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
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" one of the most uplifting music ever written.
The Wizard - Uriah Heep
They stopped writing music after the Classical era!
I have to agree with you on Chopin. All the Nocturnes are just fantastic!
Either the Requiem or Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, particularly the last movement. Profound beyond words.
I'm glad to see someone mentioned Glenn Miller. I love Big Band music. I have a two CD tribute album to Buddy Rich. He was, in my estimation, the greatest Big Band drummer of all time. Man could he play! I actually got to meet him once when I was still in high school and he was very cool to talk to.
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Ravels Bolero.
I'm somewhat tongue in cheek because I listen to a wide variety of music. But if I plotted a distribution curve of what i listen to, the peak would definitely be Baroque and Classical.
"WHAT KIND OF FOOL I YAM???"
yes
The first time I heard it was at JFK's funeral. I was 14, and the music gripped my soul.
RRRAAAA a hula-baby rraaaa a hula-baby got a hula lulu from Honolulu Thats rock-a-hula baby of mine
anything by kanye!! /sarcasm
personally, i love holst's planets. also children's march and peter and the wolf have special places in my heart (how can you not love bassoon features?)
OK, you win!
A man after my own heart, I can listen to Rhapsody In Blue every, single, solitary day and it never gets old to me. Let's see, I've got Bernstein's version with the CBS Orchestra, Oscar Levant's version with Eugene Ormandy conducting, James Levine's version, Mitch Miller's version with him conducting and David Golub on piano, the Erich Kunzel version with William Tritt on piano, Toscanini conducting it with Earl Wild on piano and Benny Goodman on clarinet (Benny hitting his famous bum note in the opening part) and a bizarro version from the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra from the 1950s, they even have a guitar playing along in the orchestra, but what saves it is Georges Cziffra, just an absoutely unbelievable musician, playing the piano, plus I have the version that was made using modern technology from piano rolls that Gershwin himself cut, which is like George himself playing it for you. All of them have their virtues, but I'd say my favorite is the Kunzel because he uses the original score, followed by the Toscanini version because it's exceptionally well done given the fact that it was not a style of music one would think the maestro would've conducted but he was right on it, and then the Cziffra/Hungarian version for the sheer audacity of it. The Gershwin piano roll version is in a different class but equally strong.
It is, without question, the greatest work of music ever.
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