What are your favorite pieces of classical music?

My favorites are:

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Holst - The Planets

I can't be the only person here who listens to this, post your favorites!

Hi chik,
There are at least two of us here, maybe more???

Some faves that come to mind:

J S Bach
Brandenburg Concertos, Goldberg Variations, Mass in B Minor, Well-Tempered Clavier.

Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, All Symphonies

Beethoven
All Symphonies, Piano Concerto Emperor

Chopin
Pretty much all of his piano music especialy the Nocturnes

Sam Barber
Adagio for Strings

Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo, Appalachian Spring

Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris

Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition

Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique

Varèse
Ionisation

Zappa
The Yellow Shark

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Only two? I would have guessed much more.

I remake classical music on my keyboard and pc.
All of my music is free,i play till i need weed to stop finger and wrist pain.
No samples instruments are made up by me using wind and reed modeling synth and the strings are made using VA synthesis.
Heres a couple of my classical remakes if you want to hear any more of my work more click on the bottom link in my signature.

leyenda(remake)
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Adagio in G minor(synthremake)
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Sonata No.1 (synthremake)
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gouryella(ligaya)(synth)
hi-fi URL: Start Player

moon vs Bach
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Those are nice arrangements Nat, and I do not wish to be disrespectful,
But I detest and loathe the sound of any and all electronic music.
I consider electronic interpretations of classical pieces as blasphemous.
It hurts my ears. It is the antithesis of what I love about Classical music...acoustic instruments with a lush organic natural sound.

Even one of my favorite musicians Grammy award winning albums is unlistenable to me because of the use of electronics...Frank Zappa's Jazz from Hell.
Two of the compositions from that album were done by Ensemble Modern (Yellow Shark) without the use of electronics, and to my ears they are stunning and gorgeous and far superior to the original!
I do not wish to offend you, and I apologize if I have done so!

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wagner and verdi are cool...flight of the valkyries is awesome..

Thats ok i already realize that classical purists see me as a butcher and this has been said to me before.
I take no offense in this and understand totally.

I only attempt to bring classical music to the masses of electronica heads that are out there and i like real classical music and i like trance music there is something to like in everything if you only want to look for it.
I make these tracks for myself really and then share them for free with anyone that may want them.

These are my interpretations of a fusion of classical and modern sound created on the basis that i want to listen to something old and something new at the same time if you know what i mean.

I have a pc and a keyboard and smoke a lot of pot in my bedroom.
I record them with a cheap soundblaster card and master them with the free creative wave program that came with my soundcard.
Obviously this will create a lot of dud frequencies especially to a well trained ear like your own.
So you have to bear that in mind please.

I have a new synth now and hopefully my future work will be better and have a lot more natural clarity.
I am currently saving up for some powered studio monitors so that i may be finally able to achieve a more realistic and natural clean sound so i would appreciate all of your feedback on all of my work and i appreciate your honest comments a 100 times more than a fake pat on the back.
Please keep listening and let me know if and when you think my soundwork has improved

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Wow, nat, thanks so much for the very thoughtful response to my harsh critique. I appreciate it greatly.
I am a passionate lover of music, and I find as I get older that Classical music is becoming less popular. It never was what could be called truly popular for the past sixty years or so.
This I consider an unfortunate development, as it used to be the case that almost all popular musicians had some knowledge of, or were informed by the great masters of the classics.
I do not think this is the case any longer and I consider this development to be most discouraging. We are losing touch with some of the underpinnings of what made us who we are as a culture.
I admire and respect your desire to expose some music fans to works they may have never heard before. This is tremendous!

I look forward to listening to some of your forthcoming efforts.
Would it be Ok if I come up with some suggestions for pieces I think may appeal to the music fans you are trying to reach.

I smoke a lot of pot and listen to lots of music (acoustic Jazz as well as the classics) and I would like to assist you (in whatever way I can) in your attempt to reach people that may have never be exposed to this genre of music.
Wavels

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~George Bernard Shaw~

If you want to suggest one 5-8 minute piece of any kind i will see what i can come up with and go at it one at a time.
I have so much on the go right now so if you tell me your favorite piece and i will make it as purely classical as i can and also do a digital chilled out trance version and let you judge them.

If you want to assist me always give me honest feedback and tell people that i have 73 tracks at my site that are completely free,all kinds of music from joke tracks like bollocks knee nuts to Sonata No.1 which i was particularly proud of technically and sound wise considering my fairly crappy recording and reproduction skills as well as my obviously limited and cheap tools all though in a live streaming mp3 it loses a lot in comparison to my own 44khz high quality version.

My beautiful new alesis fusion is now going to be the device i use for these tracks so hopefully the advanced wind and reed modeling engines in it will pay for themselves and give me back every penny in sonic excellence.
I just need the monitors now so that i can hear properly instead of trying to master them through my old aiwa stereo.

My new synth is also basically a studio in one machine with an 8 track hd recorder and fully fledged and automatable onboard mixer.

Something good in all music i reckon from iron maiden 7th son of a 7th son(excellent musically if you really listen) to Mozart,always something good and of course always something bad.

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My plants love the classics & so do I!