au contraire, sir, au contraire. i already nominated puccini with o mio babino caro, but after that? compared with some of the above? schuberts ave maria? jesu, joy of man's desiring? c'mon, man. time to break out the vinyl and give it a fresh listen.
Kidding....heh...heh..
Anyway, I like bambino caro and Ave Maria as much as the next guy does, but they're gonna wear thin after a few months, and something long, like La Boheme or something's gonna come in handy.
I'm not just crazy about Salome, but I fugure a year or so with it, and I might figure out what the hell Strauss was going on and on about.
By the way, I think I'll take Richard Strauss's complete works instead of Franz Liszt's.
P.S. I know I'm greedy. But there are worse things to be. And anyway, my mother always praised that as a virtue.
If you haven't heard Leontyne Price singing O Holy Night you're missing something. It's available at Amazon.com on an album entitled Christmas Adagios. Leontyne rocks!!
Merry Christmas, johnboy!
--The Savage--and easily soothed--Beast