# Reccomend some good Classical music pieces. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783 "2003-07-30T00:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/1 "2003-07-30T00:27:36Z")
subject says it all. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/2 "2003-07-30T00:31:24Z")
JS Bach Toccata & Fugue in D minor [E Power Biggs organist] George Gershwin Rhaposdy in Blue ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/3 "2003-07-30T00:33:54Z")
Faure - Pavane ?- from Turandot - Nessun Dorma Elgar - Enigma Variations Anything by Rachmaninov, Grieg. Holst or Sibelius Verdi did a few good tunes as well… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/4 "2003-07-30T01:33:11Z")
Classical music to do what to To awake to? To get it on to? To beat someone up to? To dine to? To become one with God to? To become one with Gods to? To be buried to? To be married to? To comit Hari-Kari to? To have a homosexual encounter to? To float around space station to? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/5 "2003-07-30T01:34:31Z")
What do you want? Really obvious shit like Beethoven’s Fifth and Stravinsky’s Firebird? Or cool oblique things like the Prokofiev Violin Sonata and Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass? What are your needs? What are your wants? Help us to help you out, here. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/6 "2003-07-30T01:40:10Z")
No specifics. Anything you like. Anythingt that’s good. I like classical music as a whole, so, anything you think I’ll like. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/7 "2003-07-30T01:42:27Z")
Buy some of those “[composer’s name]'s Greatest Hits” CDs. That might be the best bet so you can narrow down your likes and dislikes further. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/8 "2003-07-30T01:48:42Z")
Sorry, I am have been drinking so it is difficult to narrow down my request. If you just post something that _you_ like, chances are I will like it too. Post your entire classical music playlist if you want. the more replies the better. even if I don’t like what you post. the worst I can do is ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/9 "2003-07-30T03:10:49Z")
_Peer Gynt Suite_ by Grieg. Try it, you’ll like it. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/10 "2003-07-30T03:18:39Z")
Have you considered maybe using the search feature? [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176447) [same](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184916) [topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=188769) [comes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176507) [up](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168205) [once](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=146315) [a month](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164806) ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/11 "2003-07-30T03:23:03Z")
Requiem - Faure Afternoon of a Faun - Debbussey The Rite of Spring - Stravinski Appalachian Spring - Copeland Porgy and Bess - Gershwin Jerimiah – Symphony No. 1 - Bernstein The Shubert Trio Sonatas - particularly 1 and 3 Beethoven - Piano Sonatas (Sonata No. 8 in C Minor (Pathetique), Op. 13, Sonata No. 23 in F Minor (Appassionata), Op. 57, Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor (Moonlight), Op. 27 – but get a good recording Horowitz if available) ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/12 "2003-07-30T03:39:38Z")
Big n’ brassy: The Seven Deadly Sins–Kurt Weill Symphony in F–George Gershwin Slaughter on Tenth Avenue–Richard Rodgers Victory at Sea–Richard Rodgers and others Sacred music: Faure’s Requiem is delicate and lovely, perhaps my favorite–the end of the GLORIA is one of the most incredible moments I’ve had as a chorister. But for different takes, there are famous ones by Mozart, Brahms, and Shubert. The Verdi one is amazing with a DIES IRAE that will scare the hell out of you. Purty n’ quiet: Symphony #3 by Henrik Gorecki Mahler’s symphonies, esp. #4 Der Winterreise, by Schubert; a German song cycle Many, many more, but these are a few of my faves. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/13 "2003-07-31T07:31:02Z")
Bach violin partita #3, BWV 1006 ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/14 "2003-07-31T08:00:27Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* **If you just post something that _you_ like, chances are I will like it too.** :dubious: That certainly does not work for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/15 "2003-07-31T08:27:58Z")
Nice job on the quote tags, DP. A list of 101 composers (from the top of myhead - I probably missed out a few important ones as well) and a suggestion of an interesting composition to start with : Albeniz - Tango Alwyn - Symphony 2 Arnold - Commonwealth overture Bach CPE - Organ concertos Bach JS - Cello suites Bantock - Hebreidan symphony Barber - Knoxville summer of 1916 Bartok - Concerto for orchestra Bax - Tintagel Beethoven - Symphony 6 Bellini - Norma Berg - Violin concerto Berio - Folksongs Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique Bizet - L’Arlesienne Boito - Mefistofeles Borodon - Polovetsian dances Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem Britten - War requiem Bruch - Violin concerto 1 Bruckner - Symphony 9 Chopin - Nocturnes Copland - Appalachian springs Corigliano - Symphony 1 Debussy - La Mer Delibes - Coppelia Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor Dutilleux - Cello concerto 1 Dvorak - Symphony 9 Elgar - Cello concerto Falla - Nights in the garden of Spain Faure - Requiem Finzi - Calrinet concerto Gershwin - Rhapsody in blue Gorecki - Symphony 3 Grieg - Holberg suite Gubaidulina - Jetzt immer Schnee Handel - Watermusic Hanson - Symphony 2 Harty - Irish symphony Haydn - Late string quartets Hindemith - Mathis der Maler symphony Holmboe - String quartets Honegger - Pacific Ives - Symphony 3 Janacek - Mass Kancheli - Nightprayers Krommer - Clarinet concertos Lilburn - Symphony 3 Liszt - Preludes Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orchestra MacMillan - Veni veni Emmanuel Mahler - Kindertotenlieder Martinu - Symphony 3 Mendelssohn - Violin concerto Messiaen - Turangalila symphoniy Moeran - Cello concerto Mussorgsky - Pictures at an exhibition Nielsen - Clarinet concerto Part - Tabula rasa Penderecki - Threnody Piazzolla - Libertango Prokofiev - Romeo&Juliet Puccini - Tosca Rachmaninov - Pianoconcerto 2 Raff - Lenore symphony Rautavaraa - Vincentiana symphony Ravel - La valse Respighi - Fontane di Roma Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade Rodrigo - Guitar concerto Rossini - William Tell overture Roussel - Symphony 4 Rutter - Requiem Salinen - New Zeland diary symphony Schmidt - Symphony 4 Schoenberg - Verklaerte Nacht Schubert - String quintet Sculthorpe - Kakadu Shostakovich - Symphony 7 Sibelius - Violin concerto Smetana - Moldau Spohr - Double quartets Strauss J - Fledermaus overture Strauss R - Don Juan Stravinsky - Rite of spring Szymanovski - Symphony 3 Takemitsu - A flock descends in the pentagonal garden Tavener - The protecting veil Tchaikosvky - Violin concerto Telemann - Tafelmusik Vaughan Williams - Symphony 5 Verdi - Requiem Villa-Lobos - Bachiana Brasilieiras Vivaldi - Four seasons Wagner - Ring der Nibelungen Walton - Facade Weber - Clarinet concertos Webern - Orchestral pieces Widor - Organ symphony 5 Zemlinsky - Lyrische Symphonie ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/16 "2003-07-31T09:40:52Z")
Satie - Gymnopedies Schumann - Rheinische Symphony Should definitely be inthere. :o ---
**Author:** ![rumraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@rumraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rumraisin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/17 "2003-07-31T09:42:35Z")
Bach-- cello suites. Beethoven-- sonatas: pathetique, moonlight Mozart-- die Zauberflote ---
**Author:** ![AV8R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AV8R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AV8R)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/18 "2003-07-31T17:33:36Z")
_ **Rodeo** _, _ **Billy the Kid** _, and _ **Concerto for Clarinet and Strings** _ - Aaron Copland If you want something tranquil and pleasant, listen to Beethoven’s _ **Symphony #6** _. If you are in the mood for something more brassy and ballsy, try Tchaikovski’s _ **Symphony #4** _. my favorite symphonic work: _**Symphony #9 (From the New World)**_ - Antonin Dvorak Music for band: _ **English Folk Song Suite** _ - Ralph Vaughan Williams _ **First Suite for Band** _ - Gustav Holst ---
**Author:** ![Zweistein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/54ee81/32.png) [@Zweistein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zweistein)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/19 "2003-07-31T19:51:52Z")
The Planets, Holst Carmina Burana, Orff Samson, Handel Messiah,Handel Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Fauré Requiem, Lygeti 6th symphony, Pastorale, Beethoven 2th Piano concerto, Rachmaninov 1st Piano concerto, Chopin 1st Piano concerto, Tschaikovsky 1st Violin concerto, Brahms Bolero, Ravel Pictures of an exhibition, Mussorsky - Ravel Pomp and circumstance, Elgar Brandenburg Concertos, Bach Haffner symphony, Mozart Trumpet concerto, Haydn (by Wynton Marsalis) Watermusic, Handel Music for the royal fireworks, Handel Symphony nr5, Mahler Flower duet, Delibes 4 seasons, Vivaldi Symphony nr 3, GORECKI ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783/20 "2003-08-01T00:32:40Z")
What, nobody’s mentioned Beetchoven’s **Emperor Piano Concerto** yet?! You can practically _hear_ Erroll Flynn leaping from tree to tree in his tights! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reccomend-some-good-classical-music-pieces/191783.md?page=2)