MUSIC..Most Beautiful Instrumental..Classical or otherwise..

[Norske3]

Your choice is?......Norske's vote is for "Greensleeves"..(I believe the title is not what the composer named it, as the writer is unknown...I am told it was written in the 15th or 16th century....correct me if I'm wrong)

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[Garrett Lowell]

Any part of Mozart's horn concerto, preferably the allegro version.

[NormMessinger]

The prelude to the third act of "Carmen"

But what stops my heart is that dude with the drum in Verdi's "Requiem"

[Meerkat]

Handel's Water Music (of which, the theme music of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS is an exerpt).

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[Donn]

Boots Randolf's The Shadow of Your Smile

[Alan D. Hyde]

Boots is a good guy. :D

Anyone else been to the Printer's Alley restaurant/club he and his son built? (Laid the brick themselves. Now I think the place is closed :( ).

WAY better than going to Al Hirt's place in New Orleans or similar. Boots (unlike Al) seemed to be playing for sheer love of the music, and, once when we were there, jammed with a talented tenor sax friend until late in the night. A good conversationalist, too, who enjoyed his farming almost as much as his music.

And, man, can he play the sax!

For classical, though, Mendelssohn's violin concerto in E-minor, played by Fritz Kreisler, is great. Or Beethoven's Fidelio.

Alan

[huisjen]

Since my tastes often run toward Rock and Roll, I'm not sure what to say. Rock tends more toward the sublime than the beautiful.

Dan

[Wayne Jeffers]

I've always been partial to Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, though the first "instrumental" I thought of when I read the thread title was Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of "Little Wing."

Wayne

[Scott Rosen]

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

There's at least one thing Wayne and I agree on.

[paladin]

Franz Liszt....Polynaise...

[High C]

ANY Berlioz overture!

[Leon m]

Pachelbel: Canon in D (our wedding song )

Sibelius : Finlandia

Ravel : Bolero

[CharlieSanti]

My vote Bach Tocata en feuge in D minor or Mujorsky's (sp) Pictures at an Exhibition. Charlie

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Schubert: "Trout" quintet.

[John A. Campbell]

Hugo Winterhalter's "Canadian Sunset"......in this terrible Texas summer heat, the music is refreshingly cool.... makes one think of long COOL winter evenings....

[Dennis Marshall]

Sansens'(sp?) Danse Macabre
Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major
Virtually anything by Allison Krause

Dennis

[ken mcclure]

I'm with Leon. smile.gif

[Chris Coose]

Goosebumps everytime on the 7th.

[J. Dillon]

I'm a great fan of classical music and love em all. In the process of enhancing my CD collection as the old tapes are showing their age. Not often heard is Beetoven's "Wellington's Victory" I got it ordered back to back with the 1812 overtaure. I often think that perhaps Peter Iliad T. got his inspiration from this Beetoven piece about defeating Napolean B.

I also love Smetana's "Moldau", and any thing Vivaldi wrote.

How about some of the more modern classics ?
"Victory at Sea" . The theme music from Lawerence of Arabia by Maurice Jarre, and Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

But when it gets down to all time favorite for me it has to be Beetoven's 9th. :D

Any body remember Disney's Fantazia ?

JD

[Meerkat]

Fantasia:

Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas, and Schubert. Not all the sequences were created equally, but a few are simply glorious, such as "Night on Bald Mountain," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," and "The Nutcracker Suite." I also love Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un Faun and Claire de lune by Debussy

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Ahem, JD, Ludwig's Ninth is not "instrumental"!

I was ever so impressed with "Fantasia" as a child, and I still love it, although, as the review posted above notes, it is uneven.

It must have done a lot to spark a wider interest in music, although it did co-incide with a general
push to make classical music accessible to the wider public.

[Norske3]

bump.

[ishmael]

One of Ludwig's quartets. I don't have the opus because I haven't owned it for years, I gave it away. I wish I could find it again, I've looked.

It's the quintessence of his composing, so wild and full of pathos and vigor. When I listen all comes clear.

When it becomes important enough I'll track it down. For now it suffices to hear it on the radio once every two years or so, and to misplace the paper I write its name on. smile.gif

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[Alan D. Hyde]

The Beethoven work played in Fantasia is the Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony. It's also a favorite.

Alan

[Matt J.]

Pachelbel: Canon in D

Leon's right, and it was at our wedding also. Most beautiful music I've ever heard.
-Matt

[Gresham CA]

What mr. Dillon said.


and any thing Vivaldi wrote. :cool:

[Wild Dingo]

Handel as has been said... watermusic :cool: ... beautiful relaxing and yet oh so suave wa fare... or however the blazes yer spell it... bloody good anyway! :D

but then I at one time thought Pheobe Snow was pretty instrumental and Tubular bells was an orchestra from Canada but what the heck do I know! :rolleyes: :D

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Jack, your options are 127, 130, 131, 132, 135.

My guess is 131.

[ishmael]

I think that may be it! #131, C minor? It truly is amazing. The violin work! Oh God, I lose my mind in it.

[cs]

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"? :D

Chad

[Mike DeHart]

Jessica, by the Allman Brothers.
:D

[Mrleft8]

"A day at the races" Herb Alpert & the Tijuanna brass.