I'm curious.
Please, organize your post (by genre, by period, by composer... do what you want)
I'm really interested
Listamania!
Elgar - The Apostles
Elgar - The Kingdom
Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius
Elgar - Symphony No. 2
Elgar - Symphony No. 1
Elgar/Payne - Symphony No. 3
Elgar - Piano Quintet, Op. 84
J. S. Bach - Mass in B Minor
J. S. Bach - St. John Passion
J. S. Bach - The Musical offering
J. S. Bach - Cantata No. 82
Handel - Messiah
Handel - Giulio Cesare
Mozart - Mass in C Minor
Buxtehude - Membra Jesu Nostri
Bruhns - Cantata 'O werter heil'ger Geist'
Rameau - Les Boréades
Haydn - The Creation
Dittersdorf - Giob
Villa-Lobos - Bachinanas Brasileiras No. 3
Beethoven - String Quartet No 14, Op. 131
Beethoven - String Quartet No 10, Op. 74 "Harp"
Fauré - Piano Quintet No. 1, Op. 89
Fauré - Requiem
Granados - Goyescas (for piano)
Couperin - Lecons de Ténèbres
M.-A. Charpentier - Lecons de Ténèbres: Office du Vendredi Saint
Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet
Nielsen - Symphony No 4, Op. 29
Puccini - Turandot
30? Too difficult so I'm eliminating chamber music and solo pieces: sticking with the big guns and today's favorite recordings:
Wagner Der Ring das Nibelungen Karajan/Berlin Phil
Wagner Parsifal Karajan/Berlin Phil
Wagner Lohengrin Kempe/Vienna Phil
Strauss Elektra Solti/Vienna Phil
Strauss Salome Schonwandt/Danish National RSO
Berlioz Requiem Davis/LSO
Sibelius Kullervo Davis/LSO
Sibelius Symphony #5 Rattle/Philharmonia
Mahler Symphony #2 C minor Kaplan/Vienna Phil
Mahler Symphony #3 D minor Levine/Chicago
Mahler Symphony #5 C shapr minor Dohnányi/Cleveland
Mahler Symphony #6 A minor Solti/Chicago
Mahler Symphony #7 Klemperer/New Philharmonia
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Haitink/Concertgebouw
Bruckner Symphony #3 D minor Celibidache/Munich Phil
Bruckner Symphony #4 E flat Karajan/Berlin Phil (EMI)
Bruckner Symphony #5 B flat Dohnányi/Cleveland
Bruckner Symphony #8 C minor Celibidache/Munich
Bruckner Symphony #9 D minor Giulini/Vienna Phil
Brahms Symphony #4 E minor Furtwängler/Berlin (Dec 1943)
Beethoven Symphony #3 E major Bernstein/NY Phil
Havergal Brian Symphony #1 D minor "Gothic"
Havergal Brian Symphony #8 B flat minor
Shostakovich Symphony #4 C minor Kondrashin/Dresden
Shostakovich Symphony #8 C minor Haitink/Concergebouw
Shostakovich Symphony #15 A major Sanderling/Cleveland
Berg Violin Concerto Chung/Solti/Chicago
Elgar Cello Concerto Du Pré/Barbirolli/LSO
Debussy La Mer Celibidache/Munich Phil
Ives Three Places in New England Dohnányi/Cleveland
Vaughan Williams Symphony #4 Bernstein/New York
Vaughan Williams Symphony #8 Haitink/LPO
Sarge
I'll post my list in increments so it's interesting. With reasons, in no particular order.
1. Charles Koechlin - Les Hueres Persanes. It's a strange, alluring, polytonal masterpiece for the piano, and is truly unique in its method, and the moods it brings.
I'll post some of them. Highly provisional.
B.Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Op. 31
G.Faure: Masques et Bergamasques Op. 112
J.S.Bach: Magnificat in D
J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto BWV 1042
W.A.Mozart: Piano Concerto K595
W.A.Mozart: Serenade in C minor K388
G.F.Malipiero: Sinfonia N. 1
G.F.Malipiero: Sinfonia N. 2
G.F.Malipiero: Sinfonia N. 5
G.F.Malipiero: Sinfonia N. 6
L.V.Beethoven: Overture Coriolan Op. 62
L.V.Beethoven: Overture Egmont Op. 84
M. Ravel: String Quartet
M. Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Let's keep it simple:
Webern, Op. 1-30.
Bach:
Goldbergs
WTC
Mass in B minor
Leipzig Chorales
German Organ Mass
St. Matthew Passion
Art of Fugue
French Suites
English Suites
Keyboard Partitas
Beethoven:
Hammerklavier Piano Sonata
Symphony No. 9
Mozart:
Mass in C minor
Requiem
Clarinet Concerto
Brahms:
Clarinet Quintet
Double Concerto
Violin Concerto
Chopin:
Fantaisie in F minor
Preludes, Op. 28
Schumann:
Sym. Etudes
Davidsbundlertanze
Weinberg:
Violin Concerto
Miaskovsky:
Violin Concerto
Shostakovich:
Op. 87 Preludes and Fugues
Sym. 10
Strauss:
Four Last Songs
Mahler:
Sym. 4
Bruckner:
Sym. 7
Schubert:
Piano Sonata, D. 894
Quote from: Joe Barron on May 22, 2007, 08:52:01 AM
Let's keep it simple:
Webern, Op. 1-30.
Wow, I didn't realize Webern composed that many pieces. Maybe squeeze in a couple of works by Ives and Carter. ;D
Anyone who think this over and type out all the selections probably has too much time at hand. $:)
Quote from: springrite on May 22, 2007, 09:06:48 AM
Anyone who think this over and type out all the selections probably has too much time at hand. $:)
But there's no thinking required - sort of an automatic response.
Quote from: Don on May 22, 2007, 09:14:52 AM
But there's no thinking required - sort of an automatic response.
OK, so no thinking, just counting. ;)
Quote from: springrite on May 22, 2007, 09:06:48 AM
Anyone who think this over and type out all the selections probably has too much time at hand. $:)
yes :D
I did not think much, but just casually went over what I have been listening to the most lately. What took most of the time was stopping and counting if I had reached 30 yet $:)
JS Bach WTC 1,2
JS Bach French Overture
JS Bach Orchestral Suite No.2
JS Bach Cello Suite No.6
WA Mozart - Symphony No.40 G Minor
L Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.26
L Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.32
L Beethoven - String Quartet No.31
L Beethoven - String Quartet No.32
L Beethoven - Symphony No.6
F Schubert - String Quintet
F Schubert - Winterriese
R Schumann - Fantasy in C
R Schumann - Carnaval
R Schumann - Kresleriana
R Schumann - Piano Concerto
F Chopin - Ballade No.1
F Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1
F Chopin - PReludes Op.28
F Chopin - Piano Sonata No.3
J Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1
J Brahms - Piano Trio No.1
J Brahms - Clarinet Quintet
Rachmaninov - Preludes Op.23
A Scriabin - Etudes Op.8
A Scriabin - Preludes Op.11
M Ravel - G Major Concerto
M Ravel - A Minor Trio
D Shostakovich - String Quartet No.8
D Shostakovich - String Quartet No.11
A few more:
F.Schubert: Winterreise
F.Schubert: Symphony No. 9
L.V.Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 109
W.A.Mozart: Symphony No. 40
J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos as a corpus
Later I'll come to modern/contemporary music.
Quote from: orbital on May 22, 2007, 09:25:14 AM
R Schumann - Fantasy in C
I could add this one as well.
Quote from: orbital on May 22, 2007, 09:25:14 AM
L Beethoven - String Quartet No.31
L Beethoven - String Quartet No.32
Do you mean Op. 131 and Op. 132?
Quote from: orbital on May 22, 2007, 09:25:14 AM
yes :D
I did not think much, but just casually went over what I have been listening to the most lately. What took most of the time was stopping and counting if I had reached 30 yet $:)
A Scriabin - Etudes Op.8
A Scriabin - Preludes Op.11
I forgot to put any Scriabin on the list - should have added the Op. 11 Preludes which constitute the beautiful and sensuous music ever written.
wow, i'll have to think a bit....
here goes
1. Mahler 9
2. Gorecki 3
3. Schoenberg- Book of Hanging Gardens
4. Mahler 2
5. Mahler 10
6. Prokofiev- Cello Sinfonia Concertante
7. Webern- Passacaglia for Orchestra
8. Berg- 3 Pieces for Orchestra
9. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata #6
10. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata #2
11. Mahler 3
12. Mahler 7
13. Stravinsky- Rite of Spring
14. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #2
15. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #3
16. Schoenberg- 5 Pieces for Orchestra
17. Xenakis- Ata
18. Penderecki- Fluorescences
19. Penderecki- De Natura Sonoris #2
20. Penderecki- Threnody
21. Penderecki- De Natura Sonoris #1
22. Xenakis- Hibiki Hana Ma
23. Xenakis- Orient-Occident
24. Bartok- 1st Piano Concerto
25. Prokofiev- Symphony #5
26. Xenakis- La Legende d'eer
27. Prokofiev- Symphony #5
28. Brahms- Symphony #1
29. Brahms- Symphony #4
30. Brahms- Piano Concerto #1 and 2
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEE lists like these :-*
however, it's impossible to actually fit everything on there since there's so many ties
Quote from: Joe Barron on May 22, 2007, 08:52:01 AM
Let's keep it simple:
Webern, Op. 1-30.
But how can you leave off the Second Cantata (op 31) and the wonderful orchestration of the
Ricercare a 6 from the
Musical Offering?
Quote from: edward on May 22, 2007, 10:38:31 AM
But how can you leave off the Second Cantata (op 31) and the wonderful orchestration of the Ricercare a 6 from the Musical Offering?
:-)
Quote from: greg on May 22, 2007, 10:16:25 AM
30. Brahms- Piano Concerto #1 and 2
Greg, you're cheating! $:)
(I still haven't got mine ready but I think I'll start it with J.S. Bach - keyboard works ;))
Quote from: springrite on May 22, 2007, 09:06:48 AM
Anyone who think this over and type out all the selections probably has too much time at hand. $:)
Guilty as charged, officer. However, it really didn't require too much thinking. I know what I like :)
Sarge
Should be 100. ;D
Quote from: edward on May 22, 2007, 10:38:31 AM
But how can you leave off the Second Cantata (op 31) and the wonderful orchestration of the Ricercare a 6 from the Musical Offering?
Yeah, I was going to amend my post. Since Webern assigned opus numbers to 31 pieces, I'll have to leave one out — So, Opp. 2-31. The ricercare will have to go begging.
Quote from: Joe Barron on May 22, 2007, 01:02:02 PM
So, Opp. 2-31. The ricercare will have to go begging.
Anyway, it's tainted with Bachian associations ;D
Each variation of Brahms op. 24.
Brahms op. 15
Brahms op 83
Okay these are not in order:
Haydn 88
Haydn 94
Haydn 100
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Mozart Clarinet Trio
Mozart 36
Mozart 40
Mozart 41
Mozart Marriage of Figaro
Beethoven Symphony 3
Beethoven Symphony 5
Beethoven Symphony 7
Beethoven Symphony 9
Beethoven Piano Concerto 5
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Beethoven SQ #4
Schubert Trout Quintet
Schubert 5
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Brahms 1
Brahms Violin Concerto
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Dvorak 8
Dvorak 9
Dvorak American Quartet
Rachmaninov PC 2
Holst Planets
Copland Symphony 3
Copland Appalachian Spring
Quote from: Danny on May 22, 2007, 12:17:09 PM
Should be 100. ;D
Which one is the 100th?
Which one is the 101st?
It wouldn't be that easier
I'm bound to fail but I'll try anyway 0:). I'm sticking to the one work per composer rule, otherwise I'd perish... ;D
1. Bach's keyboard works (WTC II, if I'm forced to choose only one) - they simply have to go first.
Next I'll list some of the more modern stuff (from 1900 onwards), which I generally like most, to see if there's any space left for the rest of it:
2. Tadeusz Baird - Voices from Afar (Głosy z oddali). A wonderful, moving, perhaps even disturbing song cycle for baritone and orchestra about death and dying.
3. Augustyn Bloch - Anenaiki. My favorite work for choir.
4. Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki - Symphony No. 2. IMO, much better than the bestseller it preceded.
5. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen - Triptych for percussion and orchestra. An amazing work, a sort of concerto based on a very simple yet wonderfully effective structural principle.
6. Wojciech Kilar - Orawa. A very simple, energetic, minimalistic piece. Yet, for me, undeniably charming.
7. Eugeniusz Knapik - La liberta chiama la liberta. A very powerful, modern, neoromantic opera.
8. Jerzy Kornowicz - Small Pavana for violin and piano (1993). The corniest trifle on earth, and yet I love it!
9. Hanna Kulenty - Violin Concerto No. 1 (for violin with delay and orchestra). Fascinating single arch of music developed with amazing drama.
10. Aleksander Lason - Concerto festivo (Violin Concerto). One of the most beautiful and touching contemporary violin concertos I have ever heard. Modern yet very communicative - the whole second half of it was encored during the first performance.
11. Witold Lutoslawski - Paroles tisées. A powerful, very emotional set of songs for tenor and chamber orchestra.
12. Krzysztof Meyer - Violin Concerto No. 2. From the first notes - an extremely expressive concerto.
13. Michael Nyman - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat. An, admittedly minimalist, opera dealing with the role of music in life. I find it extremely moving.
14. Andrzej Panufnik - Lullaby (1947). A microtonal masterpiece reaching heights that Panufnik would never reach again.
15. Krzysztof Penderecki - Saint Luke's Passion.
16. Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 2. Simply my favorite 20th century piano concerto, and an extremely difficult one too.
17. Alfred Schnittke - Concerto grosso No. 2. Currently my favorite Schnittke piece.
18. Kazimierz Serocki - Impromptu fantasque. Probably the most fantastically sounding piece for a reed ensemble that I've ever heard. This is, IMO, the woodwind counterpart of Penderecki's Threnody. Need I say more?
19. Shostakovich - 8th Symphony. My favorite Shostakovich symphony.
20. Tomasz Sikorski - Music from afar (Muzyka z oddali) (1974) for mixed choir and instruments. The softest, most delicate sounding music ever written!
21. Marek Stachowski - From the Book of Night. A sort of modern symphonic poem.
22. Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms. Currently my favorite Stravinsky composition.
23. Pawel Szymanski - Four Liturgical Pieces (1980-81) for soprano and orchestra. One of the most beautiful settings of liturgical texts that I've ever heard.
24. Karol Szymanowski - King Roger (Król Roger). My favorite opera. Period.
That doesn't leave much for older times but let me try anyway:
25. Brahms - Symphony No. 4. Probably my favorite symphony of all time.
26. Chopin - Concerto in E Minor. Well, I had to include some Chopin, so I decided it would be the concerto.
27. Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Violin Concerto.
28. Stanislaw Moniuszko - The Haunted Manor. I cannot believe that after years of being an avowed Moniuszko-hater I'm posting one of his operas on my top-30 list! But nowadays, I listen to his operas all the time.
29. Vivaldi - Lute Concertos. What would life be without them?
30. Juliusz Zarebski - Piano Quintet in G Minor Op. 34 (1885). Probably my favorite piano quintet.
Well, I thought 30 would be a lot but in fact that meant leaving quite a lot out - and most of the stuff left out turned out to be pretty mainstream (like Beethoven, Bruckner, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius and many more). Not because I strived to be original but because I really don't listen to that music as much as I used to anymore (well, music is discovery, if I may quote D Minor's motto ;)). Most of the music I listen to and return to is Polish and modern, hence my list. And I must admit there's quite a lot from those categories that I left out. Paderewski's and Melcer's PCs, for example. Not to mention the problems I had when selecting only one piece by each composer!
And if anyone wants to know - yes, this does take a lot of time. ::) But was the time wasted? Not really - it was fun. I'm starting my festival of favorites right away! :D
Maciek
Quote from: MrOsa on May 22, 2007, 03:54:05 PM
25. Brahms - Symphony No. 4. Probably my favorite symphony of all time.
Well, at least we have something in common! :D
Definitely more than that! :D
(Remember about Zimerman!)
Here's my list in no particular order-
Bach - Mass in B Minor
Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Bach - Well Tempered Clavier
Strauss - Salome
Strauss - Elektra
Strauss - Metamorphosen
Berg - Wozzeck
Berg - Lulu
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
Schoenberg - 5 Pieces for Orchestra
Schoenberg - Moses und Aaron
Mahler - 2
Mahler - 3
Mahler - 4
Mahler - 5
Mahler - 6
Mahler - 8
Mahler - 9 0:)
Mahler - 10
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Wagner - Parsifal
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Wagner - Tannhauser
Wagner - Lohengrin
Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Bruckner - Symphony no. 7
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Quote from: quintett op.57 on May 22, 2007, 03:17:32 PM
Which one is the 100th?
Which one is the 101st?
It wouldn't be that easier
I think that it would be easier. It may not be clear in which order they should go, but listing only 30 works is completely suffocating!
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
THIRTY favorite works -- well, at least there's room to actually make a fair representation of favorite stuff... I shall list one favorite per composer.
1. BELA BARTOK - Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta
2. ARTHUR HONEGGER - Pacific 231
3. MAURICE RAVEL - La Valse
4. OLIVIER MESSIAEN - Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorem
5. CHARLES IVES - Three Places in New England
6. HOWARD HANSON - Mosaics for orchestra
7. AKIRA IFUKUBE - Symphonic Fantasia #1
8. MORTON SUBOTNICK - The Key to Songs for ensemble and computer
9. STEVE REICH - Three Tales for ensemble and electronic samples
10. IANNIS XENAKIS - Terretektorh for orchestra scattered among the audience
11. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Stop und Start for ensemble
12. DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony #13
13. AARON COPLAND - Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
14. CARL RUGGLES - Sun-Treader for large orchestra
15. EDGARD VARESE - Ameriques for large orchestra
16. CHARLES WUORINEN - Genesis for orchestra and chorus
17. ERIC EWAZEN - Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for flute, horn and piano
18. ROBERTO GERHARD - Concerto for Orchestra
19. JENNIFER HIGDON - Concerto for Orchestra
20. PAUL MORAVEC - The Time Gallery for ensemble
21. SAMUEL JONES - Roundings for orchestra
22. IGOR STRAVINSKY - Les Noces for pianos and chorus
23. SERGEI PROKOFIEV - Scythian Suite
24. PHILIP GLASS - The Photographer
25. TERRY RILEY - In C
26. TAKASHI YOSHIMATSU - Symphony #4
27. YASUSHI AKUTAGAWA - Allora Symphony
28. ARNOLD SCHOENBERG - Ode to Napoleon
29. KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - Credo
30. MORTON FELDMAN - Piano and String Quartet
amazing grace
billings - when Jesus wept & david's lamentation
beethoven - sym 5 & 9, pno sonata 14
bruckner - sym 9
copland - sym 3
dixie
dvorak - sym 9
fernandez - batuque
hummel - trpt con
mahler - sym 1 & 2
meadowland
mendelssohn - fingal's cave & sym 4
orff - carmina burana
rimsky-korsakov
russian easter overture & scheherezade
schubert - sym 8 & 9
shostakovich - sym 5
sibelius - swan of tuonela
sousa - stars & stripes forever
tchaikovsky - sym 4 & 6, swan lake
telemann - heroic music
way down yonder in new orleans
Buxtehude : Membra Jesus Nostri
Bach : Violin partita 3
Handel : Concerto grosso op.6 n°2
Haydn : Piano sonata 59
Quartet op76 n°2
Cello concerto 2
Symphony 96
Symphony 104
Mozart : Horn concerto 1
Beethoven : Piano sonata 32
Violin sonata 9 Kreutzer
Piano trio after Symphony 2
Symphony 6
Schubert : String quintet
Schumann : Cello concerto
Berlioz : Harold in Italy
Liszt : Piano Sonata
Smetana : String quartet 2
Bruckner : Symphony 5
Brahms : Piano concerto 2
Strauss : Ein Heldenleben
Till Eulenspiegel
nielsen : Symphony 3
Ravel : Piano concerto in G
Britten : Violin concerto
Shostakovich : String quartet 8
Piano quintet
Symphony 10
Pettersson Symphony 7
Schnittke : Cello sonata
I'm not sure of my list, but it shows my taste.
Quote from: greg on May 22, 2007, 10:16:25 AM
wow, i'll have to think a bit....
here goes
1. Mahler 9
2. Gorecki 3
3. Schoenberg- Book of Hanging Gardens
4. Mahler 2
5. Mahler 10
6. Prokofiev- Cello Sinfonia Concertante
7. Webern- Passacaglia for Orchestra
8. Berg- 3 Pieces for Orchestra
9. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata #6
10. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata #2
11. Mahler 3
12. Mahler 7
13. Stravinsky- Rite of Spring
14. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #2
15. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #3
16. Schoenberg- 5 Pieces for Orchestra
17. Xenakis- Ata
18. Penderecki- Fluorescences
19. Penderecki- De Natura Sonoris #2
20. Penderecki- Threnody
21. Penderecki- De Natura Sonoris #1
22. Xenakis- Hibiki Hana Ma
23. Xenakis- Orient-Occident
24. Bartok- 1st Piano Concerto
25. Prokofiev- Symphony #5
26. Xenakis- La Legende d'eer
27. Prokofiev- Symphony #5
28. Brahms- Symphony #1
29. Brahms- Symphony #4
30. Brahms- Piano Concerto #1 and 2
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEE lists like these :-*
however, it's impossible to actually fit everything on there since there's so many ties
oh no! I left off Mahler 6, Brahms' Paganini Variations, and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet :(
I'll join in the fun.
There can be no question of completeness in such a small list, so the first 30 favorite works which came to mind:
1 Shostakovich, Fourth Symphony
2 Shostakovich, Tenth Symphony
3 Shostakovich, Fourteenth Symphony
4 Shostakovich, Four Pushkin Romances
5 Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues
6 Shostakovich, Seventh String Quartet
7 Shostakovich, Second Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano
8 Shostakovich, Sonata for Viola & Piano
9 Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps
10 Stravinsky, Symphonies of wind instruments
11 Stravinsky, Concerto for two pianos
12 Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
13 Stravinsky, Orpheus
14 Stravinsky, Agon
15 Prokofiev, Second Symphony
16 Prokofiev, Le pas d'acier
17 Prokofiev, L'enfant prodigue
18 Prokofiev, Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
19 Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
20 Prokofiev, Seventh Piano Sonata
21 Bartók, Second Piano Concerto
22 Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
23 Bartók, Third String Quartet
24 Bartók, Fourth String Quartet
25 Bartók, Fifth String Quartet
26 Bartók, Sixth String Quartet
27 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
28 Ravel, Sonata for Violin & Cello
29 Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp
30 Copland, Sextet
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2007, 06:42:07 AM
9 Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps
10 Stravinsky, Symphonies of wind instruments
11 Stravinsky, Concerto for two pianos
12 Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
13 Stravinsky, Orpheus
14 Stravinsky, Agon
15 Prokofiev, Second Symphony
16 Prokofiev, Le pas d'acier
17 Prokofiev, L'enfant prodigue
18 Prokofiev, Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
19 Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
20 Prokofiev, Seventh Piano Sonata
21 Bartók, Second Piano Concerto
22 Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
23 Bartók, Third String Quartet
24 Bartók, Fourth String Quartet
25 Bartók, Fifth String Quartet
26 Bartók, Sixth String Quartet
27 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
Interesting.
If I were to list my six favourite Stravinsky and seven favourite Bartok works, I'd probably come up with the same list as you for both (I'd have a hard time keeping the
Symphony in Three Movements and
Requiem Canticles off the Stravinsky list, though).
If I were to list my six favourite Prokofiev works, however, I would come up with an entirely different list (Third and Sixth symphonies, Symphony-Concerto, First Violin Sonata, Sixth Piano Sonata and
Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution).
In no order:
Sibelius: Tapiola
Copland: Symphony 3
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 6
Miaskovsky: Symphony 6
Honegger: Liturgique Symphony
Walton: Symphony 1
Bruckner: Symphony 9
Novak: The Storm
Bax: Symphony 5
Tubin: Symphony 2 "The Legendary"
Diamond: Symphony 3
Rubbra: Symphony 5
Raid: Symphony 1
Brian: Symphony 8
Alwyn: Symphony 2
Shostakovich: Symphony 4
Moeran: Symphony
Arnell: Symphony 3
Pettersson: Violin Concerto 2
Bliss: Morning Heroes
Lilburn: Symphony 1
Langgaard: Symphony 4
Egge: Symphony 1
Kinsella: Symphony 3
Hadley: The Trees so High
Sainton: Nadir
Rootham: Symphony
Bainton: Symphony 3
Hayasaka: Piano Concerto
Arnold: Symphony 1
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Mozart: Idomeneo
Mozart: Marriage of Figero
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte
Mozart: Magic Flute
Beethoven: p Sonata, Opus 109
Beethoven: p Sonata, Opus 13
Beethoven: Archduke Piano Trio
Beethoven: Symphony #3
Beethoven: Symphony #5
Beethoven: Symphony #9
Beethoven: p Concerto #3
Beethoven: p Concerto #5
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony #1
Strauss: Heldenleben
Strauss: Zarathustra
Strauss: Salome
Strauss: Elektra
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Delius: Florida Suite
Rachmaninoff: p Concerto #2
Rachmaninoff: p Concerto #3
Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok: Sonata for 2 pianos & percussion
Bartok: String Quartet #5
This is much harder than I first thought it would be... and I even squeezed in an extra one. :D
Bach: Mass in B minor
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven: Fidelio
Beethoven: Mass in C major
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Beethoven: Symphony 3
Beethoven: Symphony 9
Bruckner: Symphony 3
Bruckner: Symphony 8
Bruckner: Symphony 9
Bruckner: Te Deum
Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Dvořák: Symphony 9
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler: Symphony 6
Mahler: Symphony 8
Massenet: Manon
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Mozart: Requiem
Pärt: Fratres
Pärt: Berliner Messe
Prokofiev: Symphony 6
Puccini: La Bohème
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Shostakovich: Symphony 10
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Verdi: La Traviata
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2007, 06:42:07 AM
I'll join in the fun.
There can be no question of completeness in such a small list, so the first 30 favorite works which came to mind:
1 Shostakovich, Fourth Symphony
2 Shostakovich, Tenth Symphony
3 Shostakovich, Fourteenth Symphony
4 Shostakovich, Four Pushkin Romances
5 Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues
6 Shostakovich, Seventh String Quartet
7 Shostakovich, Second Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano
8 Shostakovich, Sonata for Viola & Piano
9 Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps
10 Stravinsky, Symphonies of wind instruments
11 Stravinsky, Concerto for two pianos
12 Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
13 Stravinsky, Orpheus
14 Stravinsky, Agon
15 Prokofiev, Second Symphony
16 Prokofiev, Le pas d'acier
17 Prokofiev, L'enfant prodigue
18 Prokofiev, Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
19 Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
20 Prokofiev, Seventh Piano Sonata
21 Bartók, Second Piano Concerto
22 Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
23 Bartók, Third String Quartet
24 Bartók, Fourth String Quartet
25 Bartók, Fifth String Quartet
26 Bartók, Sixth String Quartet
27 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
28 Ravel, Sonata for Violin & Cello
29 Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp
30 Copland, Sextet
hey, i thought you said you liked the Shostakovich 14th more than the 15th? either you changed your mind yourself or you've joined the Greg side >:D
Quote from: greg on May 23, 2007, 11:49:51 AM
hey, i thought you said you liked the Shostakovich 14th more than the 15th?
Well, isn't that reflected in the inclusion of the
Fourteenth and the (regrettable) omission of the
Fifteenth from that list of thirty?
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2007, 11:53:08 AM
Well, isn't that reflected in the inclusion of the Fourteenth and the (regrettable) omission of the Fifteenth from that list of thirty?
:-[
i meant 15 over 14, just worded it wrong
blather lather's got my tongue
Some days, I do like the Fifteenth better than the Fourteenth 8)
I take it were excluding opera:
Bach Goldberg Variations
Bach Mass in B Minor
Beethoven Symphony No 9,
Beethoven Symphony 6
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Shostakovich Piano Concerti
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Stravinky Symphony in Three Movements
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky Symphony in C
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Brahms Piano Quintet
Brahms PC No 1
Berg Violin Concerto
Mahler Symphony No 5
Mahler Symphony No 1
Bruckner Symphony 6
Bruckner Symphony 4
Mozart Symphony No 41
Mozart Requiem Mass
Verdi Requiem Mass
Debussy and Ravel String Quartets
Quote from: Danny on May 23, 2007, 12:17:16 PM
I take it were excluding opera:
Not necessarily! :)
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2007, 12:19:36 PM
Not necessarily! :)
Oh, man.............................oh, man! :(
Quote from: Danny on May 23, 2007, 12:17:16 PM
I take it were excluding opera
No, that's what made it so hard... I tried to squeeze in at least opera for around a third of my list--fortunately, I included Wagner's ring cycle as a whole work, so it gave me a little more freedom. :)
Quote from: beclemund on May 23, 2007, 12:43:52 PM
--fortunately, I included Wagner's ring cycle as a whole work, so it gave me a little more freedom. :)
That was definitely a cheat.
Though in a sense, it still excluded opera ;D
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2007, 12:44:36 PM
That was definitely a cheat.
Though in a sense, it still excluded opera ;D
Pete Best forever, Ringo never! ;D
Quote from: oyasumi on May 22, 2007, 07:06:40 AM
1. Charles Koechlin - Les Hueres Persanes. It's a strange, alluring, polytonal masterpiece for the piano, and is truly unique in its method, and the moods it brings.
2. Alfred Schnittke - Gogol Suite. I only heard it once, but it made an impression. The multiple styles, and the huge orchestra used are incredible.
I'm not going to do that coy 'these are my 30 favourites today' thing, but I will say that I fully expect that if I were to look back at this thread in 10 years time, many of my choices would be different. With that proviso, here's the first list that came to mind:
JANACEK - String Quartet No 2
JANACEK - From the Diary of One Who Disappeared
JANACEK - Violin Concerto
JANACEK - From the House of the Dead
JANACEK - The Cunning Little Vixen
JANACEK - Katya Kabanova
BACH - Musical Offering
SCHUBERT - Die Schone Mullerin
SCHUBERT - String Quartet in G major
SCHUMANN - Eichendorff Liederkreis
SCHOECK - Elegie
IVES - Concord Sonata
CAGE - Sonatas and Interludes
BEETHOVEN - Quartet op 130/op 133
BEETHOVEN - Quartet op 131
BEETHOVEN - Quartet op 132
BRAHMS - Nanie
BRAHMS - Clarinet Trio
BRAHMS - Clarinet Quintet
BRAHMS - Horn Trio
BRAHMS - Piano pieces op 116-119 (counts as one choice)
BRAHMS - String Quartets op 51
BRAHMS - Piano Trio no 1
RAVEL - Piano Trio
RAVEL - Piano Concerto for the left hand
DEBUSSY - Cello Sonata
MOZART - Sinfonia Concertante (Violin/Viola)
MOZART - Piano Concerto K488
CHOPIN - Mazurkas (complete, if you please)
CHOPIN - Nocturnes op 27
I'm already wanting to add to the list, however...
Edit - yes, indeed, I'm now yearning for a place for Tapiola, for Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette, and for Part's Stabat Mater (first among a list of five or six of his pieces which seem particularly special)
Second Edit - Pli selon pli goes up here too. And, though I have enough Brahms, perhaps, his Schumann Variations (the op 9 ones) and his Geistliche Lied should also be up too. However, that gets me up to 36
Third Edit - and, for goodness sake, there are the three Brahms Violin Sonatas too. Can I just take all Brahms chamber music as one item? - it would make things so much easier!
Bach: Mass in B minor
Bach: St Matthew Passion
Bach: WTC
Beethoven: PS op. 57
Beethoven: PS op. 106
Beethoven: PS op. 111
Beethoven: SQ op. 131
Beethoven: SQ op. 132
Beethoven: Sym 7
Beethoven: Sym 3
Brahms: PC 1
Brahms: PC 2
Brahms: Horn trio
Brahms: Sym 4
Bruckner: Sym 8
Bruckner: Sym 9
Debussy: Preludes, Book I
Mahler: Sym 6
Mahler: Sym 9
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mozart: Sym 40
Mozart: Sym 41
Prokofiev: PC 3
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes
Schumann: PC
Shostakovich: VC 1
Verdi: Requiem
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Parsifal
This is fun :D.
But I see my list is really wanting in contemporary stuff though.
Quote from: James on May 24, 2007, 05:35:20 PM
here are a few of my all time favorites...
bach st. matthew's passion
bach mass in b min
bach well tempered clavier
bach goldberg varations
bach english suites
bach partitas
bach weimar organ preludes & fugues
bach 18 leipzig chorale preludes
bach clavieruberg III
bach brandenburg concertos
bach orchestral suites
bach violin concertos
bach harpsichord concertos
bach cello sonatas
bach the musical offering
bach art of fugue
bach sonatas and partitas for violin
bach flute sonatas
wow how can you stand that much Bach...
I tried to make a list.
I wasn't even close to finishing when I noticed it was over 60 works long and contained nothing that could be removed.
Maybe I'll try something easier like my 30 favourite Brahms pieces. ;)
Bartok - Out Of Doors
Berg - Lyric Suite
Mozart - Adagio in B flat for solo piano
Bach - A minor Violin Concerto
Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet
Lutoslawski - String Quartet
Chopin - Preludes
Handel - Saul
Beethoven - 4th Piano Concerto
Martinu - Julietta
Enescu - Impressions d'enfance
Ravel - Piano Trio
Schoenberg - String Trio
Mozart - Clarinet Quintet
Mahler - 6th Symphony
Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
Webern - Anything
Shostakovich - 4th Symphony
Shostakovich - Op.67 Piano Trio
Brahms - 3rd Piano Sonata
Janacek - Cunning Little Vixen
Debussy - Faun
Wagner - Tristan
Berlioz - Les Troyens
Zemlinsky - The Mermaid
Sibelius - 4th Symphony
Schumann - Fantasy
Schubert - String Quintet
Gluck - Iphigénie en Tauride
Bruckner - 9th Symphony
Quote from: donwyn on May 24, 2007, 07:53:21 PM
Webern - Anything
Yeah, that
song is one of my favorite Webern pieces too. ;)
I have a suggestion to make this a little easier:
1. J.S. Bach - complete works
2. Brahms - complete works
3. Mozart - complete works
4. Beethoven - complete works,
etc. Until you reach 30.
If that doesn't work for you, you could also try:
1. Complete works by all of the baroque composers
2. Complete works by all of the contemporary composers
etc.
Here 30 might prove a bit too much... ::)
8)
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
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
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.. :)
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'
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
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.
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
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? ::)
There's been a sudden rash of thread revivals from early 2007 lately... :P
Must be this Edward Hopper Exhibit shirt I've been wearing (05.06-08.19.2007)
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
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.
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...
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
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.
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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).
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).
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 .... :-\
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?
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
Quote from: ukrneal on February 12, 2010, 09:08:47 AM
I don't know. In terms of content, you can check: http://www2.deutschegrammophon.com/webseries/?ID=collectorsedition&PRODUCT_NR=4778668
Thanks. I'd cast a cursory glance towards the DG site last week, but didn't find it.
My 30 favorite works? Easy, as long as the piano sonatas of Beethoven count as one work, likewise his symphonies, and those of Sibelius, and Mahler, and Bach's cello suites, and...but you get the idea. ;D ;)
Bach
Goldberg Variations
Violin Concerto No. 1
Violin Concerto No. 2
Concerto for Oboe & Violin, BWV 1060
Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1
Cello Concerto No. 2
String Quartet, op.76, No.5 “Largo”
String Quartet, op.51 “The Seven Last Words”
Mozart
Clarinet Quintet, K.581
String Quintet, K.515
Sinfonia Concertante, K.364
Beethoven
Symphony No.4
Symphony No.5
Symphony No.9
Piano Concerto No.4
Piano Sonata No.21 “Waldstein”
String Quartet, op.130 w/Grosse Fuge
Schubert
Piano Sonata, D.960
String Quintet, D.956
Bruckner
Symphony No.4
Symphony No.9
Dvorak
Symphony No.8
String Quintet, op.77
Piano Trio No.3
Piano Trio No.4 “Dumky”
Cello Concerto in B minor
Sibelius
Symphony No.6
Symphony No.7
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No.3
Violin Concerto No.1
Well.......Beethoven wrote 9 Symphonies, 16 String Quartets, and 5 Piano Concertos.......done.
Quote from: hornteacher on February 12, 2010, 05:14:19 PM
Well.......Beethoven wrote 9 Symphonies, 16 String Quartets, and 5 Piano Concertos.......done.
You know I thought that you said awhile back that you didn't even like Beethoven's symphonies. ???
Quote from: DavidW on February 12, 2010, 05:32:05 PM
You know I thought that you said awhile back that you didn't even like Beethoven's symphonies. ???
:o No that wasn't me. I am on intimate terms with all nine and I listen to LvB more than any other composer.
Quote from: hornteacher on February 12, 2010, 08:24:46 PM
:o No that wasn't me. I am on intimate terms with all nine and I listen to LvB more than any other composer.
Maybe I'm thinking of George.
let's have a go....
Mahler sym. # 2
Mahler sym. # 6
Mahler sym. # 5
Mahler sym. # 4
Mahler sym. # 3
Mahler - Ich bin der welt abhanden gekommen
Mahler sym. # 1
Schubert D.899
Schubert D.935
Schubert D.940
Schubert - Arpeggione sonata D.821
Schubert sym. # 8
Beethoven Piano sonata No.4 Op.7
Beethoven Sym. # 9
Arvo Part - Summa
Arvo Part - Berliner Messe
Rameau - Suite in E minor
Satie - Gymnopedie No.3
Satie - Gnossienne No .5
Tallis - Salve Intemerata
Bruckner - Sym. #8
Bruckner - Sym # 9
Byrd - Mass for four voices
Villa Lobos - Choros No.1
Brahms - German Requiem
Brahms - Ballades
Rossini - Stabat Mater
Pergolesi - stabat Mater
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Bach - Tilge, Höchster, Meine Sünden BWV 1083
Quote from: vandermolen on May 23, 2007, 07:43:21 AM
In no order:
Sibelius: Tapiola
Copland: Symphony 3
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 6
Miaskovsky: Symphony 6
Honegger: Liturgique Symphony
Walton: Symphony 1
Bruckner: Symphony 9
Novak: The Storm
Bax: Symphony 5
Tubin: Symphony 2 "The Legendary"
Diamond: Symphony 3
Rubbra: Symphony 5
Raid: Symphony 1
Brian: Symphony 8
Alwyn: Symphony 2
Shostakovich: Symphony 4
Moeran: Symphony
Arnell: Symphony 3
Pettersson: Violin Concerto 2
Bliss: Morning Heroes
Lilburn: Symphony 1
Langgaard: Symphony 4
Egge: Symphony 1
Kinsella: Symphony 3
Hadley: The Trees so High
Sainton: Nadir
Rootham: Symphony
Bainton: Symphony 3
Hayasaka: Piano Concerto
Arnold: Symphony 1
Good thread. You pose an interesting list. It appears that many of your favorites coincide with my own. For much of my life, starting with my early adolescence, Sibelius has been a very long favorite. The "Tapiola" is supreme.
Okay, in no particular order:
Prokofiev: Gambler
Prokofiev: Seven, they are Seven
Prokofiev: Fiery Angel
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto 2
Prokofiev: Pas D'Acier
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata 6
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe
Ravel: Les Enfants et les Sortileges
Bliss: Morning Heroes
Schnittke: Symphony #3
Ives: Symphony #4
Eshpai: Concerto Grosso
Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 (if only for the final mvmt.)
Hovhaness: Symphony #50 and Symphony #19 (tie)
Honneger: Joan of Arc at the Stake
Klami: Psalmus
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata #1, op. 80
Barber: Symphony #1
Khachaturian: Symphony #3 (a guilty pleasure)
Bloch: String Quartets (as a set)
Szymanowski: King Roger
Zhukov: Percussion Concerto
Mossolov: Iron Foundry
Grainger: Orchestral Arrangement of Ravel's Valley of the Bells
Myaskovksy: Symphony #27
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto
Schoenberg: Moses and Aaron
Sandstrom: Motorbike Concerto
Andrew
Quote from: jurajjak on February 13, 2010, 08:53:08 PMProkofiev: Seven, they are Seven
Interesting, have I been missing something here? I've Rozhdestvensky's recording downloaded and the work has never struck me as being anything beyond being plain intriguing. Not bad, of course, but we can come to expect decent quality from almost anything by Prokofiev.
Quote from: RexRichter on February 13, 2010, 09:27:29 PM
Interesting, have I been missing something here? I've Rozhdestvensky's recording downloaded and the work has never struck me as being anything beyond being plain intriguing. Not bad, of course, but we can come to expect decent quality from almost anything by Prokofiev.
It may be a matter of taste, but, along with Fiery Angel, Gambler, and Symphony #2, this is probably Prokofiev's most advanced composition. In my view it is a far more successful example of Prokofiev's modernism than the hot-and-cold Scythian Suite.
I like Maciek's solution on page three (bottom), so here's my favorite 30 decades.
2000-2009
1990-1999
1980-1989
19.... But you get the idea. (And don't point out that 2001-2010 is the real first decade of this century. A decade is a ten year period, and it's just barely 2010, so I haven't had a chance to listen to much music from 2010. The first decade that makes any sense, therefore, is the one going from 2000 to 2009. If this were February 2014, then the first decade I would designate would be the one going from 2004 to 2013. Thank you and good night. :P)
I wonder, though, what would happen if I really try to identify thirty of my favorite pieces....
Michèle Bokanowski, L'etoile Absinthe
Bronius Kutavičius, Lokys
Robert Ashley, In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven there were men and women
John Cage, Cartridge Music
Jonathan Berger, Meteora
Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini
J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion
Camille Saint-Saëns, Samson et Delila
Carl Nielsen, Symphony nr. 6
Bartók Béla, Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hymnen
Helmut Lachenmann, Gran Torso
Sibelius, Kullervo
Zbigniew Karkowski, One and Many
Luc Ferrari, Unheimlich Schön
Beatriz Ferreyra, Un fil invisible
Antonín Dvořák, Bagatelles, op. 47
Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Bartók Béla, Bluebeard's Castle
Antonin Dvořák, Stabat Mater
Michèle Bokanowski, Chant d'Ombre
Luc Ferrari, Société II (Et Si Le Piano Était Un Corps De Femme)
Antonín Dvořák, Rusalka
Hector Berlioz, Roméo et Juliette
Johannes Brahms, Piano quartet, op. 25
Hector Berlioz, La mort d'Orphée
Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens
Iannis Xenakis, Persepolis
Otomo Yoshihide, Turntable solo
Johannes Brahms, Symphony nr. 4
Nope. Too hard. Anyone who knows me would immediately notice that there's no Prokofiev on this list. Say what? No Semyon Kotko? No quintette? No symphony nr. 2? Or nr. 6? No Romeo and Juliet? No On the Dnieper? No piano sonatas nr. 7? No Divertimento? No Scythian suite? Incroyable!! And those piano concertos, especially 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5. (Not to mention my three favorite Bartók piano concertos or his very nice violin concerto nr. 2, long time favorite.)
What about Martin Tétreault and eRikm and all the other Karkowski I'm always playing? And no Ludger Brümmer? What the hell! Ludger's one of my very most favorite composers. La Cloches sans Vallées. Thrill. Lizard Point. Wow, that does not make sense!!
And don't even get me started on Stravinsky!
No. This list making is a silly thing. I've decided not to do one. ;D
30. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto
29. Glazunov, String Quintet
28. Bernstein, West Side Story*
27. Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky Cantata
26. Shostakovich, Symphony No 9
25. Dvorak, String Quintet Op. 77
24. Dvorak, Piano Quintet Op. 81
23. Sibelius, Symphony No 3
22. Chopin, Nocturne op. post. in C sharp minor
21. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 1 "Winter Daydreams"
20. Atterberg, Symphony No 8
19. Sibelius, Symphony No 6
18. Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor"
17. Ravel, Piano Concerto in G
16. Beethoven, piano sonatas opp. 109-111
15. Brahms, Symphony No 4
14. Chopin, Ballade No 4
13. Dvorak, Cello Concerto
12. Atterberg, Symphony No 3, finale
11. Beethoven, Symphony No 5
10. Beethoven, Symphony No 4
9. Shostakovich, Symphony No 10
8. Beethoven, piano sonata Op 90
7. Janacek, Sinfonietta
6. Sibelius, Symphony No 5
5. Dvorak, Symphony No 8
4. Janacek, Glagolitic Mass
3. Sibelius, Symphony No 7
2. Beethoven, Symphony No 7
1. Smetana, "Vltava" (The Moldau)
Beethoven 6, Sibelius 4, Dvorak 4, Shostakovich/Janacek/Chopin/Atterberg 2
That was tough but kind of fun. I spent a day thinking about it.
I wonder what my list will look like next week! ;) :D
*West Side Story would be ranked higher, but I put it at the top of the list for fear somebody will claim it's not classical.
Quote from: Brian on February 15, 2010, 07:53:04 AM
Beethoven 6, Sibelius 4, Dvorak 4
Subliminal symphonic messages, there? (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/SoLoSMiLeYS1/wink.gif)
PS - Glad to see the "Vltava" made it!
Quote from: Dan on February 15, 2010, 09:32:55 AM
Subliminal symphonic messages, there? (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/SoLoSMiLeYS1/wink.gif)
PS - Glad to see the "Vltava" made it!
That's funny, because Beethoven 6 and Sib/Dv 4 aren't on the list. ;D By the way, I am glad to see Dvorak's string quintet made yours! I love the two inner movements - divine. 0:)
James, are you deleting your posts and then re-posting again? Because I'm pretty sure I've already seen your list about 8 hours ago, but now it showed up as a "new" post from only minutes ago??
Quote from: Maciek on February 16, 2010, 08:44:54 AM
James, are you deleting your posts and then re-posting again? Because I'm pretty sure I've already seen your list about 8 hours ago, but now it showed up as a "new" post from only minutes ago??
Yes, that post was originally between mine and Dan's, several places up.
OK, thanks, I was confused, thought there was maybe something odd going on at my end... ;D
Bartok Divertimento
Barber Cello Concerto
Barber Piano Sonata
Barber Hermit Songs
Schoeck Elegie
Williams Heartwood
Shostakovich Cello Concerto no.2
Shostakovich Symphony no.10
Englund Cello Concerto
Bartok Viola Concerto
Strauss Four Last Songs
Previn Four Songs
Dvorak String Quartet no.13
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Beethoven op.131
Ives Symphony no.4
Ives The Celestial Railroad
Ives Three Places in New England
Ives Piano Trio
Finzi Deis Natalis
Ravel Concerto for Piano Left Hand
Walton Sinfonia Concertante
Bach Cello Suites
Goldschmidt Cello Concerto
Goldschmidt Der Gewaltige Hahnrei
Bernstein Three Meditations from Mass
Faure Piano Quintet no.2
Gruber Cello Concerto
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Kurtag Stele
Just off the top of my head. Some I have just been listening to a lot recently, some are all time favourites, some I just included on a whim because I had to include something by that composer!
I'm surprised to see Barber so under-represented. ;D
A few that I overlooked, even the second time: 8)
Avetissian, Oratorio in memoriam 1915
Bartók, Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Berkeley, Concerto for two pianos
Brian, Symphony 8
Britten, Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia
Brouwer, Retrats Catalans
Cowell, Hymns and Fuguing Tunes
Ellington, Suite from The River
Englund, Symphony 4 `Nostalgic'
Erkin, Symphony 2
Gershwin, An American in Paris
Guridi, Diez melodias vascas
Hindemith, Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester
Ireland, Concertino Pastorale
Klami, Suites from `Pyörteitä'
Kodály, Theatre Overture
Langgaard, Symfonie nr. 4 `Løvfald'
Leifs, Saga Symphony
McPhee, Tabuh-tabuhan
Madetoja, Suite from `Okon Fuoko'
Martinů, The Parabels
Moeran, Symphony
Pierné, Divertissements sur un thème pastoral
Ponce, Concierto del sur
Raid, Symphony 1
Rawsthorne, Symphonic Studies
Revueltas, Sensemayá
Rubbra, Sinfonia da camara
Simpson, Symphony 9
Skalkottas, 36 Greek Dances
Szymanowski, Stabat Mater
Tailleferre, Concertino pour harpe et orchestre
Tsintsadze, Six Quartet Miniatures
Quote from: Christo on February 17, 2010, 01:03:37 AM
A few that I overlooked, even the second time: 8)
Avetissian, Oratorio in memoriam 1915
Bartók, Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Berkeley, Concerto for two pianos
Brian, Symphony 8
Britten, Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia
Brouwer, Retrats Catalans
Cowell, Hymns and Fuguing Tunes
Ellington, Suite from The River
Englund, Symphony 4 `Nostalgic'
Erkin, Symphony 2
Gershwin, An American in Paris
Guridi, Diez melodias vascas
Hindemith, Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester
Ireland, Concertino Pastorale
Klami, Suites from `Pyörteitä'
Kodály, Theatre Overture
Langgaard, Symfonie nr. 4 `Løvfald'
Leifs, Saga Symphony
McPhee, Tabuh-tabuhan
Madetoja, Suite from `Okon Fuoko'
Martinů, The Parabels
Moeran, Symphony
Pierné, Divertissements sur un thème pastoral
Ponce, Concierto del sur
Raid, Symphony 1
Rawsthorne, Symphonic Studies
Revueltas, Sensemayá
Rubbra, Sinfonia da camara
Simpson, Symphony 9
Skalkottas, 36 Greek Dances
Szymanowski, Stabat Mater
Tailleferre, Concertino pour harpe et orchestre
Tsintsadze, Six Quartet Miniatures
I actually own just one piece on your list. I normally dislike many 20th century pieces, but out of curiosity, I randomly picked one to listen to on amazon. I chose McPhee. And I didn't immediately go screaming from the room ( 8)). I could even see myself listening to that on occassion. With that success in hand, I picked another: Tsintsadze (is he Georgian?). Well, I'm not a fan of violin so much, but I could see someone enjoying this (and some of the folk aspets of it).
So having now survived two, I went for a third (risky, I know :)). I picked Cowell. I found #10 - didn't like this so much, but having gotten 2 out of 3, I thought what the hay and picked another - Raid. I recognized the disc it was on (as I had once considered it, but ultimately decided against). This wasn't my thing either.
But wanted to say thank you. I think I will go back and test out some other music people have suggested (as well as more of your list). Who knows what can happen....I may actually like it...GASP!
Quote from: Maciek on February 16, 2010, 11:19:57 PM
I'm surprised to see Barber so under-represented. ;D
Me too - but I just couldn't exclude some of the others! The selection of Barber works is essentially random - the piano concerto, violin concerto, Prayers of Kierkegaard, Despite and Still, Vanessa, A Hand of Bridge, Capricorn Concerto, the choral works, Medea, First Symphony and the first two essays for orchestra could easily have fit in there. Also, there's no Ligeti, Dutilleux, Messiaen, Schumann, Schubert, Lutoslawski, Bridge etc. etc. etc.!!! so the list can hardly be definitive. I redact and renounce it immediately!
That Englund Cello Cto has to be quite something, though. I wonder if I've heard it (yes, I've finally reached the point where that question crops up embarrassingly often). ;D
Quote from: Maciek on February 16, 2010, 11:19:57 PM
I'm surprised to see Barber so under-represented. ;D
Yes. Where are the violin concerto and
Knoxville: Summer of 1915?
Quote from: ukrneal on February 17, 2010, 01:28:03 AM
I think I will go back and test out some other music people have suggested (as well as more of your list). Who knows what can happen....I may actually like it...GASP!
Oops, I wasn't aware of the impact a posting like this might have. ??? Hope you didn't suffer too much. Anyhow, I
can recommend all of them. Hope your neighbours won't suffer too much either. 8)
Quote from: DavidRoss on February 17, 2010, 05:03:54 AM
Yes. Where are the violin concerto and Knoxville: Summer of 1915?
Quote from: Christo on February 12, 2010, 04:48:03 AM
Barber, Knoxville - Summer of 1915
There it is/was. (I would rather list much more by Barber, but choose to give other composers a platform as well). :-\
Quote from: Brian on February 15, 2010, 07:53:04 AM
30. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto
29. Glazunov, String Quintet
28. Bernstein, West Side Story*
27. Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky Cantata
26. Shostakovich, Symphony No 9
25. Dvorak, String Quintet Op. 77
24. Dvorak, Piano Quintet Op. 81
23. Sibelius, Symphony No 3
22. Chopin, Nocturne op. post. in C sharp minor
21. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 1 "Winter Daydreams"
20. Atterberg, Symphony No 8
19. Sibelius, Symphony No 6
18. Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor"
17. Ravel, Piano Concerto in G
16. Beethoven, piano sonatas opp. 109-111
15. Brahms, Symphony No 4
14. Chopin, Ballade No 4
13. Dvorak, Cello Concerto
12. Atterberg, Symphony No 3, finale
11. Beethoven, Symphony No 5
10. Beethoven, Symphony No 4
9. Shostakovich, Symphony No 10
8. Beethoven, piano sonata Op 90
7. Janacek, Sinfonietta
6. Sibelius, Symphony No 5
5. Dvorak, Symphony No 8
4. Janacek, Glagolitic Mass
3. Sibelius, Symphony No 7
2. Beethoven, Symphony No 7
1. Smetana, "Vltava" (The Moldau)
Beethoven 6, Sibelius 4, Dvorak 4, Shostakovich/Janacek/Chopin/Atterberg 2
That was tough but kind of fun. I spent a day thinking about it.
I wonder what my list will look like next week! ;) :D
*West Side Story would be ranked higher, but I put it at the top of the list for fear somebody will claim it's not classical.
Nice to see Atterberg mixed in there as if he were a composer everybody already knew of. 8)
List No 3 (I need an excuse to avoid getting on with my school work ???)
Novak: South Bohemian Suite
Arnold: Symphony 6
Bantock: Hebriddean Symphony
Foulds: A World Requiem
Bliss: Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
Weinberg: Symphony 5
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 9
Bruckner: Symphony 3
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Williamson: Elevamini Symphony
Bridge: Enter Spring
Moeran: Cello Concerto
Rubbra: Symphony 4
Kleiberg: Bell Reef Symphony
Stanley Bate: Symphony 3
Chisholm: Pictures from Dante
Diepenbrock: Marsyas Suite
Malipiero: Symphony 7
Holmboe: Symphony 7
Lanngaard: Symphony 10
Petersson: Symphony 7
Hurum: Symphony in D minor
Simonsen: Hellas Symphony
Eshpai: Symphony 5
Furtwangler: Symphony 2
Yoshimatsu: Symphony 2
Bloch: Piano Quintet No 1
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
A.J. Potter: Symphony 'De Profundis'
Arnell: Symphony 5
Quote from: vandermolen on February 18, 2010, 11:33:07 PM
List No 3 (I need an excuse to avoid getting on with my school work ???)
Novak: South Bohemian Suite
Arnold: Symphony 6
Bantock: Hebriddean Symphony
Foulds: A World Requiem
Bliss: Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
Weinberg: Symphony 5
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 9
Bruckner: Symphony 3
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Williamson: Elevamini Symphony
Bridge: Enter Spring
Moeran: Cello Concerto
Rubbra: Symphony 4
Kleiberg: Bell Reef Symphony
Stanley Bate: Symphony 3
Chisholm: Pictures from Dante
Diepenbrock: Marsyas Suite
Malipiero: Symphony 7
Holmboe: Symphony 7
Lanngaard: Symphony 10
Petersson: Symphony 7
Hurum: Symphony in D minor
Simonsen: Hellas Symphony
Eshpai: Symphony 5
Furtwangler: Symphony 2
Yoshimatsu: Symphony 2
Bloch: Piano Quintet No 1
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
A.J. Potter: Symphony 'De Profundis'
Arnell: Symphony 5
Hey, I actually own three of these (schubert, Bruckner, Bantock)!!
Quote from: ukrneal on February 19, 2010, 01:24:25 AM
Hey, I actually own three of these (schubert, Bruckner, Bantock)!!
So, only 27 to go ;D If you go for one or two I'd strongly recommend the lovely Hurum Symphony (thanks to Greg) and Stanley Bate's Third Symphony (if you like VW or Sibelius).
Before i came on this forum i thought i had a wide ranging knowledge of composers but seeing all these names unfamiliar to me shows have long way to go :( positive thing though is i know will never run out of names ;D
Quote from: offbeat on February 19, 2010, 06:36:41 AM
Before i came on this forum i thought i had a wide ranging knowledge of composers but seeing all these names unfamiliar to me shows have long way to go :( positive thing though is i know will never run out of names ;D
I have discovered loads of stuff through this forum. My house will probably be re-possessed but, what the Hell - I discovered Kleiberg's 'Bell Reef Symphony' :D
Quote from: Maciek on February 17, 2010, 04:19:37 AM
That Englund Cello Cto has to be quite something, though.
Prompted by this, I spent yesterday evening listening to Englund for the first time - his Cello Concerto and two Piano Concerti. They're wonderful works! I hope someday pianists will do the First Piano Concerto in concert. It would bring down the house.
Quote from: Brian on February 19, 2010, 09:58:46 AM
Prompted by this, I spent yesterday evening listening to Englund for the first time - his Cello Concerto and two Piano Concerti. They're wonderful works! I hope someday pianists will do the First Piano Concerto in concert. It would bring down the house.
Prompted by this (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/SoLoSMiLeYS1/grin.gif), I listened to a sample at Amazon.
I'd never heard anything by Englund before, by the way, but it struck me as being heavily influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Fair assessment?
Quote from: Dan on February 19, 2010, 10:55:19 AM
Prompted by this (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/SoLoSMiLeYS1/grin.gif), I listened to a sample at Amazon.
I'd never heard anything by Englund before, by the way, but it struck me as being heavily influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Fair assessment?
Yeah, the Englund First Piano Concerto seems like the Prokofiev Third's younger, cheekier brother.
Englund's first two symphonies are very good - displaying a powerful sense of nature in No 2 and a more combative feel in No 1.
Jeez that was tough to narrow it down to 30.
Top 30 Works
1 - Beethoven Symphony 7
2 - Beethoven Symphony 9
3 - Beethoven Symphony 5
4 - Beethoven Symphony 3
5 - Mozart Marriage of Figaro
6 - Mendelsson Violin Concerto
7 - Dvorak Symphony 9
8 - Mozart Clarinet Concerto
9 - Copland Appalachian Spring
10 - Beethoven Moonlight Piano Sonata
11 - Beethoven Violin Concerto
12 - Dvorak Cello Concerto
13 - Bach Brandenburg Concerto #2
14 - Dvorak Symphony 8
15 - Rachmaniov Piano Concerto 2
16 - Dvorak Symphony 7
17 - Beethoven Pathetique Piano Sonata
18 - Holst Planets
19 - Copland Symphony 3
20 - Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
21 - Beethoven String Quartet Op 18 #4
22 - Mozart Symphony 40
23 - Bach Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor
24 - Copland Rodeo
25 - Dvorak American Quartet
26 - Shostakovich Symphony 5
27 - Haydn Symphony 100
28 - Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
29 - Stravinsky Rite of Spring
30 - Dvorak Violin Concerto
This was hard but here's my 30 favorites:
ANTILL, JOHN (1904-1986)
Corroboree: Suite from the Ballet (1946)
ARNOLD, MALCOLM (1921-2006)
Tam O' Shanter: Overture, Op. 51 (1955)
BARBER, SAMUEL (1910-1981)
Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23A (1953)
BARTOK, BELA (1881-1945)
Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 (1931)
BERKELEY, LENNOX (1903–1989)
Mont Juic, Op. 9 (1937)
BERNSTEIN, LEONARD (1918-1990)
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for Clarinet and Jazz Combo (1949)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dances for Orchestra (21), WoO 1 (1873)
CHIHARA, PAUL (1938-
The Tempest: Ballet in two Acts (1980)
DUKAS, PAUL (1865-1935)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897)
DVOŘÁK, ANTONÍN (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72 (1886)
GOULD, MORTON (1913-1996)
Latin American Symphonette (1940)
HOLST, GUSTAV (1874-1934)
Beni Mora - Oriental Suite, Op. 29, No. 1 (1910)
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915)
IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, MIKHAIL (1859-1935)
Caucasian Sketches (1894)
JÄRNEFELT, EDVARD ARMAS (1869–1958)
Praeludium
KABALEVSKY, DMITRI (1904-1987)
The Comedians, Op. 26 (1938)
KHACHATURIAN, ARAM (1903-1978)
Gayne: Ballet Suite (1943)
MASSENET, JULES (1842-1912)
Le Cid: Ballet Music (1885)
MEIJ, JOHAN DE (1953-
Symphony No. 1 "The Lord Of The Rings" (1987)
MOUSSORGSKY, MODEST (1839-1881)
Night On Bald Mountain (1867; Rimsky-Korsakov 1887)
Pictures At An Exhibition (1874; Ravel 1922)
NIELSEN, CARL (1865-1931)
Aladdin Suite, Op. 34 (1919)
PISTON, WALTER (1894–1976)
The Incredible Flutist (1938)
PROKOFIEV, SERGEI (1891-1953)
Scythian Suite, Op. 20 (1915)
RACHMANINOFF, SERGEI (1873-1943)
Caprice Bohémien, Op. 12 (1894)
RESPIGHI, OTTORINO (1879-1936)
Belkis, Queen of Sheba (1931)
RUSSO, WILLIAM (1928-2003)
Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra, Op. 50 (1968)
SÆVERUD, HARALD (1897-1992)
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 28 (1948)
SAINT-SAËNS, CAMILLE (1835-1921)
Danse Macabre for orchestra, Op. 40 (1874)
STRAVINSKY, IGOR (1882-1971)
The Firebird: Suite (1910; revised 1919)
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER (1840-1893)
Fatum: Symphonic Poem, Op. 77 (1868)
WILLS, ARTHUR (1926-
Fenlands: The Vikings for Brass Band and Organ
Quote from: gomro on May 22, 2007, 05:39:06 PM
THIRTY favorite works -- well, at least there's room to actually make a fair representation of favorite stuff... I shall list one favorite per composer.
1. BELA BARTOK - Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta
2. ARTHUR HONEGGER - Pacific 231
3. MAURICE RAVEL - La Valse
4. OLIVIER MESSIAEN - Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorem
5. CHARLES IVES - Three Places in New England
6. HOWARD HANSON - Mosaics for orchestra
7. AKIRA IFUKUBE - Symphonic Fantasia #1
8. MORTON SUBOTNICK - The Key to Songs for ensemble and computer
9. STEVE REICH - Three Tales for ensemble and electronic samples
10. IANNIS XENAKIS - Terretektorh for orchestra scattered among the audience
11. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Stop und Start for ensemble
12. DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony #13
13. AARON COPLAND - Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
14. CARL RUGGLES - Sun-Treader for large orchestra
15. EDGARD VARESE - Ameriques for large orchestra
16. CHARLES WUORINEN - Genesis for orchestra and chorus
17. ERIC EWAZEN - Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for flute, horn and piano
18. ROBERTO GERHARD - Concerto for Orchestra
19. JENNIFER HIGDON - Concerto for Orchestra
20. PAUL MORAVEC - The Time Gallery for ensemble
21. SAMUEL JONES - Roundings for orchestra
22. IGOR STRAVINSKY - Les Noces for pianos and chorus
23. SERGEI PROKOFIEV - Scythian Suite
24. PHILIP GLASS - The Photographer
25. TERRY RILEY - In C
26. TAKASHI YOSHIMATSU - Symphony #4
27. YASUSHI AKUTAGAWA - Allora Symphony
28. ARNOLD SCHOENBERG - Ode to Napoleon
29. KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - Credo
30. MORTON FELDMAN - Piano and String Quartet
Great list! Nos. 1,2,3,5,12,13,14,15,19 and 23 are also favorites of mine. Based on those I will be checking some of the items on your list I'm not heard yet. :D
Quote from: Christo on February 17, 2010, 01:03:37 AM
A few that I overlooked, even the second time: 8)
Avetissian, Oratorio in memoriam 1915
Bartók, Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Berkeley, Concerto for two pianos
Brian, Symphony 8
Britten, Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia
Brouwer, Retrats Catalans
Cowell, Hymns and Fuguing Tunes
Ellington, Suite from The River
Englund, Symphony 4 `Nostalgic'
Erkin, Symphony 2
Gershwin, An American in Paris
Guridi, Diez melodias vascas
Hindemith, Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester
Ireland, Concertino Pastorale
Klami, Suites from `Pyörteitä'
Kodály, Theatre Overture
Langgaard, Symfonie nr. 4 `Løvfald'
Leifs, Saga Symphony
McPhee, Tabuh-tabuhan
Madetoja, Suite from `Okon Fuoko'
Martinů, The Parabels
Moeran, Symphony
Pierné, Divertissements sur un thème pastoral
Ponce, Concierto del sur
Raid, Symphony 1
Rawsthorne, Symphonic Studies
Revueltas, Sensemayá
Rubbra, Sinfonia da camara
Simpson, Symphony 9
Skalkottas, 36 Greek Dances
Szymanowski, Stabat Mater
Tailleferre, Concertino pour harpe et orchestre
Tsintsadze, Six Quartet Miniatures
Interesting choices, many I've not heard but based on the ones I've heard I will be checking out the others.
I also love Duke Ellington's
The River but I like
Harlem even better, have you heard it? McPhee's
Tabuh-tabuhan is also one of my favorites.
Quote from: Brian on February 15, 2010, 07:53:04 AM
28. Bernstein, West Side Story*
*West Side Story would be ranked higher, but I put it at the top of the list for fear somebody will claim it's not classical.
If it is the
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story it a bonafide classical work however if it is the Soundtrack then it would be show music.
The Bernstein Piece I choose is perhaps even more borderline
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for Clarinet and Jazz Combo
Quote from: Teresa on February 21, 2010, 04:34:30 AM
If it is the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story it a bonafide classical work however if it is the Soundtrack then it would be show music.
Yes, I meant the full original musical. :)
Glad to see you list Antill's Corroboree, a favorite of mine, too!
Quote from: hornteacher on February 20, 2010, 03:09:34 PM
Jeez that was tough to narrow it down to 30.
Top 30 Works
1 - Beethoven Symphony 7
3 - Beethoven Symphony 5
12 - Dvorak Cello Concerto
14 - Dvorak Symphony 8
Four of your top 15 are in my top 15. No wonder we get along! :)
I'm listening to the Beethoven quartets in order; still on No 1, but excited to get to Op 18 No 4 based on your ranking!
Quote from: Brian on February 21, 2010, 08:50:10 PM
Four of your top 15 are in my top 15. No wonder we get along! :)
I'm listening to the Beethoven quartets in order; still on No 1, but excited to get to Op 18 No 4 based on your ranking!
I'm working through the Teaching Company lectures on the Beethoven SQs (it just came out a month or so ago). Really helpful in analyzing the works. Just finished Op 59 #3, headed to the Harp Quartet next.
Op 18 #4 isn't the most groundbreaking quartet Beethoven ever wrote, I just like it so much because its got a lot to latch onto, in c minor, dark, agitated, full of drive and energy. Also, the second movement has some very close parallels to the second movement to Beethoven's first symphony (they were written around the same time).
I try another one (the last was kind of chaotic)
1. J.S. Bach: ST MATTHEW PASSION
2. W.A. Mozart: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
3. LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS
4. LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY 9
5. LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN: STRING QUARTE OP.127
6. FRANZ SCHUBERT: THE STRING QUINTET IN C
7. FREDERIC CHOPIN: CONCERTO IN E-MINOR OP.11 (PIANO-ORCHESTRA)
8. FREDERIC CHOPIN: THE CELLO SONATA
9.ANTON BRUCKNER: THE STRING QUINTET
10. RICHARD WAGNER: THE WESENDONC-LIEDER
11. JEAN SIBELIUS: KULLERVO, OP.7
12. TOIVO KUULA: "ORJAN POIKA". SYMPHONIC LEGEND FOR MIXED CHOIR, SOPRANO, BARITONE AND ORCHESTRA OP.14
13. CESAR FRANCK: THE VIOLIN SONATA
14. GABRIEL FAURE: TRIO FOR VIOLIN, CELLO AND PIANO
15. PJOTR ILJITSH TSHAIKOVSKI: JEVGENI ONEGIN
16. PJOTR ILJITSH TSHAIKOVSKI: SYMPHONY 6
17. PJOTR ILJITSH TSHAIKOVSKI: THE STRING SEXTET OP 70 " SOUVENIR DE FLORANCE"
18. FRANZ LISZT: THE FAUST SYMPHONY
19. FRANZ LISZT: THREE CONCERT ETUDES (for piano); IL LAMENTO; LA LEGGIEREZZA; UN SOSPIRO
20. CLAUDE DEBUSSY: PELLEAS ET MELISANDE
21. KAROL SZYMANOWSKI: CONCERTO 1 OP 35 FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA
22. KAROL SZYMANOWSKI: SYMPHONY 1 OP 15 (1907)
23. KAROL SZYMANOWSKI: KROL ROGER
24. KAROL SZYMANOWSKI: THE VIOLIN SONATA
25. ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG: PELLEAS UND MELISANDE OP 5
26. ILMARI HANNIKAINEN: THE CONCERTO IN B-FLAT MINOR OP.7 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
27. HANS PFITZNER: THE VIOLIN SONATA
28. ALBAN BERG: WOZZECK
29. OLIVIER MESSIAEN: LE QUATOUR LE FIN DE TEMPS
30. KAIJA SAARIAHO: L AMOUR DE LOIN
Aah! That's more like thirty! ;D Nice list (all that Szymanowski! 8) 8) 8)), and has some stuff I haven't heard, which I'll add to my "to explore" list (e.g. HANNIKAINEN, KUULA, Pfitzner's Violin Sonata, Bruckner's Quintet, Faure wrote a trio? ;D).
No, no, this is all very interesting, valuable stuff. I'm taking notes! I'll try to look around for some of the pieces you mention (Kuula has me really intrigued now). 8)
I modified my post a little- now it makes more sense :)
Quote from: abidoful on February 25, 2010, 10:35:02 AM
Haha :D I just love Szymanowski!! I. Hannikainen was born in late 90ies, a harmonically exquisite and cultivated late -romantic. Quite limited output, solo works for piano (only two extended ones, a set of variations and a sonata), chamber music (a piano quartet) a "Singspiel" TALKOOTANSSIT, some songs, and the Concerto op. 7 for piano and orchestra in b-flat minor (a great romantic concerto,has a maqnifiscent solo-part and kind of a "fin de siecle" feel in it. Was actually composed in st Petersburg in 1917). Hannikainen had some emotional problems, his death was surrounded by some shadyness. He was one of the greatist finnish pianists ever, a pupil of A. Siloti with whom he used to perform as a piano-duet.
As to the Pfitzner sonata, it is just charming! Has amazing melodies and little-bit Straussian final movement!
Yeah, the Bruckner Quintet is great!The 2nd movement has some truly remarkable moments, and the slow movement is one of the most beautiful ever...
The Faure Trio is a late work and again, a piece with themes" right from the heaven!"
And finally, Kuula. An amazing composer, a finnish late-romantic (b.1883 year after Szymanowski!) who was shot in 1918. He was considered as the greatist Finnish composer since Sibelius. His music has has great intensity and depth, and he was a magnetic personality! He was one of the first in Finland, who was genuiely interested in contemporary French music. He studied in Paris with Marcel Labay. He has some great orchestral stuff. He was an important choral composer who in 1910 wrote a remarkable and passionate work for a cappella mixed choir which lasted about 10 minutes and resembled more of a symphonic poem than a song. He wrote a Stabat Mater, a Symphonic Legend "Orjan Poika", two cantatas, two orchestral suites ("Ostrobothnian" )and few other orchestral works (a prelude and fugue,op10 and a festive march, op13). Two pieces for cello and orchestra op. 22, two extended works (Legends) for soprano and orchestra (original compositions scored for soprano and orchestra, not mere orchestral songs- little bit similar to the "Luonnotar" of Jean Sibelius or to the "Demeter" and"Agave" of Szymanowski!). Also important choral compositions, chamber works (a charming violin sonata and the great Piano Trio which lasts about 55min. ), piano compositions and songs (songs are VERY popular in Finland!).
Sorry for this "quasi wikipedia" scribble ;D
Quote from: Teresa on February 21, 2010, 04:26:22 AM
I also love Duke Ellington's The River but I like Harlem even better, have you heard it? McPhee's Tabuh-tabuhan is also one of my favorites.
Yes, I know Harlem - but for sentimental reasons (as so often with our musical preferences) I opted for The River. In my turn, I'll listen to some of `your' pieces anew, as most are my personal favourites as well. Actually, there are two pieces in it that I don't know: Paul Chihara's ballet and Arthur Wills' piece for organ and brass. Good that you come up with Russo's `street music' with the howling recorder intro - very much 1968 and almost as good as Gershwin. :P
List No 4
Raid: Symphony 1
Berkeley L: Concerto for Two Pianos
Bliss: Things to Come Suite
Brian: Symphony 7
Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies
Sainton: Nadir
Bax: Symphony 7
Miaskovsky: Symphony 16
Rootham: Symphony
Amirov: Shur
Alwyn: Odd Man Out Suite
Alfven: Symphony 4
Rosenberg: Symphony 2
Holmboe: Symphony 10
Vaughan Williams: Job
Simpson: Symphony 1
Prokofiev: Symphony 3
Hanson: Elegy for Koussevitsky
Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony
Albert: River Run Symphony
Glazunov: Symphony 9 (fragment)
Pavel Haas: Symphony
Scott: Piano Concerto 1
Weinberg: Symphony 5
A J Potter: Symphony 'De Profundis'
Egg: Symphony
Novak: The Storm
Copland: Symphonic Ode
Hovhaness: Mount St Helens (Symphony 50)
Klami: Sea Pictures
Quote from: Christo on February 27, 2010, 11:39:04 PM
Yes, I know Harlem - but for sentimental reasons (as so often with our musical preferences) I opted for The River. In my turn, I'll listen to some of `your' pieces anew, as most are my personal favourites as well. Actually, there are two pieces in it that I don't know: Paul Chihara's ballet and Arthur Wills' piece for organ and brass. Good that you come up with Russo's `street music' with the howling recorder intro - very much 1968 and almost as good as Gershwin. :P
Christo, Paul Chihara's The Tempest (http://www.amazon.com/Chihara-The-Tempest/dp/B000QQP8F0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1267496531&sr=8-1) and Arthur Wills' The Vikings (http://www.amazon.com/The-Vikings/dp/B000QVF6MK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1267496619&sr=1-2) (from Pomp and Pipes) are on Reference Recordings. You can hear sound samples at Amazon
Actually I listed William Russo's
"Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra" with the Siegel-Schwall Band and Seiji Ozawa conducting the San Francisco Symphony as one of my thirty. I also really enjoy "Street Music" which is a Blues Concerto for Harmonica, Piano and Orchestra with Corky Siegel, Seiji Ozawa & the San Francisco Symphony. I also have Russo's The Carousel Suite with Dizzy Gillespie.
Nice to meet someone with similar tastes in music! :)
Quote
30. KAIJA SAARIAHO: L AMOUR DE LOIN
Nice to see this one being appreciated.
In no order except number one. :D
1.Hans Rott – Symphony 1
2.Mahler – Symphony 5
3.Martinu – Symphony 4
4.Respighi – The Birds
5.Sibelius – Symphony 7
6.Tchaikovsky – Symphony 4
7.Rangstrom – Symphony 1
8.Langgaard – Symphony 1
9.Beethoven – Symphony 9
10.Bruckner – Symphony 3
11.Vaughan Williams – Thomas Tallis Theme
12.Rautavaara – Angels and Visitations
13.Hovhaness – Symphony 50
14.Pettersson – Symphony 7
15.Bax – Christmas Eve
16.Adams – Shaker Loops
17.Brian – Symphony 4
18.Atterberg – Symphony 5
19.Bartok – Music for Strings, Per., and Cel..,
20.Janacek – Sinfonietta
21.Dvorak – Symphony 8
22.Rossini – Stabat Mater
23.Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
24.Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky
25.Strauss – AS Zarathustra
26.Walton – Symphony 1
27.Piston – Symphony 2
28.Maiskovsky – Symphony 6
29.Elgar – Cello Concerto
30.Mussorgsky – Pictures at an exhibition
Quote from: John on March 01, 2010, 05:43:13 PM
In no order except number one. :D
1.Hans Rott – Symphony 1
2.Mahler – Symphony 5
3.Martinu – Symphony 4
4.Respighi – The Birds
5.Sibelius – Symphony 7
6.Tchaikovsky – Symphony 4
7.Rangstrom – Symphony 1
8.Langgaard – Symphony 1
9.Beethoven – Symphony 9
10.Bruckner – Symphony 3
11.Vaughan Williams – Thomas Tallis Theme
12.Rautavaara – Angels and Visitations
13.Hovhaness – Symphony 50
14.Pettersson – Symphony 7
15.Bax – Christmas Eve
16.Adams – Shaker Loops
17.Brian – Symphony 4
18.Atterberg – Symphony 5
19.Bartok – Music for Strings, Per., and Cel..,
20.Janacek – Sinfonietta
21.Dvorak – Symphony 8
22.Rossini – Stabat Mater
23.Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
24.Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky
25.Strauss – AS Zarathustra
26.Walton – Symphony 1
27.Piston – Symphony 2
28.Maiskovsky – Symphony 6
29.Elgar – Cello Concerto
30.Mussorgsky – Pictures at an exhibition
Interesting list - the vast majority of which I share, although I prefer Respighi's 'Metamorphoseon' or 'Church Windows' to The Birds. I shall listen to Atterberg's Symphony 5 and to Langgaard's First Symphony as a result of your list. I have them both but don't really know them at all. Martinu Symphony 4 - now, there is a great work ;)
Quote from: John on March 01, 2010, 05:43:13 PM
In no order except number one. :D
1.Hans Rott – Symphony 1
2.Mahler – Symphony 5
3.Martinu – Symphony 4
4.Respighi – The Birds
5.Sibelius – Symphony 7
6.Tchaikovsky – Symphony 4
7.Rangstrom – Symphony 1
8.Langgaard – Symphony 1
9.Beethoven – Symphony 9
10.Bruckner – Symphony 3
11.Vaughan Williams – Thomas Tallis Theme
12.Rautavaara – Angels and Visitations
13.Hovhaness – Symphony 50
14.Pettersson – Symphony 7
15.Bax – Christmas Eve
16.Adams – Shaker Loops
17.Brian – Symphony 4
18.Atterberg – Symphony 5
19.Bartok – Music for Strings, Per., and Cel..,
20.Janacek – Sinfonietta
21.Dvorak – Symphony 8
22.Rossini – Stabat Mater
23.Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
24.Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky
25.Strauss – AS Zarathustra
26.Walton – Symphony 1
27.Piston – Symphony 2
28.Maiskovsky – Symphony 6
29.Elgar – Cello Concerto
30.Mussorgsky – Pictures at an exhibition
I would've thought the Mahler 10th or a couple of Lutoslawski works would be on here...
Quote from: vandermolen on March 02, 2010, 09:14:07 AM
Interesting list - the vast majority of which I share, although I prefer Respighi's 'Metamorphoseon' or 'Church Windows' to The Birds. I shall listen to Atterberg's Symphony 5 and to Langgaard's First Symphony as a result of your list. I have them both but don't really know them at all. Martinu Symphony 4 - now, there is a great work ;)
It is very interesting Jeffrey. I read through your list (and others) before embarking on my own, but I did think your list was very close to mine, except there are two or three composers on yours whom I've never heard. But that's not the spooky part. I refrained from participating in another list thread (Other interests outside music) because, bar four, it also would have been extremely similar to yours!
??? I thought people might think I was doing a bit of copying and pasting!
Hope you enjoy Atterberg 5, it is probably just what you expect it to be. :D
Langgaards 1st was written when he was twenty-ish, I can't see why it was not thought of as groundbreaking - he should have taken the Nielsen mantle later in life, but even then he was an awkward so and so.
The wise student hears of the Tao and practices it diligently.
The average student hears of the Tao and gives it thought now and again.
The foolish student hears of the Tao and laughs aloud.
If there were no laughter, the Tao would not be what it is.
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
Scriabin/Nempton: Mysterium
Debussy: Le Martyhr De Saint Sebastien
Ravel: Le Valle Des Cloches
Gliere: Ilya Muromitz
Egge: Piano Concerto
Sibelius: Tapiola
Madetoja: Symphony 2
Martinu: symphony 4
Marx: Nature Trilogy
Mennin: Symphony 6
Bartok:Cconcerto For Orchestra
Scott: Piano works
Howells: English Mass
Vaughn Williams : Symphonies 4 & 6
Krein: Symphony "After Scriabin"
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
Allwyn: Symphony 1
Klami: Symphonie Enfantine
Szymanowski: Myths
Novak: The Storm
Ireland: Piano Concerto
Englund: " Blackbird" Symphony
Wiren: Symphony 3
Nielson: Symphony 5
Rachmaninov: Symphonies 2-3; Concertos 2-4
McPhee:Symphony
Khachaturian:Piano Concerto
Wagner: Gotterdammurung
Ibert: Les Escales
Griffes: Notturno; Vale of Dreams
The advantage of being late to the party is that I can steal from the other lists. A lot of great ideas for listening and exploration on those lists. (Though I'm a bit perplexed by the popularly of the Scythian Suite. Maybe I should give it another listen.)
Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Beethoven: Op. 132 Quartet
Nielsen: Sym 5
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Sibelius: Sym 5
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio
Prokofiev: VC 2
Braga Santos: Sym 4
Mahler 3
Tveitt: Prillar
Szymanowski: VC 1
Boccherini: String Quintet Op. 30 No. 6 "La musica notturna di Madrid", G324
Shostakovich Sym 10
Berwald: Sym 3
Bliss: Color Symphony
Ernesto Hallfter: Sinfonietta
Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony
Honegger: Sym 1
Britten: Simple Symphony
Bruckner: Sym 9
Schubert: Piano Trio 2
Copland: Our Town
Geminiani/Corelli: La Folia
Bartok: MSCP
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathrustra
Lajtha: Sym 5
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Adams: Nixon in China
It's just that I think this thread should be bumped every once in a while.
Quote from: Maciek on April 11, 2011, 12:49:38 PM
It's just that I think this thread should be bumped every once in a while.
If once in a while means about once a year, we won't complain. :)
;D
My favorite 30 works? Oh goodness...can I come back to this question in a year? ;)
Today my list:
Strauss Capriccio
Strauss Ariadne Auf Naxos
Strauss Don Quixote
Schoeck Elegie
Barber Cello Concerto
Barber Piano Concerto
Barber Capricorn Concerto
Ives Symphony No.4
Ives Fugue in four keys on the Shining Shore
Ives The Celestial Railroad
Ives Three Places in New England
Rossini Armida
Berg Seven Early Songs
Shostakovich cello concerto no.2
Bruckner 9
Mahler 10
Williams Heartwood
Janacek Makropulos Case
Janacek String Quartet no.2
Janacek Cunning Little Vixen
Bartok Divertimento
Goldschmidt Cello Concerto
Englund Cello Concerto
Mozart Don Giovanni
Mozart Figaro
Messiaen Vingt Regards
Feldman Cello and orchestra
Bernstein Clarinet Sonata
Bridge Cello Sonata
Finzi Dies Natalis
Gruber Cello Concerto
Interesting to compare it to that from a year ago. Again, there's some which are just token inclusions as a work by that composer, someone who I love and want to include more, and might pick a different favourite piece another day.
Each year it just gets harder, as there's more pieces that I know!
Quote from: Guido on April 11, 2011, 03:27:47 PM
Each year it just gets harder, as there's more pieces that I know!
Ditto
Maybe for now, in no particular order:
La cathédrale engloutie
Jeux d'eau
Ondine (Ravel)
Symphonie fantastique
Saint Saens Organ Symphony
Brahms 1
Brahms 4
Brahms PC 2
Brahms Piano Sonata 3
Brahms Ballade Op.10 No.4
La Mèr
Zauberflöte
Janacek Glagolitic Mass
Lohengrin
Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria
Bruckner 4
Bruckner 9
Bruckner 8
Mahler 5
Mahler 2
Strauss Vier letzte Lieder
Till Eulenspiegel
Alpensinfonie
Brandenburg Concerto No.1
Partita No.3 for solo violin
Beethoven Piano Sonata No.27
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4
Symphony No.6
Mozart piano concerto No.25
Mozart piano concerto No.24
Quote from: Maciek on April 11, 2011, 12:49:38 PM
It's just that I think this thread should be bumped every once in a while.
Sibelius
Bax
Scriabin
Debussy
Ravel
Raitio
Krein
Gliere
Klami
Rachmaninof
Marx
Madetoja
Bridge
Lloyd
Suk
Karamanov
Barber
Hanson
Reichel
Martin
Martinu
Alexandrov
Frank
Creston
Mennin
Takemitsu
Wiren
Rosenberg
Egge
Merikanto
Khachaturian
Farwell
Griffis
Mompou
Just a couple more than 30.
"Ein saures Amt, und heut' zumal!"
1. Wagner: Ring (Solti)
2. Wagner: Parsifal (Solti)
3. Wagner: Meistersinger (Karajan)
4. Wagner: Tristan (Furtwängler)
5. Beethoven: Eroica symphony, no 3
6. Beethoven: 7th symphony
7. Beethoven: Violin concerto
8. Beethoven: String quartet no 14
9. Beethoven: Grosse Fuge
10. Brahms: Violin concerto
11. Brahms: String quartet no 3
12. Brahms: Symphony no 1
13. Bruckner: Romantic symphony, no 4
14. Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
15. Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto
16. Uematsu: FF VI OST
17. Kondo: Ocarina of time OST
18. John Williams: Empire Strikes Back OST
19. Morricone: Dollar trilogy OST
20. Mozart: Don Giovanni
21. Sibelius: Voces Intimae quartet
22. Sibelius: Symphony no 6
23. Sibelius: Violin concerto
24. Verdi: Aida
25. Verdi: Rigoletto
26. Grieg: Violin sonata no 3
27. Grieg: String quartet
28. Grieg: Peer Gynt
29. Debussy: La Mer
30. Dvorak: Symphony no 9
Note: Not necessarily in any particular order and my favorites change all the time, and listing only 30 works is extremely hard.
//Interesting. All Sibelius compositions I picked are in D minor. Hmm...
Here are 30 current favorites of mine in no particular order...
1. Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
2. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left-hand
3. Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
4. Villa-Lobos: Forest of the Amazon
5. Revueltas: Itinerarios
6. Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2
7. Feldman: Rothko Chapel
8. Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
9. Vaughan Williams: Partita for double string orchestra
10. Martinu: Symphony No. 5
11. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
12. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
13. Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
14. Shostakovich: The Golden Age
15. Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
16. Bruckner: Symphony No. 6
17. Vine: Oboe Concerto
18. Tippett: Piano Concerto
19. Ligeti: Atmospheres
20. Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2
21. Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music
22. Part: Te Deum
23. Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonia Concertante"
24. Berg: Lulu Suite
25. Delius: Appalachia
26. Pettersson: Symphony No. 8
27. Takemitsu: A String Around Autumn "Viola Concerto"
28. Rubbra: Symphony No. 4
29. Honegger: Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"
30. Milhaud: Symphony No. 6
Bach:
Well-Tempered Clavier
Goldberg Variations
Clavier-Ubung III
Leipzig Chorales
French Suites
Keyboard Partitas
St. Matthew Passion
Mass in B minor
Handel - Messiah
Keyboard Suite, HWV 430
Beethoven - Hammerklavier Sonata
Mozart - Great Mass in C minor & Requiem
Chopin:
Preludes, Op. 28
Fantaisie in F minor
Barcarolle
Schumann:
Kinderszenen
Kreisleriana
Humoreske
Davidsbundlertanze
Shostakovich:
Preludes, Op. 34
Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Scriabin - Preludes, Op. 11
Berlioz - Sym. Fantastique
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Handel
Mahler - Sym. 4 & Das Lied
Weinberg - Violin Concerto
Miaskovsky - Cello Concerto
Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony
I reserve the right to wake up one night screaming, "Oh, my God, how did I forget <insert name of unjustly neglected piece here>!" before frantically firing up the computer to amend this list.
In which case, I'll have to work out what to ditch. Possibly the Xenakis.
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
Berg: Wozzeck
Berio: Sinfonia
Berio: Allelujah II
Boulez: Pli selon Pli
Ligeti: Atmospheres
Ligeti: Lontano
Ligeti: Requiem
Mahler: Symphony 2
Mahler: Symphony 6
Mahler: Symyphony 9
Messiaen: La Transfiguration
Nielsen: Symphony 5
Nordheim: Epitaffio
Penderecki: The Devils of Loudun
Penderecki: St Luke Passion
Prokofiev: Symphony 3
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
Sibelius: Symphony 4
Sibelius: Tapiola
Stockhausen: Carré
Stockhausen: Momente (Europa Version)
Stockhausen: Trans
Strauss: Salome
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Varèse: Arcana
Xenakis: Antikthon
ARGH!
How could I forget:
Debussy: La Mer
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
?
Quote from: Mirror Image on April 18, 2011, 10:18:00 AM
Here are 30 current favorites of mine in no particular order...
1. Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
2. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left-hand
3. Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
4. Villa-Lobos: Forest of the Amazon
5. Revueltas: Itinerarios
6. Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2
7. Feldman: Rothko Chapel
8. Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
9. Vaughan Williams: Partita for double string orchestra
10. Martinu: Symphony No. 5
11. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
12. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
13. Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
14. Shostakovich: The Golden Age
15. Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
16. Bruckner: Symphony No. 6
17. Vine: Oboe Concerto
18. Tippett: Piano Concerto
19. Ligeti: Atmospheres
20. Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2
21. Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music
22. Part: Te Deum
23. Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonia Concertante"
24. Berg: Lulu Suite
25. Delius: Appalachia
26. Pettersson: Symphony No. 8
27. Takemitsu: A String Around Autumn "Viola Concerto"
28. Rubbra: Symphony No. 4
29. Honegger: Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"
30. Milhaud: Symphony No. 6
Amazed to see you left out Ravel Daphnis, John!!!! :o
I'd be interested to see your new current list, I imagine you'd have the Ginastera and Prokofiev ballets added, and Koechlin of course!
OK, my current list.... (composers mentioned in alphabetical order. I would not be able to put these all in an order, but I have highlighted my absolute top 5!)
BeethovenSymphony no.6
BrahmsSymphony no.1
Symphony no.4
BrucknerSymphony no.5
ElgarSymphony no.1
Symphony no.2Enigma Variations
In The South Overture "Alassio"
GlazunovSymphony no.4
MahlerSymphony no.1
Symphony no.6Symphony no.8
Symphony no.9NielsenSymphony no.4
ProkofievRomeo and Juliet
RachmaninovPiano Concerto no.3
RavelDaphnis et ChloeLa Valse
RespighiRoman Trilogy
Rimsky KorsakovSheherezade
SchubertSymphony no.9
ScriabinSymphony no.3
ShostakovichSymphony no.10
R.StraussEine AlpensinfonieEin Heldenleben
Tod und Verklarung
Don Juan
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
TchaikovskySymphony no.6
Francesca da Rimini
Obviously had to leave many favourites out :( Such a hard list to make, but this is what I believe to be correct, for now at least! :)
Quote from: Greg on May 22, 2007, 10:16:25 AM
1. Mahler 9
2. Gorecki 3
3. Schoenberg- Book of Hanging Gardens
4. Mahler 2
5. Mahler 10
6. Prokofiev- Cello Sinfonia Concertante
7. Webern- Passacaglia for Orchestra
8. Berg- 3 Pieces for Orchestra
9. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata #6
10. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata #2
11. Mahler 3
12. Mahler 7
13. Stravinsky- Rite of Spring
14. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #2
15. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #3
16. Schoenberg- 5 Pieces for Orchestra
17. Xenakis- Ata
18. Penderecki- Fluorescences
19. Penderecki- De Natura Sonoris #2
20. Penderecki- Threnody
21. Penderecki- De Natura Sonoris #1
22. Xenakis- Hibiki Hana Ma
23. Xenakis- Orient-Occident
24. Bartok- 1st Piano Concerto
25. Prokofiev- Symphony #5
26. Xenakis- La Legende d'eer
27. Prokofiev- Symphony #5
28. Brahms- Symphony #1
29. Brahms- Symphony #4
30. Brahms- Piano Concerto #1 and 2
Oh, this list is due to change... #2 and #3 might either drop to the bottom or come off the list completely, and there will be some Shostakovich and Bruckner on here- maybe even some Beethoven.
Quote from: Brian on February 15, 2010, 07:53:04 AM
30. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto
29. Glazunov, String Quintet
28. Bernstein, West Side Story*
27. Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky Cantata
26. Shostakovich, Symphony No 9
25. Dvorak, String Quintet Op. 77
24. Dvorak, Piano Quintet Op. 81
23. Sibelius, Symphony No 3
22. Chopin, Nocturne op. post. in C sharp minor
21. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 1 "Winter Daydreams"
20. Atterberg, Symphony No 8
19. Sibelius, Symphony No 6
18. Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor"
17. Ravel, Piano Concerto in G
16. Beethoven, piano sonatas opp. 109-111
15. Brahms, Symphony No 4
14. Chopin, Ballade No 4
13. Dvorak, Cello Concerto
12. Atterberg, Symphony No 3, finale
11. Beethoven, Symphony No 5
10. Beethoven, Symphony No 4
9. Shostakovich, Symphony No 10
8. Beethoven, piano sonata Op 90
7. Janacek, Sinfonietta
6. Sibelius, Symphony No 5
5. Dvorak, Symphony No 8
4. Janacek, Glagolitic Mass
3. Sibelius, Symphony No 7
2. Beethoven, Symphony No 7
1. Smetana, "Vltava" (The Moldau)
Now I would never be so silly as to try to put them in order!
Atterberg | Symphony No 8
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No 30
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No 31
Beethoven | String Quartet Op 95
Beethoven | String Quartet Op 127
Beethoven | Symphony No 7
Brahms | Symphony No 4
Bruckner | Symphony No 7
Dvořák | Cello Concerto
Dvořák | String Quartet No 13
Dvořák | Symphony No 8
Dvořák | Te Deum
Haydn | String Quartet No 63, "Sunrise"
Janáček | Glagolitic Mass
Janáček | Sinfonietta
A. Koppel | Saxophone Concerto No 2
Lutoslawski | Concerto for Orchestra
Mozart | Symphony No 39
Ravel | La valse
Ravel | Piano Concerto in G
Roussel | Suite in F
Roussel | Le marchand de sable qui passe
Schubert | String Quintet D956
Sibelius | Symphony No 5
Sibelius | Symphony No 6
Sibelius | Symphony No 7
Smetana | Ma Vlast
Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No 2
Shostakovich | Symphony No 10
Weinberg | Cello Concerto
Only half my list from 2010 made it onto this one, with the most attrition (unsurprisingly) among those previously ranked 21-30 - all of which are gone.
EDIT: Things I'm already feeling bad about leaving out: Beethoven's Fifth, Strauss'
Four Last Songs, Ravel's left-hand concerto, Schumann's Fantasy in C, Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 5, Janacek's
Taras Bulba, Chopin's ballades, Ravel's
Daphnis, Shostakovich's Ninth, Shostakovich's Sixth, Debussy's
La mer, Gershwin's
American in Paris, Wagner's
Siegfried Idyll, Beethoven's string quartet Op 59 No 1, Kodaly's
Hary Janos suite, Dvorak's
dumky trio, Mozart's 41st symphony, Mozart piano concertos 20, 21, 24, and Vivaldi's cello concertos.
Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 23, 2011, 05:41:04 AM
Amazed to see you left out Ravel Daphnis, John!!!! :o
I'd be interested to see your new current list, I imagine you'd have the Ginastera and Prokofiev ballets added, and Koechlin of course!
Yeah, I didn't include Ravel's
Daphnis et Chloe that time around because, if I'm not mistaken, I wasn't listening to a lot of Ravel at this point. Things come and go in phases with as you've probably figured out. Great list by the way. 8)
I'll rewrite my list over again, because I've got many changes.
My updated list:
1. Mahler 9
2. Mahler 6
3. Mahler 2
4. Mahler 3
5. Mahler 10
6. Stravinsky- The Rite of Spring
7. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto 2
8. Prokofiev- Piano Concerto 3
9. Bruckner 4
10. Bruckner 7
11. Bruckner 8
12. Brahms- Symphony 1
13. Brahms- Piano Concerto 1
14. Brahms- Piano Concerto 2
15. Brahms- Symphony 2
16. Shostakovich- Symphony 4
17. Shostakovich- Symphony 10
18. Webern- op.1 Passacaglia
19. Berg- 3 Pieces for Orchestra
20. Brahms- Paganini Variations
21. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata 6
22. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata 2
23. Beethoven- op.109 Piano Sonata 30
24. Bartok- Piano Concerto 1
25. Schnittke- Symphony 1
26. Rachmaninoff- Piano Concerto 2
27. Prokofiev- Cello Sinfonia Concertante
28. Mahler- Das Klagende Lied
29. Mahler 5
30. Penderecki- Threnody
Very much on top of my head and in a somewhat random order ...
1. Bruckner Symphony 8
2. Mahler Symphony 10
3. Medtner Concerto 3/Ponti (faster than other recordings)
4. Martinu Symphony 6/Neumann
5. Pettersson 2nd V Cto/Haendel (not Keulen)
6. Prokofiev Piano Cto 4/Krainev
7. Mozart Entführung
8. Beethoven Sonata 29
9. Beethoven Sonata 32
10. Elgar Violin Cto/I.Oistrakh
11. Nielsen Symphony 5/Bernstein
12. Sibelius Symphony 6/Karajan or Rozhdestvensky
13. Bruckner Symphony 4
14. Mahler Das Lied/Bernstein
15. Liszt Sonata
16. Nørgård Piano Cto
17. Scriabin Sonata 10
18. Pettersson Symphony 8/Sanderling
19. Schnittke Viola Cto/Bashmet,Rozhdestvensky
20. Janacek Taras Bulba
21. Händel Dixit Dominus/Öhrwall
22. Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
23. V-Williams Tallis Fantasia
24. Bach Wohltemperiertes /Feinberg and Richter
25. Brahms Piano Concerto 1
26. Shostakovich Cello Cto 1
27. Debussy Preludes
28. Ravel Daphnis & Chloe
29. Schumann Piano Cto
30. Janacek Quartet 1
30.b Messiaen Des Canyons ...
...
87.x Feinberg Sonata 9 ...
In no particular order, and some items here change on a daily basis
1. Bach: Solo violin sonata 2
2. Bach: Solo violin partita 1
3. Bach: Solo violin partita 2
4. Bach: Solo cello suite 6
5. Bach: Double Violin Concerto
6. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
7. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7
8. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8
9. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14
10. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15
11. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21
12. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23
13. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29
14. Brahms: Violin Concerto
15. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
16. Brahms: Piano Quintet
17. Schubert: String Quartet No. 15
18. Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
19. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
20. Sibelius: Tapiola
21. Sibelius: Violin Concerto
22. Ravel: String Quartet
23. Ravel: Piano Trio
24. Stravinsky: Firebird
25. Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1
26. Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
27. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6
28. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7
29. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8
30. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 9
"Simply?" Which of the 16 Beethoven quartets should I put up for adoption to make room for more of the 32 piano sonatas, or to make way for all of Mahler's symphonies (save the 8th) or all of Sibelius's--not to mention the tone poems and song cycles?
Heck, after thinking about only three of the many composers whose works I love, I've already given up.
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 23, 2011, 09:30:06 AM
Yeah, I didn't include Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe that time around because, if I'm not mistaken, I wasn't listening to a lot of Ravel at this point. Things come and go in phases with as you've probably figured out. Great list by the way. 8)
I'll rewrite my list over again, because I've got many changes.
I suppose. Works that always remain on my list are the ones I have highlighted, plus such unashamed favourites such as Rimsky Korsakov Sheherezade and the Elgar Enigma Variations. :) haha :) Thank you!
Looking forward to seeing your new list!
I do not have 30 favourites. If I had to pick them though, it would be 30xBach I think.
Here's my being-kind-to-some-other-composers-too humbug list, in no particular order. It's mainly humbug because I left far too much early music out. No Desprez, no Lassus, no Victoria .... I'm cheating myself (and the entire board) with this list, really.
And no WTC by a certain Bach?
Humbug!!
Byrd
Mass for 4 voices
Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine
Purcell
Dido and Aeneas
Bach
Johannes-Passion
Matthäus-Passion
Hohe Messe (Mass in B-minor)
Magnificat
Die Kunst der Fuge
Orgelmesse (3rd Part of the Clavier-Übung)
Leipziger Choräle
Prelude & Fugue in E-minor BWV 548
Toccata & Fugue in F-Major BWV 540
Cantata "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" (Actus Tragicus)
Händel
Messiah
Dixit Dominus
Giulio Cesare
Water Music
Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
Don Giovanni
Così fan tutte
Die Zauberflöte
Mass in C-minor
Requiem
Schubert
Winterreise
Symphony 8 in B-minor "Unvollendete"
String Quintet in C-Major
Mahler
Symphony 4
Symphony 9
Das Lied von der Erde
Pärt
Te Deum
Excellent question, here's mine:
Wagner
Tristan und Isolde
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung
Beethoven
Symphony No.9
Symphnoy No.3
Liszt
Les Preludes
Études d'exécution trascendante
Mahler
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.6
Symphony No.8
Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
J. Strauss
Kaiser-Walzer
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.3
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
R. Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie
Ein Heldenleben
Tod und Verklärung
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
Capriccio Italien
Shostakovich
Symphony No.5
Symphony No.10
Brahms
Symphony No.3
Bruckner
Symphony No.5
Sibelius
Symphony No.5
Nielsen
Symphony No.4
Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
Dvorak
Symphony No.4
Respighi
Roman Trilogy
Holst
The Planets
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on October 24, 2011, 09:43:45 AM
Excellent question, here's mine:
Wagner
Tristan und Isolde
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung
Beethoven
Symphony No.9
Symphnoy No.3
Liszt
Les Preludes
Études d'exécution trascendante
Mahler
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.6
Symphony No.8
Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
J. Strauss
Kaiser-Walzer
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.3
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
R. Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie
Ein Heldenleben
Tod und Verklärung
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
Capriccio Italien
Shostakovich
Symphony No.5
Symphony No.10
Brahms
Symphony No.3
Bruckner
Symphony No.5
Sibelius
Symphony No.5
Nielsen
Symphony No.4
Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
Dvorak
Symphony No.4
Respighi
Roman Trilogy
Holst
The Planets
Wonderful list Ilaria, I love to see how many favourites we share! Was delighted to see that we also appear to share the same favourite Dvorak symphony, not everyone's favourite is no.4! :)
Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 24, 2011, 01:17:40 PM
Wonderful list Ilaria, I love to see how many favourites we share! Was delighted to see that we also appear to share the same favourite Dvorak symphony, not everyone's favourite is no.4! :)
Thank you Daniel, that's very pleasant for me too, I'm glad to see we have so many tastes in common :)
Hahaha, this is even more incredible if you think my favourite of Dvorak's symphonies is one Karajan never performed ;)
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on October 24, 2011, 01:43:18 PM
Thank you Daniel, that's very pleasant for me too, I'm glad to see we have so many tastes in common :)
Hahaha, this is even more incredible if you think my favourite of Dvorak's symphonies is one Karajan never performed ;)
:)
haha ;) I bet you wish Karajan had performed it - it's a shame he didn't ;) I particularly love Pesek's recording of no.4 :)
Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 24, 2011, 01:57:47 PM
:)
haha ;) I bet you wish Karajan had performed it - it's a shame he didn't ;) I particularly love Pesek's recording of no.4 :)
I've got Pesek's version too, I agree it's extremely ravishing :) Hahaha, of course! I would have liked to listen to Karajan Dvorak No.4 so much! Pity he recorded just No.8 & 9
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 23, 2007, 06:42:07 AM
I'll join in the fun.
There can be no question of completeness in such a small list, so the first 30 favorite works which came to mind:
1 Shostakovich, Fourth Symphony
2 Shostakovich, Tenth Symphony
3 Shostakovich, Fourteenth Symphony
4 Shostakovich, Four Pushkin Romances
5 Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues
6 Shostakovich, Seventh String Quartet
7 Shostakovich, Second Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano
8 Shostakovich, Sonata for Viola & Piano
9 Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps
10 Stravinsky, Symphonies of wind instruments
11 Stravinsky, Concerto for two pianos
12 Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
13 Stravinsky, Orpheus
14 Stravinsky, Agon
15 Prokofiev, Second Symphony
16 Prokofiev, Le pas d'acier
17 Prokofiev, L'enfant prodigue
18 Prokofiev, Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
19 Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
20 Prokofiev, Seventh Piano Sonata
21 Bartók, Second Piano Concerto
22 Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
23 Bartók, Third String Quartet
24 Bartók, Fourth String Quartet
25 Bartók, Fifth String Quartet
26 Bartók, Sixth String Quartet
27 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
28 Ravel, Sonata for Violin & Cello
29 Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp
30 Copland, Sextet
Still a list I can happily own, of course.
Now I will give this a shot and revise my own list (in no particular order)...
1. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
2. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
3. Ravel: Piano Trio
4. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left-hand
5. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
6. Debussy: La Mer
7. Debussy: Danse sacrée et profane
8. Bartok: The Wooden Prince
9. Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
10. Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2
11. Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
12. Koechlin: The Jungle Book (if we can count this work as one)
13. Koechlin: Le buisson ardent Parts I & 2
14. Koechlin: Vers la Voûte étoilée
15. Koechlin: Le Docteur Fabricius
16. Koechlin: Trois Melodies
17. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
18. Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing
19. Lyadov: Eight Russian Folksongs
20. Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 24
21. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905"
22. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
23. Prokofiev: On the Dnieper
24. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
25. Szymanowski: Harnasie
26. Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3 "The Song of the Night"
27. Villa-Lobos: Genesis
28. Ginastera: Estancia
29. Revueltas: Janitzio
30. Chavez: Sinfonia India
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 25, 2011, 12:03:23 PM
Now I will give this a shot and revise my own list (in no particular order)...
1. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
2. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
3. Ravel: Piano Trio
4. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left-hand
5. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
6. Debussy: La Mer
7. Debussy: [/i]Danse sacrée et profane[/i]
8. Bartok: The Wooden Prince
9. Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
10. Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2
11. Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
12. Koechlin: The Jungle Book (if we can count this work as one)
13. Koechlin: Le buisson ardent Parts I & 2
14. Koechlin: Vers la Voûte étoilée
15. Koechlin: Le Docteur Fabricius
16. Koechlin: Trois Melodies
17. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
18. Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing
19. Lyadov: Eight Russian Folksongs
20. Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 24
21. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905"
22. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
23. Prokofiev: On the Dnieper
24. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
25. Szymanowski: Harnasie
26. Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3 "The Song of the Night"
27. Villa-Lobos: Genesis
28. Ginastera: Estancia
29. Revueltas: Janitzio
30. Chavez: Sinfonia India
Wonderful list, John! Was surprised to see no Pierne, Bruckner, Mahler ( >:( ), de Falla, and also little Villa Lobos, Prokofiev etc... but it certainly is hard to fit it all into a list of only 30!
Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 25, 2011, 01:44:39 PM
Wonderful list, John! Was surprised to see no Pierne, Bruckner, Mahler ( >:( ), de Falla, and also little Villa Lobos, Prokofiev etc... but it certainly is hard to fit it all into a list of only 30!
Thanks Daniel. The list became incredibly difficult towards the end because I slowly started to realize how many works I love were going to be left off. But, as you say, it's tough making a list of only 30 works.
Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 25, 2011, 01:44:39 PM
Wonderful list, John! Was surprised to see no Pierne, Bruckner, Mahler ( >:( ), de Falla, and also little Villa Lobos, Prokofiev etc...
And of only two Prokofiev pieces . . . On the Dnieper? Certainly a contrarian taste ; )
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 25, 2011, 02:56:23 PM
And of only two Prokofiev pieces . . . On the Dnieper? Certainly a contrarian taste ; )
Hey I like this ballet. Take that back! :D :P Please note these are MY favorite works not anyone else's.
Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 7
Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps
György Ligeti - Études
Witold Lutosławski - Cello Concerto
Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturnes
Henri Dutilleux - Ainsi la nuit
Franz Schubert - Death and the Maiden Quartet
Claudio Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Quintet
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20
Alban Berg - Chamber Concerto
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
Kaija Saariaho - Graal théâtre
Morton Feldman -Rothko Chapel
Charles Ives - Concord Sonata
Arnold Schoenberg - Violin Concerto
Claude Debussy - Jeux
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium
Ludwig van Beethoven - Große Fuge
György Kurtág - Messages of the late R. V. Troussova
Georg Friedrich Haas - In Vain
Franz Liszt - Nuages gris
Leoš Janáček - The Wandering of a Little Soul
Edgard Varèse - Déserts
Luigi Dallapiccola - Canti di prigionia
Old thread, but I have no shame in reviving it.
As of now:
1. Bartok -- "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"
2. Bartok -- "Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra"
3. Bartok -- "Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra"
4. Ravel -- "La Valse"
5. Ligeti -- "Clocks and Clouds"
6. Ravel -- "Daphnis and Chloe"
7. Ligeti -- "Piano Concerto"
8. Ravel -- "Introduction and Allegro"
9. Stravinsky -- "The Rite of Spring"
10. Gershwin -- "Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra"
11. Ligeti -- "San Francisco Polyphony"
12. Gershwin -- "An American in Paris"
13. Ravel -- "Piano Concerto in G"
14. Debussy -- "Jeux"
15. Ligeti -- "Lontano"
16. Debussy -- "La Mer"
17. Bartok -- "The Miraculous Mandarin"
18. Stravinsky -- "Agon"
19. Ades -- "Asyla"
20. Feldman -- "Rothko Chapel"
21. Feldman -- "Piano and String Quartet"
22. Bartok -- "Dance Suite"
23. Debussy -- "Trois Nocturnes"
24. Reich -- "Music for 18 Musicians"
25. Ravel -- "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
26. Mendelssohn -- "Octet"
27. Mendelssohn -- Various (later) string symphonies, no real order
28. Gershwin -- "Cuban Overture"
29. Ligeti -- "Violin Concerto"
30. Bartok -- "Concerto for Orchestra"
1. Mahler: Symphony No. 6
2. Mahler: Symphony No. 2
3. Mahler: Symphony No. 7
4. Mahler: Symphony No. 3
5. Bach: St. Matthew Passion
6. Mahler: Symphony No. 9
7-9. Beethoven: String Quartets (Razumovsky) (3)
10. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
11. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
12-26. Shostakovich: String Quartets (15). I only discovered these last year, in today's Big, Cheap Box Set era, so I don't know one from another well enough to name them individually yet. I find the entire body of work so wonderful, I can spend days listening to nothing but, so at this time, they comprise half of "simply my favorite 30 works."
27. Schubert: Piano Sonata D960
28. Schubert: Winterreise
29. Schubert: Piano Trio D100
30. Verdi: La Traviata
Okay here goes, in no particular order:
Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloe
Debussy - Nocturnes
Debussy - La Mer
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok - Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta
Bartok - The Wooden Prince
Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin
Beethoven - 3 (Eroica)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Stravinsky - Le Sacre
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2
Sibelius - Symphony No. 5
Schubert - 8 (Unfinished)
Dvorak - 9 (New World)
Mussorgsky - Pictures (Orch: Ravel)
Mussorgsky - Pictures (piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
JS Bach - Brandenburg Concertos (If I have to pick one, No. 4)
JS Bach - Goldberg Variations
Reich - Music for 24 Musicians
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
Brahms - Symphony No. 1
Brahms - Symphony No. 3
Holst - The Planets
Liszt - Les Preludes
Mozart - 38 (Prague)
Mozart - Symphony No. 40
Haydn - 96 (The Miracle)
Chopin - Nocturnes (If I have to pick one, No. 1)
Alternate list: Beethoven - The 32 Piano Sonatas
Random order, and would probably look different tomorrow.
1. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
2. Ravel: Piano Trio
3. Janáček: String Quartet No. 2
4. Janáček: In the Mist
5. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
6. Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
7. Bach: Clavier Übung III
8. Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
9. Rachmaninoff: All-night Vigil
10. Chopin: Mazurkas (Op. 30 or a later set)
11. Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
12. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
13. Mahler: Symphony No. 9
14. Satie: Socrate
15. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15
16. Bartók: Out of Doors
17. Brahms: Symphony No. 4
18. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
19. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
20. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
21. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings
22. Berg: Violin Concerto
23. Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G major
24. Varèse: Amériques
25. Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
26. Berlioz: Les Troyens
27. Copland: Appalachian Spring
28. Martinů: Nonet for wind quintet & string quartet, H. 374
29. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
30. Debussy: Préludes, Book 1
I started to fill out a list, then stopped because it would be downright folly.
There's at least half a dozen Mozart concertos and as many Bach cantatas and Haydn symphonies I'd be putting down, and that's before we even got out of the 18th century.
So instead, here's a list of sets of works I'd draw from
Bach: Cantatas
Bach: Works for solo keyboard (manualiter)
Vivaldi: Concertos for two or more instruments
Haydn: Symphonies
Mozart: Piano Concertos
Beethoven: String Quartets
Mahler: Symphonies and song cycles
Shostakovich: Symphonies
Shostakovich: String Quartets
Picking two works from each of the above almost at random leaves 12 places. Let's try that:
Tallis Spem in alium
Handel Messiah
Haydn Creation
Mozart Magic Flute
Beethoven Symphony No. Four
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Brahms German Requiem
Bruckner Symphony No. Five
Verdi Falstaff
Puccini Turandot
Debussy Preludes
Britten Nocturnes
A lot of obvious warhorses there....let's see, cut down the first set to one representative work each, for nine more slots
Beethoven: Hammerklavier sonata
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4
Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Chopin: the Nocturnes (in my mind, one single cycle)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Schonberg: Verklarte Nacht (sextet version)
Ligeti: Etudes for solo piano
Still a lot of obvious warhorses!
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'
Bless me! How could I forget Le Sacre!
okay, take out Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and insert Stravinksy Le Sacre
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on March 14, 2014, 07:03:05 PM
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.
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Quote from: Mirror Image on March 14, 2014, 07:14:52 PM
Don't worry about it, Jeffrey. Igor forgives you.
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I wouldn't count on it. He was a resentful SOB I hear. Grudgy, mean. Better take out the Schoenberg just to safe.
Quote from: Ken B on March 14, 2014, 07:37:12 PM
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.
Quote from: Ken B on March 14, 2014, 07:37:12 PM
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
Quote from: EigenUser on March 14, 2014, 07:50:42 PM
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.
Quote from: Ken B on March 14, 2014, 07:54:29 PM
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.
Quote from: Ken B on March 14, 2014, 07:54:29 PM
Sigh. Deadpan humor and the net don't always mix. BUT he did have a long grudgy feud with Schoenberg.
:D
I love the part at 2:10 "Do you want a drop of scotch? Wonderful nourishment!"
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
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 14, 2014, 06:54:13 PM
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 ? :'(
Quote from: Mr Bloom on March 15, 2014, 09:07:09 AM
Where has Koechlin gone ? :'(
In the corner bin with Delius...
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
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on March 14, 2014, 06:30:05 PM
I started to fill out a list, then stopped because it would be downright folly.
This :)
Sarge, YHM!
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 15, 2014, 11:05:23 AM
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 ;D, 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? ???
Quote from: springrite on March 15, 2014, 09:12:17 AM
In the corner bin with Delius...
No-one deserves that.
No-one.
DAMN, I forgot Enigma Variations.
Quote from: Moonfish on March 15, 2014, 11:18:23 AMHmm, so not a single piece by Bach, eh? ???
Bach is definitely there; the first entry on my list, as a matter of fact 8) Other candidates would be the 1st Brandenburg; the Cantata 80 "Ein feste Burg"; the Weihnachtsoratorium; the whole of the WTC; the keyboard Partita No.2 in C minor; the D minor Keyboard Concerto; the A minor and D minor Violin Concertos.
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 15, 2014, 02:50:22 PM
Bach is definitely there; the first entry on my list, as a matter of fact 8) Other candidates would be the 1st Brandenburg; the Cantata 80 "Ein feste Burg"; the Weihnachtsoratorium; the whole of the WTC; the keyboard Partita No.2 in C minor; the D minor Keyboard Concerto; the A minor and D minor Violin Concertos.
Sarge
Ooops, I am blind sometimes... :'(
The listmaniac in me wanted to tackle this, and did last night. And then I realised I'd accidentally stuffed up and missed out Elgar's cello concerto after deciding it had to be included, and then I couldn't figure out what to cut in order to include the Elgar, and then I got stroppy and deleted the list about 5 minutes after I posted it.
And I'd been terribly good and restricted myself to 2 works per composer, otherwise you would have had ridiculous amounts of Faure chamber music and late Rachmaninov and...
Oh look, let's try again with some minor reshuffling. Somehow I ended up at 30 again.
1. Bach - Cello Suites
2. Barber - Adagio for Strings
3. Beethoven - String Quintet in C, op.29
4. Beethoven - 'Waldstein' piano sonata
5. Brahms - Piano Quartet No.1
6. Brahms - Clarinet Trio
7. Chopin - Ballade No.1
8. Chopin - Barcarolle
9. Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
10. Elgar - Cello Concerto
11. Faure - Violin Sonata No.1
12. Faure - Piano Quintet No.1
13. Haydn - String Quartet op.76/5 (and heck, several other op.76 works aren't far behind)
14. Holmboe - Symphony No.10
15. Holmboe - String Quartet No.7
16. Kodaly - Sonata for solo cello
17. Thomas Linley the Younger - 'Arise, ye spirits of the storm' (from his music for Shakespeare's 'The Tempest')
18. Mozart - Piano Sonata in F, K.332
19. Poulenc - Sonata for 2 pianos
20. Rachmaninov - Etudes-Tableaux, op.39
21. Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances (specifically the 2-piano version is what I first knew and fell in love with)
22. Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit
23. Ravel - Miroirs
24. Schubert - String Quartet No.15 in G
25. Schumann - Dichterliebe (I think this is my favourite of the song cycles, but one of them has to be in here)
26. Schumann - Piano Quartet
27. Shostakovich - String Quartet No.5
28. Shostakovich - String Quartet No.12
29. Sibelius - Symphony No.4
30. Strauss, Richard - Four Last Songs
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on March 14, 2014, 06:30:05 PM
I started to fill out a list, then stopped because it would be downright folly.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 15, 2014, 11:06:53 AM
This :)
But... folly is
good!My list would most likely be different now compared to the list I compiled on Friday, and that's the beauty of these lists.
I'm not getting suckered into this.
By composer, but therefore not actual favorites. Lots of Bach and Mozart ahead of any Shosty or Ravel for example. So just favorite for that composer. I am trying to include those regularly discussed here.
Anyone Sibelius 7
Bach Goldbergs, Actus Tragicus
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante 364
Beethoven PC 4
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks, Sym C
Shostakovich Cello Concerto 2
Nyman Facing Goya
Ravel PC G
Prokofiev Fugitive Visions
Debussy Images oubliees
Monteverdi Vespers
Schutz Christmas Story
Schubert Mullerin, Winterreise
Strauss 4 Last Songs
Barber Sym 1
Britten VC
Palestrina Oeuvres (will I get away with this?)
Orff Der Mond
Mahler DLVDE
Bruckner 9
Dvorak American Quartet
Webern Mute button
Berg VC
An attempt. One per composer.
Charles Ives : Holidays symphony
Bela Bartok : violin sonata 1
Karol Szymanowski : symphony n°4
Alfred Schnittke : cello concerto 1
Claude Debussy : Preludes book 2
Brett Dean : Bliss
Iannis Xenakis : Nekuïa
Krysztof Penderecki : Utrenja
Gavriil Popov : symphony 1
Edgar Varèse : Arcana
Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Passazhirka
Leonardo Balada : Maria Sabina
Benjamin Britten : The Five canticles
George Crumb : The river of life (American songbook I)
David Del Tredici : An Alice symphony
Karl Amadeus Hartmann : symphony n°6
Mauricio Kagel : Der mündliche Verrat
Nikolai Karetnikov : Till eulenspiegel
Charles Koechlin : Motets de style archaïque
Peter Maxwell Davies : Eight Songs for a Mad King
Franz Liszt : Christus
Alexander Mosolov : piano concerto 1
Florent Schmitt : Symphonie concertante pour orchestre et piano
Avet Terterian : symphony 5
Ralph Vaughan Williams : violin sonata
Bernd Alois Zimmermann : Requiem
Jean Sibelius : symphony 2
Nikolaï Roslavetz : violin sonata 4
Arnold Schoenberg : string quartet 2
Igor Stravinsky : Petrouchka
Quote from: Mr Bloom on March 16, 2014, 08:01:04 AM
An attempt. One per composer.
David Del Tredici : An Alice symphony
Bernd Alois Zimmermann : Requiem
I applaud you for these two choices!!!
I refuse to do this list. It is evil! >:D
Not my favourite 30 works, but a list of works that made a massive impression on me at a certain point—usually through live performances, though not always:
Beethoven Op. 59 no. 3 (age 7)
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra (age 8 or so)
Schubert D. 959 (age 10)
Bartók String Quartet No. 1 (age 11)
Stravinsky Rite of Spring (age 12)
Copland Piano Variations (age 14)
Brahms Op. 36 (age 15)
Carter Variations for Orchestra (age 17)
Feldman Neither (age 18)
Berio Laborintus 2 (age 19)
Stockhausen Mikrophonie I (age 19)
Schumann Davidsbündlertänze (age 19—I knew the work before, but it was never a favourite until I found myself watching Wilhelm Kempff play it on television while in the midst of an episode of depression)
Cage 103 (age 20)
Barrett Dark Matter (age 21)
I've only been 22 for a few months so it's hard to say how important the two most recent "discoveries", the tape music of Luc Ferrari and Dick Raaijmakers, will be by this time next year. Ferrari looks set to land pretty high in my favourites list though.
Maybe I should give one on behalf of Kimi:
Age 2: Mahler Symphony #1
Age 3: Beethoven Symphony #5
Age 4: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
Age 5: Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
Now, almost 6: Strauss Salome
Quote from: NJ Joe on March 16, 2014, 03:58:00 PM
Yes!
That one is arguably an outlier on the list. But it's there because, out of 20 CDs in a Tortelier box set (the only large 'miscellaneous composers' box set I've ever bought, actually), the Kodaly sonata for solo cello was the work that really jumped up and took me by surprise. It's the only work by Kodaly I know so far, but it's top-notch.
Revising my 2011 list...
Atterberg | Symphony No 8
Bach, J.S. | Concerto for two violins in D minor (new)
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No 30
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No 31
Beethoven | String Quartet Op 59 No 3 (new)
Beethoven | Symphony No 7
Brahms | Symphony No 4
Chopin | Fantaisie in F minor (new)
Dvořák | Cello Concerto
Dvořák | String Quartet No 13
Dvořák | Symphony No 8
Dvořák | Te Deum
Fauré | Piano Quartet No 1 (new)
Haydn | Symphony No 92, "Oxford" (new)
Janáček | Glagolitic Mass
Janáček | Sinfonietta
Martinů | Symphony No 4 (new)
Mozart | Symphony No 39
Ravel | Miroirs (new)
Ravel | La valse
Ravel | Piano Concerto in G
Ravel | Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (new)
Roussel | Bacchus et Ariane (new)
Roussel | Le marchand de sable qui passe
Schubert | String Quintet D956
Schumann | Fantasiestucke, Op 12 (new)
Schumann | Fantasie, Op 17 (new)
Sibelius | Symphony No 5
Smetana | Ma Vlast
Weinberg | Cello Concerto
Removed from the list:
Beethoven | String Quartets Opp. 95 and 127 - I've spent the interim exploring the piano sonatas far more
Bruckner | Symphony No 7 - Bruckner requires a certain mood
Haydn | String Quartet No 63, "Sunrise" - really there are about 5 Haydn pieces that could have gone here. The "Bear" symphony (82) deserves a place for sure.
A. Koppel | Saxophone Concerto No 2 - I guess I wanted to include a living composer and stretched to find something
Lutoslawski | Concerto for Orchestra; Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No 2; Shostakovich | Symphony No 10 - still love these, just listen to this style of music less nowadays. Generally now exploring more lyrical contemporaries, especially Prokofiev and Martinů.
Roussel | Suite in F - just changed it out for a different Roussel piece
Sibelius | Symphonies Nos 6 and 7 - I listen to Sibelius much, much, much less nowadays. #3 would come in ahead of these now, anyway.
In some of these cases (Beethoven, Haydn, Roussel), the composers didn't change, just the works chosen.
Almost made it, regret leaving them out:
Haydn Symphony No 82 "Bear", Szymanowski Symphony No 4, Schubert Impromptus D899, Schubert Symphony No 8 in C major, Schubert Fantaisie in F minor D940, Ravel Gaspard, Beethoven Piano Sonatas 11, 12, 16, 18, and 21
Time to update the old list, in no particular order:
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Beethoven: Symphony No.9
Beethoven: Symphnoy No.6
Liszt: Les Preludes
Liszt: Études d'exécution trascendante
Mahler: Symphony No.6
Mahler: Symphony No.7
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
Brahms: Symphony No.3
Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Sibelius: Symphony No.5
Nielsen: Symphony No.4
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Ravel: La Valse
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Dvorak: Symphony No.7
Respighi: Roman Trilogy
Holst: The Planets
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
Bantock: Celtic Symphony
Schnittke: Symphony No.3
Debussy: La Mer
I prefer to leave Johann Strauss and Chopin out.....too many great works to choose among!
I thought you would have put
DSCH 10 on the list,
Brian.
You may have picked the wrong
Beethoven,
Rachmaninov,
Ravel,
Bartók,
Mahler,
Prokofiev,
Debussy,
Brahms,
Sibelius and
Shosty works, but these you did get right,
Ilaria! :D
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on March 17, 2014, 01:08:18 PM
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Quote from: North Star on March 17, 2014, 01:48:08 PM
You may have picked the wrong Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Bartók, Mahler, Prokofiev, Debussy, Brahms, Sibelius and Shosty works, but these you did get right, Ilaria! :D
Wrong?! How dare you! :D
Mahler No.9 and some Beethoven's Piano Sonatas were originally on my list, but I didn't want to fill it with only Mahler or Beethoven. It was also hard to decide between Shosty No.5 or No.10.
Quote from: orfeo on March 16, 2014, 11:55:49 PM
That one is arguably an outlier on the list. But it's there because, out of 20 CDs in a Tortelier box set (the only large 'miscellaneous composers' box set I've ever bought, actually), the Kodaly sonata for solo cello was the work that really jumped up and took me by surprise. It's the only work by Kodaly I know so far, but it's top-notch.
A few years ago a friend e-mailed me an mp3 of the third movement, Starker performing. Took me by surprise as well! It was love at first listen. The next night he sent the first movement, and the third night the second. By the third night I had already purchased the cd:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T%2BKzn2U8L._SY300__PJautoripBadge,BottomRight,4,-40_OU11__.jpg)
It's been a favorite ever since.
Quote from: NJ Joe on March 17, 2014, 03:57:25 PM
A few years ago a friend e-mailed me an mp3 of the third movement, Starker performing. Took me by surprise as well! It was love at first listen. The next night he sent the first movement, and the third night the second. By the third night I had already purchased the cd:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T%2BKzn2U8L._SY300__PJautoripBadge,BottomRight,4,-40_OU11__.jpg)
It's been a favorite ever since.
I saw him play it live.
Quote from: Ken B on March 16, 2014, 05:40:16 AM
Webern Mute button
Don't think I did not see this.
Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2014, 04:52:10 AM
Don't think I did not see this.
My boss once gave me a document to review. It was about 30 pages. In the middle was the phrase "and several butcher's aprons". I was apparently the only one who noticed.
8)
Quote from: Ken B on March 18, 2014, 08:56:28 AM
My boss once gave me a document to review. It was about 30 pages. In the middle was the phrase "and several butcher's aprons". I was apparently the only one who noticed.
8)
Good on ya for the
Prokofiev Fleeting Visions!
As I look at my May 2007 list . . .
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2007, 06:42:07 AM
I'll join in the fun.
There can be no question of completeness in such a small list, so the first 30 favorite works which came to mind:
1 Shostakovich, Fourth Symphony
2 Shostakovich, Tenth Symphony
3 Shostakovich, Fourteenth Symphony
4 Shostakovich, Four Pushkin Romances
5 Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues
6 Shostakovich, Seventh String Quartet
7 Shostakovich, Second Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano
8 Shostakovich, Sonata for Viola & Piano
9 Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps
10 Stravinsky, Symphonies of wind instruments
11 Stravinsky, Concerto for two pianos
12 Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
13 Stravinsky, Orpheus
14 Stravinsky, Agon
15 Prokofiev, Second Symphony
16 Prokofiev, Le pas d'acier
17 Prokofiev, L'enfant prodigue
18 Prokofiev, Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
19 Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
20 Prokofiev, Seventh Piano Sonata
21 Bartók, Second Piano Concerto
22 Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
23 Bartók, Third String Quartet
24 Bartók, Fourth String Quartet
25 Bartók, Fifth String Quartet
26 Bartók, Sixth String Quartet
27 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
28 Ravel, Sonata for Violin & Cello
29 Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp
30 Copland, Sextet
. . . I could not bring myself to displace any of them . . . .
You prefer Prokofiev Op. 94a over Op. 80?
Not a bad list at all, though. :)
You can always compile a one work per composer list, too.. ;)
You're right! I meant the f minor Sonata!
(Told you we all make mistakes ;) )
Quote from: karlhenning on March 18, 2014, 09:15:04 AM
You're right! I meant the f minor Sonata!
Quote from: karlhenning on March 18, 2014, 09:15:27 AM
(Told you we all make mistakes ;) )
;D
And you've had almost seven years to notice it, too. :P
I wonder what my list would look like today..
I listened to the Prokofiev PS #6 on youtube recently with Richter. Just amazing. I need to listen to more solo piano Prokofiev, and you reminded me of that Karl.
Quote from: Ken B on March 18, 2014, 08:56:28 AM
My boss once gave me a document to review. It was about 30 pages. In the middle was the phrase "and several butcher's aprons". I was apparently the only one who noticed.
8)
Reminds me of how I say that my favorite Cage work is 4'33'' :P
(no offense to those who love John Cage!)
Quote from: DavidW on March 18, 2014, 09:32:11 AM
I listened to the Prokofiev PS #6 on youtube recently with Richter. Just amazing. I need to listen to more solo piano Prokofiev, and you reminded me of that Karl.
*cue for the
Raekallio set*
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B004TWOXGC.01.L.jpg) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004TWOXGC/?tag=goodmusicguideco)
Quote from: EigenUser on March 18, 2014, 09:38:22 AM
Reminds me of how I say that my favorite Cage work is 4'33'' :P
(no offense to those who love John Cage!)
Would that ****** had written music as pleasing as 4'3"
>:D ;)
Quote from: Ken B on March 18, 2014, 10:13:53 AM
Would that ****** had written music as pleasing as 4'3"
>:D ;)
He did. Some of the solo piano pieces, like "In a Landscape", are really nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHyTXlejiEE
Quote from: North Star on March 18, 2014, 09:39:54 AM
*cue for the Raekallio set*
;D
We should just make this a sticky...
Quote from: EigenUser on March 18, 2014, 09:38:22 AM
Reminds me of how I say that my favorite Cage work is 4'33'' :P
(no offense to those who love John Cage!)
Seriousl try the Berman prepared piano stuff on Naxos, probably some on Youtube. Strikes me as stuff you would find interesting.
Quote from: Ken B on March 18, 2014, 10:56:06 AM
Seriousl try the Berman prepared piano stuff on Naxos, probably some on Youtube. Strikes me as stuff you would find interesting.
Brian's suggestion is also excellent:
Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2014, 10:36:38 AM
He did. Some of the solo piano pieces, like "In a Landscape", are really nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHyTXlejiEE
So I suppose I should order that Prokofiev set then... 8)
Quote from: DavidW on March 18, 2014, 12:22:34 PM
So I suppose I should order that Prokofiev set then... 8)
We might literally be the last two people on GMG who do not have it.
Quote from: Ken B on March 18, 2014, 10:56:06 AM
Seriousl try the Berman prepared piano stuff on Naxos, probably some on Youtube. Strikes me as stuff you would find interesting.
Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2014, 10:36:38 AM
He did. Some of the solo piano pieces, like "In a Landscape", are really nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHyTXlejiEE
+1 to both.
Quote from: DavidW on March 18, 2014, 12:22:34 PM
So I suppose I should order that Prokofiev set then... 8)
Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2014, 12:43:01 PM
We might literally be the last two people on GMG who do not have it.
You two should definitely be among that small and sorry lot which I suspect is at least a bit more populous. (and
György Sándor's recordings are good stuff too, and include some pieces
Raekallio hasn't recorded)
Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2014, 12:43:01 PM
We might literally be the last two people on GMG who do not have it.
Nope. Not literally.
Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2014, 12:43:01 PM
We might literally be the last two people on GMG who do not have it.
I don't have it either, and I'm not likely to have it in future. Prok's Sonatas are among my least favorite piano works. I only truly love the D minor op.14.
Sarge
Quote from: Brian on March 18, 2014, 12:43:01 PM
We might literally be the last two people on GMG who do not have it.
The Berman Prok sonatas?
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 18, 2014, 01:29:53 PM
I don't have it either, and I'm not likely to have it in future. Prok's Sonatas are among my least favorite pianos works. I only truly love the D minor op.14.
Sarge
:o
I'm
trying to bite my tongue...but the Prokofievian(?) in me just........
......oh, what the heck.... :( :D
But no Toccata? Suggestion Diabolique? War sonatas?
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on March 18, 2014, 05:38:23 PM
:o
I'm trying to bite my tongue...but the Prokofievian(?) in me just........
......oh, what the heck.... :( :D
But no Toccata? Suggestion Diabolique? War sonatas?
Not to mention
Visions fugitives,
Sarcasms, or
10 Pieces from Romeo & Juliet...
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on March 18, 2014, 05:38:23 PM
:o
I'm trying to bite my tongue...but the Prokofievian(?) in me just........
......oh, what the heck.... :( :D
But no Toccata? Suggestion Diabolique? War sonatas?
Quote from: North Star on March 18, 2014, 10:01:07 PM
Not to mention Visions fugitives, Sarcasms, or 10 Pieces from Romeo & Juliet...
Okay, I can see buying the Raekallio box for those non-Sonata pieces (which I do like)
Sarge
Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 23, 2011, 05:41:04 AM
Beethoven
Symphony no.6
Brahms
Symphony no.1
Symphony no.4
Bruckner
Symphony no.5
Elgar
Symphony no.1
Symphony no.2
Enigma Variations
In The South Overture "Alassio"
Glazunov
Symphony no.4
Mahler
Symphony no.1
Symphony no.6
Symphony no.8
Symphony no.9
Nielsen
Symphony no.4
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto no.3
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe
La Valse
Respighi
Roman Trilogy
Rimsky Korsakov
Sheherezade
Schubert
Symphony no.9
Scriabin
Symphony no.3
Shostakovich
Symphony no.10
R.Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie
Ein Heldenleben
Tod und Verklarung
Don Juan
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Tchaikovsky
Symphony no.6
Francesca da Rimini
Well.... that needed to be updated!! Have got to know so much great music over the last two years, so I expect this list is subject to change in the next two years too!
1. Mahler 6
2. 7
3. 9
4. Elgar 2
5. Gerontius
6. Strauss Dance of Seven Veils + Mondscheinmusik
7. Ravel La Valse
8. Schnittke Faust Cantata
9. Schnittke Requiem
10. Coleridge Taylor Violin Concerto
11. Brahms 2
12. Schumann Violin Concerto
13. Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3
14. Dvorak 5
15. Dvorak Cello Concerto
16. Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
17. Feldman Coptic Light
18. Shostakovich 5
19. Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
20. Schubert 9
21. Stravinsky Le Sacre
22. Vaughan Williams 9
23. Ades Asyla
24. Ginastera Estancia Dances
25. Wagner Lohengrin Act 1 Prelude
26. Mendelssohn 3
27. Bruckner 7
28. Chopin Ballade 1
29. Dvorak Wind Serenade
30. Respighi Roman Trilogy
31. Schmitt La Tragedie de Salome
32. Gershwin An American in Paris
33. Rimsky Korsakov Sheherezade
34. Beethoven 3
Maximum of two per composer, except for Mahler, who gets 3 :p And yeah, went slightly over 30 as I don't do maths at school anymore :p Not in any order of course :)
Quote from: EigenUser on March 14, 2014, 01:57:00 PM
Old thread, but I have no shame in reviving it.
As of now:
1. Bartok -- "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"
2. Bartok -- "Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra"
3. Bartok -- "Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra"
4. Ravel -- "La Valse"
5. Ligeti -- "Clocks and Clouds"
6. Ravel -- "Daphnis and Chloe"
7. Ligeti -- "Piano Concerto"
8. Ravel -- "Introduction and Allegro"
9. Stravinsky -- "The Rite of Spring"
10. Gershwin -- "Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra"
11. Ligeti -- "San Francisco Polyphony"
12. Gershwin -- "An American in Paris"
13. Ravel -- "Piano Concerto in G"
14. Debussy -- "Jeux"
15. Ligeti -- "Lontano"
16. Debussy -- "La Mer"
17. Bartok -- "The Miraculous Mandarin"
18. Stravinsky -- "Agon"
19. Ades -- "Asyla"
20. Feldman -- "Rothko Chapel"
21. Feldman -- "Piano and String Quartet"
22. Bartok -- "Dance Suite"
23. Debussy -- "Trois Nocturnes"
24. Reich -- "Music for 18 Musicians"
25. Ravel -- "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
26. Mendelssohn -- "Octet"
27. Mendelssohn -- Various (later) string symphonies, no real order
28. Gershwin -- "Cuban Overture"
29. Ligeti -- "Violin Concerto"
30. Bartok -- "Concerto for Orchestra"
It's changed. I'm not going to list in any order other than alphabetical to avoid bias and I'm limiting myself to three works per composer.
Ades -- "Asyla"
Bartok -- "Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra"
Bartok -- "Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra"
Bartok -- "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"
Debussy -- "Jeux"
Debussy -- "La Mer"
Debussy -- "Sirenes" (and all of the "Trois Nocturnes" sequence, but this one is my favorite)
Feldman -- "Rothko Chapel"
Gershwin -- "Piano Concerto"
Gershwin -- "An American in Paris"
Haydn -- "Symphony No. 83" (The Hen)
Haydn -- "Symphony No. 88" (The Letter 'V')
Honegger -- "Pacific 2-3-1"
Ligeti -- "Clocks and Clouds"
Ligeti -- "Piano Concerto"
Ligeti -- "San Francisco Polyphony"
Mendelssohn -- "String Symphony 10"
Mendelssohn -- "Octet"
Messiaen -- "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum"
Messiaen -- "Turangalila-Symphonie" (I don't want to admit it, but I always find myself playing movements 1, 2, 5, and 10 in the car)
Ohana -- "Cello Concerto - In Dark and Blue"
Ravel -- "Daphnis and Chloe"
Ravel -- "Introduction and Allegro"
Ravel -- "La Valse"
Reich -- "Music for 18 Musicians"
Schoenberg -- "Chamber Symphony No. 1"
Schumann -- "Konzertstuck for 4 Horns and Orchestra"
Schumann -- "Symphony No. 4"
Stravinsky -- "Agon"
Stravinsky -- "Scherzo a la Russe"
Quote from: EigenUser on May 23, 2014, 05:00:45 AM
Messiaen -- "Turangalila-Symphonie" (I don't want to admit it, but I always find myself playing movements 1, 2, 5, and 10 in the car)
Actually (and I've not listened, myself, in a while), that strikes me as perfect car music.
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2014, 05:07:37 AM
Actually (and I've not listened, myself, in a while), that strikes me as perfect car music.
It is! So is Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine".
I also would like to listen to Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" while on a long car ride through winding mountain roads. I haven't yet had the opportunity :(.
1. Beethoven: Violin Concerto
2. Brahms: Symphony n°4
3. Brahms: Violin Concerto
4. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
5. Bruckner: Symphony n°9
6. Dvorák: Cello Concerto
7. Dvorák: Symphony n°8
8. Handel: Giulio Cesare
9. Handel: Alcina
10. Handel: Semele
11. Haydn: Symphony n°97
12. Janácek: Jenufa
13. Janácek: Sinfonietta
14. Mahler - Symphony n°6
15. Mozart - Piano Concerto n°25
16. Mozart - Don Giovanni
17. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov
18. Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
19. Puccini - Madame Butterfly
20. Puccini - Il Trittico
21. Rameau - Platée
22. Schubert - Piano Sonata D 784
23. Schumann - Piano Concerto
24. Sibelius -Symphony n°7
25. Strauss - Elektra
26. Tsjaikovski - Symphony n°6
27. Tsjaikovski - Jevgeni Onegin
28. Verdi - Don Carlo
29. Verdi - Aida
30. Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
One per composer
(There are 8 orchestral works (5 of which symphonies), 6 chamber works, 5 works for solo keyboard (1 for organ, 4 for pf), 4 ballets, 3 concertos, 3 vocal works (one of them a cappella), and 2 operas on the list)
1. Alkan: Études in all the minor keys, Op. 39 (solo kbd)
2. Bach: Clavier-Übung III (solo kbd)
3. Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet)
4. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in c# minor, Op. 131 (chamber)
5. Berg: Violin Concerto (cto)
6. Berlioz: Les Troyens (opera)
7. Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op. 31 (vocal orch)
8. Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (orch)
9. Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 50 (to pick one set) (solo kbd)
10. Copland: Appalachian Spring (ballet)
11. Debussy: Préludes, book I (solo kbd)
12. Haydn: String Quartet in d minor, 'Quinten', Op. 76/II (chamber)
13. Ives: Holidays Symphony (orch)
14. Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 (chamber)
15. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (vocal orch)
16. Martinů: Nonet (chamber)
17. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (opera)
18. Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (ballet)
19. Pärt: Tabula Rasa (cto)
20. Rakhmaninov: All-Night Vigil (vocal)
21. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major (cto)
22. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (chamber??)
23. Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887 (chamber)
24. Schönberg: 5 Orchesterstücke, Op. 16 (orch)
25. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (orch)
26. Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 (orch)
27. Skryabin: Vers la flamme (solo kbd)
28. Stravinsky: Sacre (ballet)
39. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (orch)
30. Varèse: Ameriques (orch)
Off with FF VI OST and FF IX OST shall replace it. As much as I love FF VI ost but nothing beats the overwhelming humanity of Final Fantasy IX ost.
Quote from: Alberich on July 15, 2014, 07:40:29 AM
Off with FF VI OST and FF IX OST shall replace it. As much as I love FF VI ost but nothing beats the overwhelming humanity of Final Fantasy IX ost.
Err, wrong thread, I think. 8)
Nope, both soundtracks clearly have enough classical music elements to count as one, imho.
Quote from: Alberich on July 15, 2014, 09:56:13 AM
Nope, both soundtracks clearly have enough classical music elements to count as one, imho.
Fair enough. As you didn't quote your original post, I didn't even realize you were talking about the soundtracks and not the games themselves.
One per composer, except for my current top four composers (Bartok, Ravel, Ligeti, and Messiaen), where I allow two each.
Ades "Asyla"
Bartok "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"
Bartok "Piano Concerto No. 2"
Beethoven "Missa Solemnis"
Boulez "Notations for Orchestra"
Debussy "Jeux"
Dvorak "Symphony No. 9"
Faure "Requiem"
Feldman "Piano and String Quartet" (pretty much tied with RC, but I'll go with P&SQ)
Gershwin "Piano Concerto"
Haydn "Symphony No. 88"
Honegger "Pacific 2-3-1"
Ligeti "Clocks and Clouds"
Ligeti "Piano Concerto"
Mahler "Symphony No. 7" (almost tied with DLvdE)
Mendelssohn "Octet"
Messiaen "Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum"
Messiaen "Turangalila Symphonie"
Ockeghem "Missa Prolationum"
Ohana "Cello Concerto -- In Dark and Blue"
Ravel "Daphnis and Chloe"
Ravel "Introduction and Allegro" (tied with the SQ)
Reich "Music for 18 Musicians"
Schumann "Concertpiece for Four Horns and Orchestra" (nearly tied with the 4th symphony)
Schoenberg "Chamber Symphony No. 1"
Shostakovich "Symphony No. 9"
Stravinsky "Agon"
Takemitsu "Dream/Window"
Varese "Ameriques"
Webern "Six Pieces for Orchestra"
I feel ashamed that I like the "Turangalila-Symphonie" so much -- like, I don't know, gluttonous, or something like that. But I do.
Nate
QuoteI feel ashamed that I like the "Turangalila-Symphonie" so much -- like, I don't know, gluttonous, or something like that. But I do
Turgid. That's a good word. Or bloated. Expansive is a polite euphemism. Bloviated, that's another good one.
Meretricious is my choice though. :)
French orchestral music; what a work-out for the vocabulary. >:D :)
Quote from: EigenUser on July 21, 2014, 06:36:15 PM
I feel ashamed that I like the "Turangalila-Symphonie" so much.
Why would you? It's one of the most brilliant symphonic utterances of the 20th century. If I were you, I'd be more concerned about the Honegger. 8)
Quote from: Ken B on July 21, 2014, 08:04:45 PM
Nate
Turgid. That's a good word. Or bloated. Expansive is a polite euphemism. Bloviated, that's another good one.
Meretricious is my choice though. :)
French orchestral music; what a work-out for the vocabulary. >:D :)
I remember that amw once said something like "listening to Turangalila seems to go well with eating ice cream right from the carton". Possibly one of my favorite lines from GMG because it is so funny, yet so true. It is enjoyable to do, but afterwards my ears are ringing and I think "why did I listen to the
whole thing?"
Quote from: Wanderer on July 21, 2014, 10:03:27 PM
Why would you? It's one of the most brilliant symphonic utterances of the 20th century. If I were you, I'd be more concerned about the Honegger. 8)
I knew I'd catch crap for the Honegger, but I have a sound defense: I hold a degree in mechanical engineering ;D. Of course I'm going to like it -- it's not just about trains, but also musical momentum, inertia, acceleration... all of that good stuff from dynamics!
Nate's faves
QuoteDebussy "Jeux"
You should try
La Mer. It's more popular you know.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ;)
Time to revive this old thread by updating my 2014 list (which was an update of a 2011 list so I'm doing this every three years)...
Barber | Violin Concerto (new)
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No 30
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No 31
Beethoven | String Quartet Op 59 No 3
Beethoven | Symphony No 7
Brahms | Symphony No 4
Bruckner | Symphony No 7 (back on the list)
Dvořák | String Quintet Op 97 (replacing Cello Concerto)
Dvořák | String Quartet No 13
Dvořák | Symphony No 8
Dvořák | Te Deum
Haydn | Symphony No 80 (new)
Haydn | Symphony No 92, "Oxford"
Janáček | Glagolitic Mass
Janáček | Sinfonietta
Janáček | Sonata 1.X.1905 (new)
Martinů | Symphony No 2 (new)
Martinů | Symphony No 4
Ravel | Miroirs
Ravel | Piano Concerto in G
Ravel | Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Roussel | Bacchus et Ariane
Schubert | Klavierstücke D946 (new)
Schubert | String Quintet D956
Schumann | Fantasie, Op 17
Shaw | Partita for Eight Voices (new) (also literally new[ish])
Sibelius | Symphony No 5
Tchaikovsky | Sleeping Beauty (new)
Vaughan Williams | Symphony No 3 (new)
Verdi | Falstaff (new)
Removed from the 2014 list:
Atterberg | Symphony No 8
Bach | Concerto for two violins in D minor
Chopin | Fantaisie in F minor
Fauré | Piano Quartet No 1
Ravel | La valse
Schumann | Fantasiestucke, Op 12
Smetana | Ma Vlast
Weinberg | Cello Concerto
EDIT: Already made an edit to the list. Hope I can leave it be for three years, now ???
Bach - Mass in B Minor
Bach - Motets
Monteverdi - Vespers
Ockeghem - L'homme Arme
Beethoven - Piano sonata 7
Beethoven - Piano sonata 29
Beethoven - String Quartet 14
Brahms - Piano sonatas
Wagner - The ring
Mahler - Symphony no 6
Mahler - Symphony no 8
Tchaikovsky - Symphony no 6
Webern - Six bagatelles
Webern - Five pieces
Webern - String trio
Webern - Symphony
Webern - Quartet
Webern - Concerto for nine instruments
Webern - Das Augenlicht
Webern - Variations for piano
Webern - variations for orchestra
Webern - Cantata no 2
Stravinsky - Petrushka
Stravinsky - Movements
Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles
Stravinsky - Threni
Schoenberg - Variations for orchestra
Schoenberg - Erwartung
Varese - Arcana
Feldman - Piano and string Quartet
Feldman - Rothko Chapel
Feldman - For Phillip Guston
Stockhausen - Kontra-punkte (I only heard this recently but I have been greatly impressed)
I'll have to revise my list but with no kind of limitations whatsoever (in no particular order):
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4-7, The Oceanides, Pohjola's Daughter
Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5, & 6, Flute Concerto, Clarinet Concerto, Saga-Drøm
Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3, Violin Concerto No. 2, Bluebeard's Castle, The Miraculous Mandarin
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 3, 5, & 6, Job, Five Mystical Songs, Flos Campi
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 8, & 10, Violin Concerto No. 1, Piano Quintet, Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok
Well, there's 30 works from my 'Top 5' favorite composers. I wish I could have gone on to include my 'Top 10' composers, but oh well...I'm quite satisfied with these choices I must say.
uh ok
Not in order.
Bach - Clavierübung Part I (Six Partitas)
Bach - St Matthew Passion
Bartók - String Quartet No. 3
Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Beethoven - Sonata No. 32 Op. 111
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 14 Op. 131
Beethoven - Missa solemnis Op. 123
Brahms - String Sextet No. 2 Op. 36
Brahms - Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 78
Brahms - Symphony No. 3 Op. 90
Cage - String Quartet in Four Parts
Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 58
Chopin - Ballade No. 4 Op. 52
Dvořák - String Quartet No. 10 Op. 51
Dvořák - Symphony No. 7 Op. whatever
Debussy - Etudes
Feldman - Neither
Ligeti - String Quartet No. 2
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 27 K. 595
Mozart - String Quintet No. 4 K. 516
Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin
Ravel - Piano Trio
Schubert - String Quintet D. 956
Schubert - Piano Sonata D. 959
Schumann - Kreisleriana Op. 16
Schumann - Fantasie Op. 17
Schumann - Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6
Schumann - Liederkreis Op. 39
Sciarrino - Quaderno di strada
Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles
Chantilly Codex (counts as one, right?)
Tallis - Spem in Alium
Gesualdo - Tenebrae
Bach - BWV 1080 (of course)
Scarlatti - see this most unjustly neglected thread: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26936.msg1056973.html#msg1056973 (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26936.msg1056973.html#msg1056973)
Mozart - 2 piano quartets
Beethoven - middle period piano sonatas & late SQs
Schumann - Humoreske, C major Fantasie, Am String Quartet
Chopin - Polonaise Fantasy, 4th Ballade
Liszt - 1st PC, Bm Sonata
Brahms - op 79, 119
Mahler - Symph [2,4,5,6,7,9,10], Ruckert Leider
Webern - Five pieces for Orchestra
Stravinsky - RofS, Agon
Bartok - SQ no.4, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
Messiaen - Couleurs de la Cité céleste
Wolpe - Piece in two parts for six players
Boulez - Derive 2
Carter - Concerto for Orchestra, 3rd SQ
Dutilleux - Metaboles
Ligeti - Clocks & Clouds, Lontano
Ferneyhough - Les Froissements des Ailes de Gabriel, Terrain, La Chute d'Icare
Quote from: amw on May 09, 2017, 08:51:48 AM
Feldman - Neither
Sciarrino - Quaderno di strada
Hm, considering how much of the rest of your list I could just copy, I think I need to hear these soon.
My idiosyncratic list, with up to 1 per composer:
Abrahamsen: Schnee
Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur
Alwyn: Lyra Angelica
Bach: Cello Suites
Bartók: Music for Piano, Strings, and Celesta
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Fauré: Requiem
Finzi: Five Bagatelles
Glass: Einstein on the Beach
Grisey: Les espaces acoustiques
Hahn: À Chloris
Ives: Symphony No. 4
Josquin: Missa Pange Lingua
Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Ligeti: Études
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Nyman: MGV
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Romitelli: Dead City Radio (Audiodrome)
Saariaho: L'Amour de loin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"
Vasks: Violin Concerto "Distant Light"
Albeniz - Iberia
Bartok - String Quartet No 4
Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Beethoven - Symphony No 3
Beethoven - String Quartet Op 132
Beethoven - Piano Sonata Op 31/3
Beethoven - Piano Sonata Op 111
Berg - Wozzeck
Berg - Lulu
Biber - Mystery Sonatas
Brahms - Symphony No 2
Bruckner - Symphony No 9
Debussy - Preludes, Book I
Debussy - Estampes
Debussy - Nocturnes
Liszt - Annees de Pelerinage, Suisse
Liszt - Annees de Pelerinage, Italie
Liszt - Annees de Pelerinage, Troisième année
Liszt - Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Mahler - Symphony No 1
Mahler - Symphony No 9
Morales - Officium defunctorum
Mozart - Piano Concerto No 20
Mozart - Piano Sonata K331
Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov
Schumann - Carnaval
Schumann - Symphonic Etudes
Szymanowski - Stabat Mater
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Wagner - Parsifal
Hard work, as always with these entertaining lists :) . I'm crazy about orchestral music (especially symphonies) so the majority are them:
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 3
Mozart: Symphony Nr. 39
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Schubert: String quintet
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts
Liszt: Fantasy for organ on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam', S.259
Franck: Violin sonata
Bruckner: Symphony Nr. 4
Brahms: Symphony Nr. 4
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nr. 5
Dvorák: Symphony Nr. 8
Janácek: Glagolitic Mass
Mahler: Symphony Nr. 6
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Eine Alpensinfonie
Nielsen: Symphony Nr. 5
Sibelius: Symphony Nr. 2
Bantock: A Celtic Symphony
Vaughan Williams: Symphony Nr. 2 (revised version)
Rachmaninov: The Bells
Holst: The Planets
Glière: Symphony Nr. 3
Ravel: Piano concerto for the left hand
Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
Atterberg: Symphony Nr. 3
Prokofiev: Symphony Nr. 5
Finzi: Cello concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony Nr. 5
Pettersson: Symphony Nr. 6
I decided to make a list with only chamber works:
Beethoven: Violin sonata 'Kreutzer', String quartet op. 132
Schubert: String quintet, Piano trio Nr. 2
Mendelssohn: Octet
Schumann: Romances for oboe and piano, op. 94
Franck: Violin sonata
Brahms: Piano quintet, Cello sonata Nr. 1, Piano quartet Nr. 3, String quintet Nr. 1, Clarinet quintet
Tchaikovsky: Piano trio
Dvorák: Piano quintet op. 81, String quintet op. 97
Grieg: String quartet in G minor
Janácek: String quartets 1 and 2
Chausson: Concert for violin, piano and string quartet
Debussy: String quartet in G minor; Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Magnard: Cello sonata
Ravel: Piano trio
Bartók: Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion
Poulenc: Flute sonata
Shostakovich: Piano quintet, Piano trio op. 67, Violin sonata, Viola sonata
Britten: String quartet Nr. 2
Not necessarily in order:
Wagner: Ring (you can count it as one work, right?)
Wagner: Tristan
Wagner: Parsifal
Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie
Debussy: Pelléas
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Verdi: Falstaff
Verdi: Don Carlos
Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Puccini: Tosca
Puccini: Turandot
Rachmaninoff: The Rock
Sibelius: Pohjola's daughter
Sibelius: Luonnotar
Sibelius: Symphony no. 6
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Richard Strauss: Salome
Richard Strauss: Elektra
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Liszt: Faust Symphony
Beethoven: String quartet 14 op.131
Beethoven: Fidelio
Beethoven: Pastoral symphony
Robert Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 2
Johannes Brahms: Violin concerto
Johannes Brahms: Violin sonata no. 3
Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel
If you can't count Ring as one work, I would probably delete Brahms's Violin sonata no. 3, Beethoven's String quartet op. 131 and Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust. Yes, I know what you're thinking, in doing so I would delete the only chamber music works I had in my list but I can't help it: I happen to like orchestral music (and program music) nowadays much more than chamber music or absolute music.
Something like this.
1. Albeniz – Iberia
2. Bach – Die Kunst der Fuge
3. Bartók - String Quartet No. 4
4. Beethoven – String Quartet No. 14 in c# minor, Op. 131
5. Berg – Violin Concerto
6. Biber – Mystery Sonatas
7. Chopin – Ballade No. 4
8. Debussy – Preludes, Book I
9. Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor 'dans le caractère populaire roumain'
10. Janáček – String Quartet No. 2
11. Josquin – Miserere
12. Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello
13. Liszt – Années de pèlerinage
14. Mahler – Symphony No. 9
15. Martinů – Nonet
16. Mompou – Musica callada
17. Morales – Officium defunctorum
18. Mozart – Piano Concerto No 20
19. Nielsen – Wind Quintet
20. Prokofiev – Violin Sonata no. 1 in f minor
21. Pärt – Tabula Rasa
22. Rakhmaninov – All-Night Vigil
23. Ravel – Piano Trio
24. Schubert – String Quartet in G major, D. 887
25. Schumann – Fantasie, Op 17
26. Schönberg – 5 Pieces for Orchestra
27. Sibelius – Symphony No. 6
28. Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
29. Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms
30. Varèse – Amériques
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Quote from: North Star on August 29, 2017, 11:47:13 AM
Something like this.
1. Albeniz – Iberia
2. Bach – Die Kunst der Fuge
3. Bartók - String Quartet No. 4
4. Beethoven – String Quartet No. 14 in c# minor, Op. 131
5. Berg – Violin Concerto
6. Biber – Mystery Sonatas
7. Chopin – Ballade No. 4
8. Debussy – Preludes, Book I
9. Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor 'dans le caractère populaire roumain'
10. Janáček – String Quartet No. 2
11. Josquin – Miserere
12. Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello
13. Liszt – Années de pèlerinage
14. Mahler – Symphony No. 9
15. Martinů – Nonet
16. Mompou – Musica callada
17. Morales – Officium defunctorum
18. Mozart – Piano Concerto No 20
19. Nielsen – Wind Quintet
20. Prokofiev – Violin Sonata no. 1 in f minor
21. Pärt – Tabula Rasa
22. Rakhmaninov – All-Night Vigil
23. Ravel – Piano Trio
24. Schubert – String Quartet in G major, D. 887
25. Schumann – Fantasie, Op 17
26. Schönberg – 5 Pieces for Orchestra
27. Sibelius – Symphony No. 6
28. Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
29. Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms
30. Varèse – Amériques
I may easily consider those ones (bold text) as my favorites, too.
Unranked, off the top of my head (EDIT - sorted by composer):
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 30
Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
Brahms - 6 Klavierstucke
Chopin - Nocturnes, Op. 55
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Gubaidulina - Viola Concerto
Lindberg, M. - Clarinet Concerto
Mahler - Symphony No. 5
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Mozart - Sinfonia concertante
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20
Rimsky-Korsakov - Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh Suite
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov - Symphony No. 2
Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No. 2
Schnittke - Symphony No. 1
Schubert - String Quartet No. 14
Schumann, R. - Symphonic Etudes
Scriabin - Symphony No. 2
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
Sibelius - Symphony No. 1
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2
Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker
Walton - Viola Concerto
A list of 32 favourite works, unranked, one per composer:
Bach: Mass in B minor
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Haydn: Die Schöpfung
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Berlioz: Grande messe des morts
Bruckner: Symphony No.9 (with the final movement)
Schubert: Sonata D.960
Ravel: Piano Concerto in D (for the left hand)
Debussy: La mer
Medtner: Violin Sonata No.2
Alkan: 12 Études dans tous les tons mineurs, op.39
Liszt: Sonata
Janáček: Jenůfa
Schumann: Fantasie
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Mahler: Symphony No.8
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2
Weber: Konzertstück
Dvořák: Piano Concerto
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Britten: Peter Grimes
Nielsen: Symphony No.4
Scriabin: Prométhée, le poème du feu
Schreker: Die Gezeichneten
R.Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
Skalkottas: 32 Pieces for piano
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Stravinsky: Les noces
My precious thirty, not in any particular order of preciousness, and with only minimal cheating :
Bax Symphony 5 and Tale the Pine Trees Knew
Berg VC
Berlioz Les Nuits d'été
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Bizet Carmen
Bizet L'Arlésienne Suites
Brahms Ballades
Brahms VC
Brahms PC1 and PC 2
Brahms Symphonies 1 and 3
Debussy La Mer
Duparc Mélodies
Fauré Masques et Bergamasques
Fauré Nocturnes
Hahn Ciboulette
Liszt Années de pèlerinage
Malipiero Symphonies 3 and 4
Martinů Memorial to Lidice and Symphony 6
Milhaud La cheminée du roi René
Mozart Symphony 40 in G minor
Myaskovsky Symphonies 6 and 13
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Schubert Winterreise
Scriabin 12 Piano Sonatas
Stravinsky Le Sacre
Stravinsky VC
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings
VW Symphony 5 and Serenade to Music
Wagner Parsival and Wesendonck Lieder
^^^^
Scriabin wrote 12 piano sonatas? 😮
Quote from: North Star on August 29, 2017, 11:47:13 AM
Something like this.
1. Albeniz – Iberia
2. Bach – Die Kunst der Fuge
3. Bartók - String Quartet No. 4
4. Beethoven – String Quartet No. 14 in c# minor, Op. 131
5. Berg – Violin Concerto
6. Biber – Mystery Sonatas
7. Chopin – Ballade No. 4
8. Debussy – Preludes, Book I
9. Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor 'dans le caractère populaire roumain'
10. Janáček – String Quartet No. 2
11. Josquin – Miserere
12. Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello
13. Liszt – Années de pèlerinage
14. Mahler – Symphony No. 9
15. Martinů – Nonet
16. Mompou – Musica callada
17. Morales – Officium defunctorum
18. Mozart – Piano Concerto No 20
19. Nielsen – Wind Quintet
20. Prokofiev – Violin Sonata no. 1 in f minor
21. Pärt – Tabula Rasa
22. Rakhmaninov – All-Night Vigil
23. Ravel – Piano Trio
24. Schubert – String Quartet in G major, D. 887
25. Schumann – Fantasie, Op 17
26. Schönberg – 5 Pieces for Orchestra
27. Sibelius – Symphony No. 6
28. Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
29. Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms
30. Varèse – Amériques
A magnificent list.
Depth, but no breadth 0:)
Quote from: karlhenning on May 23, 2007, 06:42:07 AM
I'll join in the fun.
There can be no question of completeness in such a small list, so the first 30 favorite works which came to mind:
1 Shostakovich, Fourth Symphony
2 Shostakovich, Tenth Symphony
3 Shostakovich, Fourteenth Symphony
4 Shostakovich, Four Pushkin Romances
5 Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues
6 Shostakovich, Seventh String Quartet
7 Shostakovich, Second Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano
8 Shostakovich, Sonata for Viola & Piano
9 Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps
10 Stravinsky, Symphonies of wind instruments
11 Stravinsky, Concerto for two pianos
12 Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
13 Stravinsky, Orpheus
14 Stravinsky, Agon
15 Prokofiev, Second Symphony
16 Prokofiev, Le pas d'acier
17 Prokofiev, L'enfant prodigue
18 Prokofiev, Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
19 Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
20 Prokofiev, Seventh Piano Sonata
21 Bartók, Second Piano Concerto
22 Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
23 Bartók, Third String Quartet
24 Bartók, Fourth String Quartet
25 Bartók, Fifth String Quartet
26 Bartók, Sixth String Quartet
27 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
28 Ravel, Sonata for Violin & Cello
29 Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp
30 Copland, Sextet
Quote from: edward on May 22, 2007, 10:38:31 AM
But how can you leave off the Second Cantata (op 31) and the wonderful orchestration of the Ricercare a 6 from the Musical Offering?
(* chortle *)
Quote from: nodogen on August 30, 2017, 05:46:02 AM
^^^^
Scriabin wrote 12 piano sonatas? 😮
Yup, there are ten numbered ones and two youthful compositions. One might even say there are 13 :
Vers la flamme he initially intended as a sonata but ended-up publishing it separately.
Quote from: Ghost Sonata on August 30, 2017, 06:27:17 AM
Yup, there are ten numbered ones and two youthful compositions. One might even say there are 13 : Vers la flamme he initially intended as a sonata but ended-up publishing it separately.
Oh well, at least I have 11 of them then! ☺️
One per composer:
Wagner: Ring
Debussy: Preludes book 1
Sibelius: Pohjola's daughter
Beethoven: Fidelio
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Rachmaninov: The Rock
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Weber: Der Freischütz
Liszt: Faust Symphony
Ravel: Miroirs
Brahms: Violin concerto
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelssohn: Piano trio no. 1
Bruckner: Symphony no. 7
Shostakovich: Golden Mountains
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Haydn: The Creation
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Gounod: Faust
Massenet: Thaïs
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Franck: Violin sonata
Fauré: Berceuse
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen BWV65
Handel: Solomon
Quote from: Alberich on August 30, 2017, 07:31:02 AM
One per composer:...
That was a very good idea as I've gone around today with a hang-dog look from obsessing about the many composers I love whose memory I just offended...
Dammit, I forgot Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Consider Bach and Handel deleted.
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel
My list today would look like this (minimal cheating--cf. the Ravel--, and most certainly not limited to one by composer):
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"
Beethoven: Ouvertüre Leonore III
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Berg: Lulu-Suite
Berio: Sinfonia
Boulez: Dérive 2
Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître
Boulez: Pli selon pli
Casella: La Giara
Debussy: Études pour piano
Debussy: Images pour orchestre
Debussy: Jeux
Enescu: Piano Quintet, op. 29
Falla: El retablo de Maese Pedro
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos
Falla / E. Halffter: Atlántida
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (piano and orchestra versions)
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Stravinsky: Agon
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Stravinsky: Symphonies d'instruments à vent
Verdi: Falstaff
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Wagner: Parsifal
Strictly in alphabetical order, and ca. 50% of the list could see changes from one day to the next ;)
Quote from: Alberich on August 31, 2017, 05:23:40 AM
Dammit, I forgot Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Consider Bach and Handel deleted.
That's tough.
I cannot say that you're
wrong; but that's tough 8)
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 31, 2017, 05:25:08 AM
That's tough.
I cannot say that you're wrong; but that's tough 8)
I know but I'm not the biggest fan of baroque there is. :(
Fair Disclosure: I could not see Handel's way into my 30 favorite, either.
(One per composer, no order)
Ligeti. Atmospheres
Part. Te deum
Ravel. Daphnis et Chloe
Scriabin. Sonata no.6
Haas. limited approximations
Andriessen. De staat
Bach. Partita no.2
Boulez. Sur incises
Chopin. 3 nocturnes, op.9
Coates. Symphony no.14
Gorecki. Symphony no.3
Murail. Desintegrations
Rzewski. The people united will never be defeated!
Sumera. Musica profana
Bartok. String quartet no.4
Messiaen. Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Bruckner. Symphony no.8
Sibelius. Symphony no.6
Faure. Ballade in F sharp, op.19
Kurtag. Hommage a Mihaly Andras, op.13
Brahms. Symphony no.4
Liszt. Funerailles
Penderecki. String quartet no.3
Rachmaninoff. Piano sonata no.2
Scelsi. Pfhat
Takemitsu. Spirit garden
Szymanowski. Piano sonata no.3
Vaughan Williams. Symphony no.8
Nielsen. Symphony no.5
Debussy. Preludes
Quote from: nodogen on September 03, 2017, 07:59:23 AM
(One per composer, no order)
Ligeti. Atmospheres
Part. Te deum
Ravel. Daphnis et Chloe
Scriabin. Sonata no.6
Haas. limited approximations
Andriessen. De staat
Bach. Partita no.2
Boulez. Sur incises
Chopin. 3 nocturnes, op.9
Coates. Symphony no.14
Gorecki. Symphony no.3
Murail. Desintegrations
Rzewski. The people united will never be defeated!
Sumera. Musica profana
Bartok. String quartet no.4
Messiaen. Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Bruckner. Symphony no.8
Sibelius. Symphony no.6
Faure. Ballade in F sharp, op.19
Kurtag. Hommage a Mihaly Andras, op.13
Brahms. Symphony no.4
Liszt. Funerailles
Penderecki. String quartet no.3
Rachmaninoff. Piano sonata no.2
Scelsi. Pfhat
Takemitsu. Spirit garden
Szymanowski. Piano sonata no.3
Vaughan Williams. Symphony no.8
Nielsen. Symphony no.5
Debussy. Preludes
Wonderful list. Is the
Bach Partita for solo violin or harpsichord?
Quote from: North Star on September 03, 2017, 08:11:13 AM
Wonderful list. Is the Bach Partita for solo violin or harpsichord?
😊
Solo violin. Afraid I'm not a fan of the typewriter.
Quote from: ritter on August 31, 2017, 05:24:34 AMGinastera: Variaciones concertantes
Another admirer here; most elusive final 'round' (dance) ever. :)
Brahms, Clarinet Quintet----Kell, Fine Arts Qt.
Mussorgsky- -Ravel, Pictures----Ansermet, SRO
Beethoven, Symphonies ------Leibowitz
Beethoven, Symphony no. 4----- Ansermet, Leibowitz
Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 ---- Leibowitz, Ansermet, Suitner
Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 --- Amsermet, Leibowitz
Beethoven, Symphony no. 9 --- Suitner, Leibowitz
Bach, 6 Brandenburg Concerto ---- Karl Ristenpart, Chamber Orchestra of the Saar
Bach, Magnificat ---- Prohaska
Brahms, Symphonies 1, 2, and 3 -----Walter, Columbia SO
Brahms, Symphony no. 4 ------Reiner, Royal Phil.
Sibelius, Symphonies ----- Maazel, Vninienna Phil.
Sibelius, Lemminkainen Suite, etc. ---- Gibson, Stein
Haydn, Symphonies 82-86 ----- Marriner, ASMF
Haydn, Symphony nos. 22, 77 ----Ward
Puccini, La Boheme ---- Beecham
Mozart, Symphonies nos.35 (Krips, RPO) and 41 (Leibowitz, Davis)
Rachmaninoff, Symphony no. 2--Ormandy
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 3--Horowitz, Reiner
Rachmaninoff, Isle of the Dead---- Reiner
Mayuzumi, Samsara --- Louisville Orch., Hong Kong Phil.
Schumann, Symphonies ---- Wit, Polish NRSO
I suppose a new list is in order and I'm trying to keep the one work per composer idea (in no particular):
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia espansiva"
Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky: Apollo
Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Ives: Symphony No. 4
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
Martinů: Musique de Chambre No. 1, "Les fêtes nocturnes"
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Szymanowski: Litany for the Virgin Mary
Berg: Lyric Suite
Britten: Nocturne
Hartmann: Symphonische Hymnen
Takemitsu: Toward the Sea (all three arrangements)
Barber: Violin Concerto
Duruflé: Requiem
Tippett: Double Concerto
Villa-Lobos: Chôros No. 6
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes
Chávez: Sinfonia india "Symphony No. 2"
Revueltas: La noche de los Mayas
Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Ravel snuck in there twice. An interesting list.
I haven't dared even try to do one myself yet...
Quote from: ørfeo on September 14, 2017, 05:07:26 AM
Ravel snuck in there twice. An interesting list.
I haven't dared even try to do one myself yet...
Thanks for the correction. Revueltas'
La noche de los Mayas is added to my list.