Favourite Piece of Classical Music

[GreenLabel]

Danse macabre - Saint-Saëns

A modern piece I like is Lux Eternae from the Requiem For a Dream soundtrack, but it's been used to death in just about everything - Sky Sports, Lord of the Rings trailers, players walking out before football matches, anything dramatic basically.

That tune from Kill Bill Volume 1* was similarly destroyed when they used it as the introduction music for X-Idol's-Got-Talent acts as they walked out on stage to perform. Not to mention just about everything else.



* I think it's called Battle Without Honour or Humanity, but I might be wrong.

[Sysman]

Bach's Air on the G String if it's the advert I'm thinking of.

Yep.

Youtube: CDP Classic ads - Hamlet Cigars (1966 - 1997)

[Glazza]

Check out Sibelius violin concerto - third movement really rocks

[NotAllThere]

WHS

I like most stuff but the piece that makes all the hair stand up on the back of my neck is O Fortuna (I think thats what it's called) from Carmina Burana.

You say Car-mee-na, I say Car-mine-a
You say Bur-ah-na, I say Bur-ay-na

Ah, let's Carl the whole thing Orff.

Did the whole of Carmina Burana 25 years ago or so, in the school choir. Quite fun to sing.

[2BIT]

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

absolutely sublime that one simply awesome.

[Sysman]

Leningrad Symphony - Shostakovich.
Knowing the history of this while listening to it makes the goosebumps rise.
Composed during the siege of Leningrad, it's premiere was attended by the starving citizens dressed in what finery they had. Loudspeakers at the front blasted it to the German lines.

As a gesture of defiance, truly magnificent.

WHS. Knowing the history really does make a difference.

[cailin maith]

You say Car-mee-na, I say Car-mine-a
You say Bur-ah-na, I say Bur-ay-na

Ah, let's Carl the whole thing Orff.

Did the whole of Carmina Burana 25 years ago or so, in the school choir. Quite fun to sing.

I can't sing (well I can, but really badly) but I'd imagine it would be fun!

[thunderlizard]

For what it's worth, I think it's unfair that O Fortuna gets all the glory, because it isn't even in my top 5 tunes of Carmina Burana.

Also, if you were fortunate enough to waste thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money learning Latin, the words to "in taberna quando sumus" and "olim lacus colueram" are dead funny

[Twilkes]

The Rite Of Spring by Stravinsky was when orchestral music really got down to business.

And John Williams ripped off the start of Part 2 for the desert music in Star Wars.