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What's your favorite piece of classical music?

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Seasons.
Its nice and long for a good road trip or train ride, its easy to find different versions (i.e. the one you like) and I've always had a special fondness for it ever since William Shatner.

err whut? what has Shatner got to do with Le quattro stagioni?
 
As was mentioned, Beethoven Piano Concerto #5. I find it the most heroic piece ever written. Beethoven approached his oncoming deafness not by wilting away, but by trying to write a bigger, grander piano concerto than can be realistically imagined. Because he attempted the impossible it's not perfect, but it's greatness transcends "perfect" music.

Wagner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD38QAEZZqg

I can't get enough of this piece by Stravinsky:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQ4qbv1nDM&feature=related

Scheherezade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iahy7PDetQ8&feature=related

Schuber cello quintet (a must-listen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1CTu1HOgWg&feature=related

Mendelsohn Violin concerto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aZt5vgFHE

What's the use? I could do this all day.
 
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