Favorite Piece of Music

What is your favorite piece of music? I cannot say for sure what mine is, but it might be Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Also not sure about mine... probably Brahms's Academic Festival Overture. Probably says a lot about me.

That's a great piece...good choice. I'd rather listen to that than any of the four symphonies, frankly.

My favourite piece of music...that's impossible to say. It changes daily.

Corelli - Concerto Grosso Op. 10 No. 6 - Allemanda.

It's been that way for years, and I have no idea why. Ah well.

Arvo Part 2nd symphony, most definitely one of the greatest :D

I'll agree with Mr.Graham on this one - It does change daily, It's very hard to say "Here's my Favourite Piece of Music" but for Now, I'll go with Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto . (I'll probably post another favourite tomorrow - which reminds me - Merry Christmas People.

Akhil G.

hi

for me it is defintely Charlie Parker's Take Five, I hope you all have a great Christmas as well!

Beth

My favorite piece of music, eh? Well, as most of the others have said, it changes daily. Usually it is a Chopin polonaise. They are, in the lack of a better word, orgasmic. At the present moment however, my favorite piece of music is Mozart's 'motet'; exsultate jubilate.

EDIT: It just changed to Evard Grieg's fugue in f minor for string quartet, gah...

EDIT #2: Hehe, now it's Anatoly Liadov's Mazurka op 15, no 1.

Current favorite piece - Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony - or maybe Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra.

My favorite piece of music is the full Firebird Suite by Stravinsky. That hasn't changed in a few years. Before that, I liked Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue best.

The Gabriel Faure Requiem Mass...never in my life have I felt so close to God as when I sang 'Hosana in Excelsis' at the top of my lungs in a Catholic cathedral in the middle of a huge bass section. It moved me in such a magical way, that I can't help but thank God for everything, all the bad all the good...all the things I am jaded about....Linda, I miss you

pieces like that are why I compose, why music is me why my passion is to create music....

Top 3:

* BACH, Johann Sebastian: Matthäus Passion (cliché, I know...)

* PROKOFIEV, Sergei: Piano Concerto Nos. 2 and 3 (spicy)

* HENDERICKX, Wim: String Quartet 2 "The Seven Chakras" (whiha)

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Regards

Korneel

Maurice Ravel - "Boléro" for Orchestra (or, as I call it, "chills and goosebumps")

Presently: Schubert- 4th Symphony "Tragic" 2nd movement

I think Boléro is inexplicably repetitive and can bore one to death.

I have a new top 6. Here shown in no particular order

* Beethoven - Piano sonata no 13

* Beethoven - Piano concerto no 5

* Grieg - String quartet in Gmaj

* Grieg - String quintet in f minor (unfinished)

* Mozart - Symphony no 39

* Prokofiev - Violin concerto no 1

I really recomend the string quartet, passionate stuff.

Arvo Part symphony n.2!!

Tree by Johnathan Newman!(the triple quartet)

Hmm... You have provoked my interest, Chad. Do you know where i can download a performance of Part's second symphony? :)

Currently my favorite pieces are anything by Aaron copland

uhh... Amazon! maybe, it is one of his older works, and I have no idea if it be on the internet.

My favourite piece of music is Yesterday by Beatles of course :D and my second favourite is music made by the norwegian band: royksopp!

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Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E- Flat!! I LOVE that piece. Although, IF you have never heard it before (You all SHOULD have heard it before! *cough* Nico... *cough* :happy: ..... JK) make sure you listen to a good performance of it. When it's played badly it sounds horrible! (Well, it's IMPOSSIBLE for Mozart's music to sound horrible :laugh: ). It'l sound bad.

It does change from time to time, though. Sometimes its Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" Overture, and sometimes it's Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutti" Overture and other times it's Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E- Flat. :D Oh, and also Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 in E- Flat.

-William

Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E- Flat!! I LOVE that piece. Although, IF you have never heard it before (You all SHOULD have heard it before! *cough* Nico... *cough* :happy: ..... JK) make sure you listen to a good performance of it. When it's played badly it sounds horrible! (Well, it's IMPOSSIBLE for Mozart's music to sound horrible :laugh: ). It'l sound bad.

Which one? The one for violin and viola, or the one for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn? They're both in E-flat.

Which one? The one for violin and viola, or the one for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn? They're both in E-flat.

Oh yeah! I forgot there are two of them...... The one for Violin and Viola :thumbsup: . That one is so awesome....