What Is the Greatest Musical Work of All Time?

3/1/2006 | Reaganesque

[Soaring Feather]

Mozart is great. I like a wide variety of music, from Johnny Cash to Zydeco.

Most favourite musical South Pacific. Gorgeous music there.

[Antoninus]

I'd have to go with the Brandenburg Concertos by J. S. Bach, or else Palestrina's Missa Papae.

[Xenalyte]

Shut UP. Skynyrd sucks.

Nothing personal, mind you. It's just that Skynyrd sucks so much.

[Libertarian444]

James Brown - Night Train

[operation clinton cleanup]

Led Zeppelin's "The Crunge" or "Kashmir". (My musical tastes are very limited).

[Revolting cat!]

"We had joy, we had fun,
We had seasons in the sun..."

[Doctor Stochastic]

RiB is very good but I think the Concerto in F is just a bit better.

[Lancey Howard]

Nutcracker

[31R1O]

J.S. Bach, the Art of Fugue or the Rach 3.

[blinachka]

Eeeks! I meant German Requiem by BRAHMS! (My Dad would smack me silly!)

[Torie]

Good choice. The fifth is marvelous too. Klemperer's rendition of Brahams 4th deeply affected in college. But the piece I heard in a concert hall, that most affected me was Britten's War Requiem. When the music evoked the moment of death of a young man on the killing fields of WW I, the chills going down my spine, I feel now thinking about it, almost as much as then.

[Lurking in Kansas]

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) -Bob Dylan

[Libertarian444]

Ray Charles - What I Say?

[Obadiah]

Mozart's Requiem - without a doubt, IMO.

[Alouette]

After Beethoven's Ninth, the following:

Bach Brandenburg Concertos
Beethoven's Seventh
Handel Royal Fireworks
Wagner Ring Operas (or as I like to call it, the original Lord of the Rings)

[Billthedrill]

Yeah. I mean, I love Bach but when I'm sloppy drunk and skidding in the vomit on the high-school gym floor, I really can't pronounce "Das Wohltemperirte Klavier" but I can shout "BlaysssomeSkynnrdddmaaaaannnn..."

[Reaganesque]

Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are always a good bet.

[Onelifetogive]

Nothing personal, mind you. It's just that Skynyrd sucks so much.

I am no particular fan of Skynyrd.....it just that when that song comes on the radio down here, everybody stops, removes their hat and puts their hand over their heart. It's pathetic, really....

[Revolting cat!]

"I hahv got too bee meeeeeeeeee..."