What piece of classical music do you like?

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Thomas Augustine Arne - Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in G Minor - Mov. 1&2/4




Thomas Augustine Arne (12 March 1710 – 5 March 1778) was an English composer, best known for the patriotic song Rule, Britannia!. He also wrote a version of God Save the King, which was to become the British national anthem, and the song A-Hunting We Will Go. Arne was the leading British theatre composer of the eighteenth century working at Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

Thomas Augustine Arne - Alfred - Rule Britannia

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka - Arkadische Suite in B-major, Op.76 - Brautzug und Hochzeitsfeier




Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (February 16, 1847, Samter, near Posen – July 16, 1917, Bad Nauheim) was a German composer and teacher of music. He was the older brother of Xaver Scharwenka.

[princealbertofb]

Thanks for all these posts, Rychard... Where do you find them all???? That's a crazy amount of things not so well known.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Thanks for all these posts, Rychard... Where do you find them all???? That's a crazy amount of things not so well known.

Thanks PA, many of the composers are sadly not well known. By posting them here might make more people listen and enjoy their music. When I started this thread I did not known that we had so many composers, there are still many more not posted yet. Judging by the hits this thread gets I am not alone in listening to classical music PA, I hope people do enjoy the pieces I post.

[sweetlad2010]

Black Hawk Down Soundtrack- Leave No Man Behind




This film makes me cry

The Last of the Mohicans - Promentory




Love this film to bits xx

All classic music is starting to sound the same to me apart from the music from films..

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Lets start Sunday off with some organ music.

Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck - Fantasia cromatica




Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck born Deventer, April or May, 1562 – died Amsterdam, 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ tradition.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Heinrich Schütz - SWV 335




Heinrich Schütz (October 8, 1585 - November 6, 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627, of which the music has since been lost. He is commemorated as a musician in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on July 28 with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila - Overture




Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка (June 1 [O.S. May 20] 1804 – February 15 [O.S. February 3] 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Charles Villiers Stanford - Drake's Drum




Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an eminent English-domiciled (though Irish-born) composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Eugene Ysaye - Malinconia




Eugène Ysaÿe (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn iza.i]; 16 July 1858 – 12 May 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar". His brother was pianist and composer Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918), and his great-grandson is Marc Ysaÿe, drummer of rock band Machiavel.