A Game Of Your Own - Favorite 20 Works (Selection Thread)

[Sammy]

If you would like to have a game entirely devoted to your favorite music, this game series will do the trick.  Here's how it goes:

1.  On this selection thread, you post your 20 favorite classical works.

2.  Once done, a game of only your favorite music will ensue.  Every game line item belongs to you, and in that sense it's a game of your very own.

3.  Games will be run based on the chronological order of submittals.

4.  Structure of Works Selected:
A.  Most folks select complete works  - example (Beethoven - String Quartet, op. 18/1)
B.  Feel free to make one or more selections of a relatively natural grouping of works  - example (Beethoven - String Quartets (6), op. 18
C.  Feel free to make one or more selections of a part of a larger work that has taken on a life of its own  - example (Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral March from Gotterdamerung.)

5.  In order to insure some degree of diversity, please do not select more than 2 works of any one composer.

I don't want to hog the proceedings, so I'll post my favorites list a little later.

First submittal gets the first game.

P.S. - Make sure your list is in alphabetical order by composer surname.

[GioCar]

Ok let's break the ice. Here's my list

Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Bach: Chaconne fron the Partita in D minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata op.110
Beethoven: Overture Leonore No. 3
Berio: Sinfonia
Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor
Bruckner: Symphony no.8
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 8
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exibition
Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Schubert: Winterreise
Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde/Die Zauberharfe
Schumann: Piano Quintet op.44
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

[Sammy]

Game 1 - GioCar (to start when composer "a" game ends)

[arpeggio]

OK.

I will try to come up with just twenty.

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
Walton: Hindemith Variations
Britten: War Requiem
Verdi: Requiem
Beethoven: Ninth Symphony
Hindemith: Symphony in Bb
Berloiz: Symphony Fantastique
Britten: Peter Grimes
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Schoenberg: Theme and Variations for Band
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Granger: Lincolnshire Posey
Mahler: Fifth Symphony
Gould: West Point Symphony
Nielson: Fifth Symphony
Persichetti: Symphony for Band
Barber: First Symphony
Persichetti: Masquerade Variations for Band
Carter: Variations for Orchestra
Dello Joio: Variants on a Medieval Tune
Brahms: Third Symphony
Holst: Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo
Schuman: Sixth Symphony
Mendelssohn: Overture for Band
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Copeland: Appalachian Spring
Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony
Puccini: Turandot
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra

Oops  I am over twenty.  I have not gotten to Liszt or Tchaikovsky or Chopin or Debussy or Ravel or Hanson or Harris or many of the living composers that I like.

I have no idea which works over twenty to exclude.

Oh well.  I tried.

[Crudblud]

I'd like to try one that only has one selection per composer.

Ashley - Perfect Lives
Bach - Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005
Beethoven - Große Fuge, Op. 133
Boulez - Répons
Carter - Double Concerto

Fauré - La Chanson d'Ève, Op. 95
Froberger - Partita "Meditation sur ma morte future", FbWV 620
Ives - Symphony No. 4
Mahler - Symphony No. 7
Messiaen - Saint François d'Assise

Nancarrow - Study No. 42
Ravel - Violin Sonata No. 2
Schoenberg - Piano Concerto, Op. 42
Stockhausen - Tierkreis
Stravinsky - Agon

Varèse - Déserts
Webern - Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5
Wuorinen - Horn Trio
Xenakis - Keqrops
Zappa - Civilization Phaze III

[André]

Ok let's break the ice. Here's my list

Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Bach: Chaconne fron the Partita in D minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata op.110
Beethoven: Overture Leonore No. 3
Berio: Sinfonia
Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor
Bruckner: Symphony no.8
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 8
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exibition
Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Schubert: Winterreise
Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde/Die Zauberharfe
Schumann: Piano Quintet op.44
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

I'll follow your game. I like that list very much !

[Sammy]

Game 2 - Crudblud

[Sammy]

Game 3 - Sammy

Bach - Art of Fugue
Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier
Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 29  "Hammerklavier
Beethoven - Cello Sonatas (2), op. 5
Dvorak - Piano Quintet, op. 81
Haydn - Piano Sonata no. 58
Haydn - String Quartets (6), op. 20
Mahler - Symphony no. 4
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Mozart - Great Mass in C minor
Myaskovsky - Violin Concerto
Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 894
Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 959
Schumann - Davidsbundlertanze
Shostakovich - Preludes and Fugues, op. 87
Shostakovich - Symphony no. 10
Silvestrov - Symphony no. 4
Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral March (from Gotterdamerung)
Weber - Grand Duo Concertante for Clarinet and Piano
Weinberg - Violin Concerto

[Trout]

My favorite 20 works at this moment in time:

Abrahamsen: Schnee
Bartók: Music for Piano, Strings, and Celesta
Berg: Wozzeck
Boulez: Répons
Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

Dhomont: Forêt profonde
Furrer: Piano Concerto
Glass: Einstein on the Beach
Goebbels: Eislermaterial
Grisey: Les espaces acoustiques

Ives: Symphony No. 4
Ligeti: Etudes
Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie
Murail: Désintégrations
Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz

Radulescu: Intimate Rituals
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Romitelli: An Index of Metals
Saariaho: L'Amour de loin
Schnittke: Peer Gynt

[Sammy]

Game 4 - Trout

[Sammy]

Oops  I am over twenty.  I have not gotten to Liszt or Tchaikovsky or Chopin or Debussy or Ravel or Hanson or Harris or many of the living composers that I like.

I have no idea which works over twenty to exclude.

Oh well.  I tried.

And I appreciate the effort.   

[North Star]

Albéniz – Ibéria
Beethoven – String Quartet No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 131
Biber – Mystery Sonatas
Chopin – Ballade No. 4
Debussy – Preludes, Book I

Janáček – String Quartet No. 2
Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello
Liszt – Années de pèlerinage
Martinů – Nonet
Mompou – Musica callada

Morales – Officium defunctorum
Mozart – Piano Concerto No 20 in d minor K 466
Prokofiev – Violin Sonata no. 1 in f minor
Pärt – Tabula Rasa
Rakhmaninov – All-Night Vigil

Ravel – Piano Trio
Schubert – String Quartet in G major, D. 887
Schumann – Fantasie, Op 17
Sibelius – Symphony No. 6
Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms

[Sammy]

Game 5 - North Star

[GioCar]

I'll follow your game. I like that list very much !

[Mahlerian]

Eh, what the heck, I'll see what people do with a list from me.  Don't know whether or not these are my favorite 20 works; it's just a list of works, one per composer, that I admire greatly.


Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été
Boulez: Le marteau sans maitre
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat
Carter: String Quartet No. 2

Chin: Xi
Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor
Debussy: Preludes, Book II
Hosokawa: Utsurohi
Lassus: Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor
Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale
Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E-flat
Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 36

Schumann: Fantasie in C Op. 17
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 64
Stravinsky: Threni
Takemitsu: Toward the Sea I
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

[Sammy]

Game 6 - Mahlerian.

[Mahlerian]

Trying to get a picture of how Austro-German ideology-dominated our games are...

GioCar:

Austro-German: 13
Austrian: 4
German: 9


Crudblud

Austro-German: 7
Austrian: 3
German: 4


Trout:

Austro-German: 2 (though Furrer is associated with Austria, he was born in Switzerland)
Austrian: 2
German: 0


North Star:

Austro-German: 5
Austrian: 2
German: 3


Mahlerian:

Austro-German: 7
German: 3
Austrian: 4

So far Trout's is the standout as being the least Austro-German of all.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, I preferred Austria...

[Sammy]

Trying to get a picture of how Austro-German ideology-dominated our games are...

You could have done your little analysis without telling us about it.  Idelology?  Trout's the standout?  I have said repeatedly that I won't tolerate this polarizing stuff in my games.  If you pull something like this again, you'll be history in the games I run.  Hey, maybe that's what you want. 

[Mahlerian]

You could have done your little analysis without telling us about it.  Idelology?  Trout's the standout?  I have said repeatedly that I won't tolerate this polarizing stuff in my games.  If you pull something like this again, you'll be history in the games I run.  Hey, maybe that's what you want.

Sorry, it was a little bit of light satire.  Won't happen again.  I've been told I have no sense of humor, so it's probably an anomaly.

[Sammy]

Sorry, it was a little bit of light satire.  Won't happen again.  I've been told I have no sense of humor, so it's probably an anomaly.

Okay.  I have a lot of respect for you, bu you have a tendency to treat a game thread as if it's a discussion thread.  The reason I started running games was to offer an environment where one person's selections and votes were no better or worse than the other game participants, an environment where playing the game totally supersedes all other considerations.  I hope you will accept my position.  These games are for gamers.