Favorite Classical Music

[VirginiaHuguenot]

What's your favorite classical music?

I like almost everything by Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn. I enjoy Brahm's German Requiem, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Pachel's Canon in D, and Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts music among other pieces...

 

[VictorBravo]

Everything by Bach, Pachelbel's Organ works, most things Baroque.

I agree with you about the Brahms German Requiem, I've been in a group that has performed it several times. The text is all scripture and not at all Catholic.

Beethoven is about as modern as I can stand, except for some of Dvorak and Shostakovich.

Vic

 

[Saiph]

Shostakovich's String Quartets

Anything by Arvo Part

Anything by Messiaen

Mahler, Paganini, Fasch, Gorecki, Handel, Teleman, Bach, Tallis, Tavener, Quantz, Veracini.

 

[Archlute]

Well, even though they're a little early to be considered "classical":

The solo lute works and songs of John Dowland are great favorites.

The choral works of Palestrina.

Bach's passacaglia in C minor for organ, as well as his prelude and fugue in A minor for the same. Most of his other works as well.

Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin, Lennox Berkely, Hanz Werner Henze, John Cage, and the likes for their classical guitar works during the 70's. (later, but in the classical form as well).

 

[Anton Bruckner]

Dvorak's chamber works, especially his string quartets and piano trios.