Posted on 12/05/2001 7:02:28 PM PST by Pharmboy
Ask the question this way: If you were stranded on a desert island with a CD player and a good sound system, what ten pieces would you take with you that were written before the 20th Century?
My list:
1) Beethoven's Appassionata sonata for piano
2) Bach's Partita Number 2 for solo violin
3) Mozart's Symphony Number 41
4) Wagner's Overture to Tristan und Isolde
5) Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 131
6) Chopin's Ballade Number 4
7) Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (IMO the only worthwhile thing he ever wrote)
8) Schubert's Impromptus (all of them)
9) Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata
and 10) Bach's Mass in B Minor
My hat's off to anyone who can perform these 12 up to speed.
You are so right ... I remember the first time I heard it was as background music on the Carl Sagan "COSMOS" specials. I had spent all of my high school and college playing in bands and orchestras and I had NEVER heard it before.
I've taken 24 variations of "Canon" from different CD's .. different arrangements, different groups playing it, different interpretations .. and placed them all on one CD. When I really want to relax and "chill", that's the CD I use ... one of the variations has ocean sounds (waves and birds) as faint background to it.
FANTASTIC!
Dan
She's got these tiny little hands. Tiny! And the Goyescas have tenths, with wiggly stuff goin' on in between the spans all over the place. So me 'n the boys were all wonderin'...I mean...How's she do it?
Ruh, Roh! The only part of the Peer Gynt Suite with which I'm familiar is the 'pastoral' sounding one that tended to be used a lot in cartoons! The only recording I have of it is on a compilation disc of "Relaxing Classical Music". I'll have to fire up the CD player and give my kids some culture while they're doing their (home)schoolwork!
Bach's Orchestral Suites all of them ("Air on G" is from Suite #3)
Allegri's Misere Anyone who loves choral music should hear this, especially around Lent
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute (that'll get anti-Masons going)
Verdi's La Traviata
Widor's Symphony No. 5 in f minor for organ--the Toccata movement is wild--try playing it
Bach's Unaccompanied Suites Luminous and absolutely scary to play--no place to hide
Bach's Magnificat The Gloria movement is fabulous (especially is is you're in the middle of the chorus behind the orchestra)
Too bad we can't include Barber's Adagio for strings and Rachmaninoff's Fourth Concerto
I think that Richard Rogers' "Victory at Sea" (Copeland Too) is one of the better ones but after 1900 brings us into the Jazz, Swing and Rock Age and that is a whole new set of favorites.
No. And you can't make me. These boots were made for three pedals only. Any more than that and the brain freezes in overload. :^)
ROTFLOL!!!
And that obnoxious Bach Passacaglia, or his Chaconne in d minor, or the song "House of the Rising Sun" or "Whiter Shade of Pale" for that matter...the only thing worse would be Greg Lake fronting for The Pogues in a cover of one of these songs. It would be Crimson and Clover over and over.
FINALLY~ Someone ELSE who likes Jane Olivor ! Will wonders never cease.
Jane is one of the FINEST female singers ever.. I've worn out the vinyl album of "Chasing Rainbows"..played it so MUCH ...finally was able to find the CD.. Great album.. wonderful singer~!
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