Posted on 03/01/2006 7:54:55 PM PST by Reaganesque
I was sitting here tonight listening to Mozart's Requiem and I got to thinking: what do I consider to be the best work of music ever? For my part, Mozart's work really does the trick for me when I need to be re-energized. Therefore, I believe that his Requiem is the greatest work of all time. There just isn't another work that is as powerful and passionate. When the chorus sings the final "Amen" at the end of "Lacrimosa" I get the feeling that he knew it was the last thing he would ever write. It gives me chills at times.
Other favorites are:
Handel's Messiah
The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky
Beethoven's 9th - particularly "Ode to Joy"
"Stars and Stripes Forever"
Many, many operas.
"Magnificent Seven"
You had it right with the first one.
I've been meaning to get into some Ives. Any recommendations?
The Clarkes of Oxenford is the best boys Choir in the world bar none.
Their perfomance of Spem In Alium is a masterpiece of liturgical music.
It still sends chills up my spine twenty years after I first heard it.
That guy, Salieri, helped him.
That was creative license. The man who "finished" it was Sussmeyer. He had been a student of Mozart's at some point. And the odd thing, is that the weird stuff in the Requiem was actually Mozart's, not Sussmeyer.
Gary Lamb's Weeping Angel. Beautiful piano with violin.
"Dude, like, all those guys are, like, dead.
Do you have any favorites that were, like, written after 1944?"
Yeah man, like I they never wrote nothin' like, uh, you know that dude that had that hit like last week. Like I don't remember like who but it had my bad subs smashin' in my Caddy.
I'm partial to the "Ballad of Snoopy and the Red Baron" by the Royal guardsman.
Handel's MESSIAH , no question about it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which threaten the sanity of all strings players everywhere.
Yah, I love Elvis' "Blue Moon" in that movie and the into song, "Owe My Soul to the Company Store".
I love to hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing their version of "Battlehymn of the Republic." Powerful stuff!
Rush - La Villa Strangiata
"It was the real thing
That made my ding a ling ring
It was the real thing
That made my ding a ling ring... "
From The Real Thing by The Spiders (1954)--The answer to The Toy Bell (aka My Dingaling) by The Bees (1954).
The first time I heard 'Spem in Alium" was in a music class I took in college. (many years ago). After it was finished, the whole class sat there in silence except for the gentle AHHHHHHHH that was uttered by most of the class. It was so beautiful.
New policy: If it makes me laugh you get an LOL. Sorry formatting a response costs extra. Spell Check - fergit it. ;-)
Burning down the house.
Talking heads
When Lt. Shane Osborn and his merry band of spies crash landed on Hainan Island early in the Bush administration, the ChiComs wanted to know the lyrics to Hotel California.
#1 Three Places In New England #2 The Unanswered Question #3 The Violin Sonatas 1-4 If your really brave then throw yourself into Symphony #4 and then his AMAZING "Concord" Piano Sonata. His first 2 symphonies are very romantic, but great listening with plenty of Americana woven throughout the pieces. His "songs" are wonderful as well. Once you tune your ear to the genius of Ives, he's quite an infectious composer and character.
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