Classical Music

Was listening to desert island discs last night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00y203s/Desert_Island_Discs_30_01_2011/

and got me thinking there was no specific classical music thread, I really don't have much depth in my knowledge of classical music, but whenever people have recommended pieces to me in the past I have usually really enjoyed them. Thought this might be a good way of people to impart the knowledge of classical music, as I know there is a few classical musicians knocking about.

My starter 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWwBh0dzgi4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkd62qqwoh8

i'll post some tunage for you.. i only played the oboe at school to get out of RE.. lol

masterpiece from wolfgang amadeus mozart
YouTube - Overture to Marriage of Figaro - Mozart

and the epic rach 3
YouTube - Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 (1939)

good call.

Messiaen is my current favourite

YouTube - Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps - I. Liturgie de cristal, Kymia Kermani, clarinet

YouTube - Schubert - Death and the Maiden (part 3)

YouTube - Schubert - Death and the Maiden (part 4)

everyone's favourite

YouTube - Pachelbel's canon in D Major - Very nice version

or was it this one..

YouTube - Gustav Holst - The Planets - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

YouTube - The Gadfly by Shostakovich (best version)

YouTube - Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 In C Minor Op. 110 II.Allegro Molto

I love shostakovich.

Quite an interesting thread for me as I'm actually a classical musician - nice to see some enthusing for the subject. Some pretty interesting stuff coming out already, certainly didn't expect to see any Messiaen here. Shostakovich as well! LFGSS - full of cultural fuckers

if you can find a piece of music that defines a country more beautiful than this..

YouTube - Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo II-Adagio

let me know..

quintessentially English start to the latest music thread
Pachelbel part of any musical education (they play to the the kids to calm them down)
Messiaen- now your talking, some out there stuff in his repertoire,
I play flute and love it,
I dig Villa- lobos
Debussy, Dusapain, Jolivet, Varese, Roussel, Faure
and there isnt anything wrong with a good bit of Bach in the morning,
actually , in the evening either Gonna get the Brandenberg #3 on now--jazz yeah!

last one from me.. this guy rocks..

YouTube - Dragon Songs: Spring Dance (Lang Lang)

i would pay good money to hear him play.

Go to spotify, search for Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs. George Szell/Elizabeth Schwarzkopf.
When I hear this music it reminds me why I'm a musician

Gets me everytime...

YouTube - Gorecki Symphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs" - Lento e Largo

As bad as the poetry thread(s) :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCaaPaQx5zg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTu_Jreo1SQ

For anyone feeling suicidal, this probably won't help... beautiful though

nice. i have no clue to classical music all above posts listened to and are very nice esp like shostakovich no 8 c minor one intense!!! i started work he other day at 4:30 am and was scanning threough the radio it was all rubbish then ended up on radio 3, it fitted forthat time and helped me through till 11 am..nice

as said i know nothing but this piece of music has stuck with me since i was a kid and those two ice skaters did there thing!! but i think its a beautiful bit of music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urfjyj4FnUc

just thought is like posting mc hammer in the hip hop thread!!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7vOb7GNBg

This does it for me

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The Thieving Magpie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0LzOEZjww

just thought is like posting mc hammer in the hip hop thread!!

No-one else seems to mind!

I fucking love radio3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_three

Jazz on 3! Jazz thread>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I've all of a sudden got a lot more enthusiastic about this forum, maybe even moving to that London even.