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What is your favorite piece? Mine is Un Sospiro - Liszt

It has to be Mvt.4 of Symphony 7 for me. Either that, or its second movement.

What is your favourite composition by each composer? I made a list of 60 of the most popular composers and my personal favourite work by each. Feel free to add composers to your own list that I'm not as familiar with or subtract ones you aren't. (I'm not very familiar with much after 1960ish so that's why my list doesn't go that far) MONTEVERDI: Vespers  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso Op. 6/2 LULLY: Te Deum  COUPERIN: Le Tic Toc Choc  PURCELL: Come ye sons of art VIVALDI: Gloria  RAMEAU: Suite in E Minor  J. S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 HANDEL: Messiah  C. P. E. BACH: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Wq 170 BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto No. 2 HAYDN: Emperor String Quartet  MOZART: Great Mass in C Minor  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 CHERUBINI: Requiem in C minor  ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville  PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No. 2 SCHUBERT: An die Musik  HENSEL: Piano Trio  MENDELSSOHN: Octet for Strings DONIZETTI - Requiem  BELLINI - Oboe Concerto  BERLIOZ: Roméo et Juliette  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 R. SCHUMANN: Toccata in C C. SCHUMANN: Scherzo No. 2 GOUNOD: Requiem in C  LISZT: Totentanz  WAGNER: Isolde's Liebstode  VERDI: Requiem  BRAHMS: Piano Trio No. 1 BORODIN: String Quartet No. 2 BRUCKNER: Te Deum  J. STRAUSS JR.: Tales from the Vienna Woods SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Sonata No. 1 BIZET: Carmen Suite  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition  FRANCK: Violin Sonata  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 3 GRIEG: Cello Sonata DVORÁK: Cello Concerto  FAURÉ: Piano Trio RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherezade  MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde  DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun  PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly  ELGAR: Cello Concerto  RACHMANINOFF: The Bells SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto  SATIE: Socrate  IVES: Symphony No. 3 R. STRAUSS: Festival Prelude  SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy  RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Pilgrim's Progress  SCHOENBERG: Verklarte Nacht HOLST: The Planets  PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes  GERSHWIN: Variations on "I Got Rhythm" BARTÓK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring  BERG: Three Orchestral Pieces WEBERN: Passacaglia  FALLA: Harpsichord Concerto  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 2 POULENC: Organ Concerto  RODRIGO: Concierto un como divertesmento  COPLAND: Old American Songs  BRITTEN: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra  BARBER: Violin Concerto KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus 

For me is Rach 2,Prokofiev 2 and Brahms 1

My favourites currently Anton Bruckner conducted by Celidibache I’ll add some more soon Please post some as I’d love some new ones to listen to. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X2bbusaOzI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7m119eOys

the best concerto ever written I love everything in it

I am having a Schubert weekend but I might extend it for the whole week.  He has plenty of music to last a week.  A lifetime really but a week for now.   Put your favourite Schubert pieces here.  Maybe we can do this and choose a composer for each week.  

Forced choice for next weeks listening as ABC Classic is having a Beethoven weekend!!!! https://www.abc.net.au/classic/classic-100/beethoven/ I have it on my iPhone. It should be available to most people. It’s the Australian classical national broadcaster.

Third movement of Leo Brouwer Sonata for guitar: https://youtu.be/ZapPlB3a444

https://youtu.be/pGipFrts650

What is your favorite composer? I personally like a lot. For example, Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Strauss, Schumann, Brahms, Handel, and about 10 others if I can remember their names.

hello classical music fan .. i wanted to share with you my favorite symphony and classical music piece .. its symphony no.2 for Rachmaninov and here's the 1st movement in it .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W21USUhx7Bw i hope you like it ..

I will be hosting Classical Music Jeopardy, a new series on the Classical Music Fans forum. I hope you can join us. The prizes - or trophies - are outrageous!!!! I'll be Bach to check up on you participants in a bit and to see who's on the Liszt!

here I will be posting music and art and I hope you'll join me.

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'So, I've decided to write in this language, instead of my own, not to madden you, but to make it less personal. It was silly of me to think that in your eyes I'm more than the hero that killed your butterflies. I can't even write. Look at my poems. They're ridiculously ugly, just like me.' That night, I saw the giant white moon reflected on your lips, and I kissed It. It tasted more like you, than like her. It had your parfume too, and the whole world was jelous, on me and on you, for we were happy like Romeo and Juliet, like Adam and Eve, like Tristan and Isolde, and like Dante and his Beatrice, one meant for the other. Wearing the black dress of night you were like the queen of the giants, a flower that huged the sun without the fear that has you now. And now, well is different, but I still write of your stories from the land of my dreams. And as like before, when I write I'm not brave, I'm just scared of calling you.

Thought you all would enjoy this little story which i received yesterday in a post on-line. Perhaps it's been around here already...thought i'd put it up for those who hadn't experienced it yet.... Minor triad goes into a bar...the WHOLE story: C, E-flat, and G go into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished, and G is out flat. F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough. D comes in and heads for the bathroom, saying, "Excuse me; I'll ju... st be a second." Then A comes in, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and says, "Get out! You're the seventh minor I've found in this bar tonight." E-flat comes back the next night in a three-piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender says, "You're looking sharp tonight. Come on in, this could be a major development." Sure enough, E-flat soon takes off his suit and everything else, and is au natural. Eventually C sobers up and realizes in horror that he's under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of D.S. without Coda at an upscale correctional facility.

What bands or specific albums have qualities comparable (or almost comparable) to classical music? I'm a fan of prog rock and prog metal so I'd appreciate some less known bands I guess.

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