Simply your favourite 30 works

[Mirror Image]

I'll take a shot at this again with a revised list (in no particular order) and I'll also try limit each selection to one composer:

1. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
2. Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps
3. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
4. Bartok: The Wooden Prince
5: Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos
6. Janacek: Kata Kabanova
7. Villa-Lobos: Choros No. 6
8. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Harp, and Piano
9. Prokofiev: Le pas d'acier
10. Elgar: Symphony No. 2
11. Barber: Violin Concerto
12. Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3 'Song of the Night'
13. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
14. Berg: Violin Concerto
15. Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
16. Martinu: Symphony No. 4
17. Schnittke: Requiem
18. Sibelius: The Oceanides
19. Sculthorpe: Cello Dreaming
20. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
21. Liszt: Faust Symphony
22. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
23. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
24. Tippett: Double Concerto
25. Lyadov: Eight Russian Folksongs
26. W. Schuman: Symphony No. 3
27. Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas
28. Chavez: La hija de Colquide
29. Martin: Cello Concerto
30. Honegger: Symphony No. 3 'Symphonie Liturgique'

[kishnevi]

Bless me!  How could I forget Le Sacre!
okay, take out Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and insert Stravinksy Le Sacre

[Mirror Image]

Bless me!  How could I forget Le Sacre!
okay, take out Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and insert Stravinksy Le Sacre

Don't worry about it, Jeffrey. Igor forgives you.

[Ken B]

Don't worry about it, Jeffrey. Igor forgives you.

I wouldn't count on it. He was a resentful SOB I hear. Grudgy, mean. Better take out the Schoenberg just to safe.

[Mirror Image]

I wouldn't count on it. He was a resentful SOB I hear. Grudgy, mean. Better take out the Schoenberg just to safe.

Nah, Le sacre was his bread and butter and, in the Palmer film Once at a Border, he said he was still astonished that he even composed it. He talked very candidly about it and didn't seem at all resentful.

[EigenUser]

I wouldn't count on it. He was a resentful SOB I hear. Grudgy, mean. Better take out the Schoenberg just to safe.

Really? I can't image that after seeing this video a while back. He seems like the archetypal adorable old man!
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/t-FzkDuqF7k

[Ken B]

Really? I can't image that after seeing this video a while back. He seems like the archetypal adorable old man!
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/t-FzkDuqF7k

Sigh. Deadpan humor and the net don't always mix. BUT he did have a long grudgy feud with Schoenberg.

[Mirror Image]

Sigh. Deadpan humor and the net don't always mix. BUT he did have a long grudgy feud with Schoenberg.

Sure, but both composers were making a name for themselves and both did believe that their way was the future of music. Of course, it wasn't as they both represented only two directions in 20th Century music. It just took Stravinsky awhile to realize what Schoenberg did and Craft certainly had a hand in this. Sometimes we make rash decisions and do come to realize that those opinions we so strongly held didn't even matter because there's no right way to create music.

[EigenUser]

Sigh. Deadpan humor and the net don't always mix. BUT he did have a long grudgy feud with Schoenberg.

I love the part at 2:10 "Do you want a drop of scotch? Wonderful nourishment!"

[Philo]

In no particular order, and following MirrorImage model of one composer, one work.

Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3
Barraque: Piano Sonata
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Berg: Piano Sonata
Brahms: String Sextet No. 1
Chausson: String Quartet
Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Franck: Symphony
Gornicka: The Chorus of Women
Handel: Saul
Haydn: Twenty Variatons
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2
Lim: Invisible
Liszt: Piano Sonata
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Massenet: Esclarmonde
Monk: Volcano Songs
Part: Symphony No. 4
Prokofiev: Semyon Kotko
Ptaszynska: Space Model
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
Schubert: D. 960
Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Verdi: Requiem
Wagner: Parsifal

[The new erato]

Lim: Invisible

I don't see it.

[Mr Bloom]

I'll take a shot at this again with a revised list (in no particular order) and I'll also try limit each selection to one composer:

1. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
2. Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps
3. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
4. Bartok: The Wooden Prince
5: Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos
6. Janacek: Kata Kabanova
7. Villa-Lobos: Choros No. 6
8. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Harp, and Piano
9. Prokofiev: Le pas d'acier
10. Elgar: Symphony No. 2
11. Barber: Violin Concerto
12. Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3 'Song of the Night'
13. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
14. Berg: Violin Concerto
15. Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
16. Martinu: Symphony No. 4
17. Schnittke: Requiem
18. Sibelius: The Oceanides
19. Sculthorpe: Cello Dreaming
20. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
21. Liszt: Faust Symphony
22. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
23. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
24. Tippett: Double Concerto
25. Lyadov: Eight Russian Folksongs
26. W. Schuman: Symphony No. 3
27. Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas
28. Chavez: La hija de Colquide
29. Martin: Cello Concerto
30. Honegger: Symphony No. 3 'Symphonie Liturgique'

Where has Koechlin gone ? 

[springrite]

Where has Koechlin gone ? 

In the corner bin with Delius...

[Sergeant Rock]

Favorites today, including favorite performances.

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Britten/ECO)
Haydn Nelson Mass (Weil/Tafelmusik)
Haydn Symphony No.93 (Szell/Cleveland)
Haydn Symphony No.99 "Cat" (Fey/Heidelberg Sinf)
Haydn String Quartet op.77/1 (Jerusalem Quartet)
Mozart Symphony No.25 (Klemperer/Philharmonia)
Mozart Divertimento D major K.131 (Szell/Cleveland)
Mozart Piano Concerto No.20 (Gardiner/Bilson/EB Soloists)
Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 (Szell/Casadesus/Cleveland)
Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 (Barenboim/Berlin)
Beethoven Symphony No.3 (Bernstein/New York)
Beethoven Piano Sonata op.13 "Pathétique" (Gilels)
Beethoven Piano Sonata op.109 (Grimaud)
Schubert Symphony No.5 (Wand/NDR)
Schubert String Quartet No.13 A minor (Quatuor Terpsycordes)
Schubert arr. Liszt Gretchen am Spinnrade (Zilberstein)
Wagner Die Walküre (Karajan/Berlin)
Bruckner Symphony No.3 (Celibidache/Munich)
Bruckner Symphony No.8 (Maazel/Berlin)
Brahms Symphony No.4 (Kleiber/Vienna)
Dvorak Symphony 8 (Giulini/Chicago)
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No.4 (Sanderling/Malikova/WDR SO)
Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande (Ozawa/Boston)
Fauré Pavane Barenboim/O de Paris)
Havergal Brian Symphony No.1 "Gothic" (Lenard/CSR Bratislava)
Mahler Symphony No.4 (Maazel/Battle/Vienna)
Mahler Symphony No.6 (Solti/Chicago)
Satie Gnossiennes (de Leeuw)
Elgar Enigma Variations (Bernstein/BBC)
Korngold Symphony in F sharp (Previn/LSO)
Lloyd Symphony No.4 (Lloyd/Albany)
Sibelius Symphony No.5 (Berglund/Bournemouth)
Sibelius Kullervo (Davis/LSO)
Nielsen Symphony No.3 (Bernstein/Royal Danish)
Magnard Symphony No.4 (Sanderling/Malmö)
Schmidt Symphony No.1 (Järvi/Detroit)
Janacek Sinfonietta (Szell/Cleveland)
Ives Symphony No.2 (Bernstein/New York)
Vaughan Williams Symphony No.4 (Bernstein/New York)
Vaughan Williams Symphony No.8 (Haitink/LPO)
Harris Symphony No.3 (Bernstein/New York)


Someone should check my math 

Edit: Looking over my list, I see the utter futility of this kind of exercise. No Stravinsky, no Shostakovich, no Strauss, no Schoenberg...and that's just the Ss 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

I started to fill out a list, then stopped because it would be downright folly.

This

[Karl Henning]

Sarge, YHM!

[Moonfish]

Favorites today, including favorite performances.

Someone should check my math 

Edit: Looking over my list, I see the utter futility of this kind of exercise. No Stravinsky, no Shostakovich, no Schoenberg...and that's just the Ss 

Sarge

Nice list Sarg! It is interesting to ponder the specific recordings you selected. I think your math is fine  , but like you hinted at - one needs to do a bets 1,000 list to be remotely fair to the enormous realm of compositions we are wandering/listening through! Hmm, so not a single piece by Bach, eh? 

[Ken B]

In the corner bin with Delius...

No-one deserves that. No-one.

[NJ Joe]

DAMN, I forgot Enigma Variations.

[springrite]

In the corner bin with Delius...

No-one deserves that. No-one.

That bin is over-flowing...