Name some good classical music..

[kendogg]

Name some good relaxing classical music so i can dl off napster

 

[thedarkwolf]

Anything by Apocaliptica. They are a quartet, I think, of classicaly trained string instrument players that do heavy metal covers. Most of the ones you will find on napster are Metallica covers but every now and again you can catch something else. Alright probably not what you meant .

 

[chess9]

1. Mozart: Four Horn Concertos
2. Dvorak: Concerto for Cello in B minor
3. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
4. Pachelbel's Canon
5. Brahms: Requiem
6. Beethovan: 5th movement of the 9th Symphony, Ode to Joy.
7. Bach: Cello Suite
8. Respighi: Pines of Rome
9. Copeland: Appalachian Spring
10. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

 

[mahpoh]

Relaxing classical music...

Mozart piano concerto K.488
Mozart symphonies
Beethoven String Quartets Op.16
Beethoven VIolin concerto
Tchaikovsky violin concerto
Brahams violin concerto
Brahms symphony No.2
Mendelssohn Midsummer night's dream: overture & scherzo
Haydn Cello Concertos


... just to name a few

 

[Total Refected Power]

Pachelbel. Very relaxing.

 

[BigSmooth]

All the ones mentioned previously.

Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique.
Vivaldi's Gloria (if you like choral music).
Mozart's Turkish Rondo (aka Turkish March or Rondo alla Turca).
Bach's Air on the G String, and Prelude in C, bwv 846, from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

Also, Leo Kottke's guitar rendition of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is absolutely gorgeous.
You can also find classical guitar versions of Greensleeves, Moonlight Sonata and others.

Not really a classical song, but a nice instrumental, is "Ashokan Farewell" from Ken Burns' Civil War soundtrack.

BTW, nice sig for a guy asking about classical music.

 

[bigvince]

Ravel, prelude to le toumbe de couprin

Villa-Lobos, pice en form de habanera

Mussgorsky, pictuers at an exibition (if your a fan of classical saxophone)

DeBussy, clair de lune (piano concherto)


i have all of these and more in mp3 format, pm me if you want them.

 

[Farbio]

i love rachmaninoff, piano concerto no 2
john rutter does some gorgeous choral arrangements
shostakovitch sym no 5 is great

just a few to see if u like any of that

 

[Wangel]

Raval 'Bolaro' is one of my favorites. Can't help think of Bo Derick from the moview 10 when listening to this piece.

 

[BigSmooth]

That's Ravel - Bolero (in case anyone wanted to search for it... somewhere ).

 

[bolomite]

F. Chopin: Barcarolle in F# major, Op. 60
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat, Op. 61
Ballade in F minor, Op. 52
Nocturnes, all of them

Also F. Liszt, Etude de Concert no. 3, 'Un Sospiro'

These always help me to unwind.

 

[S0me1X]

Here are my favorite classical (actually, most are romantic) pieces, with the recordings that I listened to and enjoy (most of these pieces are not the relaxing type):

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3 - Performed by Vladimir Horowitz, 1951
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3 - Performed by Martha Argerich
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3 - Performed by Earl Wild
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3 - Performed by Jean Thibaudet
AVOID RACH3 - David Helfgott (from Shine)

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 - Performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 - Performed by Sviatoslav Richter

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 - Performed by Claudio Arrau

Beethoven Violin Concerto - Performed by Jascha Heifetz or I. Perlman

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 - Performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy or Emil Gilels

Brahms Violin Concerto - Performed by Jascha Heifetz or Anne-Sophie Mutter

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto - There are too many good recordings of this pieces

Sibelius Violin Concerto - Performed by Heifetz, Mutter, or Shaham.

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 - Too many good recordings to list.. Van Cliburn and Martha Argerich are two of the best here.

Dvorak Cello Concerto - Performed by Mtislav Rostropovitch or Yo-Yo Ma

Elgar Cello Concerto - Performed by Jackie Du Pre or Yo-Yo Ma

Chopin (Kissin, Argerich, Pollini, Horowitz, Zimmerman, and just about every virtuoso pianist have recorded Chopin)
Pollini is my favorite Chopin player.

 

[S0me1X]

Almost for got to add.... Rachmaninoff's Themes on a Variation by Paganini (Ashkenazy, Rubinstein, and Rachmaninoff... this piece is widely recorded)

 

[Helpless]

Beethoven's Fur Elise