favorite piece of classical music

[slothflyer]

for me, it the first 6 minutes of the moonlight sonata

[mtroads]

DeBussy's Claire De Lune.

[iguitaround]

Dang! Those were the two pieces I was going to say. Good taste, gentlemen.

[mtroads]

That shouldn't be too surprising given that those are two of the most common pieces.

Every time I listen to classical music, I always get blown away by much dynamic range can effect the mood of a piece, especially when listening to a longer piece like a symphony. It's a little too bad that most modern music doesn't even attempt to add something like that. Everyone just seems to play as loud as possible all the time without much thought.

[slothflyer]

they are common pieces.

my second favorite is Suite Gothique, Op. 25: IV Toccata by Leon Boellman

[Rogue VI]

Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2. Lots of stuff in there that you would recognize from Warner Bros. cartoons, esp. Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King.

[spencer smith]

Barber's Adagio -
if you can find the BBC performance after 9/11, it is haunting.
The one by Leonard Bernstein is also essential.

[booladad]

Music for Royal Fireworks - Handel

Water Music - Handel

My all time favorite song/composition ever:
Bach's Toccata & Fugue in Dminor - especially as performed by Virgil Fox on the Riverside Church (NYC) organ - my definite desert island song.

Grace,
Dad