Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
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Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
I'm not sure if we have mentioned this before,but do you have a favourite piece of Classical Music?
Even if we have discussed it,there's lots of newer posters here now who may never have stated their most enjoyed work - and we may pick up some lovely new melodies from composers/songs we have not heard before...
Doesn't have to be a whole symphony - just a section is fine.
Here's my favourite Classical Piece:
Delius - Florida Suite By the River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljzZ1V ... 4E&index=2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This is my Wife's :
Canteloube: Songs Of The Auvergne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTuaboUdhh4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Even if we have discussed it,there's lots of newer posters here now who may never have stated their most enjoyed work - and we may pick up some lovely new melodies from composers/songs we have not heard before...
Doesn't have to be a whole symphony - just a section is fine.
Here's my favourite Classical Piece:
Delius - Florida Suite By the River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljzZ1V ... 4E&index=2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This is my Wife's :
Canteloube: Songs Of The Auvergne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTuaboUdhh4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
Lovely choices, Pete, both yours and your wife's.
This is my absolute favourite: Ralph Vaughan Williams — The Lark Ascending
But there are plenty of other pieces I love — I'd be hard pressed to choose just eight if I'm ever stranded on a desert island...
This is my absolute favourite: Ralph Vaughan Williams — The Lark Ascending
But there are plenty of other pieces I love — I'd be hard pressed to choose just eight if I'm ever stranded on a desert island...
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
Quite a few - though I'm no connoisseur. One of my favourites is the Grand Waltz from the ballet Sleeping Beauty - in fact I like the whole of 'Sleeping Beauty' even though I'm not really into ballet. And yes, the Disney version led me into it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp2wWLTKwWg
Also - from another ballet - Romeo and Juliet - entrance of the Montagues and Capulets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-zu5V2wYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp2wWLTKwWg
Also - from another ballet - Romeo and Juliet - entrance of the Montagues and Capulets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-zu5V2wYY
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
Without a doubt, Pachelbel's Canon in D. Music to enter Heaven with.
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
I haven't listened to a great deal of classical music in my life but I love Pachelbel's Canon too, Nigel.
Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is probably the piece I've listened to most over the years. It's sublime - so powerful and exhilarating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is probably the piece I've listened to most over the years. It's sublime - so powerful and exhilarating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
I agree with you, Anita. This is the piece of classical music with which I'm most familiar. A great piece of music.Anita Bensoussane wrote: Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is probably the piece I've listened to most over the years. It's sublime - so powerful and exhilarating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I also love Vivaldi's Four Seasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and Debussy's Clair de Lune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I agree that Vivaldi's Four Seasons is excellent, Eddie. However, when I played the "Spring" section to my daughter this morning (when I say I "played" it, I mean I found it on YouTube!) she said she'd heard it used in trashy TV shows or adverts and couldn't appreciate it properly any more. I told her to stop watching trashy TV shows and adverts!
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
Some lovely choices coming in.
When we've got a few more I think I will pop them all on a cd entitled Enid Blyton Forum's Best of The Classics...
When we've got a few more I think I will pop them all on a cd entitled Enid Blyton Forum's Best of The Classics...
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Eddie: Anita, you and me are in total sync here. EKN was the first piece of classical music I listened to in Music, at school. I was transfixed. It is up there with my favourite pieces. Claire de Lune is also great.
A wonderful piece by Delius is On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
An absolute must for this time of year is also by Delius, Sleigh Ride.
A wonderful piece by Delius is On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
An absolute must for this time of year is also by Delius, Sleigh Ride.
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
That was the first piece of classical music I ever fell in love with, Anita. I still remember — I was 7 years old, we were driving to my grandparents' place in Melbourne, and Dad put on a cassette he'd taped off his classical music records (he'd collected them for years but didn't play them much when we kids were around). The first piece was Eine Kleine Nachtmusik — as soon as it came on, I just thought "WOW!!!" It was the most incredible thing I'd ever heard... from that moment on, I was hooked. I still feel a thrill when I hear it even now!Anita Bensoussane wrote: Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is probably the piece I've listened to most over the years. It's sublime - so powerful and exhilarating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
Oh dear, too many to mention them all! However, here's a few...
Allegri - 'Miserere'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA88AS6Wy_4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Saint-Saens - 'Danse Macabre'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Tchaikovsky - '1812 Overture'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mussorgsky - 'Night On Bald Mountain'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Bach - 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Rossini - 'William Tell Overture'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7O91GDWGPU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Allegri - 'Miserere'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA88AS6Wy_4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Saint-Saens - 'Danse Macabre'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Tchaikovsky - '1812 Overture'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mussorgsky - 'Night On Bald Mountain'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Bach - 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Rossini - 'William Tell Overture'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7O91GDWGPU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
Without doubt the exquisite Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninov, close second a modern classic, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Fancy Dress op.82 DUSK waltz... though I love most of those mentioned above!
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
Some great choices of music in the above posts.
I found your advice to your daughter very amusing, Anita.
I found your advice to your daughter very amusing, Anita.
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
I've always liked Nimrod by Elgar. And the Karelia Suite by Sibelius.
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Re: Your Favourite Piece Of Classical Music?
By the way, did any other classical music fans enjoy the Beethoven Google Doodle game today?
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