I thnk that Mozart's 21st piano concerto is awesome.
Especially how and why it came to be written and what happened next.
Yeah haven't even got to start posting any mozart pieces in my mind mozart and bach are untouchable as far as compositional genius
Quoting: shapeshifter
knowing nothing about music theory but being a music lover anyway, I have to say Mozart and JS Bach sound to me like the most beautiful logic or math. My gut says to me that listening to their music is like listening to a Steven Hawking (sans the robot voice) take the incredibly complex nature of the universe and boiling it down to a set of arithmetic principles/ equations and then explaining it to a moron like myself.
Those guys were hooked into something greater than themselves when they were creating.
Not to say that someone like a Beethoven or a Puccini or a Wagner et al can't rip your heart to shreds, It's just imho something slightly different.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 415858 10/13/2009 9:33 AM
Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?
Listen to the whole thing on a long drive. Very powerful.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 367933
It takes you through a very long journey of emotions, and in the end, a triumph. It's just beautiful. So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.
"Yes I will, dammit!" - Drakensang
Anonymous Coward User ID: 766937 10/13/2009 8:10 PM
Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?
The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
2nd Movement "Romance - Larghetto"
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 653227
Just heard this last week, a young woman studying piano with our symphony conductor played it in recital as a warm up to a competition she is going to.
The conductor (also a world class pianist) played the symphonic reduction score on a second piano. It was truly an amazing performance. From FairbanksAlaska.
"Is God Willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"
- Epicurus
Anonymous Coward User ID: 792561 10/14/2009 4:04 AM
Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?
Love the Flower Duet and that is a very well done version.
Anyone want to weigh in on Slavic composers ? I really like Moussorgksy's Pictures at an Exhibition (the piano version, more than the orchestral version).
For sheer vocal / emotional power stripped down to fundamentals, I would have to go with Verdi's Requiem. Got to sing it once in a big choir with an excellent orchestra and soloists, that was definitely transformational music.
Thanks to the OP and all the posters, what a great late-night thread !
SEVEN THUNDERS, NLI User ID: 616315 10/14/2009 4:16 AM
Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?
A 3RD POSTER VOTE HERE FOR RACHMANINOFF. THE MAN COULD COMPOSE LIKE SNOW & WIND SWEEPING ACROSS THE RUSSIAN STEPPES. EVOCATIVE OF THE GEOGRAPHY.
DITTO FOR VIVALDI AND BAROQUE ERA. YOU CAN SMELL FRAGRANT TUSCANY IN THE AIR WHEN IT PLAYS. ITS MAGICAL STUFF.
BUT FOR SOME ODD REASON, NOTHING PLEASES ME MORE THAN TO HEAR AN ACOUSTIC/INSTRUMENTS ONLY VERSION OF THE WEXFORD CAROL. THE PLAINTIVE SOLITUDE OF SHEPHERDING LIVESTOCK ON A GREY COLD WINTER SOLSTICE DAY COMES TO MIND.
IT IS A TIME CAPSULE OF THE 12TH CENTURY LIKE NO OTHER PIECE OF MUSIC I KNOW. I GROW DEEPER IN APPRECIATION OF IT AS TIME PASSES.
You got it, my master killer friend. It is said that when Beethoven debuted this piece that the people were so moved by this movement (2nd) from his 7th symphony that they rushed the stage and made him conduct it again. It so perfectly captured the pathos of the time and the struggle of the peasantry that it struck a nerve like no other music ever had.
I also read a a channeled book long ago in which the spirits were asked if there was any human music that could qualify as the music of the god's and they cited this exact movement of this symphony.
Finally, this was played at the memorial service I believe for the Oklahoma City bombing victims.
Luminous ~Waiting~ User ID: 296954 10/14/2009 6:50 PM
Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?
"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." ~ James Thurber
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." ~ Winston Churchill
Anonymous Coward User ID: 794147 10/14/2009 6:54 PM
Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand..
Thessalonians Chapter 5:33
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand..
Thessalonians Chapter 5:33
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape
Chopin - Heroic Polonaise Op. 53 - Arthur Rubinstein
Beware of Lucifer coming as an Angel of light.
Daniel 8:25
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand..
Thessalonians Chapter 5:33
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand..
Thessalonians Chapter 5:33
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape
easy choice OP, ez. this reminds me of the human mind.. an endless sea of quartets.
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in my mind mozart and bach are untouchable as far as compositional genius
wouldn't take a battle on the guitar with this dude lightly 
