Your Preferred Category

[Bulldog]

I've kept the selections to a minimum.  "Vocal" includes any music with voice (lieder, orchestral songs, operas, oratorios, masses, etc.)

My pick is solo instrumental, especially keyboard music.

[springrite]

Since I prefer one or the other at different times, I vote for "all of the above".

[karlhenning]

Since I prefer one or the other at different times, I vote for "all of the above".

My choice, as well.

[mn dave]

I've kept the selections to a minimum.  "Vocal" includes any music with voice (lieder, orchestral songs, operas, oratorios, masses, etc.)

My pick is solo instrumental, especially keyboard music.

It's funny you did this because I was thinking about it. Recently, I've realized I much prefer chamber-sized (or solo) pieces to anything else. My pick is solo instrumental.

[Kuhlau]

I seem to have more orchestral music on my shelves (and in my laptop) than music from any of the other categories listed, so I suppose this must indicate a clear preference.

FK

[71 dB]

It depends, it depends but...

Vocal
Chamber Music
Orchestral
Solo Instrumental

[tr. pianist]

I also prefer chamber music to orchestral. I like interaction between instruments.

[ChamberNut]

Chamber, otherwise I have to change my name.   

Although I have been listening to alot of opera and orchestral music lately, chamber music still occupies at least 50% of my listening time, easily.

[Joe_Campbell]

I voted solo instrumental, because currently, that's where my interest lies.

[Bulldog]

I voted solo instrumental, because currently, that's where my interest lies.

Which composers strike your fancy in recent months?

[Todd]

Solo instrumental.  Mostly piano.

[Joe_Campbell]

I've been exploring a few of the "composer pianists": (I should have mentioned the solo instrument as being keyboard, although it almost seems a given)
-Scriabin
-Rachmaninoff
-Medtner
-Alkan
-Liszt
-Chopin

But also on the playlist:
-Shostakovich
-Prokofiev
-Beethoven


Probably many others...but I occassionally tend to obsess over certain CD's for a while and then exhaust them! It hasn't been like that recently though. However, I always find myself coming back to the Complete Godowsky Studies on Chopin Etudes for brief periods. Really a marvel they are!

[adamdavid80]

Solo instrumental.  Mostly piano.

ditto....give me brendel or haskil doing anything by anybody and I'm captivated.

also, lately, have had a lot of time for Roge's interpretations of Satie.  Really lovely stuff.

hey, jc, where's your messian>

[Bulldog]

ditto....give me brendel or haskil doing anything by anybody and I'm captivated.

I didn't know that anyone on the board loved Brendel's performances other than myself.  You have transcendent taste.

[Gurn Blanston]

Chamber music. 60% or so of my collection is CM. Or in order of the categories:

Chamber
Solo instrument
Orchestral
Vocal



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Listening to:
Mozart: The Symphonies - Pinnock, Trevor; The English Concert - Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (173d B): 1. Allegro con brio

[Joe_Campbell]

ditto....give me brendel or haskil doing anything by anybody and I'm captivated.

also, lately, have had a lot of time for Roge's interpretations of Satie.  Really lovely stuff.

hey, jc, where's your messian>

Hey Adam,

Give me a couple of days and I'll be sending it your way. I've been really busy with work and practicing! Sorry I haven't done it sooner! 

[Keemun]

I voted for Orchestral.  As much as I like some solo/chamber/vocal works, for me the orchestra is supreme.  Of course some of my favorite works are really a combination of Orchestral and Vocal (e.g. Brahms's German Requiem, Bach's Mass in B minor).  

[greg]

Orchestral, by far. Very rarely do I have such a compulsion to listen to music other than orchestral music- the bigger, the better, i suppose 

[The new erato]

though there are a few exceptions, i generally prefer smaller forces...it just has a much more personal and intimate quality to it.

Word. Orchestral music, particularly of the big, romantic type, is the music I play the least (though that's not to say I seldom play it having done some Mahler recently).

[Kuhlau]

I didn't know that anyone on the board loved Brendel's performances other than myself.  You have transcendent taste.

Another Brendel admirer, here.

FK