Favourite pieces that DON'T involve piano...!!

[JK]

Just curious as to what other pieces people love that don't include piano, to start with mine include Beethoven symphonies and Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas. Oh and what other instruments do people play other than piano, I kinda play the violin a bit.

[belvoce]

I sing and I love Beethoven's symphonies. I love listen to Baroque vocal music and German Lieder. Of course, that involes a piano to accompany the vocalist, but I still think it counts!

[Antnee]

I love Beethoven...

He is the best EVER!!!!!!!!!!

...Sorry....anyways I like his cello sonatas and his violin sonatas, especially the 'kreutzer' (sp?) sonata. So much emotion...

-Tony-

[Saturn]

I'm a fan of most of Mozart's symphonies and his string quartets and other chamber music.  I also love hearing showy, virtuosic pieces for the violin.

My very favorite pieces, though, are anything by J. S. Bach, especially the B-minor mass.  What an amazing piece.

I used to play the violin and viola, but I haven't in a while.  It wasn't my thing.  I also sing a bit, much to the horror of family and friends.

- Saturn

[janice]

 I also sing a bit, much to the horror of family and friends.

LOL@"horror"!!!   I couldn't carry a tune even if it had handles on it!!

[Tash]

Just curious as to what other pieces people love that don't include piano, to start with mine include Beethoven symphonies and Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas.  

so agree with that. i also love anything by stravinsky (oh but half of that does involve the piano but i'm thinking of the compositions as a whole) and bartok i LOVE bartok
don't play any other instruments but would really like to take up the cello next year provided i have time for it and can afford lessons

[newsgroupeuan]

Brahms violin concerto (like menhuin's recording)

Paganini Caprice 24 (attempted to do it but it's physically impossible,  and secondly I'm no good at violin)

[willcowskitz]

Paganini's 24 caprices for solo violin
Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony Op.110a
Händel's Harpsichord suite No.4
Dupré's Prelude&Fugue Op.7 No:s. 2 and 3
Balbastre - La Suzanne
Buxtehude's Preludes&Fugues in E, F# and D minor

[DarkWind]

Rimsky- Korsakov- Scheherezade
Stravinsky- Rite of Spring and The Firebird
Ravel- Anything orchestral by him (La Valse, Bolero, Alborada Del Gracioso, etc.) and his String Quartet
Liszt- Les Preludes
Dukas- L'Aprenti Sorcier
Strauss- Any Waltz
Holst- The Planets
Dvorak- Slavonic Dances

This is just a short list. There are many others of course.

[monk]

Wagner - orchestral preludes to Tristan & Isolde and Tannhäuser

Bartok - Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Miraculous Mandarin

Stravinsky - Firebird

Mozart - Symphonies No. 40 & 41; Requiem

Brahms - Symphony No. 3

Schoenberg - Gurrelieder; Chamber Symphony No.1 & 2

Best Wishes,
Monk

[donjuan]

Liszt- Les Preludes

Rossini - William Tell Overture

Bellini - Norma
         - I Puritani
         - La Sonnambula

Tchiakovsky - Swan Lake
                   - Romeo and Juliet

Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique

I have many others, but cant think of any right now..
donjuan

[newsgroupeuan]

mozart's jupiter symphony
Beethoven's Pastoral symphony
Brahms (symphony) 2
Bach's Organ Fugues
Telemann Viola Concerto
Stavinsky Firebird,  Rites of spring
Saint-Saens' Organ Preludes and fugues and etc.

[ahmedito]

everything.... and thats not only classical...

[donjuan]

Oh!
Paganini's Violin Concerto is Excellent!
has anyone heard it?
donjuan

[pseudopianist]

Bach - St Matthew Passion BWV 244
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Bach - Bradenburg Concertos 1, 2 and 3
Bach - Orchestral Suite No3

[JK]

Can I add Wagners' Tristan and Isolde.

Anyone else like opera?

[newsgroupeuan]

Oh!
Paganini's Violin Concerto is Excellent!
has anyone heard it?
donjuan

Which one? No.2 - the one with the bell in the third movement, or the first.  I haven't listened to 3 or 4 yet.

[benji]

Mahler's symphonies.

[joell12068]

some of my favorites:

Shostakovich - Symphony no. 5
Aaron Copland - Rodeo; Appalachian Spring
Tchaikovsky - 1812 overture; Capriccio Italien

[hodi]

mendelssohn: violin concerto,overture & wedding march from midsummer night's dream,symphony no.4 'the italian'

tchaikovsky: swan like,violin concerto,serenade for strings

[Daniel_piano]

Tchaikovsky: EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Greig: Peer Gynt

Mozart: Concert for Flute and Harp

Respighi: Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome, Feste Romane

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue


Daniel

[pianobabe56]

I am absolutely IN LOVE with Bach's Cello Suites. *drool* That's really all that comes to mind currently, but it's also 6:23 in the morning. I also play flute, and I want to take up guitar this year.

[sharon_f]

I love the Bach Cello Suites, also.
Other favorites:
Mozart: Requiem, Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro, Symphonies 40 & 41
Haydn: Most of the London Symphonies, Theresien Mass, The Creation
All of the Beethoven Symphonies and the last String Quartets
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Haydn Variations (one of my all time favs) and the German Requiem
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake
Mahler: 3rd, 5th and 9th Symphonies
Prokofieff: Romeo & Juliet (some of the music beautiful music ever written for the ballet)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Barber: Knoxville Summer 1915, the Violin Concerto and the Adagio for Strings
Messiean: Turangalila Symphony
Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra
Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

and probably a million others I can't think of offhand

[Jack Appleseed]

Quicksilver Messenger Service...before Dino valenti replaced john Cipploina.

ja

[calidris]

I love the Brahms concerto for violin, and the one of Mendelssohn. 
I think they're masterpieces!

[Nina_too]

Handel's Messiah remains one of my all-time favorites. 

I could listen to Bach's Violin Concertos for a LONG time before they got old.  As a matter of fact, I'm still waiting for them to get old...  Perlman has a wonderful recording on EMI, I believe.

[alice oliver]

oh, there are way too many!  i could claim half of janice's list for my own, too.

bach 'cello suites.  i'm in love with the rostropovich recording.

beethoven late quartets.  i have many many different versions, but prefer the budapest quartet.

mozart's requiem
the magic flute, marriage of figaro, string quintets, clarinet quintet

schubert chamber music:  "the trout quintet" "death and the maiden"  "the shepherd on the rock" trio for horn, mezzo, and piano.  the octet.

mendelssohn trio, italian symphony

brahms symphonies, especially... well all of them!  karl bohm is my favorite conductor for these.

i'm just getting more into opera, but i really enjoy carmen and tosca.  love those drama queens!   i like placido domingo--a great muscian.

but i do listen to piano works more than just about anything else.  i guess that is a different thread...

[JK]

Interesting to see a lot of people like the bach unaccompanied sonatas and suites. I also really love Mahlers' symphonies and really I guess anything by Debussy, especially La mer and the second book of images.

[SteinwayTony]

I'm a fan of Schumann symphones (especially 3 & 4).  I'm in the process of transcribing the D minor to solo piano, but I'm getting nowhere without the score, lol.  I need to buy that.

Smetana's orchestral works are hidden gems, especially Moldau. 

Schumann's A minor cello concerto.

Mendelssohn's E minor violin concerto.

Beethoven's late string quartets. (!)

[pianobabe56]

Yeah, I have the rostropovich (sp? apologies) recordings, also. Come to think of it, I am also a huge fan of Vivaldi.

[Floristan]

Bach Cello suites, more recent Starker recording, monumental.

[zemos]

I love symphonies in general.

beethoven - all his symphonies
berlioz- symphony fantastique
brahms - beautiful 4 symphonies, especially the 1st.
mahler - the 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
schubert - 5th, 8th, 9th.
schumann - 1st (don't know the rest, but that one's beautiful)
shostakovich - 5th (amazing!!), 7th, 9th.
sibelius - the 2nd.
tchaikovsky - 5th and 6th.

I didn't mentioned any of the real classical symphonies because I don't like them. comparing to the romantic-impressionistic symphonies, they're pathetic!

also violin concertos by beethoven,mendelssohn, brahms, tchaikovsky, mendelssohn

[etudes]

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto ,Swan lake

[anda]

just about all said above (except for mahler and wagner), plus

bach - chaconne for violin
mozart - violin concerts, flute concerts (esp. g), clarinet concert, operas, requiem
khatchaturian - violin concerto
sibelius - violin concerto
puccini - all operas (esp. tosca, gianni schicchi)
prokofiev - cinderella, peter & the wolf, violin concertos (esp. no.2)
tchaikovski - violin concerto, rococo variations
strawinski - histoire du soldat
mussorgski - boris godunov
borodin - prince igor
britten - corelli variations
enescu - everything

[hodi]

beethoven - all his symphonies

I didn't mentioned any of the real classical symphonies because I don't like them. comparing to the romantic-impressionistic symphonies, they're pathetic!

u said u like beethoven symphonies and u don't like classical symphonies?
hmmmm..

[Ben D.]

I don't really listen to any classical music w/ no piano, but I do play the trumpet! Piano is much better though.

hehe glow! yay

[Skeptopotamus]

Glass Violin Concerto

[scrabble]

quick list 

Tchaikovsky: symphony no. 6
Brahms: symphonies
Mahler: so far symphonies 1, 5
Shostokovich: so far symphony no 1
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kiji

Violin Solo:
Lalo: Symphony Espagnole
Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro
Ravel: Tzigane
Saint-Saens: violin concerto no 3
Wienawski: Legende

[randolph]

Opera!  I love Verdi!  Opera has taught me alot about how to properly use expression.

[ChristmasCarol]

Ah yes Mahler's symphonies
Sibelius

I am a singer as well.  I drive around listening to the Swingle Singers cd's singiing all the parts of Mozart and Bach. 
I got  a great interface, mike and software for Christmas, and the first piece I recorded  my voice doing all the parts was "Kyrie" by Hugo Hammarstrom... absolute heaven. 

My first instrument was trumpet... kid lessons at public school.  Never learned to play well but still love the instrument.
Hey I grew up in the sixties and yah know, of course I played guitar a little.  One semester of clarinet, one semester of viola and college.  yeah... no, I don't really play them.

 

[minimozart007]

Bach's CELLO SUITES!!!  MOO HAA HAA MOO HAA HAA 

[UofMDLisztian]

Symphony in E-flat by Chopin 
Dante Symphony by Liszt
Symphony no6 by Tchaikovsky

cheers
(btw, just kidding about the Chopin Symphony)

[zemos]

u said u like beethoven symphonies and u don't like classical symphonies?
hmmmm..

Look again, I said iI don't like REAL calssical symphonies... Beethoven doesn't belong to the calssical period, neither the romantic. That's what so special about him...

[kaff]

Monteverdi Orfeo
Tallis Spem in alium
Allegri Miserere
Bach cello suites

Kathryn

[DarkWind]

Ok, an update on my list.

Crumb: Star Child
Ravel: Everything
Strauss: Symphonic Poems
Mahler: All the Symphonies
Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, Verklarte Nacht, Pierrot Lunaire
Stravinsky: The Firebird, The Rite of Spring, Petrushka, The Song of the Nightingale, Fireworks, Les Noces

There are much much more, though...

[Hamfast]

Paganini, Wieniawski: Caprices
Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert: Symphonies
Tchaikowsky, Brahms, Wieniawski, Bruch: Violin concertos

[Op. 1 No. 2]

Khachaturian - Violin Concerto
Milhaud - La Création du Monde
Holst - The Planets
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 2
...and those are just the CD's in front of me right now, there's tons and tons more.