Classical music fans who are your favorite composers or artists or compositions or al

Respighi-Pines of Rome, Debussey-Le Mer, Holst-Nine Planet Symphony, Bach-Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Mozart-Piano Concerto #21, Mussorgsky-Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition, Schubert - Ave Maria, Stokowski - Sorceror's Apprentice, for starters.
 
Revisiting Mozart after being counted for a naysayer. LOL. Not a naysayer, just prefer other periods and other instrumentations. I analyzed over 200 Mozart sonatas in a senior workshop on ... sonata forms. So I'm stepping back and looking at some of the things he wrote I didn't analyze with a fresh set of ears, not filtered by academia. A new appreciation, but still gravitate to other things :)
 
Chopin is one of my all time favs, he wrote some harpsicord stuff that is mesmerizing haha. Another would be Bach, not much into Beethoven myself, but nothing against him.
 
I pretty much like all of Beethoven's work but the 6th is my favorite. I also like some of Wagner's stuff (the one's I like, I like a lot, the stuff I don't like, I can't listen to :eek:)
 
Anton Bruckner, Symphony #4
Fritz Wunderlich singing the lieder cycles of Schubert and Schumann
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3
Mozart's Magic Flute

...Just to name a few.
 
Who would have thought that a group of men with .357's on their hip would enjoy and listen to such great music. I salute you all.

Scott
 
I have a fairly substantial collection of music conducted by Herbert von Karajan, mostly the Berlin Philharmonic but some Vienna Philharmonic. I could fill the page with the various pieces, but here are some of the composers: Beethoven, Wagner, Bizet, Suppe', Mozart, Weber, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Verdi, Offenbach, Strauss, Sibelius, Grieg, Vivaldi, Holst.

For favorites, I really like The Planets by Holst and the Four Seasons by Vivaldi.

For a pick-me-up, Carmen/Act 1 - Prelude is a fun piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kveD0pGdEfg
 
My favorite is Beethoven's violin concerto, with the violinist preferably Zino Francescatti.

I like other stuff too, and it distresses me that the Chopin Festival here, three performances about three weeks apart, generally coincide with at least one, often two, performances of the El Paso Symphony. You'd think these two could schedule better than that.
 
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