as I reminisce.

Whoa, that was some stunningly unintentional poetry there.

[Clemmy]

I enjoy listening to Beethoven and Mozart. I also appreciate Ravel's Bolero -- this crescendo emanates lots of energy!

[Shadow Mancer]

I love all Classical music and movie orchestral scores (I even write my own orchestral music), but my all time favorite is Mozart's Requiem. I've sung it with a mass choir and orchestra three times as an Alto I, and know the entire score by heart. My favorite movements are the "Dies Ire" and the "Hostias."

Right now I'm in the process of composing my own "Requiem" Mass. I'm only on the first movement, the "Requiem" movement (the opening prayer). It's gonna take me awhile.

SHADOW MANCER

[Jimenem]

I'm a Pianist, and my favorites to play are Cannon Arr. by Nancy Faber, Oh my gosh it's one of those pieces you can just loose yourself in(playing or listening.) and mozarts operas, and concertos are Great too. Chopin, and Beethoven are also worthy of mention.

[Jimenem]

Ooooo!!! And ALL the music from Star Wars!!!!!! It is really cool too!!!!