Favorite classical music

[thrill]

The fourth and final movement usually was good for the soul, really stimulating feelings.

I'm a huge sucker for Beethoven's most famous 4th. I listen to Ode To Joy almost every night before I fall asleep.

[jim]

If you are really serious about learning, I can't recommend this series of lectures enough:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Listen-Unders ... B00103XBXO

I listened to them on casette, maybe they are more reasonably priced in that form. Or, better yet, check out your local library. Trust me, you will love this guy. Great speaker with a great sense of humor. He tells the stories that bring life to the music.

[jim]

The fourth and final movement usually was good for the soul, really stimulating feelings.

I'm a huge sucker for Beethoven's most famous 4th. I listen to Ode To Joy almost every night before I fall asleep.

His 9th makes you proud to be a human being, and makes you wonder how the same species could compose "Go Cubs Go".

[robbotis]

The fourth and final movement usually was good for the soul, really stimulating feelings.

I'm a huge sucker for Beethoven's most famous 4th. I listen to Ode To Joy almost every night before I fall asleep.

His 9th makes you proud to be a human being, and makes you wonder how the same species could compose "Go Cubs Go".

That's a good way to describe the 9th.
I also like Rachmaninoff and Dvorak.

[omaha_red]

corpus christi carol blows my mind..

this one is performed by the late great jeff buckley..
the song gives me goosebumps every time i hear it..

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[thrill]

I'm a huge sucker for Beethoven's most famous 4th. I listen to Ode To Joy almost every night before I fall asleep.

thrill, I think you mean the 5th?

His 4th symphony is more or less one of the forgotten ones in the repertory.

But I do think it is quite excellent and go to it for a change of pace.

I was referring to his most famous 4th movement, from his 9th Symphony.

[MrSaigon]

I love the cello. Been wanting to buy one, but I know it would just end up gathering dust...

My favorite classical piece is Chopin's Sonata No. 3. I used to go to the Morrison Reading Room on the campus of UC-Berkeley, check out the CD and listen to it at the end of a long day of studying. Nothing relaxed me like that. Then I saw that Ivo Pogorelich was coming to campus to play the Sonata, so I went to see him. It was so gorgeous that I literally had tears. Now this thread has reminded me of this and not only that, I found a youtube of Ivo Pogorelich playing it! (there are 4 movements)

I got a cello as a graduation gift, but then I took off to Asia for a couple years, so it has been collecting dust. I taught myself guitar, but somehow I haven't been able to have that kind of discipline with the cello, so I'm going to take a few lessons and hopefully find some (forgiving) people to play with.

It's such a beautiful, emotional instrument.

Here is a great cello song, but a stretch on the theme of this thread:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=XAsjKKc2glw&feature=related][/youtube]

[Jocephus]

fun thread