Top 10 Most Listened to Works over the past year

[Brahmsian]

Sorry if there is already a related thread to this.

I'll revise and add to this list, but off the top of my head, I know these for sure are some of the works I've listened to the most over the past year:

*Schumann - Violin Concerto in D minor
*Shostakovich - The Golden Age Ballet
*Beethoven - The Creatures of Prometheus Ballet
*Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op.29 "Polish" (this is not a misprint) 

[Jay F]

Any ten Shostakovich string quartets.

[Ken B]

I can barely remember March, and you ask for a year?

A few likely candidates in the order I dredge them out of my memory.

Incantatie IV by ten Holt
Canto Ostinato by ten Holt
Facing Goya by Nyman
Noises sounds and sweet airs by Nyman
Vespers by Monteverdi
A bunch of Haydn symphonies around 48
Early piano sonatas by LvB
Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok
Hamburg Symphonies by CPE Bach
Piano concerti 18 and 19 by Mozart

Also La Mer by Debussy since it came in some boxes but it doesn't count as I rarely pay attention when it plays. 

[amw]

Kreisleriana, Hammerklavier, Schubert Quintet, Brahms 4... Kind of a boring year.

Of new discoveries: the 10cd Luc Ferrari L'œuvre Électronique box for sure, as well as Cardew's The Great Learning, and Sciarrino: Quaderno di strada, 12 Madrigali and the eight string quartets.

[EigenUser]

I can barely remember March, and you ask for a year?

A few likely candidates in the order I dredge them out of my memory.

Incantatie IV by ten Holt
Canto Ostinato by ten Holt
Facing Goya by Nyman
Noises sounds and sweet airs by Nyman
Vespers by Monteverdi
A bunch of Haydn symphonies around 48
Early piano sonatas by LvB
Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok
Hamburg Symphonies Concerto by CPE Bach Ligeti
Piano concerti 18 and 19 by Mozart

Also La Mer by Debussy since it came in some boxes but it doesn't count as I rarely pay attention when it plays. 

+1 for the Bartok. Have you heard the "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"? That's also a great piece. The first movement is apparently based off of the golden ratio. Also, the opening of the 3rd movement has the Fibonacci sequence.

But seriously, do you really find "La Mer" so offensive? It's so beautiful!

And I fixed the CPE Bach for you. 

[DavidW]

Mahler Symphonies #1, 2, 5, 6, 9
Bruckner Symphony #8
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 #1
Dvorak Symphonies #7-8
Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto

Too many symphonies apparently.

[ritter]

I really don't keep track, but these come to mind immediately:

Wagner Parsifal
Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Debussy Études pour piano
Debussy Images pour piano (I, II and oubliées)
Debussy Pélléas et Mélisande
Mahler 4
Bruckner 8
Bruckner 9
Boulez Le Marteau sans maître
Bach Art of the Fugue (on piano)

[Rinaldo]

I'm on last.fm which makes this fairly easy, although the list is skewed by the stuff that I frequently put on before sleep* and the things that are not scrobbled for obvious reasons (YouTube, internet radio, listening from my mp3 player).

1. Ferruccio Busoni - Nocturne Symphonique*
2. Giovanni Batista Toderini - Concerto turco nominato izia semaisi (from the Concerto Köln disc)
3. Enno Poppe - Keilshchrift
4. Georg Friedrich Haas - in vain für 24 Instrumente
5. Petr Cígler - Entropic symphony
6. Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 voices
7. Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel*
8. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kathinkas Gesang für Flöte und elektronische Musik
9. Ferruccio Busoni – Berceuse élégiaque*
10. David Darling - Cello*

[EigenUser]

I'm on last.fm which makes this fairly easy, although the list is skewed by the stuff that I frequently put on before sleep* and the things that are not scrobbled for obvious reasons (YouTube, internet radio, listening from my mp3 player).

1. Ferruccio Busoni - Nocturne Symphonique*
2. Giovanni Batista Toderini - Concerto turco nominato izia semaisi (from the Concerto Köln disc)
3. Enno Poppe - Keilshchrift
4. Georg Friedrich Haas - in vain für 24 Instrumente
5. Petr Cígler - Entropic symphony
6. Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 voices
7. Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel*
8. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kathinkas Gesang für Flöte und elektronische Musik
9. Ferruccio Busoni – Berceuse élégiaque*
10. David Darling - Cello*

Yay! Rothko Chapel!

[Marc]

In the last 12 months I counted each and every listening session.



01 Bach, Französische Suiten BWV 812-817
02 Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E-minor opus 90
03 Böhm, Praeludium, Fuga & Postludium in G-minor
04 Bach, Fantasia in C-minor BWV 562
05 Beethoven, Piano Sonata in D-minor opus 31/2 "Der Sturm"
06 Byrd, Mass for 4 voices
07 Bach, Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080
08 Mozart, Symphony in C-Major KV 338
09 Pärt, De Profundis
10 Beethoven, Piano Sonata in A-Major opus 101

[mn dave]

Well, there was... And then there was... Or was it...? Hm, maybe it was...

[Jaakko Keskinen]

1. Parsifal. I am listening especially parts in act II over and over and over again. I always get frustrated when sometimes the parts I listen the most don't sound as good as they usually do. I don't know what's wrong with my ears. I certainly wouldn't call it boredom: I guess to enjoy the music most you have to be in the "right set of mind". 
2. Voces intimae
3. Richard Strauss Liebe der Danae
4. Strauss heldenleben
5. Shostakovich string quartet no. 12
6. Beethoven op. 131
7. Bach Goldberg variations
8. Bach violin sonatas and partitas
9. Liszt: bergsymphonie
10. Puccini: fanciulla del west

[springrite]

Brian Symphony 10
Bach Goldberg
Bach Partita #2
Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
Mahler 7
Bruckner 6
Beethoven Egmont Overture
Berg Violin Concerto
Carter Violin Concerto
Rubbra Symphony 3 & 7
Bach-Busoni BWV532

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Ah, we both had Goldberg variations. Magnificent work, isn't it springrite?

[springrite]

Ah, we both had Goldberg variations. Magnificent work, isn't it springrite?

On my business trips, I bring many CDs and there is always one copy of the Goldberg, whichever version it may be.

[EigenUser]

I'm not sure exactly, but if I had to guess it would be something like this:
-Bartok MSPC
-Bartok PC2
-Ligeti PC
-Ligeti SFP
-Ravel "La Valse"
-Ravel D&C
-Debussy "Jeux"
-Debussy "La Mer"
-Ades "Asyla"
-Stravinsky "Agon"

[Jaakko Keskinen]

How could I forget prelude of Lohengrin, let's put that at no. 2 and let's remove bergsinfonie from the list.

[TheGSMoeller]

My number 1 is similar to Alberich, Parsifal, but pretty much only the Prelude to Act 1, which I'm averaging about 2-3 listens to a week. Ever since seeing Parsifal in November I haven't been able to get it out of mind. Especially the opening, just pure magic.

Lots of time spent with Berg's Lulu, Rameau operas and chamber music of Brahms and Faure.

However, my most listened to track on iTunes remains Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6, Mvt. III Vivace from Ozawa and The Berliners, been that way for a few years now.