Classical Music Suggestions

[MannyIsGod]

When I am on the computer, I usually have headphones with music on. I want some classical pieces, and while I recognize many when I hear them I don't know their names.

Can people give me suggestions please?

[3rdCoast]

Some of my picks from Beethoven

Leonore Overture #2
Tremate
Te solo adoro

[T Park]

Manny your not alone, just recently ive started getting into classical music.

Its so soothing and calming, after a stressfull day it really takes a load off.

Ive been going to Itunes, and just downloading random stuff.

Sorry I couldnt suggest something, just thought, id, like, throw that out there.

[3rdCoast]

Manny your not alone, just recently ive started getting into classical music.

Its so soothing and calming, after a stressfull day it really takes a load off.

Ive been going to Itunes, and just downloading random stuff.

Sorry I couldnt suggest something, just thought, id, like, throw that out there.

Word. Well said Tpark, well said.

[baseline bum]

My favorite piece of classical music ( , music period) is the The 9th Symphony (From the New World) by Dvorak.

[Jekka]

Manny your not alone, just recently ive started getting into classical music.

Its so soothing and calming, after a stressfull day it really takes a load off.

Ive been going to Itunes, and just downloading random stuff.

Sorry I couldnt suggest something, just thought, id, like, throw that out there.

I'm not so much a fan of the low-key classical. Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies (especially #2) and anything by Rachmaninoff are amazing. One of the only Bach pieces I like is the Bach Suite in G Major for cello - it's an intense piece of music. Schubert wrote through insanity, and made some very powerful works for piano. Elgar's cello pieces are also very good.

[ZStomp]

Hey Manny, I was at Best Buy Recently and saw some cheap classical compilations for like $4.99-$5.99. You should check that out.

They included some of the following:

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Debussy
Handel
Haydn
Liszt
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Scarlatti
Schubert
Schumann
Tchaikovsky
Vivaldi

[mavsfan1000]

I'm not really into classical music. It is ok once in awhile to listen to it but I would get bored with it. For relaxation Bob Marley is the best to listen to.

[MannyIsGod]

Yeah, I just saw this compliation on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...samples#disc_1

For 25 bucks thats a of a lot of music!

I prefer classical that builds and is intense. I don't want to go to sleep with it. I don't want elevator music, I want that rocks.

[Slomo]

Among my favs:

3rd Brandenburg concerto - JS Bach
Pictures at an exhibition - Mussorgsky
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 5 In E-Flat Major, Op. 73 - Beethoven

These will not make you sleepy. Enjoy them while you develop a taste for the "sleepy "

[MannyIsGod]

Thanks Slomo! I'm going to check those out!

[MannyIsGod]

I'm checking out some of the stuff on the LOTR soundtracks. It's pretty awesome especially the pieces with great percussion and choir work.

[ZStomp]

Go to sleep!

[MannyIsGod]

There is one piece I am really looking for, and I have no clue as to what it may be. The only thing I can offer so maybe someone on here can help me out with it is the following:

It was used during the opening night montage by the Spurs. It isn't the regular intro music, but it has been used on their montages several times.

[MannyIsGod]

You go to sleep!

[CoolArrow]

Yeah, I just saw this compliation on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...samples#disc_1

For 25 bucks thats a of a lot of music!

I prefer classical that builds and is intense. I don't want to go to sleep with it. I don't want elevator music, I want that rocks.

A compilation is a great way to get started. You'll be a classical music "expert" in no time that way. By the way, if you want something that "rocks", try Shostakovich Symphony No. 5.

[ZStomp]

You go to sleep!

[Spam]

Muzac.

[CosmicCowboy]

Wagners "Flight of the Valkyries"...it's the music the First Cav played in Apocolypse Now...I am trying to figure out how to make that the ringtone when my wife calls...

[ObiwanGinobili]

There is one piece I am really looking for, and I have no clue as to what it may be. The only thing I can offer so maybe someone on here can help me out with it is the following:

It was used during the opening night montage by the Spurs. It isn't the regular intro music, but it has been used on their montages several times.

thats music by Nightwish

[Summers]

Some of my favorite pieces of classical music...

Hoe-down from "Rodeo" by Copland (it was used in the beef commercials a couple years ago). Fanfare for the Common Man by Copland is also a great piece.

Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin isn't exactly classical, but it's one of my favorite pieces of music.

The Blue Danube (Strauss)

The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

anything by Mozart (if you've never seen Amadeus, rent it)

Ode to Joy (An der Freude), which is the end of the 9th symphony by Beethoven--my husband said to point out you might recognize this from the Die Hard movies. I'm generally not a big fan of Beethoven but I love this piece of music.

As I think of more, I'll post them.

[Summers]

oops... posted twice.

[Ocotillo]

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Opera kicks as well such as Puccini's Madame Butterfly or Rossini (The Barber of Seville or William Tell 12 overture.

[Summers]

If you're checking out opera, The Flower Duet is, in my opinion, one of the prettiest arias ever written (is it an aria??). I don't know who wrote it.

[SWC Bonfire]

Wagner is ass-kicking music.

Kill the Wabbit!!! (Flight of the Valkyries)