What is your favourite piece of classical music ?

[The Lawspeaker]

Post your favourite piece here :)

[Breedingvariety]

My Top 10 pieces of classical music:

1. Albinoni "Adagio in G Minor"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4

2. Barber "Adagio for Strings"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylMqxLzNGo

3. Rodrigo "Concerto De Aranjuez Adagio"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9DOtuPLqNI

4. Bruch "Violin Concerto No 1: Adagio"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZMmgIvc8g

5. Mozart "Flute & Harp Concerto in C"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-UAsDV79eQ

6. Mozart "Piano Concerto No. 21 in C 'Elvira Madigan' Andante"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw0T-2bYHo4

7. Wagner "Tristan und Isolde, Prelude, Act 1"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qoaioG2UA

8. Strauss 2 "Emperor Waltz"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Mwa23WCIA

9. Handel "Water Music: Alla Hornpipe"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1oTBSqR4E

10. Vivaldi "Four Seasons Spring"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0

[Adalwolf]

In no particular order:

1) Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es&feature=channel_video_title

2) Elgar - Pomp And Circumstance No. 4 In G Major
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjokA3fR77k&feature=channel_video_title

3) Johann Strauss II. - Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald (Walzer, op.325)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poAb0MhEvmk&feature=channel_video_title

4) Richard Wagner - Tannhauser - Grand March
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dytT5OnXU0A

5) Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Funeral March
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a53s4jyCqqU

6) Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8&feature=related

7) Grieg, In the Hall of the Mountain King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIYT-MrVaI&feature=related

8) Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poSw7tFLB4

9) Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto 1 - B Flat Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWerj8FcprM&feature=related

10) Beethoven Symphony No.9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOTCtW9v0M

[Osweo]

I love Chaikovsky's Yevgeniy Onyegin opera. I used to listen to it on CD all the way thru, night after night...

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Difficult to find the best performances on youtube, mind.

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And this bit of Wagner is like emotional sandblasting;
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[Mis4Music]

Hindemith - Mathis der Mahler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w-YT3Rd4ZJg
One of my all time favorites.

[Rosier12]

1) Wagner Parsifal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOfIENN2tk

2) Liszt Faust Symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZUQ7yZTFco

3) Rachmaninoff Symphony no.2 op.27
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvuitFzDxDg

[Damião de Góis]

Winter from Vivaldi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCLpqkIDlXs

[rhiannon]

Favorite Composer? Probably Hildegarde von Bingen......but this was before the era of your more well-known composers.

[zhaoyun]

Cannon in B

[MissProvocateur]

Beethoven's 7th symphony (2nd movement)

[Beit El]

Beethoven's 7th symphony (2nd movement)

One of my favourites as well, along with 'Ode an die Freude', 'Fortune plango vulnera', Händel's 'Sarabande' and the 4th movement of Dvořák's 'New World Symphony'.

[hisn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvs_NC2Uqo

[Leadchucker]

http://youtu.be/cnn3TVBDtcA

[hisn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hMvf4EyFkA

[Iloko]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MPF10sTI8

[Larali]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrVDATvUitA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Wahxcg8ro

[Div1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URIwWtwn6qA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnuq9PXbywA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8