Your Favourite Classical Music Pieces

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

There are better perfomances out there, but how many classical pieces could be performed by two metal front women during a concert?

 

[hilts]

There isn’t a lot of money in it, even if you are in The Sixteen.

I guess the richest choir members would be in Pentatonix.

I just do it as a hobby. I’m part of a Baroque choir that performs with a period orchestra, where they play instruments as they would have been in the 17th century.

Wow good work fella

 

[knuckles]

How about a vocal version?

Just wow, hairs standing up on the back of my neck stuff!!!

 

[cucumberman]

Skimmed through the whole thread so that I don't post a duplicate. A few of the good ones have already been posted such as Debussy.

I like Nicolo Paganini's work



Caprice No.5


And the fan favourite, Caprice. No.24
.

There are other Caprices for solo strings. No. 6 is good too.


Aside from the classics, I like orchestral arrangements in general. I still believe Silverchair's Tuna in the Brine arrangements is one of the most satsifying modern orchestral arrangements to date. I rate Tuna in the Brine close to Bohemian Rhapsody in terms of arrangement complexity, though maybe I have this opinion because I'm not that big a fan of Queen (I'm a Led Zep fan).



Tuna In the Brine with the band included. Silverchair, for most grossly underrated and should be inducted in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.

 

[knuckles]

Skimmed through the whole thread so that I don't post a duplicate. A few of the good ones have already been posted such as Debussy.

I like Nicolo Paganini's work



Caprice No.5


And the fan favourite, Caprice. No.24
.

There are other Caprices for solo strings. No. 6 is good too.


Aside from the classics, I like orchestral arrangements in general. I still believe Silverchair's Tuna in the Brine arrangements is one of the most satsifying modern orchestral arrangements to date. I rate Tuna in the Brine close to Bohemian Rhapsody in terms of arrangement complexity, though maybe I have this opinion because I'm not that big a fan of Queen (I'm a Led Zep fan).



Tuna In the Brine with the band included. Silverchair, for most grossly underrated and should be inducted in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.

The skill of the musician is quite amazing, the amount of practice that must have been done, and the confidence they have to play such complicated pieces, yep amazing.

 

[cucumberman]

The skill of the musician is quite amazing, the amount of practice that must have been done, and the confidence they have to play such complicated pieces, yep amazing.

Yes Paganini’s pieces are very intricate and for the time unorthodox. Some refer to him as the heavy metal of classical music, because his pieces employ what the guitar term equivalent of shredding, hammer-ons and pull offs. He uses dyads and triads and chords, Caprice No.24 is the best example.

A bit like Jimi Hendrix but on the violin.

But to be fair to other classic names, each are famous because if having distinct styles. Debussy has his, Liszt has his. Tchaikovsky has his.

For the record, I’m not classically trained, so classically trained folks would have better ears for these things. I just like the sound of Paganini’s work out of all of them.

 

[Del_Bosque]

Ave Maria

 

[ESP Blue]

Blue Danube, as in 2001, A space Odyssey.

 

[Protein Junkie]

The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst and not forgetting the Three Piece Suite by Arthur Negus !

The Planet Suite is my number one.
Gustav Holst - brilliant English name btw