Any favorites? Old or new? 

Post clips here :)

My two favorite people that start with the letter L

Lang Lang and Liszt

Chopin Nocturne

Mozart ~ Lacrimosa

Beethoven ~ Ode to Joy

Tchaikovsky ~ 1812 Overture  I would like to sit on the floor in the middle of the orchestra while they are playing it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JOsTEOFLRU

Fell in love with this dude - Pandora station brought him into my life!

Adagio ~ Albinoni

Violin Sonata ~ Gavin Bryars

Gymnopedies ~ Eric Satie

Thanks for all these great links!  My Neptune is loving it!! ;-)

Vivaldi - Storm

Alltime Favorites with very personal meaning:

Satie - Trois Gymnopédies I
Schumann - Träumerei

General Favorites:

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.3, 1st Movement
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.1
Debussy - Clair de Lune
Grieg - Morning
Grieg - In The Hall of the Mountain King
Grieg - Pavane Op.50
Prokofiev - Montagnes and Capulets, from Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninoff - Adagio for Strings Op.11
Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Spring

Pachebel ~ Canon in D

If I can roll a little baroque your way, I have a deep and abiding love for some Bach

Toccata and Fugue in D minor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXoyr_FyFw

That's the piece from which I pulled the music that became the big tattoo on my right arm. Plus, check out the organist in this clip!  He is working hard.

Suite no 1 for Cello, Prelude

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_VBgkPNY 

I love Yo Yo Ma's interpretation and phrasing on this, and the piece is stunning.

And another of my all time favorite pieces EVER, Air on a G String.  This video is for all you visual types who like to pop the hood and look underneath.  The visualisation is pretty neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2j-frfK-yg

I LOVE classical music!!  :D

Any specifics I'll have to look up later, 'cause I gotta run to work soon, but I just love classical music.  Luckily, there's one classical station left in Southern California (hosted by USC, I believe) and it's nice to have that to listen to when I'm trying to go to sleep or waking up in the morning.  :)

Swan of Tunelo by Sibeius is a favorite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-SJo2sOI_M

I also love Scherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. Have since I was a kid.

 I love classical music and Vivaldi's four seasons is a favorite. I also love Vanessa Mae..she does some composing but I'd rather her her play the classics. Here is a link to one of her songs (Storm). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqkFgeBFTWU

I also love Opera..particulary tenors. Rolando Villazon is my favorite but also Placido, Pavarotti and about the only girl I can tolerate is Anna Netrebko. I'm laughing because my favorite is no where near Italian. but still..

My favorite song of all time

Amor, vida de mi vida (Love, life of my Life) followed closely by Bella enamorada..both Zarzuela

Here is a link to the first one with Rolando..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fb-PKbXoLk

And Bella with Placido (swoon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEmpGguzsR8

Thank you for the thead ! I think I could keep this going on for months, if not years. But one has to start somewhere, and well, it could as well be Sibelius, not only national hero, but also one of my favourite composers. This is his Impromptu Op.5 No.5., with a main theme that never fails to move my soul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZPYKaUPF4I

He later wrote a string arrangement (he never made any secret of being partial for strings), which, to me, is even more haunting. Unfortunaty, I couldn't find a good quality version of it to post.

MY all time favourite is Manuel Falla's "Ritual fire dance" from El amor brujo

Two very different versions linked here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftd8tIdiYq4&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snZozXyQrGQ

"I also love Opera..particulary tenors. Rolando Villazon is my favorite but also Placido, Pavarotti and about the only girl I can tolerate is Anna Netrebko. I'm laughing because my favorite is no where near Italian. but still..."

Hmmm, have you tried to listen to any of the singers from the past, especially from the 1950's or 1960's ? Because, even if I know I risk sounding terribly elitist here, that really seemed to be the golden age of singing. Especially so for the higher voices, tenors and sopranos. For instance, Villazon is easily my favourite tenor doing his repertoire right now, but I've listened to some of the live recording from La Scala or Met, or various festivals from that period (there are loads of these things in Youtube, maybe with a couple of hundred of views), with less than perfect sound engineering, and think he would have faced a lot tougher competition back then.

Every ice cream van driving about plays Greensleeves in London in Summer time.....love it, so 16th century!

'Vide Cor Meum'......just can't get this out of my mind.

'The Blue Danube' (from 2001 a Space Odyssey)

'Injection' ( from Mission Impossible 2) by composer Hans Zimmer, London Music Works.
Awe inspiring is an understatement.

'Jerusalem' as sung by lesley Garret......spiritually uplifting

'Pavane' -conducted by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra....beautiful piece.

Candela, you don't sound elitest to me, not at all.  I like what's good :) 

I'm gonna listen to all these links tonight

Share more if you got! Yes, my venus square neptune is grateful :)

oh ok! in that case....... :)

'Canto Della Terra' -The Best of Andrea Bocelli

'Palladio' - by Escalla

'Sarabande' - by Escalla

'Clair De Lune'

Beethoven ~ Pathetique

Beethoven's String quartet in C-minor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwti4feAA6k

And anything in Fantasia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQ7WUCaPF4

Bach - Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations from the 80's are just magnificent.  He executes just perfectly!  Here are some samples...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLIKg_ft-zE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIS5yvvT2Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thk_Xap-Isw&feature=fvwrel

opera!  Nothing like Renee Fleming singing "Song to the Moon" from Rusalka - 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1PMzQ8PuCo&playnext=1&list=PL7A59D1795F1897EF

Liszt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exOz0Lzx5NA

Scriabin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudZ3J4EeoQ

Chopin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgw_RD_1_5I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eebvS5NIxQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwfEkxGzjVM

Dvorak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYcZGPLAnHA

Haydn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJyNqWGC9jw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc34Jr9udlU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zbiwiAw0ho

Bach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIemzStWOog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Lq1nHRp24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvgsU-RuKlo

Beethoven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-sS_1JQZI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0aZrVsEmA8

Raymond Scott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE

Mozart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I

Samuel Barber's saddest music ever, and played 4 days after 9/11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM

Carl W. Stalling- most of what I know about classical music comes from Warner Bros. Cartoons haha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAbwMGZtIsY

I like opera too. Mostly Italian but French too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g21UHxcasc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nG8M2pB9UE

...I guess I like piano players LOL.

Purcell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWRcx9LHBJU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8h5HN2awTk&feature=related

Tomaso Albinoni

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBOZa87xIY

Erik Satie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsFvmfMa03E

Maria Callas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVWG9QrDrlQ&feature=related

Arvo Part

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FukUz9z9HkY&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXeUOojNhme7nETlA9nf6-rj

Igor Stravinski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3aTWlpr0U

Gustav Mahler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nNDAqiwzg&feature=related

Hans Zimmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4XxaWXsO78

Clint Mansell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZuQ_r3ROY&feature=fvst

Steve Reich

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko8yPDsejJ4&feature=related

Philip Glass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkmNqyUSrFw&feature=related

Hi Candela (nod to fellow Libra) I dont think you sound elitest at all. Bear in mind, I live in Appalachia here--so if we talk classical in this theater it usually has to do with banjos and fiddles (which isn't all bad). There is no one that I can talk to Opera about. My interest began through a friend of mine that lives in Sweden. He introduced me to the extreme emotional movements in Opera. I have to listen to it through headphones because my family doesn't get it. My point is, is there anyone from this era that you can recommend that I start with? No soprano's please, I haven't been able to appreciate this pitch--it's a thing with my ears that I wont go into. All of my study has been independent and luckily my friend did point me off in the right direction to begin with. We don't speak now..so I don't have his input either. Any input you have is appreciated :) From where I sit, it's like I'm the only person in the world that listens to opera--around here really I feel like I am.

:)

Resphigi's "Pines Of Rome":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZeT07rqlU

Ravel's "Bolero" (and YES, Bo Derek DID have something to do with it--she's a November 20 Scorpio, too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urfjyj4FnUc

@ Josi, I do understand where you are coming from. I grew up in the middle of the woods. Fortunatelly, with amazing teachers, as well as an access to public  broadcasting.

Regarding the singers in the 50's, the Swedish friend must have played Jussi Björling. I mean, the man is still considered a National Treasure, and with a good reason. My favourite tenor, and my favourite singer overall. Other great tenors of the period include: Giuseppe Di Stefano, who was Pavarotti's favourite growing up. The 50's stuff rather than the 60's, though, since he went to a rapid decline. Franco Corelli and Mario Del Monaco had the biggest voices around, I like the timbre of Corelli better, but Del Monaco had a better technique. Spanish Alfredo Krause and Swedish Nicolai Gedda were christalline (and both went on singing in their 70's, amazing techinques). Also, Italian tenors Ferruccio Tagliavini and Carlo Bergonzi,  German Fritz Wünderlich (who died very young) and American Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker, to whom, they say, recordings never did any justice. And I might have left someone out, the competition was this.

And tenors aren't even my favourites, I actually have a thing for baritones, like the deeper voice, and  also because I love Verdi, and he wrote his best arias for sopranos and baritones, not really tenors (although there's great ensamble singing for tenors in his work). My favourite is Ettore Bastianini, who died in his early 40's of throat cancer, after keeping that secret from everybody and getting booed. He started out as a bass, and had an amazingly deep, luscious voice. Robert Merrill recorded and was good friends with Björling, their voices had an unsurpassable harmony. Leonard Warren, who actually died on stage at Met. Among Italians, Tito Gobbi, who was amazing in the late 40's and early 50's, then had  a vocal decline and Gino Benchi. Soviet stars Pavel Lisitsian and Georg Ots are virtually unknown in the West, but there's some of their singing at youtube (and one finds more copy pasting cyrilic text from descriptions).

Basses, well, definitely Boris Christoff and Nicolai Ghiaurov, considered among all time greatest.

I could come up with numerous "chicks" too here, but I'll mention the one you like, Anna Nebrevko, gets compared to a lot: Anna Moffo. Gorgous lady, gorgeous voice.

the planets by Holst

Peruvian opera heartthrob Juan Diego Florez hitting 9 high C's straight and perfectly in "Ah mes Amis" in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment.  Sung at Covent Garden in London.  brillant!  A showstopper!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2-4CGOvMM4&feature=related

How could I forget Pavarotti singing "Nessun dorma"! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTBml4oOZ8

@Candela - thanks for the mention of Jussi Bjorling and Robert Merrill - I think they sung "Au fond du temple saint" more beautifully than Enrico Caruso and Mario Ancona.  And while Alagna and Terfel sang it very nicely together too, they just don't come close to the harmony that Bjorling and Merrill had together.  I can listen to Bjorling and Merrill over and over again!

Bach:(Je l'adore) Mass B Minor,Gould's BB variations

Mendelssohn: Elijah

Monteverdi: Vespers

Kun Qu: Peony Pavilion/Tang Xianzu, Hall of Long Life/Hong Sheng, The Kite/Li Yu

Wagner: EVERYTHING from that nasty little man...ah Tris & Iso

Don't know much about classical music so mine's the popular ones which have already been mentioned:

1812 Overture= Tchaikovsky

Bolero= Ravel

Canon D= Pachelbel

Minuet= Boccherini

Fantasia on Greensleeves= Vaughn Williams

Pomp and Circumstance= Elgar

and my current obsessions right now:

Infernal Gallop = Offenbach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awR485a-hT4

O Fortuna = Carl Orff  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWpZ-Y_KvU

Parts 1 and 2 for ElsaElsa listening pleasure.  As it is my pleasure to please you.  Keep a firm grip on your beer, glass of wine or what have you...

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJsUvABMJHA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60Q4ZcuEyA&feature=related

Oooooooo Wow Looooove this thread. Im studying music at the moment, cant get enough.

Everyone has mentioned so many of my favourites but here is some others that I love, they are more avant garde 20th Century stuff

Toru Takemitsu - 20th Century Avant garde but I love him, Rain Spell is my favourite, so delicate and subtle but weird (not everyones cup of tea but I looove it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sbhPvtW0vM

Bartok Music for strings, Percussion and Celesta III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ongJQXppKJ4

Messiaen - The whole Turangalila-Symphonie is amazing but I love mvt6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54DNXjNs40c&feature=related

Oooooo man there is so many Beethoven, Bach, Debussy I have to come back!!!

so MP, did you listen to a lot of these links?