Want to share some of your favorite classical music?

I like Ravel’s Bolero, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, most Beethoven and Bach and Mozart, and O Fortuna, which is technically not classical.

For example.

I don’t listen to Wagner on principal.

My favorites right now are Danse Macabre and Night on Bald Mountain

Others I like include:
Liszt-Dante Symphony
Verdi-Macbeth Overture
Wagner-Siegfried’s Funeral March
Chopin-Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2
Liszt-Liebstraum
Schubert-Serenade

I don’t care much for Mozart/Beethoven these days, but I recommend Symphony No.40 for Mozart and Violin Romance No. 2 for Beethoven.

Here’s some classical music I like from different eras and styles:

Palestrina – Sicut Cervus

Prokofiev – Cinderella Introduction

Tchaikovsky – Suite No. 1

Stamitz – Symphony in F

I love Berlioz. Dark and intense, you can feel it in your body. Music that really does move you.

Baroque: Bach The Cello Suites
Classical: Mozart Symphony #40
Early Romantic: Beehoven Symphony #7
Mid to late Romantic: Dvorak Cello Concerto
Impressionist: Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Early modern: Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Later early modern: Bartok Allegro Barbaro
Even later early modern: Prokoiev Peter and the Wolf
Mid modern: Shostokovich String quartet #8
Contemporary: Arvo Part Te Deum

Wunderbar

I love almost all Bach, but especially the Brandenburg Concertos.

Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition as orchestrated by the incomparable Ravel.

Beethoven’s Spring Sonata is a particular favorite of mine.

I also love Scarlatti and think his sonatas are incredible.

Some pieces I’ve always loved—pieces that I’ll sit in a driveway or parking lot for until they finish:

Tchiakovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor
Grieg, Piano Concerto
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchiakovsky, Swan Lake
Debussy, “La Mer”
Grieg, “The Last Spring”
Moussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Mozart, Requiem
Handel, Messiah (I won’t sit in the parking lot for the whole thing, but for any one selection I will)
Orff, Carmina Burana (all of it, not just “O Fortuna”)
Handel, Water Music
Haydn, Trumpet Concerto

Many, many selections from opera, especially Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner.

In certain moods, nothing does it for me like Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” which, I’ve been told, was the one I loved best when I was three.

At other times, nothing quiets my spirit more than Erik Satie.

ANYTHING by Ralph Vaughan Williams, including The Lark Ascending. If you’re not familiar with him, I urge you to listen to some of his compositions on Youtube.

What great lists! This is my primary world of music. I added choral works as I sang them. Imagine being in the midst of all that glorious music and adding your own small voice to the whole. It’s often ecstatic.
I’d add the Brahms Requiem, one of the easiest to get into choral works to enjoy.

It all depends on my mood. Ride of the Valkyries is amazing when I’m up, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons if I’m a little mellower. Antonia Salieri is another good one but I spelled that wrong. Let me check the spelling.
@tups If I said Weird Al would you hit me?

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring – I actually listened to a recording earlier today
Holst’s Planets Suite – my favorite is Mars
Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
A wide variety of Bach’s duets

I’m a big fan of instrumental music, too many pieces to list, although much of it wouldn’t be considered “classical.”

does chopsticks count?
Actually, when I’m concentrating on something, my lips usually start whistling Vivaldi’s spring movement. But I think I accidently caught it from a video game. Har! Take that, culture!

Wow, a lot of great recommendations! Now I know what to do when I have some spare time. I love discovering new worlds.

@Adirondackwannabe I don’t know who Weird Al is, but I am not a violent person. ;-)

@tups Here’s some Weird Al for you. Ducks and covers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGoOBTmDA8

@Adirondackwannabe Ah, I see. I’m sure he’s big in classical music.

Wagner’s Meistersingers.

Along the lines of @Adirondackwannabe‘s humorous recommendation of Weird Al, I’d recommend PDQ Bach (Peter Schickele) and the Beethoven Sportscast. There’s an actual video of this, but the original recording is funnier, I think. The video has some interesting sight gags and embellishments, but the stuido audio is just priceless.

Victor Borge is also worth listening to and watching.

@CWOTUS Yeeeah, Børge Rosenbuam!

Pachelbel’s Canon.

Largo by Dvorak.