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What is your favorite piece of all time?

 
  • What is your favorite piece of all time?

    Mine is probably Moonlight Sonata.

    Frank

  • Good idea for a thread! For me it's a close tie between Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces (intense, raw, complex, unique) and Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (deep, subtle, grandiose and very emotional). Even though they're rather dissimilar, both pieces are extraordinarily beautiful to me.

  • I have no favorite piece of all time... It changes every 2 weeks... Right now its Bach's Toccata & Fuga in D minor... One week before it was Chopin's Etute No11 Op25... A month before my favorite was Debussy's Clair de Lune....
    Can i make a list of 150 favorites? :P

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    • Abr 12 2010, 21h04
    My favorite piece of all time would definetley without a doubt or question would be Igor Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring( so deep, rustic, harmonal, tribunal, rich tones). Played the ballet my junior year of high school in the Las Vegas Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, loved every moment of it.

  • I have been into rock music since I actually started to listen to music and only a few years ago I began to listen to classical; so, I don't know much about classical but by now my very favorite composition is "Messe de Requiem" by the french composer Gabriel Faure.

  • Richard Wagner-Ride Of The Valkeries

  • Liszt's 4th Transcendental Etude or Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto.

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  • the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky and Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Bartók

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  • These pieces are all my 2nd favorites (a close second) and drift in and out of first:

    Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (especially Procession of the Wise Elder or the beginning of Part 2) or Finale from the Firebird Suite
    Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 Movement 2 (yes, I like 2 the best) or No.2 Movement 1
    Chopin's Prelude Opus 28 No. 24
    Liszt's Transcendental Etude (1,2,4, 8, or 10), Un Sospiro Etude
    Holst's Jupiter from The Planets Suite
    Paganini's Caprice Op. 1 No. 24
    Dvorak's Symphony No. 9
    Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess

    But currently I think it is any of the Four Movements from Ravel's String Quartet in F major

  • Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #2
    Vivaldi's Judith Triumphans and The Four Seasons
    Beethoven's Appassionata
    Chaikovskiy's Piano Concerto #1
    Massenet's Meditation
    Mozart's Requiem
    and Lully's motets

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    • Fev 24 2011, 22h21
    Gymnopedie - Erik Satie

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    • Abr 3 2011, 15h51
    String Quartet No.4 by Bela Bartok exhilarates me so much. So I'll go for that one.

  • Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis (otherwise known as "The 40 part Motet"); the human voice at its' most sublime!

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    • Abr 29 2011, 20h23
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  • SuperMaked said:
    I have no favorite piece of all time... It changes every 2 weeks... Right now its Bach's Toccata & Fuga in D minor... One week before it was Chopin's Etute No11 Op25... A month before my favorite was Debussy's Clair de Lune....
    Can i make a list of 150 favorites? :P


    :)) U're welcome!

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    • Mai 10 2011, 13h09
    Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович – Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102: II. Andante

    Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G major: Adagio assai

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    • Mai 10 2011, 13h44
    Dmitri Shostakovich – The Gadfly, op.97a: Intermezzo

    Dmitri Shostakovich – The Gadfly, op.97a: Introduction (Prelude)

    Dmitri Shostakovich - The Gadfly, op.97a: Scene

    Dmitri Shostakovich – The Gadfly, op.97a: Romance

  • Mozart... K626

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    • Mai 24 2011, 23h12
    Allegro from Shosty's 10th Symphony

    The Planets

    Holst's First Suite in Eb

    Take your pick.

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    • Mai 28 2011, 17h34
    1812 Overture

  • Pretty hard, this, so I'll cheat and select a piece per era:

    Medieval:

    Anonymous - El Cant de la Sibil·la:


    Absolutely stunning piece of music, stops time in it's tracks every time.

    Renaissance:

    Antoine Brumel - Missa et ecce terra motus:


    Baroque:

    J.S. Bach - Goldbergvariationen:


    It's amost a cliche choice, but Glenn Goulds recordings of these variations are amongst the most beautiful pieces of all time.

    Classical:

    W.A. Mozart - Requiem



    Romantic:

    Gustav Mahler - symphony nr. 2:

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    Early 20th century:

    Claude Debussy - La Mer



    Late 20th century:



    Giacinto Scelsi's Hurqualia is pretty high on my list. One of the most epic pieces ever written, like tectonic drift, vulcanos and earthquakes turned to music.

    Contemporary:

    Oswaldo Golijov - Ayre


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    • Jun 12 2011, 0h47
    hard to choose from

    tchaikovsky violin concerto
    mozart rondo alla turca
    beethoven "apassionata"
    beethoven 5-7
    brahms 1 symphony
    liszt mephisto walz
    dukas sorcerer aprentice

    and many more

  • Brahms' second piano concerto

    best recording in my opinion is the 1960 richter/leinsdorf/CSO:

  • Berceuse Op.57 by Frederic Chopin

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    • Out 7 2011, 18h03
    I have to say - Ludwig van Beethoven's most popular composition - Für Elise. That always reminds me my childhood.

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