Posted on 12/06/2004 2:06:18 PM PST by Capitalism2003
Howdy Freepers, I just heard Pachabelle's "Canon in D" for the first time, and absolutely loved it...truly amazing stuff. I really don't know how to describe the music but I would love to find more songs like it.
I am looking to get some CD's for Christmas, for myself and others, and was curious what you would recommend? What do you consider absolute must own classical music? In your opinion...aside from Mozart and Beethoven, who are the greatest composers, and what are the greatest songs, of all time?
1812 Overture.
I believe Buddy Holley and the Crickets would be considered classic...
I walked down the aisle to meet my groom to "Canon in D."
I can't include Mozart? Because if I could, I'd say his *Requiem* is a must listen/must have.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Be sure to get "Christmas with the Cambridge Singers", conducted by John Rutter. It has beautiful traditional carols along with some modern ones that are just spectacular.
It's Pachelbel. I'm amazed that you had never heard it before. I've heard it so many times, and played it so many times, that I'm thoroughly tired of it now.
Brandenburg Concertos
Handel's Water Music
Bach's Mass in B Minor
My Life's Been Grand; Merle Haggard.
Gershwin--Rhapsody in Blue
Beethoven--Anything
Vivaldi--Anything
Debussy--Anything (but he was French).
My favorite musical work is Rimmsky-Korsakov's The Maiden Fevronoya (sp?) and the Invisible City of Kitezh.
My favorite composer is either Rimmsky-Korsakov or Anton Bruckner.
"I walked down the aisle to meet my groom to "Canon in D."
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Can I ask you a question? I've played it at more weddings than I care to remember. Why choose that piece of music, most notable as the theme for "Ordinary People," a movie about a disintegrating marriage?
I'm just puzzled by the choice of this obscure piece of music. Before "Ordinary People" came out, it was NEVER requested. Once the film came out, people started requesting it. The association, to me, was just so strange.
Symphony No.25, First movement, Allegro con brio.
String quartet no. 19 in C major, K.465 ("Dissonance")
My favorite classical piece is "The Wildwood Flower" By mother Maybelle Carter on her auto harp.
The Flatt and Scruggs presentation is good, but Mother Maybelle pours her very soul into the piece.
Canon in D is heavenly, to be sure. I also like Rhapsody in Blue; "Seasons" (I think that's the title) by Vivaldi; and the name always escapes me, but, it's the American folk tune that's in the 'beef: it's what's for dinner' commerical.
It was played at my wedding too. Mr. Gun chose it.
Me too! And back out the doors to "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring".
Bach is best.
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