★What Are Your Top 5 Favorite Classical Music Pieces?

Thanks for the large open window of opportunity.

Robert Moran: Requiem ~ Chant du Cygne

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=89DS3UxKrcE

Four choruses, four instrumental ensembles, and organ, the ensembles and choirs spaced far apart in a cathedral with a six second decay time acoustic, for which it was specifically written. ~ Beautiful piece.

Luciano Berio: Concertino: an early work and a bit of real charm and magic.

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

Darius Milhaud: Six Petit Symphonies

They are tuneful, polytonal; each between 3 - 4 minutes total! 'Pocket Symphonies'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJKziU8yEt4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hxU-CKjP60&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYbaf3Jn9BU&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmd775hAVFw&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5rri1zkvU&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxg2Ldslg_Y&feature...

Stravinsky ~ Les Noces (link is 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYFAngcLD0&playnex...

Jean-Philippe Rameau ~ Rondeau des Indes Galantes (a crowd-pleaser)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvd4tMkFHc

This is it when I wasy the question, it is changing enough, there is enough 'great' to pass around favor.

Five composers, ten clips, not more space: If I weren't lazy, the picks span the ages back to Guillaume de Machaut of the 1300's: this excludes non-western classical and traditional musics, some also my 'favorites.'

P.s. Really, Fur Elise, over the triple concerto, the quartets, the Fourh Piano concerto, etc.?

Best regards.

My top 5 Favorite Classical Music Pieces:

1. Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor

2. Mahler Symphony No. 8

3. Chopin Ballade No. 1

4. Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead

5. Scriabin Fantasy in B minor

Petrushka

Rite of Spring

Enigma Variations

The Planets

Mahler Symphony #4

Beautiful choices Barb. :)

1. Serenade For Winds; K. 361; 3rd Movement - Mozart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Up4X1JHwqI

2. Confutatis - Mozart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33h48282ezM

3. Lacrimosa - Mozart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo7qT99zTEE&feature...

4. Bourree in E Minor J. S. Bach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnRL5i7CZ0

5. I will go with you on Moonlight Sonata

edit:

oh, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven.

edit:

I forgot this piece, Adagio in G Minor - Albinoni / Remo Giazotto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4

I really have much more than 5 too so I will write my top 10 Favorite Classical Music Pieces

1-Pavane Op.50-Gabriel Fauré

2-The Damnation of Faust, Op.24 Hungarian March-Hector Berlioz

3-Palladio-Karl Jenkins

4-Sarabande -George Frideric Handel

5-Four seasons,winter-Antonio Vivaldi

9-Four seasons,summer-Antonio Vivaldi

7-Fuge -Johan Sebastian Bach

8-Beschwörung-Friedrich Nietzsche (yes he was a composer too!)

9-Moonlight sonata -Ludwig Van Beethoven

10-Adagio-Tomaso Albinoni

My top five classical composers:

1-Antonio-Vivaldi

2-Karl Jenkins

3-Ludwig Van Beethoven

4-Antonin Dvorak

5-Johannes Brahms

The Grand Canyon Suite

The Nutcracker Ballet

You claimed my other picks.

Pathetique 2nd movement - Beethoven

http://youtu.be/n2nG1bt7IBM

Roses from the South - Strauss

http://youtu.be/kW-EqTEqTlM

There are others, but I would need my collection in front of me to remember their titles. I don't listen to classical music as often as I listen to other genres.