I'd take the whole
Tristan und Isolde, and I'd take Bach's
St. Matthew Passion, Wagner's
Der Ring der Nibelungen,
Tosca,
Salome by Richard Strauss, Beethoven's sonatas and symphonies--well,
you're taking all of Schubert's impromptus. And if you're going to play
that way, I'm going to take
all of Puccini's operas, all of Verdi's, all of Wagner's, and everything that Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Handel, Vivaldi, Chopin wrote.
I feel so soothed just thinking about it.
--The Beast
I guess I know where you get your name from...LOL! How clever of you...
wait a sec ...
all of puccini versus, uh,
others, on a top ten list?
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.