Hey, Sax!
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Originally Posted by Saxamaphone
Haydn's wonderful - check out any of the string quartets - and the "Surprise Symphony"
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Any of the late symphonies, as well.
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Beethoven - the piano concertos, and of course the symphonies. 5 and 9 especially.
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And 3, 6, 7 and 8. Especially.
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Mahler - Symphonies 1 and 2
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And 5. And 9. And
Das Lied von der Erde.
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Dvorak - Symphony 9 (my personal favorite)
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Nice.
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Also, check out: Vivaldi (Four Seasons, any concerto), Handel, Berlioz (Symphony Fantastique), Chopin, Debussy, Wagner, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Schostakovich, Stravinski.
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Other things by Holst besides
The Planets (like the two Suites for Military Band, for example), Vaughan-Williams, Stamitz (both of them), Bachs J.C and C.P.E., Carl Maria von Weber, Ravel (!), Schoenberg, Bartok, Prokofiev, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen,
u.s.w.
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Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm
Wagner's got some good stuff in Tannhauser - there's the passage that everyone knows as Kill Da Wabbit (actually Ride of the Valkyries) ...
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That would be
Die Walküre, rather than
Tannhäuser.
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... and a slower bit in 3/4 time that's done by the French horns but could be covered by the trombones (I have no idea what it's called, but it's part of the overture - I have a two-disc CD set of various overtures).
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I'm not positive, but I think that you're referring here to Wotan's theme which recurs throughout the Ring cycle, sometimes called in Act III of this opera (sorry,
"music drama") "Wotan's Magic Fire Music" -- one of my favorite leitmotifs from the whole sixteen-plus hours of music.
Back to
Tannhäuser, though, the Grand Chorus near the end is pretty neat, too.