I know most of us here like classical music and there are some performers here. I have a question: What is the single classical composition that touches you the most deeply?
I'm not a particular sensitive person but I'll start this off by citing a a work that reduces me to a quivering blob of protoplasm. From Jules Massenet's Thaïs, the beautiful Méditation for violin.
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My personal favorite is Prokofie's Sonata Op.28 No.3 played by Gilels.
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This question is too hard to answer...
shareBeethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, along with his Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, and the Hammerklavier Sonata.
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is likewise a classic.
Strangely, my favorite pieces usually tend to be unfinished works, such as Bach's Art of Fugue, or Schubert's 7th Symphony. There's nothing more haunting or ethereal to me than hearing an unfinished work.
For song, it's "Im Abendrot" by R. Strauss from Four Last Songs. Everything else changes from day to day.
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Bach: Tocatta und Fugue in D Minor
I first heard it in 6th grade. Heck it was the 1st classical music I'd ever heard & right away I went 'holy....' That day was the day I wanted to play music.
To this day I still deeply adore the public ed. teacher who played the LP for us in class. Wherever you are, Ms. Petitt, I thank you!
Bach - Prelude: Cello Suite No. 1
Never fails to put a lump in my throat.
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
The only Beethoven I can remember how to play on piano.
Well, the first couple of bars anyway! lol.
Buddy Holly - That'll be the Day
There's more to music than classical ;)
I admit to being very ignorant, limited, predictable, and low-brow. However, these are some of my favorites:
Barber's Knoxville; Summer of 1915
Gounod's Jewel Song from Faust
Verdi's Sempre Libera from La Traviata
Delibe's Bell Song from Lakme
Marc Blitzstein's Rain Quartet from Regina
More later, or are these choices too, too obvious?
I admit to being very ignorant, limited, predictable, and low-brow. However, these are some of my favorites:
Barber's Knoxville; Summer of 1915
Gounod's Jewel Song from Faust
Verdi's Sempre Libera from La Traviata
Delibe's Bell Song from Lakme
Marc Blitzstein's Rain Quartet from Regina
More later, or are these choices too, too obvious?
My all time favorite it Beethoven's 9th Symphony, but Bach's Mass in D Minor, Mozart's Requiem, and Mozart's 41st Symphony 'Jupiter' come close
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The Ode to Joy is sublime - pulled from the ether, it was just waiting to be written by somebody.
Other individual vocal pieces I adore, in no particular order:
- 'Bless the Lord, O my Soul', Rachmaninov's Vespers.
- Lacrymosa, Zbigniew Preisner, Requiem for my Freind
- 'Quando men vo', Puccini, La Boheme
- 'Dove Sono', Mozart, Marriage of Figaro
- Fourth movement, Third Symphony, Mahler - the libretto is a poem from Nietzche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, one of my favourite books
- 'Einsam in Truben Tagen', Wagner, Lohengrin
And many, many more...
And Woman, eternally, leads the way - Goethe, Faust II
Finale, Symphony No. 5 - Shostakovich
Saturn the Bringer of Old Age (The Planets) - Holst
Love/Death (from Tristian and Isolde) - Wagner
First String Quartet - Shostakovich
Flower Duet (from Lakme) - Delibes
Blithe Bells - Grainger
String Quartet No. 1 - Tchiakovsky
Colonial Song - Grainger
Sun Music III - Sculthorpe
Adagio for Strings - Barber
Extreme Make-over - de Meij