WB, Putin.
Great list. I listened to four of those today.

I'm glad to find other Holst fans on here. My favorite from The Planets is Jupiter. What about everyone else? Also, Moorside Suite and St. Paul's Suite are also very good. They have a lot of elements of Holst's other work.

Side note: I've taken to playing webdip on my kindle fire, whose autocorrect is overzealous and incomplete, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it recognized "Holst" (it didn't even recognize the word "recognize")

I shake my fist at Wagner...

Why? Parsifal has to be one of the greatest operas ever made. And he wrote such great essays too

My favorite movement of The Planets has to be Mars. It does such a great job of driving the force of Mars' character in.

Also, if you have an interest in classical music, I'd highly recommend listening to "P.D.Q. Bach". Basically, it's a music professor composing musical humor with an eye for odd quirks of classical period composers and music. For instance, he wrote a violin concerto simply to make a ridiculous first violin part, and he wrote a dramatic choral reimagining of Oedipus Rex, starring himself as Oedipus Tex in the small Texan town of Thebes Gulch.

PDQ Bach is good stuff. I haven't listened to him in years. Good idea!

Bach has no emotion. Baroque has no appeal to me.

Too religious, Putin?

No, I just listed Haydn's Creation as one of my favorites. I just think it's bland.

Many of these suggestions are not Classical, but Baroque or Romantic, which is fine. Just saying. Since Baroque is included, I find all of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are great music t o work captivity to. Also, have you checked out Striggio's 40 voice Mass, newly recorded out of England: Alessandro Striggio's Mass in 40 Parts. Fascinaing history. Lost for nearly 400 years. Found in 2002, I think.

Try Prelude and Fugue III by Clara Schumann

Of the Planets, I have to say Jupiter is my favorite.

Don't know if it fits your bill, but Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is one of my favorites.

Haydn, Handel, Schumann are all great as well

Carmina Burana is an old favorite of mine.

Many people call all forms of symphonic music "classical" even radio stations. 90.9 WGUC goes by the phrase "Classical WGUC" or "Cincinnati's Classical Musoc Station".

Yeah it's really the primary use of the term nowadays. You'd want to say"classical period" or something if you meant the actual classical period, unless the context was clear.

Just to keep my bearings straight, the Classical period was the mid 1700s to early 1800s, correct?

Correct, goldfinger. Beethoven is typically considered the transitional figure (early career being classical, mid and late career being romantic, to be unsubtle).

Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue isnt exactly classical but its orchestral so thats a suggestion
As far as Ravel go with his String Quartet ( I believe he only wrote one too so it should be easy to find)
Wagner's prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga
Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade and Sinbad
Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor
Mahler, really anything by mahler
definately check these out they are my go to's for music

I'm also a huge fan of movie scores so Nino Rota's Godfather and Romeo & Juliet soundtracks, Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings trilogy soundtrack, Patrick Doyle's soundtracks to Branagh's Shakespearean productions (esp. Hamlet and Henry V), Poledouris' Hunt for Red October and Conan the Barbarian, and William's Schindler's List, E.T., and Close Encounters.

Good soundtracks. I like the Red October and the Romeo & Juliet ones, but I'd add Last of the Mohicans.

To give you a clear picture...
Baroque: 1650's - 1750's
Classical: 1750's-1810's
Romantic: 1810's-1890's
Modern: 1890's-1950's
Contemporary: 1950's-Present

Shubert-Ave Maria(classical guital version)

How could I forget Nino Rota Scores with fellini notably La Dolce Vita, and 8 1/2, and of course the Godfather score is great

@Putin33: I do tend to agree with you about baroque music, but as a cellist the bach cello suites hold such meaning for me: played well, they are incredibly free and modern, and not "rigid" and "boring" like baroque music is generally stereotyped (and stereotyped with good reason) to be

I was trolling about Wagner by the way. Only thing sadder than trolling webdip forums is trolling webdip forums and not getting responses.

Heh