My favourite piece of classical music

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    I know this came up already, but version is my fav :)
     
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    Classical?
    This


    And this
     
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    Delius, La Calinda.
    It's supposed to be a dance, Spanish or American I think, but I like to close my eyes and pretend to see Father Christmas on his sleigh with the reindeer sweeping across the snow or flying through the sky.
    It is a most beautiful tune.

     
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    No, mate.
     
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    Some great shouts already on this thread, and I've got to agree re Lieutenant Kije being a wonderful piece that automatically makes you feel Christmassy, which is weird as I don't think it was intended as such. I prefer Albinoni's Adagio (in G Minor) to Barber's, though that's excellent too. Tough to choose but some of my favourite pieces are probably Debussy's 'Clair de Lune', Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' (particularly the first movement), and Jupiter from Holst's Planet Suite. Loads more but I won't bore you.

    Possibly agree too re the Greg Lake song (again not originally intended to be a Christmas tune, as far as I'm aware), which I seem to enjoy more and more as I get older. I say this as someone who is not in any way religious, but it seems to nicely articulate that sense of disillusionment and nostalgic sadness that comes naturally as we move from the childhood promise and idea of Christmas and what it could be, and come to terms with how stolen and commercialised it all seems to have become, especially in the absence of all those we've lost over the years.

    Anyway the big revelation in this thread is that JLWBL used to be a choirboy! Can you still get into the cassocks, or does the restraining order now render that impossible?
     
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    Brahms, Hungarian Dances
     
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    Charlie don’t surf!
     
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    Cardboard box? You were lucky! :)
     
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    For a fantastic piece of classical music, listen to the Overture to The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart.

    Hope you enjoy it.
     
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    2nd movement of Beethoven's Seventh. So much emotion with such minimal orchestration. Perfection in it's simplicity.
     
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    I actually play a version of this on an accordion. Don't laugh ...it works because Brahms mistakenly thought the tune was actually a traditional Hungarian folk dance but was, in fact, contemporary.
     
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    Good choice @JLWBigLil . Though my personal favourite is his overture from Romeo and Juliet.

    Fun fact - Many years ago I went on a couple of dates with Prokofiev's granddaughter!
     
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    Mine is
    That's some claim to fame!
     
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    I hope you composed yourself first
     
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    I conducted myself impeccably, not once mentioning anything about playing the organ.
     
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    i seem to remember singing this as a very young kid at a school christmas play, something along the lines of " keje was a hussar bold, a hussar bold was he . . . . something, something something..... he was the pride of the cavalry
     
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    Yes, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band version is very moving too, especially in the context of the film. The arrangements & production on the Miles version are by the great Gil Evans.
     
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    This from the movie "Casino". Think its part of St Matthews Passion by J.S.Bach. Pretty good - and an excellent and underrated movie too.

     
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