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Christo

#60
May 29, 2007, 05:14:19 PM
Oh dear, oh dear, dear - there we go again:

Arnell, Symphony 3
Arnold, Symphony 5
Bach, Matthäus Passion
Barber, Second Essay for Orchestra
Beethoven, Eroica
Bliss, A Colour Symphony
Braga Santos, Symphony 4
Brian, Gothic Symphony
Bruckner, Symphony 9
Debussy, La Mer
Diamond, Symphony 3
Dvorak, Symphonic Poems
Einhorn, Voices of Light
Falla, El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Gibbs, Symphony 3 Westmoreland
Goossens, Symphony 1
Holmboe, Symphony 8
Holst, The Hymn of Jesus
Honegger, Symphonie Liturgique
Howells, Hymnus Paradisi
Kinsella, Symphony 3
Mahler, Symphony 6
Respighi, Lauda per la Natività del Signore
Shostakovich, Symphony 15
Stravinsky, Symphonie de Psaumes
Tchaikovsky, Symphony 6 Pathétique
Tormis, Unustatud rahvad
Tubin, Symphony 6
Vaughan Williams, A Pastoral Symphony
Vaughan Williams, Symphony 6
Vermeulen, Symphony 2
Villa-Lobos, Choros 10
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Dancing Divertimentian

#61
May 29, 2007, 06:49:17 PM
Quote from: MrOsa on May 28, 2007, 03:25:32 PM
Yeah, that song is one of my favorite Webern pieces too. ;)

Yeah, with that "Vistula at Moonlight" feel how could it fail!

;D



Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Steve

#62
May 29, 2007, 11:34:13 PM
30 favourite works! It seems these lists keep growing...

Beethoven Symphonies #4, 5, 9
Sibelius: Symphonies 2, 4
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D
Shostakovich Symphonies 2, 10, 15
Shostakovich Cello Concerto
Elgar: Violin Concerto in B flat
Chopin: Grand Polonaise in G (Heroic)
Chopin: La Berceuse
Schumann: Ein Alplinesymphonie
Mahler: Symphonies 1, 7, 9
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Symphony 39
Haydn: Symphonies 94, 104
Schubert: Symphonies 8, 9
Brahms: Piano Concertos (1,2)
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Paganini: Violin Concerto 4
Debussy: La Mer
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers

Had I posted this last week, the entire Shostakovich Symphonic Repotoire might have been featured..  :)

Lethevich

#63
May 30, 2007, 05:51:52 AM Last Edit: June 02, 2007, 02:40:13 PM by Lethe
I have a bad habit of taking popular works for granted, preferring to listen to other things or feeling more connected with those other things, so that there is no Beethoven or Mozart on this list doesn't mean I don't consider them objectively superior to many things on my list. They are often chosen for silly personal connections too...

Bartók - Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Bartók - Duos for Violin
Brahms - Sextet, op.18
Britten - Phaedra, op.93
Bruckner - Symphony no.6
Chopin - Mazurkas, op.6
Cornysh - Ah Robin
Couperin - Lecons
Dupré - Sixteen Chorales, Op. 38
Duruflé -  Quatre Motets sur des Thèmes Grégoriens, op.10
El Sabio - Cantigas de Santa Maria
Feldman - Cello & Orchestra
Haydn - String quartet op.76/2
Haydn - Symphony no.44
Janáček - On an Overgrown Path (thanks to Luke's advocacy)
Liszt - Années de Pèlerinage vol.3
Liszt - Totentanz
Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610
Palestrina - Laudate Pueri
Pärt - Stabat Mater
Pärt - Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinushka (6 Variationen)
Pettersson - Symphony no.7
Poulenc - Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue
Schnittke - Musica Nostalgica (probably my most pointless choice, although it has rivals)
Schnittke - Peer Gynt
Schubert - String quartet no.13, D804
Scriabin - Piano sonata no.10 (whenever I listen to this, it almost hurts that he didn't write more...)
Scriabin - Vers la Flamme, op.72
Strauss, J - Die Fleidermaus
Tallis - Spem in Alium
Vasks - Violin concerto, 'Distant Light'
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Haffner

#64
May 30, 2007, 07:51:41 AM
Forget the 30, easier for me to just list stuff:

Mozart: Symphony no. 40, "Haffner" and "Jupiter"
"Spring" and "Dissonance" Quartets
All of his string duos and trios (including the lesser known, but extraordinary k266 and the incredible Divertimento k563)
String Quintet in D
Clarinet Quintet in A
Violin Concerto no.3
Rondo Alla Turca, La Sonata Facile
"Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni", "Die Zauberflote"

Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, "Italian" Symphony

Shostakovich:String Quartet no.7

Schoenberg: String Quartets 3 and 4

Mahler: Symphonies nos. 3, 6, and 9

Beethoven: "Moonlight" Sonata, "Fur Elise" Bagatelle, String Quartets opps. 59 and op.132; "Emperor" Piano Concerto; Symphony no.9.

Schumann: Piano Quintet in Eb

Verdi: Riggolletto, La Traviata.

Puccini: Madame Butterfly

Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Elektra

Chopin: The entirety of the Nocturnes and Preludes.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, the entirety of the Brandenburg Concertos; the D minor, F# minor, and C# minor fugues from WTC; Contrapunctus 8 from Die Kunst Der Fuge

Joseph Haydn: opps.20, 50, 54,74, 76; "Creation"; Piano Trios in Eb; both Cello Concertos.

Berlioz: La Sinfonia Fantastica

Elgar: Cello Concerto


schweitzeralan

#65
August 06, 2009, 01:18:29 PM Last Edit: August 06, 2009, 01:20:53 PM by schweitzeralan
Quote from: quintett op.57 on May 22, 2007, 05:35:18 AM
I'm curious.

Please, organize your post (by genre, by period, by composer... do what you want)

I'm really interested
There are so many.  But the works I listen to regularly are:

Debussy - The Martyr DE Saint Sebastian
Scriabin/Nemptin - Mysterium
Gliere - Ilya Moromets
Joseph Marx - Herbstsymphonie
Sibelius - Tapiola
Bax - all symphonies
Krein - Symphony - After Scriabin
Rachmoninoff - Symphony No.2; Piano sonata #1
Carter - Variations For Orchestra
Suk - Asrael Symphony
Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony
Klami - Symphonie En fantine
Wiren - Symphony #2
Matetodja - Symphony #2
Hanson - Symphony #3

There are so many works of interest to me personally; so many composers  of interest to the vast contributors who inform this forum.

Bulldog

#66
August 06, 2009, 01:36:19 PM
30 it is:

Bach - WTC.
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Bach - Leipzig Chorales
Bach - German Organ Mass
Bach - Mass in B minor
Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven - Sym. 9.
Beethoven - Diabelli Variations
Berlioz - Sym. Fantastique
Schumann - Kreisleriana
Schumann - Davidsbundlertanze
Chopin - Preludes
Chopin - Fantasy
Chopin - Barcarolle
Weinberg - Violin Concerto
Medtner - Violin Sonata No. 3
Zemlinsky - St. Qt. No. 2
Mozart - Mass in C minor
Mozart - Requiem
Mozart - Magic Flute
Janacek - St. Qt. 1
Janacek - St. Qt. 2
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Handel (23)
Stravinsky - Rites of Spring
Scriabin - Op. 34 Preludes
Shostakovich - Op. 11 Preludes
Shostakovich - Sym. 10
Mahler - Sym. 4
Mahler - Sym. 5
Mahler - Sym. 6

vandermolen

#67
August 06, 2009, 02:29:05 PM Last Edit: August 06, 2009, 02:43:00 PM by vandermolen
Bruckner Symphony No 9
Braga Santos Symphony No 4
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6
Moeran Symphony
Walton Symphony No 1
Shostakovich Symphony No 4
Bax Symphony No 3
Lilburn Symphony No 1
Miaskovsky Symphony No 6
Copland Symphony No 3
Bernstein Jeremiah Symphony
David Diamond Symphony No 3
Tubin Symphony No 4
Raid Symphony No 1
Patrick Hadley The Trees so High
Philip Sainton Nadir
Alwyn Symphony No 2
Pettersson Violin Concerto No 2
Novak The Storm
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (1913 version)
Arnold Symphony No 1
Nielsen Symphony No 5
Langgaard Symphony No 4
Havergal Brian Symphony No 8
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 9
Bliss Morning Heroes/ or Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
Sibelius Tapiola
Miaskovsky Symphony 17
Vasks Symphony No 2
Arnell Symphony No 3


Not in any order I'm afraid.

I could have added most of Christo and Schweitzeralan's lists too (Kinsella Symphony 3/Gliere Symphony No 3/Madetoja Symphony 2/Barber 2nd Essay for Orchestra - these are all great works etc)! How could I leave out Howells's Hymnus Paradisi/Durufle's Requiem/ Honegger's Liturgique/ Simonsen's Hellas/Holmboe's 7th  etcetc? ::)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Brian

#68
August 06, 2009, 02:46:23 PM
There's been a sudden rash of thread revivals from early 2007 lately...  :P

karlhenning

#69
August 06, 2009, 02:47:57 PM
Must be this Edward Hopper Exhibit shirt I've been wearing (05.06-08.19.2007)

Franco

#70
August 06, 2009, 03:32:27 PM
Today's list:

Bach   Art of Fugue
Bach   B minor Mass
Bach   WTC
Beethoven   Piano Concerto No. 4 in G
Beethoven   Piano Sonata #29
Beethoven   Piano Sonata #8
Beethoven   String Quartet Op. 59, No. 2 in E minor
Beethoven   Symphony No. 3 in E flat
Brahms   Clarinet Quintet in B minor
Brahms   Clarinet Trio in A minor
Brahms   Piano Concerto in B flat
Durufle   Requiem
Faure   Requiem
Gershwin   Porgy & Bess
Mozart   Clarinet Concerto
Mozart   Clarinet Quintet
Mozart   Le Nozze Di Figaro
Mozart   Piano Concerto No. 23 in A
Mozart   Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Poulenc   Aubade
Stravinsky   Agon
Stravinsky   Octet
Stravinsky   Ragtime
Stravinsky   Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
Stravinsky   Symphony of Psalms
Verdi   Aida
Verdi   Don Carlos
Verdi   La Traviata
Verdi   Otello
Verdi   Rigoletto

Maciek

#71
February 11, 2010, 02:56:56 AM
This thread had its little bursts, and then it sinks. I'm thinking maybe some new members will want to post in it, so here's a bump.

mc ukrneal

#72
February 11, 2010, 06:55:21 AM
This should be fun, although I suspect my list will be a bit different:

Beethoven - Symphony No 6
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 30, op 109
Bizet - L'arlessienne Suite
Brahms - Hungarian Dances
Chopin - Etudes
Dvorak - Legends
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Faure - Requiem
Godowsky - Complete Studies on Chopin's Etudes (the more I listen - the more intersting it gets)
Grainger - Irish Tune from County Derry
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite
Holst - Mars (Planets in entirety if allowed as one)
Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel (a great introdcution for those who don't know opera)
Khachaturian - Masquarede Suite
Lehar - Zigeunerfest (Gypsy Feast)
Loewe - Erlkonig (the best of all the Erlkonigs in my opinion, but it is fun to compare too)
Lyadov - Variations on a Polish folk song for piano (mesmorized by this piece)
Mozart - Marriage of Figaro (brilliantly written and hilariously funny)
Offenbach - Tales of Hoffman (great music)
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet (I love Cinderella too, but this is even more moving for me)
Puccini - La Boheme (just amazing tunes)
Rachmaninov - PC #2 (yeah, it can be schmaltzy, but what schmaltz!)
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade
Schubert - Impromptus - Impromptu #1 in C minor if I had to pick one (but don't hold me to it)
Schumann - Kinderszenen
Schumann - Symphony #4
Shostakovich - Cheryomushki (the galop/polka part in particular)
Tchaikovsky - PC #1
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 5
Verdi - Otello

These are pieces I listen to regularly or know well even if only listened to periodically...
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

offbeat

#73
February 11, 2010, 01:18:47 PM
these list threads are really annoying - i know for sure as soon as i post i will remember half a dozen more i missed out - ah well - here in no particular order
Prokofiev Symphony 5 and 6
Vermeulen Symphony 1 (All tks to GMG  :D)
Mahler Symphony 6
Adams Chamber Symphony
Bartok Music for strings percussion and celeste
Part Miserere
Martin Mass for double choir
Tuur Requiem
Delius North Country Sketches
Ives Symphony 4
Messiaen Quartet for end of time / l'ascension
Shostakovich Piano trio no 2/Symphony 8
Schoenberg Gurrelieder
Stravinsky Les Noces/Rite of Spring
Schumann Symphony 3
Finzi Dies Natalis
Berg Wozzeck
Beethoven Symphony 3
Rachmaninov Vespers/Symphony 3
Scriabin Five Preludes op 74
Liszt Dante Symphony
Sibelius Symphony 4/Tapiola
Bax Symphony 2 (played recently and decided my fav bax - well this week anyway  ;D)
Vaughan Williams Symphony 3/An Oxford Elergy

might have gone over 30 - too tired to count  :o



Renfield

#74
February 11, 2010, 03:23:25 PM Last Edit: February 11, 2010, 03:25:12 PM by Renfield
I can't seem to find a (de)motivational poster on Google for "You have got to be kidding me!"

:P


But I can relate an amusing anecdote. An old(ish) man entered a record store in Greece while I was browsing its stock, one day, asking about a recording of the only classical work he had ever loved in his life; the one where Beethoven [sic] sings at the end.

You can guess the work. On the upside, I bought the now-hard-to-find (?) complete DG Bernstein Mahler box from that shop. And Mahler's 4th, 6th and 9th are definitely in my hypothetical you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me top 30.

schweitzeralan

#75
February 11, 2010, 05:58:09 PM Last Edit: February 12, 2010, 10:15:42 AM by schweitzeralan
olen link=topic=1021.msg342464#msg342464 date=1249597745]
Bruckner Symphony No 9
Braga Santos Symphony No 4
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6
Moeran Symphony
Walton Symphony No 1
Shostakovich Symphony No 4
Bax Symphony No 3
Lilburn Symphony No 1
Miaskovsky Symphony No 6
Copland Symphony No 3
Bernstein Jeremiah Symphony
David Diamond Symphony No 3
Tubin Symphony No 4
Raid Symphony No 1
Patrick Hadley The Trees so High
Philip Sainton Nadir
Alwyn Symphony No 2
Pettersson Violin Concerto No 2
Novak The Storm
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (1913 version)
Arnold Symphony No 1
Nielsen Symphony No 5
Langgaard Symphony No 4
Havergal Brian Symphony No 8
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 9
Bliss Morning Heroes/ or Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
Sibelius Tapiola
Miaskovsky Symphony 17
Vasks Symphony No 2
Arnell Symphony No 3


Not in any order I'm afraid.

I could have added most of Christo and Schweitzeralan's lists too (Kinsella Symphony 3/Gliere Symphony No 3/Madetoja Symphony 2/Barber 2nd Essay for Orchestra - these are all great works etc)! How could I leave out Howells's Hymnus Paradisi/Durufle's Requiem/ Honegger's Liturgique/ Simonsen's Hellas/Holmboe's 7th  etcetc? ::)
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Not to mention VW's 4th and 6th; Mennin's 6th Symphony; all Martinu symphonies; Ravel's "La Valle des Cloches;" Mompou's "Musica callada;" the two Rach piano sonatas; "Lyatoshinsky's 1st Symphony (after Gliere).

mc ukrneal

#76
February 11, 2010, 11:40:12 PM
Quote from: Renfield on February 11, 2010, 03:23:25 PM
I can't seem to find a (de)motivational poster on Google for "You have got to be kidding me!"

:P


But I can relate an amusing anecdote. An old(ish) man entered a record store in Greece while I was browsing its stock, one day, asking about a recording of the only classical work he had ever loved in his life; the one where Beethoven [sic] sings at the end.

You can guess the work. On the upside, I bought the now-hard-to-find (?) complete DG Bernstein Mahler box from that shop. And Mahler's 4th, 6th and 9th are definitely in my hypothetical you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me top 30.

I believe they recently released a new box version of this (not far in price from the Sony Bernstein Mahler set if memory serves).
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Christo

#77
February 12, 2010, 04:48:03 AM
Today, the choice is easy.  8)

Bach, Matthäus Passion
Barber, Knoxville - Summer of 1915
Beethoven, Eroica
Berkeley, Symphony 2
Bliss, A Colour Symphony
Braga Santos, Symphony 3
Brian, Gothic Symphony
Bruckner, Symphony 9
Cooke, Symphony 1
Debussy, La Mer
Dvořák, The Noon Witch
Einhorn, Voices of Light
Falla, El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Ginastera, Variaciones concertantes
Goossens, Symphony 1
Guarnieri, Symphony 3
Holmboe, Symphony 7
Holst, The Hymn of Jesus
Honegger, Symphonie Liturgique
Howells, Hymnus Paradisi
Janáček, Sinfonietta
Mahler, Symphony 6
Nielsen, Symphony 5
Pärt, Te Deum
Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Respighi, Metamorphoseon
Shostakovich, Symphony 15
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps
Tchaikovsky, Symphony 6 Pathétique
Tormis, Unustatud rahvad
Tubin, Symphony 6
Vaughan Williams, Symphony 6
Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras 8

but tomorrow ....  :-\
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Renfield

#78
February 12, 2010, 07:25:59 AM
Quote from: ukrneal on February 11, 2010, 11:40:12 PM
I believe they recently released a new box version of this (not far in price from the Sony Bernstein Mahler set if memory serves).

I know! In fact, I'm quite curious about it. :)

It's off-topic, but do you have any idea if it's remastered (which I don't expect it is), and what exactly it contains?

mc ukrneal

#79
February 12, 2010, 09:08:47 AM
Quote from: Renfield on February 12, 2010, 07:25:59 AM
I know! In fact, I'm quite curious about it. :)

It's off-topic, but do you have any idea if it's remastered (which I don't expect it is), and what exactly it contains?

I don't know. In terms of content, you can check: http://www2.deutschegrammophon.com/webseries/?ID=collectorsedition&PRODUCT_NR=4778668
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