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Title: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on May 17, 2011, 04:25:40 PM
What ten works are in heavy rotation in your CD players or on your iPod?

Right now, here are mine (in no particular order):

1. Koechlin: Vers la Voûte étoilée
2. Villa-Lobos: Forest of the Amazon
3. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
4. Milhaud: Symphony No. 6
5. Dutilleux: Metaboles
6. Koechlin: Le buisson ardent
7. Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
8. Koechlin: The Jungle Book (the complete cycle)
9. Koechlin: Chant funebre a la memoire des jeunes femmes defuntes
10. Honegger: Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: abidoful on May 23, 2011, 11:17:41 PM
I don't have a cd-player since it broke, so I listen a lot music either from YouTube or my lap top
1.Chopin:Concerto1 (Gilels/Ormandy, YouTube)
2.Chopin: Krakowiak (various performers from youTube)
3. Rachmaninov playing (from youtube);
4.His concerto 4
5.His concerto 2
7.His concerto1
8.His etudes tableaux
9.Scriabin:Piano concerto (various performers)

Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: TheGSMoeller on June 03, 2011, 09:56:52 AM
Sounds like fun!


10. Mendelssohn:  Midsummer Night's Dream Incidental Music
9. Max Richter:  Infra
8. Rameau:  Les Surprises de l'Amour
7. Rameau:  Pieces de Clavecin
6. Britten:  Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (this piece should never leave my Top-10)
5. Murray Gold:  Soundtrack to Doctor Who Season 5 (for a television show Gold writes some epic music)
4. Britten:  String Quartet no. 2
3. Vaughan Williams:  Symphony no. 8
2. Ives:  Songs, mainly from the album, "The Light That Is Felt"
1. Martinu:  Concerto for Harpsichord and Little Orchestra 




Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: karlhenning on June 03, 2011, 10:03:14 AM
In general, these past several weeks I've been mixing up the listening list far too much to qualify to post to this thread.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Scarpia on June 03, 2011, 10:17:11 AM
Same here, in the recent past works tend to get played once, twice or perhaps three times before being usurped by something else in the active listening stack.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: springrite on June 03, 2011, 10:23:19 AM
Goldberg Variations
Mahler 7
Rubbra 3
Well Tempered Klavier (Feinberg)
Berg Lyric Suite
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E
Mozart String Quintets
Winterreise
Crumb Cello Sonata
Salome
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: DavidW on June 03, 2011, 10:25:08 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 03, 2011, 10:03:14 AM
In general, these past several weeks I've been mixing up the listening list far too much to qualify to post to this thread.

I have a feeling that is most of us which is why this thread has been pretty inactive.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Coco on June 04, 2011, 11:00:10 AM
Messiaen - La nativité du seigneur (Alain)
Préludes, quatre études de rythme, etc. (Loriod)
Boulez - Piano Sonata No. 2 (Jumppanen)
Dallapiccola - Canti di Prigionia, Tre Liriche Greche (Zender/EIC)
Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera, Piccola Musica Notturna, etc (Ensemble Recherche)
Carter - String Quartets 2, 3 & 4 (Pacifica)
Symphonia, Clarinet Concerto (Knussen/BBC, London SF)
Ferneyhough - String Quartets 2, 3 & 4, Sonatas for SQ (Ardittis)
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Wanderer on June 04, 2011, 11:31:56 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 03, 2011, 10:03:14 AM
In general, these past several weeks I've been mixing up the listening list far too much to qualify to post to this thread.

I've been doing that too; also disqualified from posting.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Cato on June 05, 2011, 03:17:15 AM
Quote from: Coco on June 04, 2011, 11:00:10 AM
Messiaen - La nativité du seigneur (Alain)
Préludes, quatre études de rythme, etc. (Loriod)
Boulez - Piano Sonata No. 2 (Jumppanen)
Dallapiccola - Canti di Prigionia, Tre Liriche Greche (Zender/EIC)
Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera, Piccola Musica Notturna, etc (Ensemble Recherche)
Carter - String Quartets 2, 3 & 4 (Pacifica)
Symphonia, Clarinet Concerto (Knussen/BBC, London SF)
Ferneyhough - String Quartets 2, 3 & 4, Sonatas for SQ (Ardittis)

Coco!

Are you married?

In my house that list would be given to the judge as her grounds for divorce!!!   ;D
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Coco on June 05, 2011, 04:18:36 AM
Quote from: Cato on June 05, 2011, 03:17:15 AM
Coco!

Are you married?

In my house that list would be given to the judge as her grounds for divorce!!!   ;D

I haven't found a man yet who would tolerate such a playlist!
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: MDL on June 05, 2011, 04:32:34 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 17, 2011, 04:25:40 PM
What ten works are in heavy rotation in your CD players or on your iPod?

Right now, here are mine (in no particular order):

3. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
5. Dutilleux: Metaboles
7. Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
8. Koechlin: The Jungle Book (the complete cycle)

Very nice. Having a bit of a Koechlin jag, obviously. I only know The Jungle Book. Must explore some of his other works.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 05, 2011, 07:14:48 AM
Quote from: MDL on June 05, 2011, 04:32:34 AM
Very nice. Having a bit of a Koechlin jag, obviously. I only know The Jungle Book. Must explore some of his other works.

Yes, his music is worth exploring and getting to know. A sadly neglected composer in my estimate.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 05, 2011, 07:56:45 AM
Quote from: Philoctetes on June 05, 2011, 07:15:29 AM
Sadly neglected?

Sadly neglected by mainstream classical audiences and in the concert halls.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 05, 2011, 08:12:26 AM
Quote from: Philoctetes on June 05, 2011, 08:00:34 AM
I would simply view that as neglected. The sadly neglected tend to be in my thread focused on contemporary classical. It's never a tragedy to ignore the dead.

Okay, then neglected then. Whatever you say. ::)
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 05, 2011, 08:17:09 AM
Quote from: Philoctetes on June 05, 2011, 08:13:47 AM
Words do matter. I would think you, of anyone, would appreciate that fact.

You're simply making mountains out of molehills.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: DavidW on June 05, 2011, 08:18:12 AM
I think that Schubert's Swan Song makes it to most played works, because I think that I'm just going to have to listen to it fir a third time! :D
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 05, 2011, 03:28:33 PM
Quote from: Philoctetes on June 05, 2011, 03:25:12 PM
You got that backwards.

I never go backwards, I always go forward.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 05, 2011, 03:32:36 PM
Quote from: Philoctetes on June 05, 2011, 03:30:07 PM
Except seemingly when it comes to music. You seem to love dead people. That's definite regression, if I've ever seen any.

That's only partly true. I love the music of Lindberg, Salonen, Dutilleux, Reich, Part, Rautavaara, Adams, among others and they're not dead.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 05, 2011, 04:12:35 PM
Quote from: Philoctetes on June 05, 2011, 04:04:44 PM
Admirable. Although, I did say seemingly. Plus, all of those composers listed seem relatively safe, but I'm a fan of anyone who listens and supports the living. So A+ to you.  :-*

I wouldn't say Lindberg and Salonen have necessarily played it "safe." A work like Kraft by Lindberg is just as sophisticated and complex as anything by Birtwistle or Harvey.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: rondos on June 06, 2011, 11:42:01 AM
Will it sound too shallow if I put some works by old Beethoven in this list?
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 06, 2011, 11:42:54 AM
Quote from: rondos on June 06, 2011, 11:42:01 AM
Will it sound too shallow if I put some works by old Beethoven in this list?

Of course not! It's your list, not mine.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 21, 2011, 02:31:07 PM
Current Top 10 Most-Played Works (in no particular order):

1. Wagner: Das Rheingold (I've heard it twice so far)
2. Lindberg: Graffiti
3. Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
4. Berg: Lulu-Suite
5. Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges
6. Langgaard: Antikrist (I've already it twice since I bought it)
7. Nielsen: Rhapsody Overture - An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands
8. Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra
9. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
10. Koechlin: Le buisson ardent
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Brian on June 21, 2011, 02:44:00 PM
Looking at my listening log for June so far, I've listened to only seven works more than once:
1. Blumenfeld: Etude for the piano, left hand (3 times)
T2. Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra;
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 31;
Olsen: Asgaardsreien;
Chopin: Mazurka No 17 in B flat minor 24/4;
Beethoven: Symphony No 5;
Sibelius: Symphony No 3
(twice each)

That's really unusual parity for me. At least, I think I've been made fun of here in the past for my "enthusiastic" fixations with pieces. Now I can't even fill out a top 10! ;D
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Brian on June 21, 2011, 02:46:00 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 21, 2011, 02:31:07 PM
7. Nielsen: Rhapsody Overture - An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands
What a cool piece that is, by the way.  8)
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 21, 2011, 02:59:33 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 21, 2011, 02:44:00 PMLutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

This is a cool piece too! I love it. :) Very much in debt to Bartok, but Lutoslawski did his own thing with it.
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: Mirror Image on June 21, 2011, 03:01:08 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 21, 2011, 02:46:00 PM
What a cool piece that is, by the way.  8)

Yes, it hasn't been recorded much either. I think only twice: Chung (BIS) and Dausgaard (Dacapo).
Title: Re: Current Top 10 Most-Played Works
Post by: DavidW on June 21, 2011, 03:02:20 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 21, 2011, 02:59:33 PM
This is a cool piece too! I love it. :) Very much in debt to Bartok, but Lutoslawski did his own thing with it.

Yup, a great work. :)

For me Bach's Cantata bwv 21, I've heard the whole thing twice (Leusink), the sinfonia four times (since I had to listen to the Koopman youtube link and the Herreweghe on youtube), and parts of it as well (Herreweghe on youtube) and I look forward to hearing the whole thing again when the Herreweghe cd arrives. :)