In addition to the heavyweights like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Back and Motzart, you can't go wrong with "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. It's just awesome. For more intimate classical music, I like Erik Satie.
Seriously, some of you guys are listing works that don't fit his criteria at all. Oh yeah, hotballa - I meant to nitpick earlier. Technically what you seem to like is not Classical but Romantic music.
hey I did get a Betthoven reference in there =P. uh I'm not sure I want to admit this but I actually like John Tesh and Yanni's music.
There is a CD an old girlfriend had- "Baby Loves Baroque" - awesome! I like a contemporary- Christopher Hogwood.
I think I saw Holtz's Mars Suite mentioned already but I would also recommend the Jupiter Suite. Actually the whole Planets Sympathy is pretty good. Some other suggestions; Krieg - Hall of the Mountain King Dvorak - New World Symphony Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Beethoven - Emperor Concerta Tchaivosky - Cappricco Italian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto If you're looking for emotional rousing classicl music you should probably check out soundtracks. Most of John Williams stuff (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ET) is pretty rousing but some of the other guys that you might want to check out are Ennio Morricone (The Untouchables, The Mission), James Horner (Glory), and Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek I and II)
Bethoven did not compose anything with "Devil's" in it, though. Besides, by his 5th symphony he was basically a Romantic. Yeah, you really, really don't want to mention that in public. Good thing only the two of us are reading this. I will only hold it against you for one year.
My knowledge of music is limited to a community college music class I took 4 years ago. You should be happy I even know there's a difference between classical and romantic (what it is, I have no clue lol) I got confused cuz there was something on youtube I think called Devil's Trill with Beethoven listed as the composer. and man you cant hate John tesh, he is the guy who composed NBA on NBC. I listend to that thing for like 5 or 6 years I think.
Which is from "Rodeo" - great choice. As usual, rimbaud with some solid picks (especially on "Pictures at an Exhibition"). Bach was mentioned a little bit but I would recommend any of his Brandenburg Concertos, especially #5. Also, "The Four Seasons" by Vivaldi and "Water Music" and "Royal Fireworks Music" both by Handel are some great Baroque selections. Speaking of Handel, you owe it to yourself, hotballa, to get some excerpts of or the complete Messiah - "And He Shall Purify" is my favorite part of it. I will also second the New World Symphony by Dvorak and add "La Mer" by Claude Debussy.
Yeah, "Devil's Trill" is Tartini and I think around 1715 or so...basically late Baroque. Ha ha - still no Classical (assuming I am mostly correct in the date...I'll look it up)! EDIT - I can't find anything definitive but it definitely seems to be before 1720 and Tartini, even after 1750, was considered Baroque, apparently.
Well if we're getting picky everything outside of Mozart, Handel and Haydn ain't Classical. ......JOHN TESH WTF! I jut noticed that and almost spit out my tea. John Tesh is not music.
I can't help it, when I found out he was the guy who did the "NBA on NBC" theme song that I listened to every Sunday for like 5 years, I checked out some of his other stuff. He's not that bad.
Uhh...no. There were more than three Classical composersin the 18th Century. But, yeah, I prefer breaking the music into periods or using "Orchestral" when speakaing of such music in very broad terms or John Williams and the like. John Tesh, though, doesn't even deserve the orchestral label.
