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What is your favorite classical music?

What are some of Quoran's favorite (single) pieces of classical music?

  • Looking for those single pieces of classical music that have (or had) a strong impact on your appreciation for classical music.

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    Stravinsky. Rite of Spring A seminal work and the turning point for modern classical music. Rhythmically adventurous, harmonically adventurous. Stravinsky used asymmetrical rhythms, percussive dissonance, polyrhythms, polytonality, layering of ostinati and melodic fragments to create complex webs of interactive lines. Every living composer owes a debt to Stravinsky. On top of all that it's exciting, dynamic and seductive.

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Beethoven's Für Elise (Piano version):

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Mozarts Six German Dances K571 Sorry for the cheesy graphics. I love waltzes

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Chopin's "Heroic" Polonaise (Op 53, A-flat) - by Arthur Rubenstein (1887 - 1982):

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Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis". I fell in love with this hauntingly beautiful music as a teenager, and then was thrilled to hear it while watching "Master and Commander".

Michael Levis

Van Cliburn's performance of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto #1 B flat minor opus 23.  It has always been my Mom's favourite ( she was a piano major at university) and she played the LP record for us as children way back.. The grand, triumphant feel of the music is without equal - a fitting "statement" to Van Cliburn's victory in Moscow 1958! ( sadly Mr Cliburn is now battling bone cancer..) Next month (December 2012)  is my mother's 92 nd birthday and my surprise gift for her will be my rendition of that  piano concerto on classical guitar..Happy birthday Mom!  

Tony Schapera

My mother received a jewelry box that played music as a young child; when I was little (and still on occasion), I played the music while I tried on family costume jewelry. I've tried to find the name online, but have no luck. It's known as "Love Story," for playing in the movie of the same name. Although it is said to have been written by Beethoven and is associated with him, I've found information contradicting that. I can play the melody on piano by ear, but I've always played melodies by ear. It's such a beautiful song =] If anyone could help me with the title, I'd tremendously appreciate it!

Katie Ford

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.14 in C-sharp minor ''Quasi una fantasia'', Op.27, No.2 Better known as the 'Moonlight Sonata'.

Alan Cartwright

Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Summer

Lisa Galarneau

Anton Dvorak's New World Symphony did a great deal to help me understand the power and expressive potential of classical music.

Martin Fox

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