Favorite classical artists/pieces?

Right now I am listening to Beethoven's sixth symphony, which is one of my favorite classical pieces that I have yet heard, and I was just wondering what classical music people like here. I haven't heard it discussed yet on the new forums. To be completely honest, I don't have an extensive collection of classical music, nor do I listen to classical music very much, but I do love what I have.

Favorite artists:
Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Stravinsky

Favorite pieces:
"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"-Bach
"Sleeper's Awake"-Bach
"The Firebird Suite"-Stravinsky
"The Rite of Spring"-Stravinsky

 

Without going into individual pieces (I'll do that tomorrow)....

Schumann
Beethoven
Debussy
Satie
Mussorgsky
Bach
Wagner
Vivaldi
Stravinsky
Stockhausen
Berlioz

There are a few I am forgetting, but these are most of them.

 

I'm rather partial to more contemporary composers like Roy Harris, A. Hovhaness, and Benjamin Britten, but I really love Debussy's "Les Damoiselles Elue", Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony", and Copland's "Appalachian Spring".

 

Yeah, I love Vaughan Williams. Especially the Mass in G minor.

Other favorites:

Mozart's Piano Quartets (K.478, K.493)
Mozart's Piano Concertoes: Especially #19 (K.459), and #22 (K.482)
Bach - the Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould, of course)
Bach - Mass in B minor (If this doesn't move you, then your soul may be deaf)
The Gregorian Chants

And if you listen to any of these while stoned, you will probably see God. Please say Hello.

 

I kinda like classical singing, like Charlotte Church does. I know it´s all "recycled" but pretty!

Love, Peace and Happiness

 

My favorite is Night on Bald Mountain

 

My most favorite pieces are "Seasons" by Lee Johnson

 

Yeah, that's a great one! You've seen Fantasia, right? If not, there is an amazing animation sequence with this piece in it. Quite intense, I think.

 

I can't belive nobody mentioned Korsakov.
Yeah...
Rimsky Korsakov
Bach
Glen Gould(both his stuff, and stuff he's played)
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky

 

does classical thump by victor wooten count?

 

'1812 Overture' by Tchaikovsky is my favourite piece of classical music as well as one of my overall favourite pieces of music.

 

Yes it does

 

This may sound really cliché, but I LOVE Moonlight Sonata.

Also (all Mozart):

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra #5 in A Major
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra #4 in D Major
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra #18 in B Hat Major
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra #23 in A Major

And...

Violin Concertos 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and Symphonies 29, 32, 39, and 40.

All of that is my relaxation/study music.

 

Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #3, from the Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach CD.

 

Thanks for that thread Chris!

I'm a HUGE Tchaichovski fan, I especially love his Nutcracker ballet and his Concerto For Piano.

I also adore Moussorgski (God I'm terribly sorry for - almost definitely - spelling it wrong!) his Night On Bald Mountain (or whatever it is in English) is incredible.

I also like Chopin, Beethoven, Bhrams, Ravel, Mozart, Debussy, Berlioz... and alot of others.

 

I forgot to say that Carmina Burana is one of my favorites pieces of classical music. I forgot who it's from though...

 

at present i am listening to monteverdi's lamento d'arianna, de machaut, brahms, delibes, i love debussy, john cage, philip glass, webern, stravinsky, john adams, and some artists who are often considered classical but whose works are actually hybrid, meredith monk for example. i am really into experimental music of the 20th century which is studied with classical music, but it is actrually debateable whether it belongs there or not.

listen to meredith monk's gotham lullaby - anyone heard it, it is truly beautiful.

peace and love,
Zenry

 

carmina burana is carl orff,

thanks for reminding me, both orff and satie are good despite the debate surrounding satie as wallpaper music.

peace
Zenry

 

I wouldn't say Satie was wallpaper music, i see him as a prolific experimental composer as well as solely a classical piano composer.
yeah thanks for starting this thread!

My favourite work at the moment has to be Mussorvsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, the Ravel orchestration. It's so over the top and an amazing piece of writing. I love the original score for two pianos as well, just at the moment i'm hooked on the Ravel.

I've just fallen in love with the Chopin Preludes, my guitarist just gave me the collection of them and i'm working my way through them. Favourites are Prelude in C minor and Prelude in E Minor.
I'm experimenting with The Well Tempered Clavichord too! rock on!

Interesting to see how Micheal Eavis had some Wagner at Glasto this year!
Jaz

 

Erik Satie

Edvard Grieg

Love!