5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music

[elleng]

We asked some of our favorite artists to tell us about the sounds they cherish. Listen to their choices.

'I posed a deceptively simple question to our writers and editors, as well as some artists we admire: What are the five minutes or so — longer than a moment, shorter than a symphony — that you’d play for a friend to convince them to fall in love with classical music?

A bit of agonizing later, here are our selections. It’s an astonishing array: the very old and the very new; some favorites, as well as things I’d never heard before and am delighted to now have.

Enjoy the listening, and please leave your picks in the comments. We’ll publish an assortment of them. — ZACHARY WOOLFE, Times classical music editor'

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/arts/music/5-minutes-that-will-make-you-love-classical-music.html?

[GeoWilliam750]

1. Thank you for bringing this to our attention

[elleng]

2. You're welcome.

[SCantiGOP]

3. Bravo

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

5. Steve Reich comes in twice and both Bach and Mozart not at all?

I would rather listen to just about anything by Vaughn Williams than more Orlando Gibbons.

Here is what really made me fall in love with classical music, the Romanze from Mozart's Piano Concerto #20, K466

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. Some more pieces for consideration

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, at least the first movement, is essential

One of my favorite bits of Mozart, the Laudamus Te from the Great Mass in C, as sung by Anne Sofie von Otter

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

How about some Boccherini?

Gassenhauer by Carl Orff

One you may not know, Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz

The King's Singer's take on the Overture to the Barber of Seville, which is simply a lot of fun