What Classical Music Awakens Your Mind/Spirit

[Druidus]

What classical music invigors you, delights you, and causes your mind/spirit to be awoken?

Pachabel's Canon in D Major, especially if you haven't heard it in some time, and it is played with violins (not pianos! And at the right tempo. I hate how they play it at weddings).

Some of Vivaldi's works will do the same, though perhaps not to the same level. I love the Four Seasons.

 

[No*s]

I love Handel's Messiah.

 

[retrorich]

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: In my opinion, the greatest piece of music ever written. It never fails to thrill and inspire me.

 

[Druidus]

Beethoven's Fifth is good. I haven't heard "The Messiah" though. I must find it online...

 

[Feathers in Hair]

I really hope I'm not going to offend anyone by misspelling the pieces of music, or their composers, as I've mostly only heard them mentioned after I asked "Who wrote this?" or held record store clerks up by their collar while humming a piece of music to them and demanding that they find it for me. (Actually, I'm not all that strong, or that tall, so I usually have to ask the clerk nicely to stand on a pile of books, so I can pretend to do so.) So, if I offend anyone, the can whomp me over the head with a condutors baton.

I love the "Carmina Burana" dearly.

Due to watching "Amadeus" early in life, I also adore anything by Mozart. Perhaps it's my 'linguistic thinker' mind, but I enjoy recounting the dialouge as Saliari would describe pieces of music.

 

[Green Gaia]

I love Carmina Burana too Feathers... it's even better once you know the story behind it.

 

[cardero]

Mozart and Bartok

 

[michel]

Apart from all the ones already mentioned, I have discovered some Baroque music from Latin America, entitled 'Ex Cathedra'; my favourite piece is one entitled 'Hanaq pachap kusikuynin' by an unknown composer, written in 1631.'Jerusalem' by William Blake; the choral from Bethoven's 9th - oh, and all the 'classical hymns' such as 'Onward Christian soldiers' - well there are too many to mention.

 

[QTpi]

I love Mozart and Beethoven, but there is a work written by Schubert that is incredible. I heard it performed live with just a piano and a tenor singing and I don't think I breathed through the performance. It was really powerful. The piece is Erlkonig.

 

[No*s]

Beethoven's Fifth is good. I haven't heard "The Messiah" though. I must find it online...

You might want to check it out of the library. It's about 2 hrs long . You probably have heard part of it: the Hallellujah Chorus that occurs at the resurrection (but which they always play at Christmas time go figure ).

 

[No*s]

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: In my opinion, the greatest piece of music ever written. It never fails to thrill and inspire me.

I may not consider it my favorite, but it's definately among the greatest. I keep it for the same reasons .

 

[Scuba Pete]

Die Valkure! Wagner
Guilliame Tell Overture (in it's entirety) Rossini
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald Straus

These three inspire me greatly!

 

[Master Vigil]

While I don't listen to too much classical, but I love Yoyo Ma.

I also love John Williams, James Horner, Michael Kamen, Howard Shore, Brian Tyler, Danny Elfman, and Hanz Zimmer. Those are among my favorite modern composers.

 

[Valjean]

Tchaikovsky, Handel, Beethoven.

I know these are sometimes considered "easy listening" in classical circles, but I'm not very musically sophisticated.

 

[groovydancer88]

I like Carmina Burana as well! I've played the first movement. Very powerful! Maize, what's the story behind it?

I also LOVE: Dvorak's New World Symphony, Debussy's The Girl With the Flaxen Hair, and his Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Eastern Overture, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, and Holst's The Planets. To name a few. Which reminds me... I should practice!!