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By *atnip make me purr OP Woman
38 weeks ago

Reading

What's yours? Mine is Mozarts requiem. It's simply divine.

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38 weeks ago

Vivaldi's Four seasons. I LOVE it. Played it nearly everyday when I was pregnant, it just lulled me, calmed me. Haven't listened to it in ages.

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By *ickyKlungespeareMan
38 weeks ago

St Leonards

Pachelbel, Canon.

When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.

So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.

https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt

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By *atnip make me purr OP Woman
38 weeks ago

Reading

"Vivaldi's Four seasons. I LOVE it. Played it nearly everyday when I was pregnant, it just lulled me, calmed me. Haven't listened to it in ages."

Good shout

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By *uri00620Woman
38 weeks ago

Croydon

"What's yours? Mine is Mozarts requiem. It's simply divine."

Mine too.

Also Allegri's Miserere.

Generally like Renaissance choral stuff - Tallis, Morley ect

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By *eroLondonMan
38 weeks ago

Covent Garden

Hmmm, that's quite a tough one. Antonín Dvorák's "New World Symphony" is lovely; Igor Stravinsky's "The Firebird" is powerful; anything and everything by 'Strauss is usually uplifting.

I also like the haunting and melodic "O Fortuna" by Carl Orff.

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By *atnip make me purr OP Woman
38 weeks ago

Reading

"Pachelbel, Canon.

When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.

So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.

https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt

Happiness is a cigar called hamlet.

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By *ickyKlungespeareMan
38 weeks ago

St Leonards

"Pachelbel, Canon.

When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.

So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.

https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt

Happiness is a cigar called hamlet."

The play Hamlet is a profound source of pleasure, here, too x

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By *illy IdolMan
38 weeks ago

Midlands

Not sure how strict you are on classical, but I love

ludovico einaudi - experience

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By *eliWoman
38 weeks ago

I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.

My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.

Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.

Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again.

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
38 weeks ago

Manchester-ish

Chopin - Nocturne Op 9 No 2 in E flat

Strauss - Overture from Die Fledermaus

Along with many others. But those are my absolute favourites.

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By *ertcamembertMan
38 weeks ago

Reading area

"What's yours? Mine is Mozarts requiem. It's simply divine."
I have a few favourites but Rimsky-Korsakov and Scheherazade springs to mind right now

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By *atnip make me purr OP Woman
38 weeks ago

Reading

"Pachelbel, Canon.

When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.

So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.

https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt

Yes my favourite too and weirdly one of the best performances I've seen had the actor who plays Lord percy in black adder in the title role!

Happiness is a cigar called hamlet.

The play Hamlet is a profound source of pleasure, here, too x"

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By *rill PhilMan
38 weeks ago

Crediton

Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 by Franz Liszt is up there for sure.

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By *atnip make me purr OP Woman
38 weeks ago

Reading

"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.

My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.

Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.

Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again.

Bach is paryicularly good for the brain. My mother had a stroke recently and luckily loves Bach because we have it on for her all the time.

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By *iddlesticksMan
38 weeks ago

My nan’s spare room.

Greig’s Peer Gynt Op 23 the morning suite

The waltz from the ballet Coppelia by Leo Delibes.

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By *rill PhilMan
38 weeks ago

Crediton

Bachs Toccata and Fugue in D minor

I also love his Preludes and fuges collection. Basically piano lessons but, so beautiful.

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By *usie pTV/TS
38 weeks ago

taunton

Elizabethan Serenade

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By *ensualbicockMan
38 weeks ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Wagner

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By *oquars19458Man
38 weeks ago

sheffield

"Pachelbel, Canon.

When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.

So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.

https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt

Happiness is a cigar called hamlet."

That’l be Bach then jazzed up by Jaques Loussier

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By *ickyKlungespeareMan
38 weeks ago

St Leonards

"Pachelbel, Canon.

When it's played a certain way (like this link), I still, often, shiver, shake, and cry.

So, so many fantastic other pieces from other composers, but this is consistently my favourite.

https://youtu.be/y16o1RQxIuE?si=U-Q6OWPiCvOaKBwt

Yes my favourite too and weirdly one of the best performances I've seen had the actor who plays Lord percy in black adder in the title role!

Happiness is a cigar called hamlet.

The play Hamlet is a profound source of pleasure, here, too x"

I don't find that hard to believe at all - Richard Briers, so well-known for comedy, was excellent as Polonius in Ken's "Eternity Version".

If you have four and a half hours spare one week, I hope you'll find it as worthwhile as I have x

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By *allandy64Man
38 weeks ago

Sheffield

Barbers adagio for strings...

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By *assy69Man
38 weeks ago

West Sussex and Wales

Am currently finding Debussy’s music very calming and relaxing …,.. it even helps me sleep at night

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By *2000ManMan
38 weeks ago

Worthing

Beethovens 9th.

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By *gent CoulsonMan
38 weeks ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

Handle's firework music

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By *ilverfox for youMan
38 weeks ago

Hull

I cara mio babino .the orchestral version

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

"Vivaldi's Four seasons. I LOVE it. Played it nearly everyday when I was pregnant, it just lulled me, calmed me. Haven't listened to it in ages."

Vivaldi my favourite too....brings me to beautiful fantasy places in my mind....

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
38 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

Don’t mind a bit of Chopin, can’t be doing with too much Beethoven it’s too shouty and Mozart gives me wind.

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By *atnip make me purr OP Woman
38 weeks ago

Reading

"Don’t mind a bit of Chopin, can’t be doing with too much Beethoven it’s too shouty and Mozart gives me wind.

Ummm

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By *ickyKlungespeareMan
38 weeks ago

St Leonards

"Don’t mind a bit of Chopin, can’t be doing with too much Beethoven it’s too shouty and Mozart gives me wind.

Ummm"

That's his Magic Flute at work on you

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez

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By *ayRyuMan
38 weeks ago

Harrogate

Always been a fan of Carl Orff - Carmina Burana.

And Wagner's are all great

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By *estarossa.Woman
38 weeks ago

Flagrante

Another vote for Ludavico Einaudi here.

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By *wist my nipplesCouple
38 weeks ago

North East Scotland, mostly

Ohhh, so much! Just been pootling through some Clementi on the piano. It's so clean and refreshing to play. I do love getting stuck into a Chopin nocturne or Beethoven sonata, though.

Choral wise, Whitacre's Sleep is a favourite, as are Rachmaninoff's Vespers.

Mrs TMN x

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By *stellaWoman
38 weeks ago

London

Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez"

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
38 weeks ago

Torquay

Chopin – Grande Valse Brillante Op.18 because my dear old mum could play it and as kids we were mesmerized

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By *sleWightCoupleCouple
38 weeks ago

Ryde

Verdi's Nabucco. Finale, parte terza.

That or Albinoni's Adagio in D Minor.

Or maybe even Dvorak's Symphony No.9.

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By *rbane PlayerMan
38 weeks ago

London

Nessum Dorma from Turandot. I have seen the opera and have that image in my mind, so when now listen to it the piece often moves me to tears.

On a side note, I think classic music often gets an “it is boring” wrap when it is truly endless complex, emotional, thoughtful and up lifting

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By *uzie69xTV/TS
38 weeks ago

Maidstone

All nine Beethoven's Symphonies. There is always one for any mood I'm in.

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

Alpine symphony by Richard Strauss. Its absolutely Breathtaking!

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By *entleman JayMan
38 weeks ago

Wakefield

I went to hear Scheherazade being performed recently. That was great.

Favourite symphony is the London Symphony by Vaughn Williams. Favourite concerto, Paganini Variations, Rachmaninov.

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By *rLordMan
38 weeks ago

Swadlincote

Bach , toccata in d minor

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By *andT2023Couple
38 weeks ago

in the middle

Vivaldi 4 seasons

Nessun dorma

Nimrod

Barbers adagio

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By *eyond PurityCouple
38 weeks ago

Lincolnshire

I’ve been to see Einaudi twice now and he moves me in how at one he is with the music

Another piece that completely draws me in is River Flows in You by Yiruma and Song for Sienna by Brian Crain.

If we are going old school then Bolero by Ravel was one of the first pieces I remember watching the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra play live and I was spellbound

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By *ittleMissCali_MrDJCouple
38 weeks ago

wonderland.

"What's yours? Mine is Mozarts requiem. It's simply divine."
I could not pick a favourite as it depends on my mood. I play both violin and French horn , so very different choices for those.

I'm do however like the planets suite....and the four seasons. However there are some outstanding more modern pieces of music too.

Cali

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By *hy_bbw24Woman
38 weeks ago

Buckinghamshire

Hebrides overture- Mendelssohn

Adagio for strings - Samuel Barber

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By *arkus1812Man
38 weeks ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man- A Mass for Peace

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By *cLovin2Man
38 weeks ago

Reading

Bolero by ravel is undoubtedly the sexiest piece of classical music written ever, at least after you watch the movie 10.

Also fascinated by Johan Strauss's the blue Danube

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38 weeks ago

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. Vaughn Williams.

Simply a genuine masterpiece in the layering of sound, best heard live or through a whomping great Hi-Fi.

Then I would say the works of Michael Nyman for a more modernist approach.

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By *ORDERMANMan
38 weeks ago

wrexham

Greig Hall of the mountain king

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By *undee2Man
38 weeks ago

Dundee

Gosh, so many to choose from. I also enjoy opera. I am torn between Appalachian Springs, Copeland. Karelia Suite. Sibelius. Pictures at an Exhibition. Mussorgsky.

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By *undee2Man
38 weeks ago

Dundee

Of course, I forgot. Eric Morecambe conducted by Andrew Preview.

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By *uri00620Woman
38 weeks ago

Croydon

"Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. Vaughn Williams.

Simply a genuine masterpiece in the layering of sound, best heard live or through a whomping great Hi-Fi.

Then I would say the works of Michael Nyman for a more modernist approach."

I spent hours as a teenager learning the main theme from The Piano. That was pretty much all I could play. But I could for a time nonetheless!

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By *arnayguyMan
38 weeks ago

Durham Tees

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

Cum Dederit by Vivaldi is just gorgeous.

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By *elliflousCouple
38 weeks ago

North West.

Just as an aside here, did you know that Billy Joel had written and released a classical piano album?

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

"Cum Dederit by Vivaldi is just gorgeous. "

Listen to the Andreas Scholl version. I swear this is what heaven would sound like.

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By *arnayguyMan
38 weeks ago

Durham Tees

"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.

My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.

Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.

Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again.

Good call. I think the double violin concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. To think that 300 years ago someone could think up layer upon layer of contrasting and complimentary music, phrase upon phrase perfectly dovetailing with each instrument, with no technology other than Bach's imagination and the live instruments astonishes me. I have a wonderful recording of it with Jascha Heifetz. Utterly sublime.

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By *aramel.desiresMan
38 weeks ago

Holborn

Jaws.

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By *eliWoman
38 weeks ago

"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.

My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.

Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.

Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again.

Yes Barna! It's sublime. The first time I had the pleasure of watching it live I remember being transfixed by the grace of the violinists, the sheer delight of musicality filling the hall. I think it's always going to have a special place in my heart - I've listened to it whilst pulling all nighters studying, whilst being a classical emo. That's what great classical music does, stir something within you and evoke memories, a strong response.

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By *hriscooperMan
38 weeks ago

Warrington

Canon in D. Pachelbel. Goosebumps everytime.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
38 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings

Carl Orff's O Fortuna

Jean Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela

All absolutely beautiful.

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By *oveGiving44Man
38 weeks ago

Bristol

Barber's Adagio for Strings must be the most emotional music I've ever heard.

At the moment I'm on a big Baroque kick.

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By *resesse_MelioremCouple
38 weeks ago

Border of London

Beethoven 7th symphony (2nd movement) (Fricsay or Klemperer)

Bach Chaconne (from violin partita 2) (Hilary Hahn)

Brahms sextet (1) movement 2

Mendelssohn violin concerto (Hilary Hahn)

Several other pieces, but 4 is a good start

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By *resesse_MelioremCouple
38 weeks ago

Border of London

My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.

This almost made the list!

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By *xfordjohnMan
38 weeks ago

Oxford

My current favourite is Rameau and his mid-eighteenth century French contemporaries; a refreshing change from Handel who I've loved for years past but finally decided I need a bit more variety.

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

Shubert’s Serenade, the Meditation from Thais massanet, anything baroque especially Handel, operas, Phillip Glass, Chopin, Puccini… anything!

Lunchtime requests on classic FM haha

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By *ornucopiaMan
38 weeks ago

Bexley

Mostly concertos as there is the chance for the musicians to play variations of cadenzas.

Hard to pick a favourite, so I won't.

I was fortunate in that I had a job where I could listen to Radio 3 much of the time and with the benefit of high quality equipment. I very quickly sampled virtually the entire classical catalogue many times over and eventually moved on to new musical pastures of infinitely greater variety. I heard the modern music scene grow from a handful of 1940s standards to the vast variety it is now.

I hardly ever tune into classical music nowadays but when I do I realise that timeless though it has been, it does less for me now than when it was exciting and often new for me.

It usually jogs some memories and it is always satisfying to know what to expect as the piece plays. That's what makes it classical, but how I also love so many 'classic' works from my own fantastic and constantly evolving musical era.

Until this era, one could potentially have heard, ad nauseam, every work known in your part of the world. We are so lucky now.

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By *arnayguyMan
38 weeks ago

Durham Tees

"I have a real love for Baroque chamber pieces. Baroque in general.

My absolute favourite piece ever is Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Bach because it was the first I played as first violin.

Oh and Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns. And Masquerade Suite:Waltz, Khachaturian.

Actually one more, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach again.

The funny thing is that I have a Christmas compilation album I pull put every year and for some reason it has the 2nd movement on it. I love listening to it on it's own, I completely forgot what it was part of and told myself that I really must treat myself to getting the rest of it one day. Imagine my surprise when browsing through my CDs one day, I pulled out one of my more rarely listened to Heifitz albums and discovered that I had totally forgotten that after Brahms' concerto for violin and cello and Mozart's symphonie concertante was exactly that which I intended to go out and buy. Get in! Thanks for the nudge to listen to it again. I followed it with some Jeff Beck. You can't beat a bit of Baroque 'n Roll.

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

Erik Satie - Gnossiennes I Lent

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

Aaron Copland's Billy The Kid Suite or John Taverner's The Protecting Veil

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

"Aaron Copland's Billy The Kid Suite or John Taverner's The Protecting Veil"

Oh, and Vaughn Williams' The Lark Ascending makes me cry

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

Erik Satie gymnopedie 1

It's the only peice of media that's ever made me cry.

Never had another song evoke an emotion even close to that.

Never seen a film or TV programme that's had an affect close to it.

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
38 weeks ago

Home

Nessun dorma

O fortuna

Time to say goodbye

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By *had_ThunderCockMan
38 weeks ago

a place somewhat adjacent to you…

"What's yours? Mine is Mozarts requiem. It's simply divine."

There are simply too many to mention; however much of Strauss’s work, also the Nutcracker holds fond memories, with going into too much detail Griegs piano concerto in A minor; and finally Blue Danube to finish off.

I could go on & on… but won’t..

oh one more… Lark Ascending- Vaughan Williams…

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By *had_ThunderCockMan
38 weeks ago

a place somewhat adjacent to you…

"Bolero by ravel is undoubtedly the sexiest piece of classical music written ever, at least after you watch the movie 10.

Also fascinated by Johan Strauss's the blue Danube"

@mclovin

Search On YouTube Argentinian Yourh orchestra at the BBC proms circa 2013–15, they did this… maybe the best performance I watched !

It’s sublime and the fella on the snare needed a flipping medal! I cannot recommend highly enough this performance. Seriously. It swells and surges and you cannot help but be taken by its power and its grace. Thank me later!

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By *istr3ssWoman
38 weeks ago

Stockton-on-Tees

Gustav Holst - The Planets

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By *rofessor ElementalMan
38 weeks ago

Durham

Johann Sebastian Bach's Air on the G String. Totally love this serene and elegant piece of music that shows the beauty of simplicity and melody.

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By (user no longer on site)
38 weeks ago

More neo classical but I love Olafur Arnalds

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