# Recommend some classical music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-classical-music/334819>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 9, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-classical-music/334819 "2005-12-09T03:17:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-classical-music/334819/41 "2005-12-14T06:48:31Z")

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> [@missbunny](#):
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> Really? Who else in the thread suggested it? I can’t seem to find it.
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> Thanks for the comment though. Perhaps next time you can leave the insults out of it? Or maybe you could just play and record it for us, since it’s so trivial.
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> Oh, and :p, whatever that is supposed to mean.

Sorry, I was misremembering the earlier suggestions for Prokofiev’s third. And yes, I consider them both to be trivial and inconsequential compositions - insults maybe, but insults directed towards men who aren’t around to hear them.

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-classical-music/334819/42 "2005-12-14T20:23:09Z")

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You can’t beat Beethoven for this kind of thing, IMHO. The most appropriate symphonies have already been mentioned, but I’d add the _Waldstein_ piano sonata (no. n23?) first movement, the _Pathetique_ piano sonata (no. 8) first movement, and of course the _Moonlight_ piano sonata (no.14) third movement.

Oh, and Elgar’s 'cello concerto.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-classical-music/334819/43 "2005-12-14T20:33:47Z")

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The suggestions thusfar just about cover it. Stravinsky, Wagner, and Holst will be a great start. Orff should be next on the list.

Brahm’s 1st and 4th are also great. Sibelius’s 2nd is a must-have.

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**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-classical-music/334819/44 "2005-12-15T01:03:12Z")

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No organ music fans on this board? Granted it’s never as rattling on a recording as it is live. Try Bach’s “Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor” (as with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, you’ve probably heard it before), Widor’s “Toccatta” from Symphony Number 5 and maybe Mendelssohn’s “War March of the Priests”, which is also pretty good in orchestral arrangement.

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