Secular Classical Music

[Warrior Monk]

What are your favorite pieces?

Mine are the following:

Dvorak - Symphony No.9 "From the New World"

Bartok - Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok - Two Rhapsodies for Violin and Orchestra
Bartok - 6 Roumanian Folk Dances

Shostakovich - String Quartet No.8
Shostakovich - Symphony No.8 "Stalingrad"
Shostakovich - Symphony No.10
Shostakovich - Symphony No.5
Shostakovich - Symphony No.4
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No.1
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No.2
Shostakovich - String Quartet No.3

 

[jameseb]

Anything by Sergei Prokofiev.... particularly the pieces he did for Russia's 'Romeo & Juliet' and 'Alexander Nevsky.'

 

[Tangnefedd]

Beethoven, Mozart, Grieg, Bach, Handel.

 

[ab1385]

Anything by Bach or Beethoven, but my favourite piece is Beethoven's moonlight sonata.

 

[KristianJ]

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
Tchaikovsky's operas (Nutcracker in particular)
Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
Revolutionary Etude - Chopin (plus heaps of his other waltzes and nocturnes)

 

[ps139]

Pachelbel's Canon in D is my all time favorite classical piece.

I also love:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Schehezerade
Beethoven - Ave Maria
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Bach - Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring
Mozart - Rondo alla Turca
Wagner - Flight of the Valkyries
Wagner - Also Sprach Zarathustra
New World
Requiem
Adagio for strings

 

[ab1385]

Canon in D is good, but Im only able to associate it with my housemates wedding now, as that was the piece used for the walking down the isle bit.

Requiem and adagio for strings Ill agree with though