Do you have a favourite piece of classical music?

For me, I think it would have to be Gabriel Faure's Requiem....I fell in love with it the first time I sang it many years ago. It seems that I might be performing it again next spring with my choir....I am looking forward to that!

I know it must very difficult for classical music lovers to narrow this one down...there is so much to choose from...but the Faure really sticks out in my mind...I am listening to it now!

Mine would have to be Mozarts requiem. I fell in love with it when first performing it.

Mine would have to be Chopin's Ballade in G minor. A very beautiful instrumental and complex piece.

Yes, the Faure is one of my favorites as is Listz's Les Prelude.

Bolero
Nutcracker Suite
Hungarian Rhapsody
Beethoven's 9th
Beethovens 5th.
William Tell Overture

I am so impressed that you sing. I would love to hear you!! I grew up on classical music. We usually have classical of some kind that we listen at night. I also love Baroque and Paschabel. Beethoven, Brahms, Bach. I love Andre Boccelli-he is so amazing and what a beautiful voice. I could listen to him all day. The best of everything to you when you sing. x

Too many to name them all here, but here are some:

-Miserere/Gregorio Allegri
-Requiem/Mozart
-any music by Nicola Matteis
-Flute & Harp Concerto/Mozart
-Moonlight Sonata/Beethoven
-preludes & nocturnes/Chopin
-Adagio/Albinoni
-Vocalise/Rachmaninov
-All-Night Vigil/Rachmaninov
-B minor Mass/Bach

the ballcracker sweet.

Nimrod ~ Elgar
Pavane ~ Faure

Yes, I have many favorites. Here is a short list:
Intermezzos Op.117, No.s 1,2 & 3 - Brahms.(All of the late piano music actually).
Ballades (All four) - Chopin.
Piano Sonatas (All thirty two) - Beethoven.
The Goldberg Variations - Bach.
The Enigma Variations - Elgar.

Edit: Nun komme der heiden heiland BWV659 - Bach (which I was just listening to - if you think baroque is all intellect and no soul check that one out!)

Yes...nearly impossible to pick one favorite...but here are a few at the top of my list:

Chopin - Polonaise-Fantasie
Chopin - Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor
Chopin - Scherzo No. 3 (Martha Argerich made me love this)
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 & his Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (both played too often, I know)
Gyorgy Ligeti - anything but esp. his Piano Concerto, his opera Le Grand Macabre, his etudes "L'escalier du Diable" and "Desordre", and his choral wk Lux Aeterna (used in 2001 space odyssey)
Bela Bartok - anything but esp. his 1st Piano Concerto and his Piano Sonata
Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
J.S. Bach - Toccata in C minor
J.S. Bach - Concerto for Violin and Oboe in d
J.S. Bach - Double Violin Concerto in d
Corelli - Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 8 (Christmas)
Brahms - 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79
Joseph Schwantner - ...And the Mountains Rising Nowhere
Robert Beaser - Piano Concerto; Psalm 150
Samuel Barber - Piano Concerto and his Sonata
Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance (from El Amor brujo) and Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
There are sooo many more...it's hard to limit...

hmm for me it has to be the awesome symphony no7 by shostokovich (the lenningrad). written during the time of the attempted invasion by the germans into Lenningrad, it depicts the national feeling and impact of war really horrifically. indeed the first 2 movements where written whilst shostokovich was working as a fireman in leningrad (only as he could not get into the army!!) it's bold, heavy, horrific and the last movement is so full of hopeas he depicts the destruction of the germans, so after 50 mins of shear emotional tourture, it really uplifts you...great stuff check it out!!

other than this it has to be anything by elgar (more english than a good ol cuppa tea!!!!!

Bolero!

I love many different composers and pieces... Holst's 'The Planets - Jupiter' is very moving for me... I very much love cello and piano, especially from Chopin and Beethoven... but I really love all forms of Classical music, including some music for opera.

The Piano Nocturnes of John Field definitely rank right up there too!!! Check them out if you get a chance!!!
- El Chupacabra -

At the moment it is the Chaconne by Bach and the Chaconne by Vitali. I love them both.

i love the"nutcracker"

Vivaldi's Violing Concerto in D.

if i can only pick one, it is poulenc's opera 'dialogs of the carmelites', and if i have to pick one scene, it's the final guillotine scene and death march. gruesome and mind-numbingly beautiful.

I always kinda fall in love with the pieces I conduct. At this moment I am studying "Requiem f眉r einen Polnischen Jungen" by a contemporary german composer "Dietrich Lohff"
It is heartbreaking music, it remembers the victims off fascism in WO II, but allso other victims.
I carry this music almost 24 hour a day with me.

I agree with BoosGram.
I love a lot of it! Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Hayden.
It's just elegant.
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it is easy for me to pick one...coz whatever music that i am working on right now would be the favourite piece of music for me...

At the moment, I am preparing Geroge Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and corelli theme variaions by Rachmaninoff, Schumann's carnival for upcoming piano recital, in which i love them all. ^^