Current Top 10 Most-Played Works

[Mirror Image]

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"

[abidoful]

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)

[TheGSMoeller]

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 

[karlhenning]

In general, these past several weeks I've been mixing up the listening list far too much to qualify to post to this thread.

[Scarpia]

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.

[springrite]

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

[DavidW]

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.

[Coco]

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)

[Wanderer]

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.

[Cato]

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!!!   

[Coco]

Coco!

Are you married?

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

I haven't found a man yet who would tolerate such a playlist!

[MDL]

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.

[Mirror Image]

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.

[Mirror Image]

Sadly neglected?

Sadly neglected by mainstream classical audiences and in the concert halls.

[Mirror Image]

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.

[Mirror Image]

Words do matter. I would think you, of anyone, would appreciate that fact.

You're simply making mountains out of molehills.

[DavidW]

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!

[Mirror Image]

You got that backwards.

I never go backwards, I always go forward.

[Mirror Image]

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.

[Mirror Image]

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.