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What is your favorite piece of classical music? (1 Viewer)

pretty much any Christmas song from trans siberian orchestra

 
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The Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle is pretty good. Give it a shot if you are interested in classical music. The Maestro is hilarious.

 
Brahms has a catalogue that's hard to beat. After the Requiem (which I contend as the greatest piece of music ever written), his 4th Symphony is unreal.

 
I went to a wedding recently that had the best wedding band I've ever seen. During the meal, a guitar player played quietly in the background and at one point did an amazing version of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No 1: One of my favorites and was really blown away by his version.

 
jamny said:
I went to a wedding recently that had the best wedding band I've ever seen. During the meal, a guitar player played quietly in the background and at one point did an amazing version of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No 1: One of my favorites and was really blown away by his version.
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Satie, DScarlatti's sonatas on piano & Bill Evans' solo piano work constitute 3/4 of the music i listen to anymore and 95% of what i write to.

ETA: I would have Chopin's Nocturnes among those too but have co-opted it for my vampire novel ("Dracula goes to Washington", more or less). Sometimes on the larger pieces, i groove to specific music - one was all acoustic marimba music, nothing but Mogwai for another, Bauhaus/Husker Du for the Roman a Clef of my gambling/ScaryMary years - to set a tone.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Satie, DScarlatti's sonatas on piano & Bill Evans' solo piano work constitute 3/4 of the music i listen to anymore and 95% of what i write to.
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I thought the stuff you write here was accompanied by Cecil Taylor's cats humping on the keyboard

 
rockaction said:
I honestly don't get it. 

Oh wow, I just looked that up. Interesting.  Allen is an interesting guy, to say the least.  
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there's an actual meaning to that?! now i don't get it. 

those words just popped into my head when i read your post cuz i know Allen loves the M4 like Alex did LvB9 and the presto's always had a Benny Hill feel to me

 
wikkidpissah said:
there's an actual meaning to that?! now i don't get it. 

those words just popped into my head when i read your post cuz i know Allen loves the M4 like Alex did LvB9 and the presto's always had a Benny Hill feel to me
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I googled Allen and Mendehlsson and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy came up in the results. And often. You know more than you think, wikkid. You're at one with the collective subconscious.  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084329/soundtrack

Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) in A Minor 
(1842) 
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Mendelssohn) 
Performed by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (as New York Philharmonic Orchestra) 
Courtesy of CBS Records 

Violin Concerto in E Minor, Opus 64 
(1844) 
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Mendelssohn) 
Performed by Vasil Stefanov (as Vassil Stefanov) and the TVR Symphony Orchestra 
Soloist Stoika Milanova 
Courtesy of Monitor Records 

Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Opus 40 
(1837) 
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Mendelssohn) 
Performed by Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra (as The Philadelphia Orchestra) 
Courtesy of CBS Records 

A Midsummer Night's Dream 
(1826) 
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Mendelssohn) 
Performed by Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra (as The Philadelphia Orchestra) 
Courtesy of CBS Records

 
Ilov80s said:
Now I want to pose the question, what classical piece would be your bedroom jam?
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Clair de Lune, hands down.

I have been working on a lyric to Clair de Lune for ten years and my dream is for the scrawl of its final word to be my last act in life. I could lick a dead polecat's third eye to Clair de Lune.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Clair de Lune, hands down.

I have been working on a lyric to Clair de Lune for ten years and my dream in life is for the scrawl of it's final word to be my last act in life.. I could lick a dead polecat's third eye to Clair de Lune.
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Your soul is a delicate landscape

Where roam charming masks and bergamasques

Playing the lute and dancing and seeming almost

Sad under their whimsical disguises.

While singing in a minor key

Of victorious love and easy life

They don't seem to believe in their happiness

And their song mingles with the moonlight,

With the sad and beautiful moonlight,

Which makes the birds in the trees dream

And sob with ecstasy the water streams,

The great slim water streams among the marbles.

 
Ilov80s said:
No way dude, I just made that up off the top of my head. 
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Dude, I remember one of your playlists of Spotify had the tagline "isn't it pretty to think so..." or something like that. It stuck with me for some reason, largely because it's a nice sentiment, and a six word little tagline for the six word draft (swear no stalker, and that was a good playlist). Anyway, I was reading The Sun Also Rises the other day and realized at the end of the book that it was the last bit of spoken dialogue, and the last line. 

Good work.

Back to the classical music.  

 
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Ilov80s said:
Ahhh you mean Bringer of Old Age

which I kind of like- this #### is going to take years off your life baby
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my old arranger & i had known each other since the Prog Era. he smoked a prodigious amount of weed so, though i'm not a fan, even my social tokes during visits had us talking & giggling & wowing a lot more than doing. Our Opus Terribilus was always going to be a Planets-like rock opera on flight - pterodactyls to Montgolfier/Wright Bros tp WW1 dogfights to sound barrier etc etc to Voyager busting out of the solar system. alas, he stole from me so it is not to be

 
rockaction said:
Dude, I remember one of your playlists of Spotify had the tagline "isn't it pretty to think so..." or something like that. It stuck with me for some reason, largely because it's a nice sentiment, and a six word little tagline for the six word draft (swear no stalker, and that was a good playlist). Anyway, I was reading The Sun Also Rises the other day and realized at the end of the book that it was the last bit of spoken dialogue, and the last line. 

Good work.

Back to the classical music.  
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Love it. That’s by far the best draft I ever had- all the songs work well together. And yes, I did take the tag line from Hemingway. The whole playlist was intended as something to listen to late at night while drinking and being heartbroken so that just struck me as a very Hemingway thing to do.

https://open.spotify.com/user/mcilheda/playlist/6TaRCCxH2lBHa803myDnMd?si=J9Ip0vCjSxiJCIAjgAeoWw

 
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