[Chi-townChief]

I have to go with the more "pop classics", if you can call them that:

- Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody #2
- Beethoven's 9th - 2nd movement
- Handel's Water Music
- Rossini's Thieving Magpie Overture
- Bizet's Carmen Suite
- Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie
- Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite
- Beethoven's 5th Symphony in its entirety
- Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz
- Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic

[T'wit]

Thank you for your last nomination, the Battle Hymn of the Republic. I was savoring it too, but it was so far off the list, I doubted that it would come up. Yet... performed well... it has more emotional power -- goosebumps! -- than anything else mentioned, except perhaps Ode to Joy. It ought to be our national anthem.

[TX Bluebonnet]

The Thieving Magpies. My Dad has a music box that plays that. It's wonderful. I may have to look for that on CD. Any particular recording you would recommend?