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Bach - organ works, solo cello, harpsichord (favorite organ piece - Dorian Toccata and Fugue)
Mozart - pretty much anything
Beethoven - piano, choral works
Prokofiev - piano
Puccini - operas
Vivaldi - anything
Hadyn - anything
Janacek - Glagolitic Mass
Gluck - Orfeo et Euridyce
YouTube - Gluck/Berlioz: ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE: Act III Duet (Orfeo loses his wife Eurydice and goes to the underworld to retrieve her...but the gods give him a stipulation - he cannot look at her until they are back on Earth)
Wagner - small doses
Barber - Adagio
Choral version
YouTube - Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei (Adagio for strings)
Orchestral
YouTube - Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11. Uncut (performed in London on 9/15/2001 as a tribute to 9/11. I was in Philly at the time and the Phildelphia Choral Society performed the choral version/
Buxtehude - organ works
M. de St. Colombe - viola da gamba
Dorian Toccata:
YouTube - Toccata and Fugue "Dorian" (performed by M.C. Alain)-1
Dorian Fugue:
YouTube - Toccata and Fugue "Dorian" (performed by M.C. Alain)-2
Played on the Marcussen organ in the Nicolai Kirke in Kolding, Denmark. My grandmother's family (Marcussen) is related to the organmakers...maybe that's why some folks think I'm a windbag...:rofl2:
M. de St. Colombe:
YouTube - Ste Colombe : Tombeau Les regrets
YouTube - Sainte-Colombe - Suite for Solo Viola da Gamba - Mov. 1-2/5
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I had no idea there was a classical music thread. Here's one of my faves, Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, opus 133.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Mp7L...%3D6s0Mp7LFI-k