Your Favourite Pieces.

[TheSound]

Great thread, though I really need to give this some thought before I start to comit, where do you start!!!?? Later...

 

[LG]

^^I hope you post them one at a time TS, instead of a bunch all at once.

 

[TheSound]

Well Sox, since my friend LG has rationed me to only one piece (obviously knowing how carried away I sometimes get!!) I think I would like to just watch and listen to this, it's the great finale of the Brahms Symphony No. 1, in this case conducted by the great Gunther Wand, who was something of a Brahms and Bruckner specialist, and was still conducting pretty much right up to his 90th year just before he passed away. I love this work as much as any symphony, it builds to a tremendous climax with the brass orchestra going full tilt, another shiver down the spine moment, terrific!!

 

[Sox]

Harkat the Apocalyptica version seemed a bit freaky at first listen but I like it I must admit.

The Sound that's a great piece and another first time of hearing for me. As for Gunther Wand, imagine doing something you love all those years 'til very nearly your dying day. Who could ask for more.

 

[TheSound]

I freakin love the organ. If I could go to music school for one instrument it would be the ORGAN! It can be so delicate and peaceful at times, and so powerful at other times. Great use of it in this piece

I so agree Kuaizi! Feast your ears on this - Andrew Lucas on the magnificent organ of St Paul's Cathedral in London, playing Garth Edmundsun's amazing Toccata on Von Himmel Hoch, though turn it up v loud from about 3 minutes.... headphones work best!...as it sort of takes off and goes into orbit towards the end!

 

[Sox]

One that raises the heckles ..

 

[LG]

I have everything Brahms composed and agree that was a spectacular piece TS.

I prefer listening to the Bach Toccata 565 on my reference system, it is simply stunning!!...but if neighbours are an issue headphones would do in a pinch.

Great Wagner selection Sox, I am no opera buff I have dipped my toe into it a bit more, but I almost feel like taking Italian etc., before giving it a proper go.

Here's a rare selection, "The Sea Reivers" by Bantock.

 

[Sox]

^^ I like that LG, it's strange but it brought to mind my stay on the Isle of Skye.

A bit of a chill out for me this one and another that took me ages to find out who wrote it and what it was called.

 

[TheSound]

I can't even believe LG that we're hearing Greville Bantock on here, how much better can this thread get!!!

So, in the same vein, I wonder if Sox and yourself and others will enjoy this, it's 'Tintagel' by Arnold Bax, very evocative music, think the wild English Cornwall coastline with waves crashing onto the rocks, very Arthurian!! Tintagel was reputedly - with strong emphasis on the word 'reputed', as historically it's highly unlikely - the birthplace of King Arthur of Knights of the Round Table fame. It's a nice myth, and though I haven't been back there since probably my mid-teens, when my family used to holiday in Cornwall a lot, you do get some sense of the mythology and the mysticism of that magical place in Bax's extraordinary tone poem...

 

[Tray73]

I don't listen to much classical but this piece is one of my favorites so far:

^^^ Definitely one of my favourites too!

Another one I really like:





(I'm a real novice when it comes to classical btw.)