You've heard of the Seven Wonders of the World, but what I'm asking here is, what are YOUR Seven Wonders of Classical Music? It can be an individual work, a whole cycle or every note a composer wrote. It can be a historic event, a particular performer or conductor. Use your imagination.
Remember to list seven, no more, no less.
Thank you.
Bach
One wonder will do. Or it will be 1 plus 6, with the other 6 significantly below Bach.
Quote from: springrite on September 05, 2012, 06:05:50 AM
Or it will be 1 plus 6, with the other 6 significantly below Bach.
Yes.
Ecole de Notre-Dame
Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame
Monteverdi's IV Book of Madrigals
W.A. Mozart
Chopin's four Ballades
Claude Debussy
Stravinski's Rite of Spring
Perfect, Drasko. Just what I asked for. :)
The Seven Wonders of My Classical World:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/goodmusic/Szell%20Time.jpg)(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/goodmusic/Ring%20Karajan.jpg)
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/mahler6solti.jpg)(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/Mutter3.jpg)
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/june12/havergalbrianwithpipe.jpg)(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/oct2010/bru10symmaz.jpg)
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/goodmusic/HeleneGrimaud.jpg)
Sarge
Excellent! Bravo, Sarge.
Sarge puts a few photos of ugly men in their just so that Mrs. Rock wouldn't have any wrong ideas...
Quote from: springrite on September 05, 2012, 07:04:04 AM
Sarge puts a few photos of ugly men in their just so that Mrs. Rock wouldn't have any wrong ideas...
Or maybe I just have a thing for bald heads and grey hair :D
Sarge
Gustavo Dudamel's hair.
Yuja Wang's legs
Quote from: The Six on September 05, 2012, 07:25:09 AM
Gustavo Dudamel's hair.
Yuja Wang's legs
We'll add these to springrite's "Bach."
Eroica
Op 111
Op 132
Tristan und Isolde
Wozzeck
Debussy's Preludes
WTC
Quote from: Todd on September 05, 2012, 07:35:25 AM
Eroica
Op 111
Op 132
Tristan und Isolde
Wozzeck
Debussy's Preludes
WTC
I love this set. Personally I may sub Rite of Spring and Goldberg for... Eroica and Debussy...
Bernstein's Mahler
Tennstedt's Mahler 2
Karajan's Mahler 9
Chailly's live BBC Proms Mahler 6 with Gewandhaus! :D
The Berliner Philharmoniker
Andris Nelsons
and:
GMG!
:D ;D
My 7 Wonders of Classical Music (in no particular order):
1. Dmitri Shostakovich -
(http://www.andriasovstore.com/photos/undefined/Shostakovich.jpg)
2. Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps -
(http://www.nea.gov/about/40th/images/joffrey.jpg)
3. Leonard Bernstein -
(http://imgc.artprintimages.com/images/art-print/leonard-bernstein-1960_i-G-37-3729-SMQAF00Z.jpg)
4. Martha Argerich -
(http://welltempered.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/martha-argerich-at-piano.jpg)
5. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe -
(http://www.rmichelson.com/Artist_Pages/Guay/Ballet_Stories/Daphnis-and-Chloe2.jpg)
6. Bruckner's Symphony No. 9
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JSSrRNy4W_E/T5mqdKl2cuI/AAAAAAAAE8E/VCRe2g4YqcY/s1600/A-silhouette-of-composer--001.jpeg)
7. Béla Bartók -
(http://www.fuguemasters.com/bartok.jpg)
Hans Rott Symphony 1 - Segerstam
Anton Bruckner
Carlos Kleiber
*Celibidache and the BPO playing Beethovens Egmont overture in the ruins of Berlins Philharmonic hall, circa 1947*
Rautavaara - Angels and Visitations
Herbert von Karajan
Bertinis Inbals Mahler 5
Shostakovich 5
Bach
Beethoven's 9th
Wagner's Ring Cycle
Ives
Minimalism
Evolution of brass instruments
Bernstein
Almost impossible to narrow it down to seven! Here's an attempt:
Barber - Symphony No. 1
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Holst - The Planets
Mahler - ALL the songs
Mozart - Requiem
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 1 (cond. Friedmann)
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Bach's Mass in B Minor
(http://www.1000recordings.com/images/artist-b/bach-j-s-39-l.jpg)
Handel's Messiah
(http://www.freecodesource.com/album-cover/31xTXn5j88L/-Handel:-Messiah.jpg)
Beethoven
(http://ademu.home.xs4all.nl/Beethoven/BeetHradec3.jpg)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
(http://www.classicalvoice.org/images/ViennaPhilharm460_musikverein.jpg)
Audio recordings
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/331/3/4/Shattered_Vinyl_HD_Wallpaper_by_Sam_Wells.jpg)
Franco de Cologne
(http://eagleionline.com/files/2010/11/music-notes.jpg)
GMG Classical Music Forum (and Rob for making it happen)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bERJt5LFvM0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAATf8/i56jkTOLl6A/s250-c-k/photo.jpg)
Unique poll, Dave! I like it. :)
My personal seven wonders are:
Bach - Cello Suites
Beethoven - Late string quartets
Wagner - Solti's Ring
Tchaikovsky's Ballets
Schubert - String Quintet in C, D956
Brahms - Chamber Music
Bruckner & Mahler's symphonies
Great thread! :D ;D
Richard Wagner
Mahler's symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Liszt
Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
You said to be imaginative. I think I fulfilled that part at least! :)
-What's Opera, Doc (Bugs Bunny)
-Classical Music Archive (a place I wish existed that kept a copy of every recording/concert/etc ever made in the history of classical music, using the broadest sense of the word)
-Stradivarius
-Casa Verdi (rest home established by Verdi)
-Mt. Conductmore (like Mt Rushmore): Bernstein, Kleiber, Toscanini, Mravinsky
-Musikverein (it's just so cool), but all the classical music stages of the world really
-The Piano Concerto
Thanks for the great responses. I like some of these wonders and will consider them for my own list.
Okay, here's mine.
Renaissance Choral Music
Bach
Beethoven
Chopin
Schubert lieder
The modern piano
The CD (designed to hold Beethoven's 9th)
C
D
E
F
G
A
B
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 06, 2012, 04:08:24 AM
Unique poll, Dave! I like it. :)
...Bach - Cello Suites.....
I forgot about that. Nice choice.
Quote from: Scots John on September 06, 2012, 06:45:19 AM
I forgot about that. Nice choice.
I thought the same. But, you know...BACH!!!
Quote from: Scots John on September 06, 2012, 06:45:19 AM
I forgot about that. Nice choice.
Regarding Bach's Cello Suites, I would probably put them as my # 1 in my 7 wonders (I know I actually did, but that was just a random order, just pure coincidence).
The more I listen to them, the more in awe I am of them. Absolutely remarkable, considering the time they were written in, when the Cello was a relative peon of the instrumental world.
And, they sound like they could have been written yesterday. Simply amazing works of art.
I'm shocked that nobody has listed Lang Lang as a wonder. :o
RVW's Tallis Fantasia w/ Barbirolli
viola da gamba
Handel's Cara sposa (http://youtu.be/3IqzuaQ5OJA)
opening chorus of St. Matthew's Passion
Purcell's Abdelazer suite
Glenn Gould
Debussy's La cathédrale engloutie
I find it appropriate to spread my wonders over different genres, so here goes:
Handel: The Messiah
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier
Mozart: Piano Concertos
Beethoven: String Quartets
Chopin: Piano music
Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel: Lieder
Wagner: The Ring Cycle
I could have included Schubert's lieder; it was a toss up and they have already featured.
I selected only single works to try and most properly reflect my understanding of the topic.
Berlioz's Les Troyens
Copland's Grogh
Messiaen's Apparition de l'église éternelle
Satie's Ogives
Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 10
Strauss's Josephslegende
Stravinsky's Agon
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 06, 2012, 04:01:41 PM
I'm shocked that nobody has listed Lang Lang as a wonder. :o
Yuja Wang's legs and Grimaud's smile shoved him off the list.
Interesting poll (meaning "I like many of the answers" ;) ).
Wonders. Hmmm, could mean almost anything, from Florence Foster Jenkins to Paul McCartney's
Standing Stones. Let's see what comes to mind.
1) Janet Baker singing Mahler's "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen"
2) Mozart's
Le Nozze di Figaro3) Wagner's
Ring 4) tie: the opening of Sibelius's first symphony & the opening of Mahler's first symphony
5) Simon Rattle's hair
6) Elgar's cello concerto
7) tie: Beethoven's 16 and Beethoven's 32 and Bach's 48
Did I get it right? ;)
Bartolomeo Cristofori [the Inventor of the Piano]
The invention of the CD
Portable Audio Players
Second-Hand Music Shops
Ebay & Amazon
Beethoven
Schubert - Impromptus [Alfred Brendel]
Quote from: JDWalley on September 10, 2012, 08:25:45 AM
I'd say those are seven natural choices.
Ha! That works on multiple levels. :)
Quote from: Octo_Russ on September 10, 2012, 09:21:38 AM
Schubert - Impromptus [Alfred Brendel]
*high-five!*
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 10, 2012, 08:35:02 AM
5) Simon Rattle's hair
This is my favorite entry on all of the lists! ;D
Quote from: DavidW on September 10, 2012, 09:49:26 AM
This is my favorite entry on all of the lists! ;D
More than a mere "classical music wonder," it's one of the greatest wonders of the modern world. :D
The Ring
Mozart's Piano Concertos
Stokowski
Chopin's Etudes
Bach's Cantatas
Rubinstein's 1961 Russian Concert
Charles Ives' trunk full of unplayed manuscripts in 1945
Bach's Well-tempered Clavier
Furtwängler's Beethoven 9
Tennstedt 's Mahler 2
Bruckner
Rite of Spring
Beethoven
Bartok
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 10, 2012, 09:59:38 AMMore than a mere "classical music wonder," it's one of the greatest wonders of the modern world. :D
Enjoy it while it lasts ;)
In ten years, the top entry will be "Simon Rattle's bald spot" :D
My 7 wonders:
1. Symphonies
2. Concertos
3. Tone poems
4. Sonatas
5. String quartets
6. Masses
7. Oratorios/cantatas
- Voices
- Woodwinds
- Brass
- Strings
- Keyboards
- Percussion
- Tape