Favorite classical work

rsduncan said:

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Symphony No. 8 in E flat major "Symphony of A Thousand"...

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higherFaith said:

I'm surprised Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" was not included by anyone.

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Betsemes said:

If I were to cite a favorite classical work, it would be Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard wagner.

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Eleos said:

Have you heard Horenstein's performance of this masterpiece? You should at least look up his version of the Chorus Mysticus on youtube. Overall I'm not sure that it's my favorite 8th, but the performance of the Chorus Mysticus is undoubtedly the most powerful that I've ever heard. "No longer human voices, but planets and suns revolving." It's a shame that there are so many bad performances of this symphony - or at least that's how I feel in any case. Of course the enormous size of this work and the immense amount of detail which has to go into making a good performance of this symphony make it extremely difficult to get everything just right.

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UncleDave said:

I also have a violin bias. There is so much out there, that favorites change often. The current list: Barber's "Adagio for Strings," V. Williams' "The Lark Ascending," any of the big VC's (Mendelssohn, Bruch, Sebelius, Tchaikovsky, etc), and, though not violin-specific, anything by Grieg (so there'a a Scandinavian bias, too).

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