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
Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium.
I've heard it a hundred times and I still get a lump in my throat.
On a vacation to Thailand I was in a revolving restaurant at the Pattaya Park hotel. They had a lounge singer/piano guy covering American songs phoenetically. Sort of.
He sang, "Donut make my brown ass, Donut make my brown ass, Donut make my brown ass...brue."
"Hail To The Chief"
Paul Paray's Mass
Best musical moment in music?...The transition in the Credo of Bach's B Minor Mass from the "passus et se pultus est" (He suffered died and was buried) to "et resurrexit" (He arose again).
Handel's Messiah.
Beetovhen's 9th
... "lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart"
... "like a storybook ending, I'm lost in your charms"
... AND ... "couple of jiggers of moonlight and add a star... pour in the blue of a June night and one guitar ... mix in a couple of dreamers and there you are ... lovers hail the Moonlight Cocktail! ... you'll awake in the morning and start to sing ... Moonlight Cocktails are the Thing!"
Late to the party - can't make up my mind ... if the thread is a jukebox, then I'm punching:
23
41
78
81
108
122
151
162
168 - I'll Be Seeing You - to be played at my funeral
184 - Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
189
221
339 - Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody & Liebestraum
353!!!!!!!!!! - Those were my Top 4 forever!!!
366! Yee Haw! Take it away, Leon!
384
398 - Hurrah, hurrah!
399 - plus "I'm My Own Grandpa"
431 - + Winds of War
470
473
My favorites:
Mahler-Symphony #1
Respighi-The Pines of Rome
Brahms-Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Bach-Brandburg Concerto #2 played by Maurice Andre or Rolf Smedvig
BTW-has anyone ever heard Pendrecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima"? It's not something you would sit down to listen to to relax, but it's "interesting".
Sweet Home Alabama
I want to thank you. I just saw this thread and noticed that there was over 450 replies. I was ready to scroll through all of them to see if any one said Sweet Home Alabama and low and behold I only had to read three posts.
The intro riff is the greatest I have ever heard. Right up there with Louie Louie and Brown Eyed Girl.
"House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals.
Also right up there: Mozart's Piano Concerto #23 (at least, I think it's 23), often referred to as "Elvira Madigan" because it was featured in some odd Swedish film. Lovely piece of music.
Best gimmicky title, maybe, but one of Floyd's weaker moments. Fearless would probably be my PF pick...today, at least.
Well, as classical goes, I'm partial to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
Other faves are Sam Cooke, John Barry, The Kingston Trio and The Beatles
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