My Dentist yet again! He already knew about my “thing” with Opera (see Opera apology on the Categories list) – but he still urged me to listen to this piece by Faure. My wife loves it and hopefully my sister in law will know it already and give me a pat on the back for posting it!
Gabriel Faure Requiem Op. 48 Pie Jesu
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I’m going to put it in the “Exclusive” Perfect Music section. Any piece that can give you goosebumps after you’ve heard it about a zillion times deserves it! Honestly – when he hits the climax it never fails to bring up a primal rush.
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker / Pas de Deux
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I recently gave a two CD set of Classical music to a friend who wasn’t at all familiar with Classical.
He reported that Dvorak’s Humoresque “got him”
In the whole repertoire of those two CD’s  – including Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert etc. etc.
This is the only piece he mentioned that really moved him! So I went to jimsclassicalmusic.com and found there wasn’t a single Dvorak piece! Now there’s two.
Humoresque op. 101 no. 7
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Drobnosti Trio / allegro moderato
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