Favorite Classical Songs?

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Classical helps me focus a lot when I'm studying and working, so I'm wondering whatyour favorite classical songs are.

This is my favorite here (Bach's Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JG8KkWhsiY]YouTube - Bach Double (Concerto for Two Violins in D minor)[/ame]


Classical guitar is pretty awesome too (Rondo Alla Turca by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart):

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPP0_va2krc]YouTube - Mozart Sonata A - Major KV 331 Alla Turca[/ame]


5th Caprice by Paganini
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfvNQkjloZM]YouTube - Massimo Quarta - Paganini Caprice No. 5[/ame]
 


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bosouX_d8Y"]YouTube - Schubert - Ave Maria (Opera)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk"]YouTube - Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2 (Arthur Rubinstein)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0rbvIQWEKI&feature=related"]YouTube - Tenacious D : The Pick Of Destiny - Classico[/ame]
 
Good thread

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg]YouTube - Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata mvt. 3[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud4SvylrupQ]YouTube - 5b. IVO POGORELICH J S Bach Suite Inglesa No 2 Preludio BWV 807[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCEsk9UQLpI]YouTube - HAENDEL CHACONNE KATIA SKANAVI[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yi2MMtIimY]YouTube - Guillaume de Machaut- Puis qu'en oubli (polyphonic chanson)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJvtk6EHZE]YouTube - The Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis-1[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnE_xMY0OZQ]YouTube - Josquin Desprez~Absalon, fili mi[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46VxWqLDDCU]YouTube - Kirsten Flagstad sings Wagner - "Der Engel"[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgmIvjm4DL4]YouTube - Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven - Sonata no.3 in C major, op.2, no.3 (1/3)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSqSznrgaSU]YouTube - Canteloube - "Bailero" sung by Patricia Rozario[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyjGV7dfaYY]YouTube - Vladimir SOFRONITSKY plays SCRIABIN Sonata no. 3 (1-2)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1hs2OLIzYE]YouTube - Maria Yudina plays Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1/8)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkmEgGTwiqM]YouTube - II. Andante con moto: (Alkan) Trois Andantes Romantique[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRD5RralCgA]YouTube - Liszt - Valse Impromptu (Cziffra)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmMyUPqMOSo]YouTube - Maria Grinberg plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 (3/4)[/ame]
 
cziffra, could you not fit YouTube's entire library into this thread?
 
I'm an F.Horn player in a symphony orchestra, so I'm a fan of the big, brassy pieces.

All of New World Symphony:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctfXIqugXc]YouTube - Dvorak - New World Symphony - 4th Movement, Dublin Philharmonic, Conductor Derek Gleeson[/ame]

Shostakovich sym 10 mvt 2 (if this doesn't get you fucking hyped up, nothing in classical will):

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZbJOE9zNjw]YouTube - Gustavo Dudamel / SBYOV Shostakovich Symphony 10 II. Allegro[/ame]

Samuel Barber's creepiest, angriest piece, an exploration into atonal, arrhythmic music. "Medea's Dance of Vengeance", about the Greek tragedy where Medea kills her children. At 8:30 is when it goes from a meditative horror movie to the murder and psychotic sound. Not the best recording, but if anyone wants a really good one, I have it. The ending is enough to make your hair on your arms stand up.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDpW65zyh6g]YouTube - Barber Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance - Mitropoulos - New York Philarmonic - Live[/ame]

And a second version of it that's even louder..

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdM2nlg4Dw0]YouTube - DCI Star of Indiana 1993 - Music of Barber and Bartok ( Medea )[/ame]

I also love Respighi's "The Pines of Rome", but there are no good versions on youtube really, except for another I like:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcnTwGgJ8nM]YouTube - 1991 Star of Indiana[/ame]

And being a brass player...Tchaikovsky sym. 4 mvt i. The intro and ending of this movement are just scary. Everything in between is amazing too of course, but those are easily the most memorable. The last minute and a half of the 2nd video is a big "holy shit" moment.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-c1LLZaVCA]YouTube - Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, 1st mvmt (1st half)[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fbJattv34]YouTube - Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, 1st mvmt (2nd half)[/ame]


Then, how about a horn concerto I've performed...sadly no video, but this is the piece. It's a blast to be up in front like this. Mozart Horn Concerto in D, k412.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCilh3esigY]YouTube - horn concerto k 412 514[/ame]

And here's what should be played when I walk in the room at Affiliate Summit:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7o_3aBIeyU"]YouTube - Shostakovich : Festive Overture[/ame]

I have lots more...I'll post some after this.
 
Oh..almost forgot, shoutout to Wando HS and their band playing the music of Rachmaninoff. Well worth the watch. Show is about the change of seasons.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTAwubEgMA4]YouTube - Wando High School at 5A State Contest[/ame]
 
Mozart, the greatest musical mind of all time. The Berlin Orchestra is good.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjh1YmlKYk"]YouTube - Mozart: Symphony No. 25 / Pinnock · Berliner Philharmoniker[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUl2XwIcUnM"]YouTube - Mozart / Karl Böhm, 1968: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro - Deutsche Oper Orchestra, Berlin[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI"]YouTube - Mozart - Requiem[/ame]

Or will this do?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cd9FYO9Rh4"]YouTube - Scorpions Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Rock You Like a Hurricane[/ame]
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmYLRZkzc7M&feature=fvst]YouTube - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.14 Moonlight Sonata[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc]YouTube - pachelbel's Canon in D--Soothing music(the best version)[/ame]
 
and there's Pachebel's Canon

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learningcurve said:
Hmmm...interesting reaction.
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yeah, it's one piece I can't stand. It ruins weddings for me. Should I get married, that will not be played. This will:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTK-U96k5Q]YouTube - Richard Wagner - Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (from Lohengrin)[/ame]
 
yeah, it's one piece I can't stand. It ruins weddings for me. Should I get married, that will not be played. This will:
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Fair call. I doesn't have that connotation for me; my wife and I didn't have it at any part of our wedding day.

I do like the piece that you have picked though.
 
Here are a few more of my favorite pieces:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXdR-Nt1Jso]YouTube - Mendelssohn Octet[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2EhW-k3yPs]YouTube - Mozart: String Quint N3 K516 1/4 Amadeus (6.1966)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9xU9-xo-ZE]YouTube - Beethoven - Große Fuge in B Flat For String Quartet Op. 133 - Part 1 of 2[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZBG2wfg5o]YouTube - Beethoven - String quartet in A minor, op 132 - 3rd mvmt (part 1)[/ame]
 
Looking at my network:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNqsQJ3a1fI]YouTube - "Star Wars" Imperial March - Vienna 2010[/ame]

Searching the next fight?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aKAH_t0aXA]YouTube - Wagner - Die Walküre: "The Ride of the Valkyries" (Boulez)[/ame]
 
not classical but i just listened to this and it sounds amazing

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96SxKk0zeek"]YouTube - Wonderful Africa Chill Out Music[/ame]
 
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