Let's hear some classical

[Sir Masksalot]

My favorite composer is Claude Debussy. No filmmaker could ever create a movie beautiful enough to justify
using his music in the soundtrack. My favorite works of his are Images Pour Orchestre, Jeux, La Mer, and
the one I listen to most often of all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obv33I2Kf10&t=516s

If you have a favorite, either recent or ancient, do offer a selection.

[Mike Scott]

Beautiful! Love Debussy. "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" is a favorite.

[Mike Scott]

How about some Americana! 

Charles Ives : 3 Places in New England
Eugene Ormandy · Philadelphia Orchestra
I. The St. Gaudens in Boston Common
https://youtu.be/jpUtOZjsQwo
II. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
https://youtu.be/8JRBGBzR9SA
III. The Housatonic at Stockbridge
https://youtu.be/0gEsIQMsoko

Aaron Copland : Appalachian Spring
Leonard Bernstein · New York Philharmonic Orchestra
https://youtu.be/8e3rVcSy3IQ

Ferde Grofé : Grand Canyon Suite
Eugene Ormandy · Philadelphia Orchestra
1. Sunrise 2. The Painted Desert 3. On the Trail 4. Sunset 5. Cloudburst
https://youtu.be/Xe7wC-HG6RQ

[Mike Scott]

Aram Khachaturian : Symphony No.3
Leopold Stokowski - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
https://youtu.be/FvPa1ASaxLA

[Mike Scott]

Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade - Symphonic Suite, Op. 35
Leopold Stokowski - London Symphony Orchestra
1. The Sea And Sinbad's Ship
2. The Story Of The Kalandar Prince
3. The Young Prince And The Young Princess
4. Festival At Baghdad
https://youtu.be/WfPuN8i6yvo

[Mike Scott]

From Russia With Love

Sergei Prokofiev - Troika (From "Lieutenant Kije")
Anatole Fistoulari - The Philharmonia Orchestra
https://youtu.be/7GUzJ7fQBtg

Alexander Borodin - Polovtsian Dances (From "Prince Igor")
Herbert von Karajan - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
https://youtu.be/sAMIimzqvW4

[Mike Scott]

Parlor view Frenchie?

Maurice Ravel - La valse
Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic Orchestra
https://youtu.be/vg6fAtPJ0Qo

[Mike Scott]

Back in the '70s, Ravel's "La valse" was great pot smokin' music! Really trippy! 

[Mike Scott]

If it ain't Baroque . . .

Michael Praetorius - In Dulci Jubilo
https://youtu.be/P_BYhkTLoDc

Vivaldi - Winter (from "The Four Seasons")
https://youtu.be/Pgs_zB6Et2Q

Johann Sebastian Bach ~ Prelude in C Major
https://youtu.be/wU46NZ9SsKA

[Mike Scott]

Puccini - Nessun dorma! (Aria from the opera "Turandot")
Luciano Pavarotti (Zubin Mehta cond.)

https://youtu.be/RdTBml4oOZ8

[geezer butler]

If it ain't Baroque . . .

Michael Praetorius - In Dulci Jubilo
https://youtu.be/P_BYhkTLoDc

Vivaldi - Winter (from "The Four Seasons")
https://youtu.be/QPba-i26YNA

Johann Sebastian Bach ~ Prelude in C Major
https://youtu.be/wU46NZ9SsKA

The Bach piece is beautiful. One of my favorites. Connecting it to hard rock, Procol Harum uses part of it in "Repent Walpurgis," and Don Airey incorporates into the Rainbow song "Weiss Heim."

[Mike Scott]

Procol Harum uses part of it in "Repent Walpurgis," and Don Airey incorporates into the Rainbow song "Weiss Heim."

Mike Oldfield did a cover of "In Dulci Jubilo".

https://youtu.be/Lg8NyQlfR24

[Hepcat]

My very favourite:

Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony - New York Philharmonic

[Mike Scott]

My very favourite:

Excellent recording cond. by Lenny B.!

[Hepcat]

My first exposure to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was on the NBC Nightly News over fifty years ago. I wrote NBC a letter to learn what the music was that introduced their newscast:

Ludwig van Beethoven' Fifth Symphony - Philadelphia Orchestra