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Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini

Dvorak's String Serenade in E major or Josef Suk's String Serenade in E-flat major.

Dvorak's In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Karel Arcel. My favorite overture out of the Nature, Love and Life triology that includes Carnival Overture, Op. 92 and Othello, Op. 93.

Charles Ives's Calcium Light Night

J.S. Bach- Fantasia in G major (arr. Edwin Franko Goldman for band)

I don't listen to much Bach, but I sure do enjoy listening to this.

Copland's Billy the Kid has a very emotional and climatic ending. I love the harp glissandos that elaborate the orchestral texture and push the music foward.

Sibelius- Symphony No. 1 in E minor: I. Andante ma non troppo - Allegro energico

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Leif Segerstam

That's too bad that he destroyed it. I would have loved to play some chamber music written for my instrument by Dvorak.

Is it really true that Dvorak wrote a chamber work for the clarinet? I stumble upon the title while I was browsing a list of his works on Wikipedia. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks.

The climatic section towards the end of the first movement in Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 is very moving. He takes the somber second theme of the piece and alters it by transforming it into a majestic, triumphant brass fanfare.

I'm listening to the last movement of Anton Rubinstein's String Quartet No. 1 in G major, a truly beautiful work, played by The Royal String Quartet Copenhagen. It's hard to believe how German, in both style and form, this piece sounds for being written by a Russian composer. One could mistake this ...

madcapellan wrote:it's obvious that we're looking for different things in classical music.

What things are you looking for in classical music?

What pieces are you looking at?

I am not aware of a catalouge but I would like to help and compare.

Brahms- Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 (orchestration by L. Berio): II. Andante un poco adagio Reiner Wehle, clarinet with the Philharmonisches Orchester under Hansestadt Lubeck I find Berio's transcription of this piece very effective, composed with a rather Brahmsian orchestration chara...