Fave classical pieces

[isaacs]

Australia's greatest unknown jazz pianist Adam Ponting emailed me to ask what were my favourite classical pieces (his were Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 and Debussy's opera Pelleas and Melisande). Here's mine, and other may like to add theirs to this thread.

Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Bach St Matthew Passion
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe
Mahler 5th Symphony
Elgar Enigma Variations
Sibelius Symphony No 2
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3
Prokoviev Piano Concertos No 2 & 3
Mozart Symphonies 40 & 41
Schoenberg Transfigured Night (Verklate Nacht)
Alban Berg Piano Sonata
Chopin 4 Ballades
Debussy Piano Preludes Books 1 & 2
Khachaturian Piano Concerto
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
William Walton Symphony No 2
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste

[andgar]

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring, Petroushka
Bartok - Miraculous Mandarin
Don Banks - Equations I and II

[mim]

Beethoven 7th symph, second mvt particularly
Beethoven - pathetique sonata, adagio cantabile particularly (cliché, I know)
Debussy - La fille aux cheveux de lin (girl with flaxen hair)
Holst - most of his choral work
Thomas Tallis 40 part motet

Mark, totally with you on the elgar & mahler too

[ironguts]

fuck the romantic shit right off, Carter at least.

[isaacs]

So name your Carter piece(s) then....

His string quartets could have made my list.

[mrqwerty]

And what about Ricky Ponting's favourite classical pieces?