What music do you have stuck in your head?

[Lisztianwagner]

I often have the ending to the 3rd movement on my mind. Now you mention it, I have it on my mind now! But now I am thinking of the finale and getting shivers.... too beautiful.

[Karl Henning]

Just for the record: I never have any difficulty getting Mahler out of my head.

[Lisztianwagner]

Just for the record: I never have any difficulty getting Mahler out of my head.

I understand

For me, Mahler's music is too beautiful and impressive, so hauting.....its great, intense power brings me to listen to it more and more, it's like hypnotism.

[madaboutmahler]

I understand

For me, Mahler's music is too beautiful and impressive, so hauting.....its great, intense power brings me to listen to it more and more, it's like hypnotism.

Brilliantly expressed, Ilaria - obviously I completely agree with you!

[chasmaniac]

The opener from Bach's BWV 1, Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern

[Lisztianwagner]

Apart from Wagner:

Schumann Symphony No.3
Debussy Clair de Lune
Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor

[madaboutmahler]

Debussy Clair de Lune

Had that on my mind as well a lot recently!

Also:
Elgar Falstaff
Elgar Salut d'amour
Debussy La Mer
Mendelssohn Songs without Words

and plenty of Mahler!

[chasmaniac]

Handel, How willing my paternal love, from Samson.

[chasmaniac]

Well, the Van Swieten Haydn is in, and I've listened several times this morning to their sparkling E major piano trio H.XV/34, the minuet from which features a rising, striding Trio that I can't get out of my head! Nor will I, if I can help it.

[chasmaniac]

Ooh! Karl's trip down Ye Olde Bullwinkle's Memory Lane sprang this number right into my head. Imagine that!

David Sylvian, Nostalgia, from Brilliant Trees

The sound of waves in a pool of water
I'm drowning in my nostalgia

[Lisztianwagner]

Martinů Piano Concerto No.4
Mahler Symphony No.10
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - Finale
Respighi Belkis, Queen of Sheba - War Dance

And Wagner, of course

[madaboutmahler]

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - Finale

So so beautiful. When it reaches the stunning C Major chord with the Juliet theme shining throughout the orchestra, a tear is always released from my eye. One of my the most beautiful moments in all music, in my opinion.

Respighi Belkis, Queen of Sheba - War Dance

Again?  I completely understand!

For me:
Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra, last movement.
Mussorgsky Night on a Bare Mountain
Borodin Polovstian Dances
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite 1: Anitra's Dance

[Lisztianwagner]

So so beautiful. When it reaches the stunning C Major chord with the Juliet theme shining throughout the orchestra, a tear is always released from my eye. One of my the most beautiful moments in all music, in my opinion.

Totally agree, it's absolutely amazing It's an extremely touching and passionate movement, so powerfully emotional! It's impossible to not get involved by its huge beauty!

Again?  I completely understand!

Haha I could say the same about you and Elgar's Salut d'amour.

[madaboutmahler]

Totally agree, it's absolutely amazing It's an extremely touching and passionate movement, so powerfully emotional! It's impossible to not get involved by its huge beauty!
Haha I could say the same about you and Elgar's Salut d'amour.

Absolutely. How all the drama and intense agressive power of the previous movement (Romeo's death) dies down to such beautiful calm is spectacular. Not many composers could do this as well as Prokofiev did!

Haha I could say the same about you and Elgar's Salut d'amour.

That is a very special piece for me, as you may have seen on facebook, I recently performed it to Anya... so, it has been on my mind a lot!
Have a nice day, Ilaria!

[Lisztianwagner]

That is a very special piece for me, as you may have seen on facebook, I recently performed it to Anya... so, it has been on my mind a lot!
Have a nice day, Ilaria!

Sure, I had caught that reason, that's why I've never said about Salut d'amour: "Again?"

Have a nice day as well!

[madaboutmahler]

Sure, I had caught that reason, that's why I've never said about Salut d'amour: "Again?"

Have a nice day as well!

Thank you Ilaria.

On my mind right now:
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
I better go and listen to it right now, back later!

[Lisztianwagner]

Thank you Ilaria.

On my mind right now:
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
I better go and listen to it right now, back later!

For me today:

Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
Liszt Mazeppa, symphonic poem
Mahler Symphony No.6 - in particular 1st and 4th movements

[madaboutmahler]

Mahler Symphony No.6 - in particular 1st and 4th movements

The Alma Theme perhaps? I love that melody so much that I write it every morning on our music classroom's whiteboard at school. Makes me feel happier in the morning, and also means that the most romantic melody ever is there for Anya to see in our music class! I also carry around a piece of manuscript paper with the Alma theme written on it wherever I go.

For me right now:
Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica - the opening.
I really need to listen to this work as soon as possible....

[Lisztianwagner]

The Alma Theme perhaps? I love that melody so much that I write it every morning on our music classroom's whiteboard at school. Makes me feel happier in the morning, and also means that the most romantic melody ever is there for Anya to see in our music class! I also carry around a piece of manuscript paper with the Alma theme written on it wherever I go.

Of course, the Alma Theme, what a beautiful, powerful melody! It strikes me so much that while I'm listening to it, I often stand up and start moving my arms as if I was conducting an orchestra.......
Do you, really? How nice! Well, I do something similar as well: I carry around Wagner's picture in my wallet

[Holden]

I almost always have music playing in my head - does this make me pyschologically disturbed What is intriguing is occasionally a piece of music I haven't listened to for a very long time pops up out of nowhere.