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The Third Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach - It's Not Even Close Ping!

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[Pyro7480]

See my post #118. :-)

[ecurbh]

Tough one, but my choice has to be Mahler 9.

Followed by, in no particular order:
Beethoven 9
Tchaikovsky 6
Bach's Goldberg Variations
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

[zarf]

"Anything by me, you lilly livered sissies."

[Argh]

Bach - Mass in B Minor?

Bach - St. Matthew Passion?

Schubert - Winterreise. An esthetic blowout. If you ever attended a live performance by Fischer-Dieskau, the audience was always just shattered by the end.

[Born Conservative]

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".

[grellis]

I prefer JSB's Violin Concerto #1 in A minor to his Brandenburgs. I'm a sucker for A minor pieces.

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.

[Tares]

#1) Concerto for Orchestra - Bartok

Other Bests:
Brandenberg Concertos
Symphonic Dances - Rachmaninoff
Beethoven's 7th
Dumbarton Oaks - Stravinsky (Brandenberg Concerto fans check this one out)
Endicott - Kid Creole and the Coconuts

And one that I'm willing to bet no one who has posted to this thread has heard:

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Roy Harris