O.k there are a good few members here who are into Classical music so this thread is for listing your favourite Classical pieces.

A few of mine (too many to list all of them) are as follows.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Glorias, Flute Concertos

J.S Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Toccatta and Fugue, The Well Tempered Clavier. Great Mass

Mozart: Requiem Mass, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro

Beethoven: Symphonies No.5 and No.9

Karl Orff: Carmina Burrana

Mussorgsky: Night on bald Mountain

Scarlatti: Sonatas

Paganini: 24 Caprices, Violin Concerto N0.5, The Witches Dance

Handel: Zadok the Priest

Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez

To hard for me to answer :( there's so many good ones. As of late.. I am really digging Bachs Goldberg Variations

I need to listen to more classical music but I'll check out those pieces you listed.
Chopin Etude #1 rocks.
All the Bach tracks here are on 25 Bach Favorites
Bach Violin Concerto No. 2 in E (I. Allegro)
Bach Toccata, Adagio, & Fugue in C (II. Adagio)
Bach Sleepers Awake
Bach Cantata No. 156
Vivaldi all the 4 seasons. Best track is track 6. Last part of Summer.
All Beethove tracks are on Beethoven: The Greatest Hits
Beethoven Egmont, Op. 84 - Overture
Beethoven Piano Sonata #14 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27/ 2, "Moonlight" - Adagio Sostenuto
Beethoven Symphony #8 In F, Op. 93 - 1. Allegro Vivace E Con Brio

My fave piece is Badinerie by Bach, i'm learning how to play it on guitar atm.

My favourite at the moment is Cassazione by Sibelius. Not very well known, but extremely beautiful.

Must get a listen to that as I've never heard it. I checked out Rachmaninov's 'Isle of the Dead' that you mentioned in a thread a while back Hurricane. Awesome piece of music and incredibly dark. The music conjures up the title of the piece perfectly.

I can't possibly decide which are my favorite's because there are so many outstandingly awesome classical pieces. However, my certain favorite pieces are the 24 Caprices.

I love it when I find a peice of great classical music that I haven't heard before. If you listen to classical music radio they obviously tend to just play the popular classics most of the time, but there is so much other great stuff out there that isn't as well known.

I suppose its just a case of doing a bit of digging.

Im working with my band these days Paganini 24th caprice.It really sounds great.Im feeling great when im playing it.First we think to put few classical pieces into one(classical medley),but we decided to play that piece without putting any other.Its awesome. :)

Nice one Baroque. That's one of my favourites out of the 24.

If you get a chance to record that baroque it would be great to hear it. :)

Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in c minor Fl No. 2

Frederic Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor

George Handel's Water music Suite No 2 in D

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major

Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Romance Op 5

These days i played Hungarian dance no.5 (it sounds beautiful on guitar) and Badinerie.

I listened to it baroque.
Is there any way you could tab it out? Or find tab i cant read sheet music and that would be nice if i could have a tab for that.
Also Ibanez Daemon...idk if anyones gonna reply to this but anyways
could you arrange the Island of the Dead for guitar? It would be very slow but awesome..cant find any1 on youtube doing it on guitar.
Let alone can i find tabs. :angry:

So yeah,,if you guys could do that for me. I've almost been playing for a year so umm yeah kinda work with me here..might be kinda neeewby you know.

Btw if you have an account on Guitar World Forum i' m Gibsonexplorer.

Thanks (in advance?hopefully) :ph43r:

I think trying to arrange 'Isle of the Dead' for guitar would be very difficult if it is to be effective in that format. It is available as a piano duet arrangement so may be worth extracting the critical parts from that as a starting point for the arrangement.

It is unlikely that anyone here would have the time to tab out this piece tbh as it would take an age to do. Interesting Idea though.

Agree with HK. That is a pretty long piece and would take a very long time to arrange and then tab out. I'm not sure how well it would work on an electric guitar, classical guitar maybe but I'm not even convinced on that either.

Okay..well do you know any ones you could arrange for guitar?
Btw-i cant read notes (a-b-c whatever) or sheet music so it's extremely hard for me to find tabs. :unsure:

Also i've been working my but off to try to find Yngiwe Malmsteen's adagio... the song in this vid. Every tab i find is wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAO6GjGa7SY

Also i cant find a correct tab for non-classical guitar (like to use a electric guitar,,a shred version) for the 40th symphony AND the 5th symphony..
So idk..i cant find tabs anywhere i watch the first part of the Yngwie version of adagio the Yngwie adagio tab says for the first part a bunch of notes on the low e string. (low sounding.) So yeah..this is really pissing me off as well as i cant even find tabs for songs i worked hard to find out about!!!

Also do you know which of Yngwie songs are the easiest (none of them are easy..) of the majority of his songs? Like Far Beyond the Sun the first 2 minutes or so sound like something i could play..

so yeah :D just another noob...

Thanks

Overture 1383 - Yngwie :) Basically Greensleeves but damn from 1:33 on he kills it. Anyone who says Yngwie is all speed and no feeling needs to listen to that and I mean really listen and crank you stereo up to 10 that man had loads of feel thats the only reason I ever listened to him and why I wont buy his new stuff:( Anything after Fire & Ice with the exception of a few on 7th Sign get really repetitive and fast ;( But his solos on Viking, Disciples, and my fav the solo on Soldier Without Faith and thats just on marching out. The solo to Dreaming tantamount to ripping out yer heart and stomping on it and I get a high off of what he puts behind it not just the notes. I hate hearing player who's music sounds like they were staring at a metronome or just some wanker that plays fast for the sake of it (impellitteri) But i'm ranting............sorry this is the answer to the post above, don't know how to get his post above mine like you guys do......help

@24fretstohell

I had one tab for Hungarian dance,but some guy did it for his band...but it sounds good.I have tab for a classical guitar if you want.

Sure baroque, could i play it on electric?

Offcourse,i play it on electric.

My comp isn't allowing me to open it :angry:

Try to turn off your firewall for a moment ;)

You could always try downloading a MIDI file of the pieces you want to do, and open it in notation/sequencing software. For example, in Sibelius you can open a MIDI file as notation and then copy and paste it to TAB.

Plenty of free classical MIDI files out there.

You guys know any darker sounding ones? Like Symphony No.5?
That one is my favorite. I'm still trying to learn the sheet music stuff..and the notes, so it will be a while till im picking it up :(

Once i can read that stuff though i want to learn the darker sounding stuff and solo violin passages (they sound the coolest on guitar..or organ style stuff that's pretty cool too) :D

Just looking at that Yngwie vid of him playing his version of Albinoni's Adagio in G minor made me want to listen to the original.
Adagio in G Minor

Man what a melancholic piece of music. I feel like crying everytime I hear it! :(

What he plays there is his song Icarus Dream Suite Op 4 from Rising Force album, tabs are very easy to find. The reaosn you're having trouble finding any is that on that version you're looking for, it is improvised a lot of it.

Having said that, Yngwie ripped the song off of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4dpbk8YBs

Also, many people think that the above song i have posted is a composition of Albinoni, but it's not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor

It's a it of Baroque music from the 1950's lol.

Nice one steve - you rumbled my potted knowledge of Classical music! :rolleyes:

That's the power of Wikipedia!

Wikipedia! Bow down to it's awesome knowledge! Gauranteed to be 100% accurate...



...some of the time.

Adagio in Gm is great...I saw one coment on video that says "heart and brain"...apsolutely

Bach's Concerto in Dm, BMV 1052, I saw it in the VM interview posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddB1q-ZoPPo

Sibelius - D-minor violin concerto
Sibelius - First Symphony
Paganini - Fifth concerto(guess in wich instrument)
Haydn - Almost everything what he has composed

Moonlight Sonata would be my all time favourite, also like a lot of stuff by Paganini and Mozart.