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Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites?

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 16 2015, @10:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the falling-on-deaf-ears dept.

martyb writes:

I suppose I should not have been surprised.

I got home from work a few days ago just as a performance by the New York Philharmonic of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World" came onto the radio. I actually had a break in my busy schedule and was able to listen to it uninterrupted from start to finish. I especially enjoy the introduction of certain 'passages' that reappear later as well as the tension as the piece builds to a huge fanfare.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and remarked on this in our IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel. Not only did several people recognize it, there was a sudden discussion of people's favorite classical works and a suggestion that I should post a story to the main site.

Other favorites of mine include:

In retrospect, a well-performed piece of classical music is like a well-written piece of software. Everything just flows together. Intricate passages combine into something much greater than its constituent parts.

So, fellow Soylentils, what are your favorite classical works? As performances vary in quality and there are many recordings out on the internet, it would be very much appreciated if you included a link to a free (libre) copy if you know of one that you think others would enjoy.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:07AM (#277503)

    Let me put in a few words for Robert Schumann, who was a transitional figure between the Viennese Classical and Romantic eras, like Beethoven. He composed a large number of piano works and chamber music (string quartets and the like), and vocal music, but only four symphonies. All of the symphonies are great, though - I always try to make an effort to see them when they're performed live by my city's top orchestra. If you like Beethoven's symphonies, you'll almost certainly like Schumann's. The fourth symphony is actually the one he started first, but only managed to finish ten years later.