Your Favourite Classical Music Pieces

[Bill Walker]

Ive always loved this. English composer Edward Elgars "Nimrod" ......You will probably know it, its 4 minutes long.
Its part of his Enigma Variations.
Each variation was written to describe his friends musically. Nimrod is a fabled biblical hunter, which Elgar thought described the personality of A Jaeger, one of his best friends.

Its called "Enigma" because Elgar said every movement was based on a much more famous melody, up to date no-one has definitively worked out what.

Sounds particularly good on headphones.

 

[Fourinarow]

I'm a fan of this, by Sir Anthony Hopkins

 

[MellowJoe]

I'm too dumb to appreciate classical music but what kind of sorcery is going on here?

I think it was in Home Alone, with Makauley Kulkins

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

To both perform and listen to. Handel must have been pissed when he wrote this. Utterly mental for singers.

Love it.

 

[Don Karleone]

 

[I'm With Stupid]

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Slightly ruined by it being the Russian national anthem during the Tokyo Olympics.





This one is mental:


And of course, who could forget Grieg's piano concerto?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I'm just listening to this one now. What always strikes me about classical music is that it's always only a matter of time before you find a bit that Star Wars has ripped off. The trumpet at 12:30 in this case.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Adagio for strings - Samuel Barber

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Can’t believe this bastardization of Handel’s “Zadok the Priest” hasn’t been posted and hailed as the most beloved of all classical music.

Not only is it the glorious, much loved, anthem for The Champions League, it is based on Handel’s Coronation Anthem, used for the British monarchy since the early 1700s!

It’s a Bluemoon TWOFER!!