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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Any fans of classical music on here? If so, what's your favourite pieces?

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Now you’re talking!

Right, so many but my all time favourites would have to be Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Te Deum.

I love powerful choral works

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Modern composers like Einaudi, Philip Glass and Max Richter.

Classics too.

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By *ichaelsmyMan
over a year ago

douglas

most people wont even know that they hear classical music more often than they think they do.

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

Chopin Grande Valse Brillante op 18

My mum wasn't great on the piano but she could play that

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"most people wont even know that they hear classical music more often than they think they do.

You're right. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard On the Nature of Daylight in films and TV.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"most people wont even know that they hear classical music more often than they think they do.

You're right. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard On the Nature of Daylight in films and TV."

Many film scores are a back door into classical music.

Who can forget "Vide cor meum" by Patrick Cassidy from the film Hannibal?

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

I adore classical music, and have many favourites. I cannot remember them all, but:

For comfort & peace, Emperor, Bruch's violin concerto, or The Lark Ascending, The Swan.

For joy..choral, Jupiter, the Anvil Chorus, Spaniah guitar music.

For fun..John Williams movie soundtracks.

And for volume 11, blast it out loud, wow...it has to be Saint-Saëns' symphony #3 'Organ'

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"most people wont even know that they hear classical music more often than they think they do.

You're right. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard On the Nature of Daylight in films and TV.

Many film scores are a back door into classical music.

If we are going the film route I've got to say Gershwin'

Who can forget "Vide cor meum" by Patrick Cassidy from the film Hannibal?"

If we are going the film route I've got to say Gershwin's

Rhapsody in Blue from Manhattan and Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo from Raging Bull.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lark ascending

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

"Lark ascending "

It's been at the #1 spoton Classic FM many times..with good reason.

It's simply magical.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

"most people wont even know that they hear classical music more often than they think they do.

You're right. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard On the Nature of Daylight in films and TV.

Many film scores are a back door into classical music.

Who can forget "Vide cor meum" by Patrick Cassidy from the film Hannibal?"

Agreed I'd put anything John Williams on par with older classical music.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tchiakovsky - Nutcracker and Swan Lake

Guiseppe Verdi - Messa De Requiem

Bach - Orchestral no 3

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Any fans of classical music on here? If so, what's your favourite pieces? "

Anything by Einaudi - oooft!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I almost forgot Craig Armstrong's The Space Between Us from Romeo and Juliet. A song that can make me cry every time upon hearing it.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

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"Now you’re talking!

Right, so many but my all time favourites would have to be Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Te Deum.

I love powerful choral works

You will know the Beethoven Missa Solemnis then ?

Best recording has to be Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mussorgsky-Night on Bald Mountain

Bach- Toccata and fugue in D minor

Air on the G string

Paganini- Caprice 24

These are my favorites, although I am still quite ignorant about a lot of composers and their pieces. I also appreciate movie composers, like John Williams and Morricone (but, are they "classical"? Probably not)

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By *eoeclipseWoman
over a year ago

glasgow

Yes! Piano or string prices are best

Can just about play simple versions of pavane, can play swan lake, greensleeves, Clair Dr lune etc. Finger picking on guitar

I'm pants at remembering names, I just hit shuffle & listen most of the time. Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Vivaldi & Bach are a few I remember off the top of my head. (Big old ones really).

I do like Howard Shore & James Newman, they make the films for me.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here

"Yes! Piano or string prices are best

Can just about play simple versions of pavane, can play swan lake, greensleeves, Clair Dr lune etc. Finger picking on guitar

I'm pants at remembering names, I just hit shuffle & listen most of the time. Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Vivaldi & Bach are a few I remember off the top of my head. (Big old ones really).

I do like Howard Shore & James Newman, they make the films for me.

You thinking Thomas Newman - Shawshank, American Beauty, Green Mile, Saving Mr Banks

Lovely music

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

4'33" by John Cage.

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By *hunderstruckMan
over a year ago

Northampton

Orpheus in the underworld ( cancan)

What a great party piece

Tales of Hoffmann La Bacorelle

From the film life is beautiful

If I’m stuck in traffic or on a long drive I’ll put on a classic cd

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By *hunderstruckMan
over a year ago

Northampton

"most people wont even know that they hear classical music more often than they think they do.

You're right. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard On the Nature of Daylight in films and TV.

Many film scores are a back door into classical music.

Barber of Seville

Robin Williams singing figaro in “Mrs Doubtfire “

If we are going the film route I've got to say Gershwin'

Who can forget "Vide cor meum" by Patrick Cassidy from the film Hannibal?

If we are going the film route I've got to say Gershwin's

Rhapsody in Blue from Manhattan and Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo from Raging Bull.

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By *eoeclipseWoman
over a year ago

glasgow

"Yes! Piano or string prices are best

Can just about play simple versions of pavane, can play swan lake, greensleeves, Clair Dr lune etc. Finger picking on guitar

I'm pants at remembering names, I just hit shuffle & listen most of the time. Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Vivaldi & Bach are a few I remember off the top of my head. (Big old ones really).

I do like Howard Shore & James Newman, they make the films for me.

You thinking Thomas Newman - Shawshank, American Beauty, Green Mile, Saving Mr Banks

Lovely music

He's good too but no I was thinking James Newton Howard https://open.spotify.com/artist/2M4eNCvV3CJUswavkhAQg2?si=yXFNZ_WIRx6F_-Hc2YU9hQ

Did say I was pants at names lol

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

I'm a keen Classical Music fan, with particular emphasis on Choral music.

In Classical terms, traditional composers range from J S Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart & Vivaldi to list but a few. But I also like more modern composers; Philip Glass is a favourite.

Choral music wise, my tastes are eclectic, having performed around Europe with some Choirs.

But it's Church and Secular music from the 14th to 18th Centuries that I love best such as Byrd, Lassus, Tallis, Victoria, Sheppard, Mouton, and Clemens non Papa. I also am into Russian Orthodox Church Music in a big way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Russian liturgical is tasty stuff, Sviridov is a good un.

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

Second movement London Symphony by Vaughan Williams.

Rutter Feel the Spirit.

I could go on lol!

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

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"Yes! Piano or string prices are best

Can just about play simple versions of pavane, can play swan lake, greensleeves, Clair Dr lune etc. Finger picking on guitar

I'm pants at remembering names, I just hit shuffle & listen most of the time. Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Vivaldi & Bach are a few I remember off the top of my head. (Big old ones really).

I do like Howard Shore & James Newman, they make the films for me.

You thinking Thomas Newman - Shawshank, American Beauty, Green Mile, Saving Mr Banks

Lovely music

He's good too but no I was thinking James Newton Howard https://open.spotify.com/artist/2M4eNCvV3CJUswavkhAQg2?si=yXFNZ_WIRx6F_-Hc2YU9hQ

Did say I was pants at names lol "

Hahaha rolf . Had me worried as James Newman is a singer songwriter who this year represented the U.K. at the Eurovision Song Contest

hence my assumption you meant Thomas Newman, which you have confirmed is also wrong

So James Howard - Hunger Games, The Fugitive, Pretty Woman

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Rachmaninoff Concerto no. 2

I used to get a constant deluge of classical music from the room of my uni housemate. He had to put up with sounds of me shagging so only fair I guess.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Rachmaninoff Concerto no. 2

I used to get a constant deluge of classical music from the room of my uni housemate. He had to put up with sounds of me shagging so only fair I guess. "

Beat me to it! Rach concerto 2 gives me such emotions

Anything Chopin, Particularly the nocturnes and the Préludes. Some polonaises and waltzes.

Brahms has some great intermezzos (Op 119), and Beethoven piano sonatas are master pieces (pathetique, moonlight, tempest etc)

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

If you like Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano concerto try Rachmaninov’s Paganini Variations.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Palestrina, Allegri and Tallis, and more recent choral composers like Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen and James MacMillan.

Music to get lost in.

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By *oistknickersCouple
over a year ago

London

Thanks everyone some stuff to check out.

Please try this.

Lacrimosa, Mozart a couple of minutes of perfection.

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By *eoeclipseWoman
over a year ago

glasgow

"Yes! Piano or string prices are best

Can just about play simple versions of pavane, can play swan lake, greensleeves, Clair Dr lune etc. Finger picking on guitar

I'm pants at remembering names, I just hit shuffle & listen most of the time. Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Vivaldi & Bach are a few I remember off the top of my head. (Big old ones really).

I do like Howard Shore & James Newman, they make the films for me.

You thinking Thomas Newman - Shawshank, American Beauty, Green Mile, Saving Mr Banks

Lovely music

He's good too but no I was thinking James Newton Howard https://open.spotify.com/artist/2M4eNCvV3CJUswavkhAQg2?si=yXFNZ_WIRx6F_-Hc2YU9hQ

Did say I was pants at names lol

Hahaha rolf . Had me worried as James Newman is a singer songwriter who this year represented the U.K. at the Eurovision Song Contest

hence my assumption you meant Thomas Newman, which you have confirmed is also wrong

So James Howard - Hunger Games, The Fugitive, Pretty Woman

Yes, they're definitely my modern film soundtrack makers, the capture the emotion well.

Newman might have stuck in my head with news or something in the background & it's just transferred. Nightmare at time lol

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By *inkyfun2013Couple
over a year ago

lewisham

Oooh so many!

Mozart's Lacrimosa is delish, most Saint Saëns, especially 'Organ 3', most Victoria and Tallis.

Finlandia, O Mio Babbino Caro, The Armed Man, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet have been on in the office today. Currently in bed listening to O Magnum Mysterium by Lauridsen, the Stephen Layton recording. Pure bliss.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love a bit of wagner!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I love a bit of Viv now and again

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Love a bit of wagner! "
and would you die for Beethoven?

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By *ark ph0enixWoman
over a year ago

Teesside

Vivaldi seanons or Bach well tempered clavier are my faves. Few others but usually end up on those two. Tho for something different I love dark moors version of vivaldi winter.

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

"Oooh so many!

Mozart's Lacrimosa is delish, most Saint Saëns, especially 'Organ 3', most Victoria and Tallis.

Wow! Thank you for the Lauridsen link. I've often heard the piece, but usually the name hasn't been pronounced clearly, if at all, by presenters.

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