Manny people who dont really study classical music think that classical music is relaxing,calming,happy.....BULLish!!!funkING BULLish!!!!yes it can be relaxing,happy,sad,romantic,awfull,it can imagine u a beautifull place without bein in it,it can tell a story,it can be dreamly,magical,sunny,,,,,well it can describe everything in the man´s soul,life moments,nature etc..........but i would talk about music which can make me crazy,excited..........agressive or calming music,mystic,energetic....!!not the best of classical music because there are much more beautifull pieces........below are not all pieces....but.lets get it started greatest music are below Antonio Vivaldi-Summer,3rd mov Mozart Symphony 25 in g moll Beethoven Symphony 5 Allegro Con Brio Chopin Etude op 25 no 12 Mozart Requiem Lacrimosa(oh well my fav part from his requiem) Chopin Polonaise In F sharp Minor Suite of carmen No. 2 "Habanera" - Bizet Vivaldi - Concerto Grosso in G Minor Niccolo Paganini-4th violin concerto 1st mov Rachmaninov Prelude no 25 Brahms,Hungarian Dance No 5 in f sharp minor(originally written in f sharp,but transposed for an orchestra to g min) J.S.Bach-Toccata and Fugue in D minor(well amazing orchestration and interepretation) Beethoven Sonata no 14,3rd move Mozart symphony 39,2nd mov Chopin Etude no 12 op 10 Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor Mozart Symphony 39,Final mov Verdi overture(dis part starting at 0.49 is very famous and simply beautfull) Verdi,La donna e mobile Khchaturian-Waltz from Masquerade Prokofiev-Dance of the Knights Vivaldi-Winter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siDcX3By-NA (html cancelled) Mozart piano concerto 23 adagio in f sharp minor Beethoven string quartet in c sharp minor number 14 final mov Handel-Sarabande Beethoven-Sonata no 23 in f minor,final mov Veracini-violin sonata g moll,3rd mov Chopin-Fantasie Impromptu op 66 Beehoven funeral march from 3rd symphony(umm ignore MGS) Dvorak-Czech suite,final mov E. Grieg, In the Hall of the Mountain King(crazy and magical compo) J.S.Bach-Brandenburg Concerto 3 Mozart Symphony 40,1st mov Beethoven trio in c minor,1st mov Beethoven Pathetique sonata,final mov,rondo Mendelssohn violin concerto in e minor,1st mov Franz Shubert-Serenade(ahh) Haydn-String quartet in d minor,mov 3(this video has 4 too tho) J.S.Bach-Gavotte 1 in g minor Rimsky Korsakov-Flight of the bumble bee A.Borodin-Polovtsian Dances(at 0.59) Beethoven Symphony in f major,1st mov Mozart piano concerto 20 in d minor(ahh the video is so quite) this one from the begining Chopin Polonaise Heroic Mozart Symphony 29 ,Allegro con spirito Vincenzo Bellini-Torna, vezzosa Fillide(great piece,great ending,great singer) Beethoven Symphony 9,Scherzo Mendelssohn piano concerto no 2,1st mov Hector Berlioz-Benvenuto Cellini Mozart Symphony no 1,3st mov Rachmaninov Prelude no 2 in cis moll Chopin ballade 1 in g minor(this one is from pianist movie,its shorter than originall version tho) G.Faure-Pavane Vivaldi-Concerto alla rustica Beethoven sonata 17 in d moll 3rd mov ima post more later if ya want i missed a lot,just need to go to sleep sry fo my ba english

You put in Vialdi but you missed spring, disapointing. Ahh well here's my favourites
Raphsody in Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK_ShoOL2ao

In the hall of the mountain king
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyi3C4gNnE


Fourth movement: "Marche au supplice"(March to the Scaffold)
From Berlioz's program notes:[1]

Have a quick read about this one, the composer is bloody insane. This is the fourth movement of his peice. Basically in his story he has fallen in love with this girl it's taken three movements but here's where it is now:
Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. The dose of narcotic, while too weak to cause his death, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions. He dreams that he has killed his beloved, that he is condemned, led to the scaffold and is witnessing his own execution. The procession advances to the sound of a march that is sometimes sombre and wild, and sometimes brilliant and solemn, in which a dull sound of heavy footsteps follows without transition the loudest outbursts. At the end of the march, the first four bars of the idée fixe reappear like a final thought of love interrupted by the fatal blow.

Berlioz claimed to have written the fourth movement in a single night, reconstructing music from an unfinished project, the opera Les francs-juges.[3] The movement begins with timpani sextuplets in thirds, for which he directs: "The first quaver of each half-bar is to be played with two drum sticks, and the other five with the right hand drum-sticks".[citation needed] The movement proceeds as a march filled with blaring horns and rushing passages, and scurrying figures which would later show up again in the last movement. Prior to the musical depiction of his execution, there is a brief, nostalgic recollection of the idée fixe in a solo clarinet, as though representing the last conscious thought of the soon to be executed man.[4] Immediately following this is a single short fortissimo G minor chord that represents the fatal blow of the guillotine blade; the series of pizzicato notes following represents the rolling of the severed head into the basket. After his death, the final nine bars of the movement contain a victorious series of tutti G major chords, seemingly intended to convey the cheering of the onlooking throng.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7BJQ7LAlo

i kno H.Berlioz but havent really studying and listening his music.......i added a few ones right know above,included this Grieg piece(in the hall of the mountain king) before i read ur post,surely amazing composition.....ahh rhapsodie in blue......George Gerswin.........

Yeh the clarinet trill then gliss at the beginning of rhapsody in blue is my single favourite musical "theme" ever.

Just a question, I find that I tend prefer the pieces with a full orchestra as opposed to just a small string section or solo piano. How about you?

Wow that a lot of music.I have to download some compilations.

yes, "in the hall of the mountain king" is here good work! Grieg was ispired by norwegian fairytales about trolls and ish (what do you think the mountain king is?) and I think he captured that feeling perfectly, so every time I listen to Grieg I think of those old fairytales. Griegs music is really national romantic and he puts a melody to the norwegian culture, thats how I feel about it lol

Fisha-Everything..it can be just a single voice singing beautifull melo and tenor add a harmony......i love fulll orchestra for the big sound,color between diff instruments....solo or just smaller works have its own advantages in the sound,harmony, etc......i m a fan of a solo piano,or ,violin tho....cant really describe my opinion good,cuz of my bad english.....
Skrall-.....well this piece based on norwegian(norse) mythology.......the fulll piece called Peer Gynt Suite(2)(based on Henrik Ibsen play,i really recomend to listen the full both suites),and in the hall of the mountain king is the final mov of the first suite......and i imagine the mountain king as a big troll,with his little trolls(u kno trolls is very famous in norwegian mythology).................yes great work by E.Grieg,but i think everything which is above are a really great epic works,all of em have sumthing unically(ofcourse depends on composer ),a must have for those who love good music......

I love this topic.

i m about to add a new ones now,not only powerfull and major(big,famous) compositions,but romantic,peacefull,sometimes little but amazing works........and dont think i m a classical music only guy,i adore jazz,blues,funk,lot of folklore music and real hip hop.... Petr Iliytch Tchaikowsky-Swan Lake Theme J.S.Bach-Prelude from cello suite 1 Maurice Ravel-Pavane pour une Infante Defunte Debussy-Claire de lune Liszt-Nocturne in a flat Nicolo Paganini-La Campanella Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski -Pozegnanie-Nocturne in G minor Mozart-The Magic Flute-Queen of the Night aria Beethoven sonatina for mandolin and piano in c minor Offenbach -Barcarolle Mozart symphony 14,1st mov Chopin Waltz in A minor no 2 Chopin prelude in e minor Chopin piano concerto in e minor no 1 Beethoven fantasy in g minor Tchaikowsky -Waltz of the flowers(at 1.47) Rameau-L´Entretién des muses Nicolo Paganini-Violin Concerto 4 ,Rondo Mozart-Little Night Music-Allegro(Lively) Mozart Piano sonata in f major,Adagio Beethoven sonata 14,1st mov(best of beethoven?) Johann Strauss 2,Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz Tchaikowsky-Sleeping Beauty Waltz Mozart Requiem-Introitus Vivaldi concerto for two violins in a minor Tchaikowsky Symphony 5,2nd mov Dvorak-Symphony for the new world(Epic) Glinka-Nocturne in e flat Mozart Violin sonata 21,2nd mov Mozart Piano Concerto 9 In e flat,2nd mov Mozart piano concerto 20,finale-rondo Mozart Piano concerto 22,3rd mov Mozart Horn Concerto 4 ,Rondo Chopin Prelude in d flat no 15 Raindrop Albinoni-Concerto no 11 in g minor J.S.Bach-Air on g string Chopin.Nocturne op 9 in e flat Beethoven Emperor Concerto,2nd mov J.S.Bach prelude and fuga 18 from well tempered clavier Rameau-Tambourine Tchaikowsky-Dance of the sugar plum fairy Albinoni-Adagio in g min Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor Chopin Mazurka no 4 in b minor Franz Shubert -Impromptu F sharp Major

i love swan lake. tchaikovsky and chopin are my two favourite classical composers. When it comes to contemporary composers, I love a lot of Philip Glass's work, especially his solo piano stuff. check this link. the lady that play's it is increidible. such a wonderful piece

...would be honest..i dont really like modern piano music.but..its not bad for the modern standart,gets boring fast tho,need some variety on the rhythm form,melody and harmony.........but interesting harmony(interesting but repetitive),i can see this in the movie,i wish it has melody,for example melodic bass when the highest notes play arpeggios

i hope u wouldnt be angry for my criticism and my imho

i hope u wouldnt be angry for my criticism and my imho

nah man, why would i be angry? i didn't write the piece, so it's not like you're criticizing me. I understand why you'd think it's boring - one of philip glass's defining characteristics is his use of repetition, but i have to say i disagree that tha makes it boring. to begin with, you can hae an incrediby complex song, which doesn't communicate any emotion,and you can have a simple song that conveys a lot of emotion. and to me, music is about how it makes you feel. it's like women. for instance, i can see a pretty girl and be like "yeah, she's beautiful", and not be attracted to her, and at the same time see someone who's not that pretty but be like "she's got sex appeal, and i like her character, so i find her attractive". So it's the same with music.
Also, music is about intensity,and part of that intensity is build, and that links to rises and drops in volume. for instance, notice how the woman emphasises different parts of the song and builds up the volume to give it climax - that doesnt change the melody, but it changes the way you feel! It's the same with tempo. And Philip Glass uses changes volume and tempo very cleverly,soi don't think the piece is as simplistic as it looks on paper.
Plus, we're on a beat-making site, and if you like your hip-hop, then repetition shouldn't be a problem for you, you know what i mean?

when i listen to hip hop music...yes its repetitive,but thats whats hip hop mostly bout..........but when it comes to listen to piece of music its another story....aight lets take some example of repetitive musical form(rhythm,ornament etc)....uumm...beethoven adagio sostenuto from his 14 th sonata....u can see right hand playing arpegios thru the whole piece and right hand mostly the bassline.....but the piece never get boring....becuase it has full life in it....it has begining,main theme,modulations,climax,pedal point,calming parts etc......the piece tells a story,it lives.....and in case of this philip glass´,its just need to variate harmony to make it tell me sumthing.......and right now i only hear a piano loop.......nice piano loop..........

and as i said i m more a classical and jazz guy,so i dont really know bout modern piano and orchestral music.....but as i know there are lot of modern piano compositions which are turly repetitive,so dont reall care