Whats your favorite piece of classical music? or What did you have at your wedding?

In My Humble Opinion
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My favorite pieces are-

Bethovens 9th - Ode to Joy Possibly the greatest ever compostion IMHO

Songs played at our wedding are also right up there:

Pachebel Canon (sp?) - This music almost makes me cry whenever I hear it. I was fine at the wedding until I heard the orchestra starting it for my cue to enter the church.

Trumpet Voluntary - Jerrimiah Clarke (sp?) - Not as much of a favorite as Canon, but a fine piece nevertheless.

There are several more of course, but these are the ones that come to mind. Anyone else?

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I haven’t had a wedding (that I remember), but my favorite classical piece is Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik.”

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All-time best classical: “Ride of the Valkyries”, Wagner.

4

The theme from Schindler’s List.

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I’ll second the motion for Pachelbel Canon. I’m also quite partial to Smetana’s The Moldau.

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I love way too many pieces to have a favorite, but the recessional at our wedding was one of the Hornipes from Handel’s Water Music.

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“Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!”

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Bethoven’s 6th.
Tchaikovski’s 5th.
Too many more to mention.

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My best friend and her husband walked down the aisle to the theme from Black Adder. It was pretty funny to watch the twelve people who got it try to keep a straight face through the processional.

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Hmm my favorite pieces of classical music would have to be Ride of the Valkyries and Moonlight Sonata.

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Bach. Brandenburg Concerto #5. Allegro.

Happy music!

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While we were doing the paperwork at the wedding, a friend played “Carrickfergus” on the flute.

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Elgar’s Nimrod (my favourite and played at our wedding). (/sissy on) It’s the only piece which consistently makes me well up (/sissy off). No idea why. Music’s a hobby of mine and I once spent 3 weeks’ worth of evenings sequencing (think music word-processor) every individual instrument from the score. Sounded great by the end, but each evening I’d end up dehydrated. :smiley:

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Favorite Piece of Classical Music: Probably Beethoven’s 5th Symphony – the Whole thing, not just the opening.

Music we Played at our Wedding: The Shaker Hymn “Simple Gifts” (and variations of it, including Copland’s adaptation). I know, the Shakers were a celibate group, so what were we doing playing a Shaker hymn at a wedding? Well, we liked the music and the sentiment.

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Wedding Music: the standards. So we’re boring. :slight_smile:

Favorite piece: Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, and Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers” from the Nutcracker Suite.

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Instrumental:
Hindemith - “Mathis der Maler”

Vocal:
Mahler - "Das Knaben Wunderhorn

Opera:
Mozart - “Die Zauberfloete”

Not married yet. Gotta think about that one.

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Favourite? A top contender would be pretty much all of Mussorsky’s “Pictures At An Exhibition.”

I have Borodin’s “On the Steppes of Central Asia” (main melody) tattooed around my right bicep. This is in memeory of my father.

My wedding was a big fat hairy mistake, so I try not to remember much about it.

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Favorite: Beethoven’s Pathetique
Wedding processional: I think it was Greensleeves, but that’s not what I asked him to play. It was supposed to be a song by the Chieftains, but I guess he couldn’t get a section the right length, etc.
Wedding recessional: Jersey Girl by Springsteen (the live version!).

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Piano sonata in C minor, Opus 13 no. 8, right?
Just checking.

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It’s rather a shame that I am never going to marry, as it would be fun to have my favorite music played: Lehar’s “Merry Widow Waltz.”