Tell us about your faves

I know MountainBride is a classical music lover too!!!

I'm a classical musician so I have to love it.  lol  All time favorite piece is Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (the original instrumentation).  Some runner ups are Schubert's Death and the Maiden string quartet, Dvorak's "American" sq, and Smetena's first SQ "From My Life".  Also love all the late Beethoven SQ's.  (I got an assistantship to play in the graduate string quartet at my conservatory when i was getting my masters so that's why i love so much sq repertoire)

I am a voice student so there are lots of classical music pieces I adore.  My ultime favorite remains Vivaldi's Four Seasons.  But we're not having that played at the wedding. 

Music is alot like food to me, it all depends on what kind of mood I am in.

I hate hearing the same music played over and over again at weddings, I think if I hear the Bridal Chorus from Lonhengrin one more time I'm going to scream.  Although there are some classics I do love that I could listen to forever, like Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Sheep May Safely Graze, and Sleepers Awake by Bach.  Just because it's music I grew up in church.

I went with the final movement from Handel's Suite in D for my processional, aka the march from Water Piece.  And for our recessional we're doing Vivaldi's Concerto for two trumpets and organ.

There is alot of contemporary classical music too, you just have to listen movie soundtracks.  I was debating about having my FMIL do the flute solo from "Concerning Hobbits" during pre-service.

I love listening to it, it can sooth my head aches some times. I listen to anything I can get my hands on. Chopin, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Handel, Puccini, Yurima, etc. Quite literally ANYTHING!

Classical music is beautiful... My favorite composers would have to be Dvorak [Theme From "New World Symphony"] and anything Tchaikovsky. Tchai's work is a lot of fun to play, especially 1812 Overture!

Dvoraks American and New World are both GREAT classics and close to my own heart being respectively the first unabridged string quartet and symphony I ever had the pleasure of performing: they are the reason I have such a love for classical music!  You haven't LIVED until you've played the New World with a 100 piece symphony. . .

That said, I love Shostakovitch.  His 5th symphony and 8th string quartet are among my favorites.

Barbers Adagio for strings is a beautiful, timeless piece.

I really enjoy performing works by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven (again, you haven't lived. . .oh man. . .)

My favorite solo/concerto pieces to listen to and perform are some of the Vivaldi violin concertos, the Brahms Sonatas (viola), Bach Cello suites (on the viola), J.C. Bach c-minor for viola. . .I could go on.

Oh and Mendelssohn.  And Rachmaninoff. . .