[sigtau]

Dear Hard-Light, what's your favorite non-contemporary and non-film soundtrack music?

(Piano whore coming through, beware!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsGh2xYYQg - Pavane, op. 50, by Gabriel Faure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DBoiyBoJ8 - Trois Gymnopédies, by Erik Satie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4 - Allegreto (7th Symphony), 2nd Movement, by Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dPDO3Tfab0 - Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber

[Klaustrophobia]

if there's no guitar, it's not music. 

[sigtau]

if there's no guitar, it's not music.

[Nuke]

dvorak's 9th

music to start a dictatorship to

[Mongoose]

devorak's 9th

music to start a dictatorship to

Indeed.  The fourth movement kicks so much ass...and happens to be one of the comparative few classical pieces I'm actually familiar with.

[Scourge of Ages]

Raindrop Prelude, Op 28, No. 15 - Frederic Chopin
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso - Camille Saint-Saens (<3 Saint-Saens)
9th Symphony (yes the whole thing) - Ludwig van Beethoven
The Great Gate of Kiev - Modest Mussorgsky
O Fortuna, from Carmina Burana - Carl Orff
Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin

That should do it for now. This thread makes me happy

[karajorma]

Youtube is acting up for me so I'll try post links later.

The Four Seasons, Winter - Antonio Vivaldi (Everyone I know seems to prefer Spring)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (unfortunately no recording can do this song justice. You really need to FEEL the notes. )
Habanera from Carmen - Georges Bizet
Rondo Alla Turca - Mozart
Libiamo from La Traviata - Verdi

[deathfun]

Oh man, where do I start... where do I start...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU - Moonlight Sonata (All Three Movements)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYejArVzId8 - Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957, Ständchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX1dYyvmig - Chopin: Funeral March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI - Debussy: Claire de Lune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8S2Mup2Ic - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Andante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I - Gustav Holst: Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BbT0E990IQ - Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

Quite a few have already been mentioned by others

Orange texted ones are those I'm learning on the piano

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (unfortunately no recording can do this song justice. You really need to FEEL the notes. )

Organ or bust in my opinion

[StarSlayer]

Let's see quite a few already covered.  I'll throw in a few:

Die Walküre - Wagner
Egmont, Op. 84_ Overture In F Minor - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 In E-Flat Major, Op. 55, ''Eroica'': II. Marcia Funébre: Adagio Assai - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor for Piano, Op. 27:2, "Moonlight Sonata": Adagio sostenuto - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Romeo And Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64c: Montagues And Capulets - Prokofiev
Danse Macabre, Op. 40 - Camille Saint-Saëns
Fantasy For Orchestra, ''A Night On The Bare Mountain'' - Modest Mussorgsky
Symphony No. 3 For Soprano And Orchestra, ''Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs'' : I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile - Henryk Górecki
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: In The Hall Of The Mountain King - Edvard Grieg
Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, K. 550: Allegro Molto - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carmina Burana (Cantiones Profanae), Fortuna Imperatrix - Carl Orff
Cavalleria rusticana: Symphonic Intermezzo - Pietro Mascagni
Messa da Requiem: Dies irae - Tuba mirum - Giuseppe Verdi

[Mort]

The Four Seasons, Winter - Antonio Vivaldi (Everyone I know seems to prefer Spring)

Winter and summer are my favourite

[newman]

A lot of stuff I would have linked, especially by Beethoven and Dvořák, has already been linked That always leaves Wagner's Flying Dutchman. Thanks to a member of the family working in the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, I get access to free tickets and go to concerts quite a lot. They only performed the Flying Dutchman once, but you really need to hear this live - no recording does it justice. Especially when they get to the part when they simulate a storm (a lot of this part typically gets lost in a recording)..

Plus, I'll listen to anything by Dmitri Shostakovich at any time. That man was incapable of writing anything that's difficult or boring to listen to.

[StarSlayer]

Oh yes nearly forgot

Vassago's Dirge - Joel Reimer

[Polpolion]

if there's no guitar, it's not music.

Also, if it's just the same four chords over and over it's not music.

Messa da Requiem: Dies irae - Tuba mirum - Giuseppe Verdi

Be sure to check out Berloiz's Requiem, his Tuba Mirum is particularly good as well.

Anyway, my 5 cents

• Symphony No. 3, 6th Movement - Mahler - I realize that many of Mahler's symphonies can just go on and on and on and that this movement itself is near 30 minutes, but trust me it is absolutely beautiful and glorious
• Lincolnshire Posy - Grainger - Folk suites may rub you the wrong way but this particular suite has been a staple in wind ensemble repertoire for a while. If you're familiar with Grainger and haven't listened to this, for shame, if not, expect the musical equivalent of being stabbed several times and being left for dead (in a good way)
• First Suite - Holst - Another big wind band piece, it pretty much kicked off the whole wind band thing. English military bands were tired of playing arrangements of orchestral pieces. His second suite is pretty good too, I think more commonly played but I prefer his first.
• String Quartet No. 8 - Shostakovich - DSCH all day erry day. Pretty wrenching piece, but in a different way than the Grainger I recommended.
• Concerto in F, 2nd movement - Gershwin - Pretty lighthearted and fun, moreso in comparison to the rest of these pieces I recommended.

I think everyone here is familiar with Rachmaninoff. If not, you should be.

inb4noneofthatisactuallyclassicaldumbass - **** you

[SypheDMar]

Avner Dorman - Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCbnBvKjLk  - A contemporary piece by an awesome composer. Very energetic, and PercaDu's performance is superb! I wish the whole movement was available for viewing.

EDIT: And Xylophones! Vibraphones!

[newman]

Also, if it's just the same four chords over and over it's not music.

Absolutely agreed. There's way too much brain formatting junk passing as "music" these days.

[SypheDMar]

Avner Dorman - Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCbnBvKjLk  - A contemporary piece by an awesome composer. Very energetic, and PercaDu's performance is superb! I wish the whole movement was available for viewing.

EDIT: And Xylophones! Vibraphones!

Actually, the link to the full concerto may be found here:

http://www.percadu.com/RightMenuPage.asp?CatalogID=12

[Flipside]

I know it's cliched these days, but I still love Barbers Adagio for Strings, did so long before Homeworld came out. It was written as a Eulogy to his Father and is just such a powerful piece of music.

[SpardaSon21]

Gustav Holst: Mars, Bringer of War

[swashmebuckle]

For a break from all the Classical Thunder, here is a great performance of an awesome Richard Strauss song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkc7VUxd7wQ

[jg18]

Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427, Kyrie

J. S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos (all 6)

On the left sidebar of this page is a link to Concerto No. 5, First Movement. Might look for the rest later.

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

There's at least an excerpt from it reachable from the left sidebar of this page.

EDIT:

Raindrop Prelude, Op 28, No. 15 - Frederic Chopin

I played that in high school. Love that piece.

EDIT 2:
I like this recording of it a bit more.