corianderstem said:My all-time favorite is probably Barber's Adagio For Strings, which is just beautiful and heart-wrenching. (Although it's hard to hear it without being reminded of Platoon or The Elephant Man.)
Other favorites are:
Debussy - Clair de Lune (piano or orchestral version)
Mozart - Requiem
Faure - Requiem
Rutter - Requiem (Hey, I love a good Requiem! )
And there's an Elgar cello concerto that I can't name by number or key or anything, but I have a CD with Jacqueline du Pre playing it, and it's so, so wonderful.
GibsonGirl said:The OP kind of makes me feel like Schroeder from Peanuts after an encounter with Lucy...but no matter.
I'm a fan of most of the classical epochs, so it's hard for me to choose a favourite composer. At the moment, it's Gustav Mahler. I'm usually more of a Beethoven person, but I've been a bit obsessed with Mahler's 5th lately. It's also hard for me to choose my favourite piece...right now, it's the Lacrimosa. I'm not too wild about old Wolfgang, but the Lacrimosa is nothing short of genius. It's the kind of thing you wish you could have composed yourself.
By the way, Screwtape, we were having a good classical discussion here: http://forum.interference.com/t175807.html
Speaking of that thread, I didn't notice that Diemen had replied! Gives me an excuse to bump it up again...
trevster2k said:I don't know the names of anything but I like most classical music. There is a beautiful score played during the movie Seven when Morgan Freeman is in the library researching info and the guards are playing cards above him.
Someone please enlighten me.
trevster2k said:I don't know the names of anything but I like most classical music. There is a beautiful score played during the movie Seven when Morgan Freeman is in the library researching info and the guards are playing cards above him.
Someone please enlighten me.
GibsonGirl said:You're obsessed with requiems. Talk about morbid!
elevated_u2_fan said:
That is Air from Suite No.3 in D by JS Bach and yes, it is quite lovely...
Bach is one of my favourite composers.
Screwtape2 said:
The Lacrimosa is so ahead of it's time and to be honest I'm not sure were at that time yet. You're completely right about it being genius. I think most composers would just build and build or turn it into a waltz but the way Mozart makes the peice rise and fall is pure genius. Movie composers like John Williams and Alan Silvestri have attempted to create something like it but have never been able to match it.
GibsonGirl said:
Agreed. There's something eternal about the Lacrimosa. The whole Requiem is special, of course, but people will still be falling in love with that particular piece hundreds and thousands of years from now. The amount of emotion packed into those few minutes cannot be found in anything else. This is very cliched, but I want it played at my funeral when I die.
Tuba player?Screwtape2 said:
Holst's Jupiter
Canadiens1160 said:Tuba player?
Canadiens1160 said:Dvorák's symphony no. 9 in E minor ("From the New World") (op. 95),
Justin24 said:Any one like Wagner's Ride of the Valkeries?
corianderstem said:
Love that one!
BUM buh buh buuum, BUM buh buh buuum (ba bum! ba bum! ba bum!)