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what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?

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Soaring Bear
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10/18/2009 6:26 PM

Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?

nice thread. bump.

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Anonymous Coward
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10/18/2009 6:33 PM

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All of this music is crap.

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10/18/2009 6:44 PM

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Mantovani Theme From Exodus George Orwell was right..Black is White, Up is Down, War is Peace...

Tracy
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10/18/2009 11:52 PM

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Absolute favorite is Walter Murphy/Robin Thicke version of Beethovens Fifth Symphony...When I Get You Alone. I play it full volume...its so brilliant!!!!!; [link to www.youtube.com]

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10/19/2009 1:25 AM

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NO DOOM FOR MILES! Quoting: shapeshifter simon and garfunkle; the sound of silence.

melonkali
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10/21/2009 12:33 AM

Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?

Wow, what a great thread. Many beautiful pieces I'd never heard before, and outstanding versions of the ones I did know.

I'm offering two different links/versions of a 10 minute piece I hope some will enjoy: the 2nd movement (Adagio) of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (classical guitar and orchestra).

The first link is (IMO) the finest rendition of this work ever done, by guitarist Pepe Romero and the small Academy of St. Martin in the Field orchestra -- they put so much into this performance, you'd have to be made of stone not to "feel" the emotion in the music.

Toward the end of the video, the camera shows a closeup of a young violinist, still playing, with tears in his eyes. The old (blind) man shown in cutaways in the video is Joaquin Rodrigo (the composer) himself, along with his wife.

BUT

The above video clip cuts short, omitting the last few bars that contain the guitar's simple ascending harmonics -- crucial to the end of this work, which Rodrigo wrote during his darkest hour.

Rodrigo's wife had just delivered their first child, stillborn, and Rodrigo's wife was still in critical condition. They had honeymooned in Aranjuez. This adagio movement is the heart of the concerto, containing all Rodrigo's emotions: grief, fear, hope, sorrow, anger with God, and finally, at the end, a resigned peace that ends with delicate ascending harmonics, representing his child's soul ascending to heaven.

So, I provide a SECOND LINK to an acclaimed John Williams (guitarist) version, which is outstanding (many peoples' favorite), and brings closure.

The link to the Romero version:

The link to the Williams version:

BTW: this is my first attempt at posting links. I'll check them after this posts and if I've messed up, I'll edit. Here's hoping...

Thanks again for this wonderful thread.

rebecca

Last Edited by melonkali on 10/21/2009 at 12:38 AM

Anonymous Coward
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10/21/2009 11:48 PM

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Hey Melonkali, those are my choices as well!!! I LOVE all of Joaquin Rodrigo's guitar concertos!!!!!!

Anonymous Coward
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10/22/2009 12:17 AM

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DOOM MUSIC!!!

Anonymous Coward
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10/22/2009 11:14 PM

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Capriccio Italien/Tchaikovsky

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10/22/2009 11:19 PM

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Capriccio Italien/Tchaikovsky I especially love 4:25 to 5:45 and onward.

S.I.
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10/22/2009 11:22 PM

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Maksim......Hungarian Rhapsody

ToSeek
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10/22/2009 11:47 PM

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Deleted for better try. Last Edited by ToSeek on 10/22/2009 at 11:48 PM

ToSeek
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10/22/2009 11:49 PM

Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?

Lots of great stuff in this thread. Here are some of my favorites not mentioned yet (that I saw):

Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
(A wonderful short piece if you only have a few minutes and need some music to cheer you up.)

Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, finale
Carl Sagan used the final bars of this in the last episode of Cosmos to underscore all that would be lost if we humans didn't take better care of ourselves and the planet we live on. I couldn't imagine a better choice. (If you don't have time for all of it, at least listen from 4:55 to the end - an immense struggle and triumph captured in a mere 90 seconds of music.)

Last Edited by ToSeek on 10/22/2009 at 11:50 PM

shapeshifter
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10/23/2009 12:14 AM

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the only types of music I really like is classical or heavy metal

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10/23/2009 12:15 AM

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BRAHMS FTW

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aardvark
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11/7/2009 6:46 AM

Re: what's the greatest classical music piece you've heard?

I really like this

[link to www.youtube.com]

Edit, different link

'En aranjuez con tu amor'

Last Edited by Celtic (Pictavian) on 11/7/2009 at 6:49 AM

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aardvark
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11/7/2009 6:51 AM

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Ahh, melonkali beat me to it

Nice

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Arcaneshift
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11/7/2009 7:39 AM

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Whats that music in Apocalyse Now - with the helicopters flying up the river - Valkyrie? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 792998 It is very hard to choose but Wagner's work is a must have.

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11/10/2009 3:08 AM

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Whats that music in Apocalyse Now - with the helicopters flying up the river - Valkyrie? It is very hard to choose but Wagner's work is a must have. Quoting: Arcaneshift 812575 great doom music

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