Help me make a classical music playlist

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I find I know and love many classical pieces of music but I never remember most of the names when I want to listen to it!

What would go on your playlist?

I'll start:
Edward Elgar - Nimrod

Beethoven's 7th symphony
Prokofiev Symphony no. 1 (the Classical)
Mozart Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Sull Aria from the same opera

I'll think of more, I'm sure!

Prelude to La Traviata
Bach Concerto Two Violins in D minor
Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto Emperor
a smattering of Brahms Hungarian Dances
Max Richter Four Seasons Recomposed
Puccini One Fine Day Madam Butterfly

The Benedictus from The Armed Man, a Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins

Morning from Grieg’s Peer Gynt

Tchaikovsky - Polonaise from Eugene Onegin.

Ooh another Ronald Binge fan! 🙂

Gluck, Orpheo ed Euridice, Aria, Che farò senza Euridice?
Chopin, Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op.66, No.1
Wagner, Tannhäuser, Overture
Fauré, Après un Rêve, Op.7 No.1
Debussy, De Fleurs
Schubert,Schwanengesang
Buxtehude, Jesu, Meines, Lebens Leben
And so, so much more, but, Radio 3@whhaaat Radio 3!

@dodobookends He was amazing!

John Rutter! Not just Christmas music. Try his Requiem, Magnificat and Mass of the Children. Beautiful 😍

@pudseypie not possible to identify the piece of music you loved without any details!

Did it sound happy, or sad? Was it fast, or slow?

Sorry I know it was totally vague! Slow and sad I'd say, quite melancholy. I assumed it was maybe something commonly played by violinists to use it for busking, but with my absolute zero level of classical music knowledge I don't know where to start listening to find something like it.

Anything by Yiruma - he is an absolute musical genius.

Clint Mansel's Death Is The Road To Awe

A piano cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven sounds lovely.

I don’t think it’s probably these but you could check them out and you might enjoy them anyway:

Pachelbel Canon - it’s not a piece for a single violin, but possibly arranged for one violin.

( if he had a boom box or similar) Bach Double violin concerto, 2nd movement. It’s a wonderful work for 2 violins - if he had a recording of the second violin.

My favourites have already been mentioned, but if you own a Samsung washing machine, the tune it plays when it's finished is from Schubert's trout quintet (4th movement). It drove me mad trying to place the tune!

Saint Saens carnival of the animals is lovely to listen to with the DCs. Aquarium and Swan are probably the most well known.

Oh and this piece of music: Experience Angèle Dubeau, La Pietà

I can listen to it on repeat for hours after a tense day and it completely helps me unwind

Mozart clarinet concerti
Ombra Mai fu by Handel
The letter duet from Marriage of Figaro

Britten - Four Sea interlude.
Delius - cello concerto
Reich - music for 18 musicians

Chorus of The Hebrew Slaves is from the opera Nabucco, written by Verdi.

Thanks, you are right of course!!

Meditation from Thaïs used to be popular with violinists, don’t know if it still is, but linking just in case!

I’m a coffee shop feeling a bit vulnerable at the moment and your link feels just like a message from my husband, who died in March. We played this at our wedding during the signing of the register and at his funeral.Now trying to hide my crying from a man who has sat right next to me even though there are loads of empty tables in here.

I am IN a coffee shop!

Surprised Liebestraum - Liszt hasn't had a shoutout!

Also all of Handel's Messiah - I like 'I know that my Redeemer liveth'

Rodrigo Concerto de aranjuez - I like second movement best

Placemarking for later

Adagio from Spartacus - Khachaturian

It's the theme from the TV series The Onedin Line, the full piece is spectacular