What is currently stuck in your head?

[LKB]

For the last eight hours or so, Brahms' Fourth has been keeping my 🧠 company.   

[LKB]

Currently, the famous Toccata from Widor's Symphony for Organ No. 5

Beethoven's fourth piano concerto keeps butting in though... 

[Mapman]

The opening theme of the first movement of Beethoven's 1st Razumovsky quartet, Op. 59/1.

[Mapman]

The opening melody from the finale of Nielsen's 3rd symphony.

[LKB]

The fourth movement of Brahms' Symphony No. 4.

Actually, " stuck " doesn't quite describe the situation, as this work is one of a few my brain sort of default's to if I'm focused on something non- musical, as l am now while sitting in the taxi en-route to my job.

The other pieces my brain automatically selects if I'm otherwise engaged include Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake,  Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliette,  Shostakovich's 6th and Mahler's Symphony no. 7.

[Florestan]

Mozart Clarinet Quintet main theme of the finale

Saint-Saens PC 2 Scherzo and Trio

[Kalevala]

Casta Diva with Callas (from Norma) alternating with some songs from Dire Straits' Communiqué which I played for a friend a couple of days ago. 

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[Brian]

I think Stravinsky's "Scherzo a la russe" might be the most diabolical earworm I have yet encountered. The tune is incredibly catchy, it's repeated a lot of times, and the piece ends mid-tune so your head wants to keep filling it in!

[LKB]

Mahler's Symphony no. 2 was in my head for a very long time, even a week after our performance of it. 

But at this precise moment, bits and pieces of the score from Lonesome Dove are bouncing around inside this old, cracked cranium.

[Florestan]

Verrano a te sull'aure i miei sopiri ardenti, the gorgeous love duet between Lucia and Edgardo, one of Donizetti's happiest inspirations.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Pretty much any of the Bach or Handel I've been currently listening to --- so many earworms and only so much brain left.

[hopefullytrusting]

Growing Up by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero from the OST for Minding the Gap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpnPyZLSaY

I am never not amazed at how music captures a moment - for me, nothing comes close to it - not even smell. There is so much held in each of the notes.

[DavidW]

One of my students had their alarm go off in class by accident... it was the beginning of Tchaikovsky's 4th. Now it is stuck in my head!

[DavidW]

Mozart's concerto for flute and harp is stuck in my head!! It comes and goes. It has been weeks since I listened to it, but it is such an earworm.

[foxandpeng]

Very rare that a classical piece earworms me - perhaps because of the tuneless nonsense that I prefer to play.

My earworms are always from other genres, but oddly, always seem to stay with me for days on end (and occasionally, weeks).

Immensely frustrating.

[Brian]

One of my students had their alarm go off in class by accident... it was the beginning of Tchaikovsky's 4th. Now it is stuck in my head!

What a good alarm! It's perfect for the task. The only problem is my brain would play the next 40 minutes of the symphony every time the alarm went off 

The ding my elevator at work makes when it arrives is the first note of Schubert's impromptu d899 no. 2, so I almost always arrive at my desk with that stuck in my head. Kind of like when I lived in Houston and the Metro train arrival sound was the first note of Chopin's first nocturne...that was always stuck in my head.

perhaps because of the tuneless nonsense that I prefer to play.

 

[hopefullytrusting]

Armin van Buuren & Natalie Gioia's Viva l'Opera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eNPtTwbWE

[Christo]

My surprise exactly.

Only the high a in Missa. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Africa for piano and orchestra by Saint-Saëns. What an earworm of a piece it is, absolutely exhilarating and sparkling all the way through.

[Symphonic Addict]

Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

The last time I gave it a listen it was the Credo that got stuck in my head the most.