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DrYaboll: I'm gonna join in this topic so that I also could get some recomendations.

I love the instrument called Harpsichord (Clavecin). I absolutely adore it - whenever I hear music in which you can hear it, in front of my eyes I get an image of elegant french aristocracy during some ball.

There's this radio station with classical music in Poland, and whenever I hear a track with Harpsichord, I feel overwhelmed with a sense of decadent joy. It makes me feel as if I was one of the high spheres of the old french society.

So, could anyone recommend me some good music in which you can hear this instrument?
Harpsichord is something like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LykO9IWloOY
Yes.

However I would be eternally grateful for some whole compositions / concertos which feature this instrument.

For me the main problem with classical music is that the volume of it is overwhelming, it's hard to know where to start, and how to find the music that you'd like, as this 'genre' is quite massive.

There is one 'track' that I fell in love with - unfortunately, I don't know it's name, or even the name of the compositor. Ahh, the mere thought of it sends tingling sensations all over my body.
Post edited June 21, 2013 by DrYaboll
Stranvinsky's Symphony of Psalms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUGyAtcEFy8
Post edited June 21, 2013 by Elmofongo
Anyhing by Tchaikovsky, The Manfred Symphony doesnt get alot of airplay, it's well worth checking out
Liszt's Dante Symphony.
Beethovans 3rd and 9th symohonies.
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kazmar: Hey fellow gog'ers (what is the correct for of this?) I'm coming up to crunch time, so I'm making a classical play this to get me through it. Can people recommend me some pieces?

I'm sadly not that well versed in classical music and the pieces I like I can never remember the names of, so any thing from the old favourites to less know pieces would be appreciated.

So far on my list:

The four seasons op.8 concerto No.4: Vivaldi
The Nutcracker, OP 71a: II. March: Tchaikovsky
Romance: Prokofiev
Islamej:
Snow-storm: Sviridov
Prelude in C sharp minor OP.32: Rachmaninoff
Metamorphosis One: Glass

Thanks!
Watch Disney's Fantasia :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOtFR5WG9K8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCs_oG2_y0
OK, I think I've just had an orgasm.
Post edited June 21, 2013 by DrYaboll
The Moonlight Sonata.

Music sound better with the right atmosphere. Try playing it softly at night in a dim/dark room while looking out a window.
Also, a bit more contemporary, I really like Carl Orff's Carmina Burana - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM. O Fortuna is one of the most powerful pieces ever written, but the rest is also very good.
Post edited June 21, 2013 by amok
Johann Sebastian Bach - Air on the G String
Smetana, Ma Vlast
Saint-Saens, Maestoso (can't remember the piece, this is the name of the movement I think).
Borodin, Prince Igor
Saint-Saens, Aquarium
Debussy, Clair de Lune

All extremely romantic pieces.
Gog won't let me post links (because I'm too new?), but all can be found easily on youtube:

A few of my favorites:

Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings (a 20th century piece that, while slow, is incredibly powerful... there's also an a capella choral version: Agnus Dei)

I've always been a huge fan of Beethoven. IMO, his absolutely best work (other than the 9th Symphony, of course) is the 2nd movement of Symphony 7

I'm something of a choral music junkie, and possibly the greatest piece of classical choral work is Mozart's Requiem (featured heavily and to great effect in the wonderful movie Amadeus).

Other great Choral works:
Requiems by Brahms, Faure and Berlioz
As the previous post mentioned, Carmina Burana is awesome.
And there's always the well-known (in some places to the point of being cliché) Handel's Messiah.
A few 20th century things no one's ever heard of: Arvo Part's Miserere (really modern, super creepy), Jean Gilles' Requiem (a 20th century, more oddly upbeat funeral mass... go figure), and Ralph Vaughn Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem. The text of the Dona Nobis Pacem is mostly taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (his war poetry).

That's all I've got. :-)
Paganini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TwmFcu6QAqI
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k4kuz0: 2) Any other opera (Cozzi fan tutti, etc.) by Mozart
The right spelling is "Così fan tutte" ;)
These two recently blew me away:

Mozart K.466 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSsMjfCRpY

Franz Schubert - Notturno D 897 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBh5UChNO5Y
Off the top of my head here are a few I'd recommend:

5th Symphony - Beethoven
9th Symphony - Beethoven
Bouree in E minor - Bach
Caprice no 24 - Paganini
The 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik - Mozart
In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
The William Tell Overture - Rossini
Nocturne - Chopin

I hope that's of some assistance. :)