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How many FDRers are into classical music out there?  I've talked to two in the past day or so, so I'm guessing there are more.

Which eras and/or composers and/or pieces?

My favorites have always been the more epic stuff out of the Romantic Era.

Any Mahler, although especially the 8th Symphony

(for anyone interested in checking out the 8th symphony.  It's called the Symphony of 1000, and you'll see why shortly.)

Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique

Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave

Wagner

Liszt

Sibelius

Wow. Mahler's 8th looks like an earplug symphony for sure. I watched the clip of the ending (this one) and it made me weep.

I don't know what my favorites are in the realm of classical music, becasue I honestly haven't taken the time to make distinctions between what I do like and what I don't. Now might be the time to do that, since I'm currently looking for new music to drop into my iPod. I know I like stuff that's dramatic (dramatic big like involving a billion person chorus, or dramatic small like Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata). I like things that help remind me of the awesome depth and power of humanity, particularly in the realm of art (the end of Mahler's 8th did that for me). Thanks for bringing up the topic, and for posting the video *wipes tears away in the most manly possible way*

I love classical music, though my "thing" is early music, really.

Composers:

Palestrina
Various troubadors (Bertran de Born, Bernart de Ventadorn, etc)
John Dowland
A lot of other medieval music of which the composer's name is lost
J.B. Lully
Arcangelo Corelli
P. Locatelli (I always imagine that piece as four guys having a jam session on a Sunday afternoon - not playing anything they've pre-arranged.)

And of course...

Mozart
Haydn
Vivaldi
Rachmaninoff
Chopin

Mozart!  But Mozart was a red!

Somebody had to do it.  

To me, classical music is "real music" - modern stuff, especially rap and pop, is just annoying repetitive noise. 

I too am quite fond of the Romantic Era.  I like Mahler's 5th symphony, especially the finale.  Mendelssohn's stuff is good too.  And Beethoven, of course, is awesome.

Wow, Charlotte! Cool stuff, thanks for the links.  How did you get into troubadors?

Not a Number: Mahler's 5th is also one of my favorites.  Great trumpet piece.