Best classical pieces in minor keys

[Sickan]

Recommend me some great classical compositions in minor keys (parts in major acceptable ofc).

 

[P-E]

Chopin's Etudes Op.10 No.12 and Op.25 No.23 (Revolutionary and Winter Wind, respectively) are pretty cool.

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (the one everybody knows, BWV 7something5) by Bach is pretty good too.

 

[Skadsson]

Paganini - Caprice No. 24
Handel-Halvorsen - Passacaglia
Vivaldi - parts of the 4 seasons, mainly the movement of summer everyone knows (i think it's called "the storm") and from winter the first movement. love those.

 

[crillemannen]

Mozart's Requeim is really nice

 

[Felix Neumann]

It´s so beautuful, I could cry each time when I listen to it. Highly recommended!

 

[MetalJonesy]

pretty much this!!

Rachmaninov's piano concerto number 3 in d minor!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkSqqwU1LU&feature=related[/ame]

 

[crillemannen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4

It´s so beautuful, I could cry each time when I listen to it. Highly recommended!

I agree. Listening to violins played live can really touch your soul

 

[crillemannen]

btw.. Gustav Holst the Planets is a really cool piece. Kind of pre-movie music done in the '20's

 

[Harry Hughes]

Chopin's Etudes Op.10 No.12 and Op.25 No.23 (Revolutionary and Winter Wind, respectively) are pretty cool.

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (the one everybody knows, BWV 7something5) by Bach is pretty good too.

This man speaks truth.
Hell, don't just get Chopin stuff in minor keys, get as much Chopin as possible.
My favorite composer and pianist from the Romantic era, for sure.

 

[LeSedna]

This is, for me and of all the things i've heard until now, the best piece of music ever written in the history of music (in my own opinion). This is just...

 

[RemoWilliams]

If only I could pick just one and if there actually was a 'best'. But since I don't go with absolutes I'll just pick one that sort of quickly comes to mind.

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[Plankis]

I'm guessing Moonlight Sonata is too obvious?
But Chopin is awesome. The Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor is nice.

This is a great thread please continue.

 

[Adari]

My favourites:



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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF17mzCPq5A&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/ame]
I know that the Mozart video titles say "D", but it is D Minor.

 

[Ben Johnson]

My favorite Bach organ prelude (BWV 546)



Beautiful Bach Kyrie (Michael Romeo used the intro in a Symphony X song - can't remember which)



1st Bach keyboard concerto BWV 1052, another piece Michael Romeo borrowed from for A Fool's Paradise (the cadenza starting at 5'15")



One of my favorite Mozart Kyrie (K427)



A fun Czerny etude (op730 n° 40) Jeff Loomis' Miles of Machines sounds like it might have been influenced by the main motif.

 

[professorlamp]

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He REALLY gets going in that last one

 

[TravisW]

I've always been a big fan of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.

 

[Ben Johnson]

Valentina Lisitsa is a monster.

 

[AD Chaos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4

It´s so beautuful, I could cry each time when I listen to it. Highly recommended!

I prefer this version, it's more ominous, as is the excellent (anti-religious?) video concept in it -V

 

[Audiosprite]

btw.. Gustav Holst the Planets is a really cool piece. Kind of pre-movie music done in the '20's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeQ1h6lzLI

love this suite, but Mars is the Übermajor. Neptune's minor though, and another classic. either way the op should definitely check these out.

also get mendehlsson's violin concerto in Em.

 

[Virgil.]

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I hope I'm still rockin on the guitar like Segovia was when I'm his age -- sausage sized fingers and all!