What Is the Greatest Musical Work of All Time?

3/1/2006 | Reaganesque

[Mike Darancette]

"Ahhhh Bach!

"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" one of the most uplifting music ever written.

[ßuddaßudd]

The Wizard - Uriah Heep

[dfwgator]

[Binghamton_native]

They stopped writing music after the Classical era!

[Fresh Wind]

I have to agree with you on Chopin. All the Nocturnes are just fantastic!

[MozartLover]

Either the Requiem or Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, particularly the last movement. Profound beyond words.

[Reaganesque]

Good night, guys! You've been busy! It's fascinating to see the diversity of taste here. It just goes to show, good music is good music whether it's rock, classical, country, jazz or whatever. If it affects you emotionally in a positive way, its good.

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.

[knak]

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Ravels Bolero.

[Binghamton_native]

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.

[Revolting cat!]

"WHAT KIND OF FOOL I YAM???"

[zarf]

yes

[ohioWfan]

Ah!!! Tchaikowski's Pathetique!! Profound beyond words.....YES!

The first time I heard it was at JFK's funeral. I was 14, and the music gripped my soul.

[weegee]

Oh look, a video for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNnDpIW918

[Revolting cat!]

RRRAAAA a hula-baby rraaaa
a hula-baby got a hula lulu from Honolulu
Thats rock-a-hula baby of mine

[Always Right]

She Bangs!

[absolootezer0]

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?)

[Revolting cat!]

OK, you win!

[GB]

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.

[absolootezer0]

Strand me on a desert island with the complete works of J. S. Bach, Frank Sinatra, Pat Metheny, Yes, and Ozric Tentacles and I'm good. ;)

oooooer.. there's definately something to be said about a man that can intentionally compose in 22/8 time. :)

[Skooz]

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the magnum opus of the human race. It is the ultimate artistic achievement of mankind.

It is, without question, the greatest work of music ever.