Your top 10 pieces of classical music

1. Clair de Lune, Debussy
2. Ninth Symphony, Beethoven
3. Symphony No. 40, Mozart
4. Appassionata Sonata, Beethoven
5. Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin
6. Pictures at an Exhibition (The Great Gate of Kiev), Mussorgsky
7. Bolero, Ravel
8. Ein Klein Nachtmusik, Mozart
9. Peer Gynt (In the Hall of the Mountain King), Grieg
10. Overture, Nozze di Figaro, Mozart

 

Does Metallica playing with that orchestra count?

 

1. The Four Seasons





2. Everything else

 

I love a Gershwin tune. How about you?

 

The entire "Skyline Firedance" cd by David Lanz.

It's actually a two-disc set -- one disc played with a full orchestra, the second disc is the same songs with just Lanz on the piano.

Included is a great classical version of Nights in White Satin.

I lent this disc to a friend years ago and can't remember which friend has it and am jonesing for its return.

 

1. "Mars" from The Planets, Holst
2. Colas Bruegnon Overture, Kabalevsky
3. "Jupiter" from The Planets, Holst
4. Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin
5. 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky
6. Firebird, Stravinsky
7. Bolero, Ravel
8. Peer Gynt, Grieg
9. Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov
10. Peter and the Wolf, Prokoviev

(Non-John Williams category ... many of his works would do well without a video screen)
Honorable mention:
Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky
Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9, Beethoven
Ein Klein Nachtmusik, Mozart

 

I whiffed not having that in there....

 

Fur Elise, which is generic I know, but it holds a very special place in my heart.

 

Appalachain Spring and Rodeo ("Meat - it's for dinner") belong in there somewhere too, as does the 1812 Overture

Love me some "Great Gate of Kiev" and also "Pines of the Appian Way."

 

I'm not much into classical music, but I love listening to Jascha Heifetz.

 

I'm not a big classical music fan, myself. The stuff I like is the classical music that's influenced by popular genres, so yes, Gershwin and Copland. Around Christmas time, I always dust off Prokofiev's "Lieutenant Kije Suite." I like the folk-influenced Slavic guys like Prokofiev and Dvorak. Most of that gloomy, pompous, symphonic shit annoys me.

 

Barber's Adagio for Strings definitely deserves a place on the list. I like a lot of other things that have been mentioned, too.