Whats some good classical music?

[evolvedbullet]

Basiclly what the name of the thread is. I only got some enya and some Immediate music songs. Thanks .

 

[AgentJean]

Flight of the Valkyries
Mars The Bringer Of War

This is the only "classical" music I have besides Ode to Joy and In the hall of the mountian king.

 

[Ika]

Pachabell's (sp) Canon in D

Band: Bond

They take classical songs and basically recreate them with techno and rock vibes. They have some excellent songs, especially on CD Explosive.

 

[ProviaFan]

A few random selections that I like:

Beethoven's symphonies 3, 5, and 9 (all are good, but those seem to be the most well known)

Piano concertos by Rachmaninov (the 3rd especially), Liszt, and Brahms.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Do you mean "classical" as in symphonies, operas, concertos, Mozart, Chopin, etc...

or "classical" as in classically-inspired artists such as Rhapsody, Camelot, Savatage?

 

[Tastypoo]

Mozart is pretty awesome, try some of him. It supposedly raises your IQ too.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Yeah, Mozart is also supposed to raise the IQ of plants I heard.

lol... tastypoo... great name!

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Tastypoo
Mozart is pretty awesome, try some of him. It supposedly raises your IQ too.

Mozart is great, but the IQ stuff is BS. (edit: not quite BS, but certainly nothing as great as everyone seems to be claiming)

 

[datalink7]

Rachmoninoff is my favorite band, though Beethoven is a good band too. If you like the piano, check out the band "Chopin."

 

[evolvedbullet]

Any Piano solos?

 

[everman]

Classical is a giant genre, what exactly do you want?
Piano Solos? Moonlight Sonata is my favorite.

 

[Tastypoo]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan

Originally posted by: Tastypoo
Mozart is pretty awesome, try some of him. It supposedly raises your IQ too.

Mozart is great, but the IQ stuff is BS. (edit: not quite BS, but certainly nothing as great as everyone seems to be claiming)

Hmm, good to know thanks.

 

[ChaoZ]

Canon in D is the only classical song I like aside from Final Fantasy tunes.

 

[evolvedbullet]

idk the genres of classical. Sry I cant be specific

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: evolvedbullet
Any Piano solos?

Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata 2 is great, as are his preludes (I particularly like the preludes in B flat major and G minor from opus 23). Liszt and Beethoven also have lots of piano solo pieces that are worth checking out.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Canon in D is the only classical song I like aside from Final Fantasy tunes.

yeah, i hate that song, pretty worthless

 

[evolvedbullet]

Wasn't there a piano solo that was about waterfalls or something? I can't remeber the name of it.

 

[0roo0roo]

copy paste some of my mp3 names i'm not a fan of how classical is named for the most part...i can't remember the names of most of the stuff i like
Rachmaninoff - 3rd Piano Concerto 1st movement
Rachmaninoff - Prelude No 2 in C# minor
Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.

 

[everman]

Go get everything from Franz Liszt if you like piano.
I really like Yo-Yo Ma, great cellist.
Then of course there's the usual suspects, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Chopin.

And so much more...

 

[0roo0roo]

aaron copland - rodeo (the beef its whats for dinner tune)

 

[DrPizza]

I'm guessing that the suggestions of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. as bands wasn't quite what you had in mind. My collection of stuff is on my other computer; the only band I can think of off the top of my head is California Guitar Trio. They play a lot of classical as well as other stuff on guitars (duh.) I always enjoyed their music. Oh crud... there was someone else who was absolutely amazing on the guitar; I heard it on one of the NPR stations on streaming audio while I was at school one night... I remember writing down the name, but can't remember who it was.

 

[ProviaFan]

I had assumed that, given the nature of the rest of the post, the reference to "bands" was simply in ignorance.

For something a bit more modern, there's always Yngwie Malmsteen's Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Canon in D is the only classical song I like aside from Final Fantasy tunes.

yeah, i hate that song, pretty worthless

can a classical song be worthless? or are you referring to yourself?

 

[thesurge]

Bach - Toccata in D minor
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, 1st movement
Handel - Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D
Bach - Air (from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D)
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (especially Spring and Winter)
Mozart - Horn Conerto No. 3 in E flat, 2nd movement
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, 1st movement
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro - March
Bizet - Les Toreadors, from "Carmen"
Delibes - Notturno, from "Coppelia"
Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave, Op. 31

Definitely listen to Vivaldi-The Four Seasons. (you can listen to it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_%28Vivaldi%29)

 

[Twofootputt]

Originally posted by: thesurge
Bach - Toccata in D minor
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, 1st movement
Handel - Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D
Bach - Air (from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D)
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (especially Spring and Winter)
Mozart - Horn Conerto No. 3 in E flat, 2nd movement
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, 1st movement
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro - March
Bizet - Les Toreadors, from "Carmen"
Delibes - Notturno, from "Coppelia"
Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave, Op. 31

Definitely listen to Vivaldi-The Four Seasons. (you can listen to it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_%28Vivaldi%29)

Great choices. If you would prefer something more modern, try some of Zappa' (Yes, Frank) classical pieces. They are extremely intricate and somewhat hard to follow, but excellent.