For the purely selfish reason of finding more classical, I'd like you to choose your favourite piece (singular; only one allowed) by your favourite classical artists (plural). Contemporary classical artists very welcome.

I'll get the ball rolling with mine:
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No 1
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 2
Grieg - Peer Gynt suite No 1 - The Death of Aase
Debussy - Claire De Lune
Mozart - Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

Modern
Zbigniew Priesner - Aberdeen - Beginning of the Story

Okay; I'm kinda cheating here because some of these favourite tracks of mine are the only tracks I know by those artists, so I'm not really comparing anything. Please feel free to educate me.

Also, try not to think what's technically superior, most mature of their works, or anything like that; just your personal favourite. Disengage your head and engage your heart.

Cheers

My heart's always engaged. But when I listen to it, I only hear this soft beating sound.:tongue:

Sorry for that. I'll answer your question.
Albinoni: Concerto for 2 Oboes No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9/2 (yeah, I like the Adagio in G minor too, but that's not really his own work)
Lotti: Crucifixus a 8
Vivaldi: Il Gardellino (Concerto for Flute No. 3 in D, Op. 10 RV428 )
Bach: Tough..... How am I going to choose a single favourite? I really like his Magnificat in D Major (BWV 243) and especially the Fecit Potentiam part. Or Mache Dich, mein Herze, rein from the Matthäus-Passion.
Mozart: Tough also. His famous concert for flute, harp and orchestra (KV 299) is incredible, but I think I'll just say his Requiem. The parts he wrote himself that is.

The rest I don't know enough of. Sure the Mondschein Sonata is beautiful and so is Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18 (in spite of Celine Dion). And I know an Ave Maris Stella by Grieg, which is good as well. But I'm not familiar enough with those composers to list these pieces as favourites.

Easy!

Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Copland: Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

ssssshhostakovich! sorry I just like saying that name.
lets see...

Beethoven: 9th part1 and 2
Tchiakovsky(sp) : Marche Slave
Holst: Jupiter

perhaps Handel's Messiah because it is a glorification of our savior and creator. there is nothing like the glory that bursts from this work.

Morton Feldman - Piano & String Quartet
Claude Debussy - Preludes Book I
Gyorgy Ligeti - Etudes for Piano
Maurice Ravel - Gaspard De La Nuit
Erik Satie - Six Gnossiennes
Steve Reich - Drumming
Bach - Well Tempered Clavier
Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Alfred Schnittke - String Quartet 3
Iannis Xenakis - Evryali for Piano
Olivier Messiaen - Vingt Regard Sur L'Enfant Jesus

Strauss-Blue Danube Waltz
or
the new classics:"Mike murray-Paradise Lost"

Dvorak - "From the New World" (aka Symphony #9, if I'm not mistaken)
Rachmaninov - Opus 23, No. 5, prelude in G Minor - short but sweet. Of course, it's hard to pick any one Rachmaninov piece, but that one has a ton of sentimental value since it's what really got me into his music.

Chopin - Nocturne in E Minor - really captures the "essence" of a Chopin piece, in my humble opinion

Those are the only three I can think of right now, since it's too hard to pick one thing from Tchaikovsky or Beethoven.

holst - jupiter from the planets.

Saint-Saens - Piano Concero in G Minor
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique