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.
--- CHAS
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WRTI is a Philadelphia radio station that is sponsored by Temple University. They program jazz during the evening hours a classical during the day. WRTI polled the classical audience to present their top thirty 'hits' during the Labor Day holidays. Here are the top ten favorites:
10) Gaetano Donizetti: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR - "Sulla Tomba"
9) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
8) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
-TIE-
8) Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast: No. 2 Vltava (The Moldau)
7) Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
-TIE-
7) Giacomo Puccini: TURANDOT: "Nessun Dorma"
6) Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
5) Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
4) Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque: No. Clair de Lune
-TIE-
4) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
3) Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3
2) Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
-TIE-
2) Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
1) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
You can check into wrti.org for the full list. There aren't too many surprises.
--- CHAS
I simply adore Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. It's beauty cannot be described in words, beautiful does not give it justice.
u got rick roll'd
Mozart's "Lacrimosa" from the Requiem.
I'm getting goose-bumps just writing the name of it.
"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) by Gioachino Rossini
shareConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 - Op.11 - in Em - Romance- Larghetto - Chopin
"Show's over, mother****ers."
-Hit Girl (Kick-Ass, 2010)
Buxtehude's Chacona in E minor arranged for orchestra by Carlos Chavez.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXVV-Ga8wKM
I'll listen to Liszt's Liebestraum, Mozart's piano concerto #21 and Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries over and over again. However, there's one piece that moves me more violently than any other piece of music ever created, so much so that I was driven to write a college application essay on it: Beethoven's Grosse Fuge. THE best composition in any genre of music I have ever heard, and, I fear, that I may ever hear.
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I had to dig into the vault of my ipod. Definitely one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard is Bach: Cantata #156-Singonia Arioso.
I've got a gorgeous version that I've never been able to find on youtube...if you can find it, it's nice and calm with a harp. Versions I've found have people plucking the string instruments...alas.
It's beautiful.