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  1. What pieces of classical music could you not live without? Maximum of 10 major works!

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, SCHEHEREZADE
    John Adams, HARMONIELEHRE
    Charles Ives, 'The Unanswered Question', 'Central Park in the Dark' and SYMPHONY 4
    John Corigliano, SYMPHONY 2
    Elliot Goldenthal, OTHELLO
    Jean Sibelius, 'The Swan of Tuanella' (tone poem) and KARELIA SUITE
    Alfred Schnittke, CELLO CONCERTO
    Igor Stravinsky, THE RITE OF SPRING
    Carl Vine, SYMPHONY FOR PERCUSSION (with tarantella)
    Elena Katz-Chernin, WILD SWANS
    Arvo Part, FRATRES and ALINA
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008 edited
    I'm going to make it easy on myself and take Vaughan Williams out of the equation wink


    The Plantes - GUSTAV HOLST
    Symphony # 7 'The Leningrad' - DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH
    Daphnes Et Chloe - MAURICE RAVEL
    The Firebird - IGOR STRAVINSKY
    Exodus - WOJCHIECH KILAR
    The Scythian Suite - SERGE PROKOFIEV
    Symphony # 7 - LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN
    And God Created Great Whales - ALAN HOVHANESS
    Itaipu - PHILIP GLASS
    Engulfed Cathedral - CLAUDE DEBUSSY


    This hurts slant
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008 edited
    I don't listen to traditional classical music. I have 57 classical or concert albums ranging from John Adams to Tchaikovsky and everything in between but I rarely listen to the stuff. I do, however, like film composers taking a chance at "serious" music and some of my favorites are...

    KAMEN - Guitar and Sax Concerto
    WILLIAMS - Concerto For Cello and Orchestra
    HOLDRIDGE: Holdridge Conducts Holdridge album
    GIACCHINO: Camden 2000
    ELFMAN: Serenada Schizophrana
    EIDELMAN: The Tempset
    BARRY: The Beyondness of Things
    GOLDENTHAL: Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio
    IFUKUBE: Symphonic Fantasia No.1
    VANGELIS: Mythodea

    However, Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring / Firebird Suite" Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite" and Adam's "Harmonielehre" get a lot of spins.

    -Erik-
    host and executive producer of THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST | www.cinematicsound.net | www.facebook.com/cinematicsound | I HAVE TINNITUS!
  4. By the way, this is an indirect search for recommendations from me. wink
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
    • CommentAuthortjguitar
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    Anything by Bax.
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      CommentAuthorAtham
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    After seeing it performed live last year I must start my list with:

    Vaughan Williams - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
    Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Symphonies 2 & 5, Scythian Suite
    Shostakovitch - Symphonies 7 & 2
    Stavinsky - Rite Of Spring, Firebird
    Holst - The Planets
    Hovhaness - Mysterious Mountain
    Ravel - Daphnes Et Chloe
    Adams - Harmonielehre
    Vine - Symphony No. 3
    Elfman - Serenada Schizophrana
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      CommentAuthormoviescore
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    Interesting topic - and interesting lists. My choices:

    - Ravel: Mother Goose
    - Shostakovich: Symphony no 11
    - Stravinsky: Firebird
    - Holst: The Planets
    - Whitacre: Water Night
    - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
    - Varèse: Arcana
    - Corigliano: Symphony no 1
    - Barber: Adagio for Strings
    - Talbot: Path of Miracles

    mc
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    - Samuel Barber: "adagio for strings" is the one example that comes right away and without a second thought in my mind when i read topics like this wink
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008 edited
    I'm not sure if you wanted full symfonies, or pieces of 10 minutes were fine too, but these are 10 of my favorites (in no particular order):

    Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
    Gustav Holst - The Planets
    Philip Glass - Itaipu
    Maurice Ravel - Daphnes Et Chloe
    Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (1919 version)
    Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia On A Theme
    Antonio Vivaldi - Cello Concerto in e-minor
    Franz Schubert - Piano Trio in e-flat
    Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    Hmm...can we count Kamen's Die Hard scores? tongue
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    - Samuel Barber: "adagio for strings" is the one example that comes right away and without a second thought in my mind when i read topics like this wink



    He hardly enters my head. But I know this is your all time favourite piece cool

    But D, what's your top 10?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    Anthony wrote
    Hmm...can we count Kamen's Die Hard scores? tongue


    Yes!

    As long as it's under the pseudonym BEETHOVEN # 9 wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    franz_conrad wrote
    By the way, this is an indirect search for recommendations from me. wink


    Works the other way too Michael, could you tell me more about the 'Percussion' and 'Swan' pieces ( Vine and Katz-Chernin )?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    I can live without classical music just fine. smile I used to listen to Rachmaninov, Schubert and Albinoni all the time, but film music took over and today I listen to it exclusively.

    Peter punk
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    Erik Woods wrote
    I don't listen to traditional classical music. I have 57 classical or concert albums ranging from John Adams to Tchaikovsky and everything in between but I rarely listen to the stuff. I do, however, like film composers taking a chance at "serious" music and some of my favorites are...

    KAMEN - Guitar and Sax Concerto
    WILLIAMS - Concerto For Cello and Orchestra
    HOLDRIDGE: Holdridge Conducts Holdridge album
    GIACCHINO: Camden 2000
    ELFMAN: Serenada Schizophrana
    EIDELMAN: The Tempset
    BARRY: The Beyondness of Things
    GOLDENTHAL: Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio
    IFUKUBE: Symphonic Fantasia No.1
    VANGELIS: Mythodea

    However, Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring / Firebird Suite" Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite" and Adam's "Harmonielehre" get a lot of spins.

    -Erik-


    Are you familiar with any of Wojchiech Kilar's concert works Erik?

    p.s. Good call on the Ifukube 'Fantasia', that's a fine work.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008
    Timmer wrote
    Are you familiar with any of Wojchiech Kilar's concert works Erik?

    p.s. Good call on the Ifukube 'Fantasia', that's a fine work.


    I think I have a Kilar concert album some where.

    -Erik-
    host and executive producer of THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST | www.cinematicsound.net | www.facebook.com/cinematicsound | I HAVE TINNITUS!
  17. Arvo Pärt - Fratres
    Philip Glass - Violin Concerto
    Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
    Georg Philipp Telemann - Water Music
    Alan Hovnahess - Symphony No. 50 "Mount St. Helens"
    Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (+ about 6-7 other concertos)
    Franz Liszt - Totentanz
    Arvo Pärt - Te Deum
    Gregorio Allegri - Miserere
    Niccolò Paganini - Violin Concerto No. 1
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  18. I've not heard Ifukube's FANTASIA. Sounds like it would be an interesting work.

    Will post pack later with more on WILD SWANS and PERCUSSION SYMPHONY, Tim. Don't let me forget.
    (Though WILD SWANS has been displaced by Alan reminding me of FRATRES.)
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
    These are in no particular order.

    1. Mahler Symphony No. 1
    2. Scheherazade from Rimsky-Korsakov
    3. Schubert Unfinished Symphony
    4. Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antarctica
    5. Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
    6. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
    7. Beethoven Symphony No. 5
    8. Dvorak Symphony No. 9
    9. Berlioz Symphony Fantastique
    10. Brahms Symphony No. 4

    To pick only 10 is extremely difficult but these are excellent choices that should be in everybody's collection.
    listen to more classical music!
  20. Timmer wrote
    And God Created Great Whales - ALAN HOVHANESS


    Interesting - never heard of this one before. What's it like?
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008 edited
    You're not gonna get much unknown material off me I'm afraid, but at least I can apparently count myself in the minority with these insanely Romantic or Sturm und Drang to-the-bone works:
    - Toccata And Fugue in D minor - "good ole" Bach
    Bach, a bit of a mathematician himself, offers the building blocks of the Universe in music.
    - The Messiah - Handel
    Somehow Handel always gets to compete with Bach's Mattheus Passion. To me it's a no-contest: Bach explains the Universe. Handel speaks to the soul.
    - Die Moldau (from Ma Vlast) - Smetana
    Jubilation in the beauty of the country and the deepest sorrow for never being able to return.
    - Concierto de Aranjuez - Rodrigo ( <- Top Pick)
    There are no words in the English language that can adequately explain the experience of having your soul twisted by the most kind, loving and beautful hands.
    - Les Préludes - Liszt
    By Thunder!
    - Misa Criolla - Ariel Ramirez
    I do so love mixing spiritual paradigms with an open musical mind.
    - Any of the musical symphonic highlights from Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen cycle.
    Wagner really got how to tell a story through music.

    I'll also most happily throw my vote behind Tom's suggestion of Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade and Dvorak's Symphony Of The New World (no. 9).
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008 edited
    franz_conrad wrote
    Timmer wrote
    And God Created Great Whales - ALAN HOVHANESS


    Interesting - never heard of this one before. What's it like?



    Very descriptive, very dramatic, very accessable. You could easily set it to film images.

    The rest of the album also contains great works including 'Mysterious Mountain' which was also conducted by John Williams on his Five Sacred Trees album, there's also the Vaughan Williams influenced ( and mentioned in the albums liner notes ) Alleluila and Fugue and is very 'Thomas Tallis' like ( Thor, if you're reading this, believe me, you'd LOVE this piece ).


    Alan also makes a great Hovhaness recommendation with Symphony # 50, 'Mt. St. Helens'.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
    Where do I start now. dizzy
    Kazoo
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
    Timmer wrote
    I'm going to make it easy on myself and take Vaughan Williams out of the equation wink


    The Plantes - GUSTAV HOLST
    Symphony # 7 'The Leningrad' - DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH
    Daphnes Et Chloe - MAURICE RAVEL
    The Firebird - IGOR STRAVINSKY
    Exodus - WOJCHIECH KILAR
    The Scythian Suite - SERGE PROKOFIEV
    Symphony # 7 - LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN
    And God Created Great Whales - ALAN HOVHANESS
    Itaipu - PHILIP GLASS
    Engulfed Cathedral - CLAUDE DEBUSSY


    This hurts slant


    This is how the list goes when I include Vaughan Williams...

    The Lark Ascending / Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Symphony # 3 'Pastoral' - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Symphony # 7 'Antartica' - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Symphony # 5 - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Symphony # 6 - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Symphony # 2 'A London Symphony' - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Oboe Concerto In D - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    In The Fen Country - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    The Wasps - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Job : A Masque For Dancing - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

    biggrin cool
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
    That's some painfully (literally) beautiful music there Tim!
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
    Timmer wrote

    The rest of the album also contains great works including 'Mysterious Mountain' which was also conducted by John Williams on his Five Sacred Trees album, there's also the Vaughan Williams influenced ( and mentioned in the albums liner notes ) Alleluila and Fugue and is very 'Thomas Tallis' like ( Thor, if you're reading this, believe me, you'd LOVE this piece ).


    Cool! Of course, I adore MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN, so this is one to check out. Thanks.
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
    Steven wrote
    That's some painfully (literally) beautiful music there Tim!


    beer
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
    Thor wrote
    Timmer wrote

    The rest of the album also contains great works including 'Mysterious Mountain' which was also conducted by John Williams on his Five Sacred Trees album, there's also the Vaughan Williams influenced ( and mentioned in the albums liner notes ) Alleluila and Fugue and is very 'Thomas Tallis' like ( Thor, if you're reading this, believe me, you'd LOVE this piece ).


    Cool! Of course, I adore MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN, so this is one to check out. Thanks.


    Please do Thor, the whole album is great.

    I'm not sure how easy it is to buy anymore though so if you have any problem give me a PM or e-mail smile
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  29. Timmer wrote
    franz_conrad wrote
    Timmer wrote
    And God Created Great Whales - ALAN HOVHANESS


    Interesting - never heard of this one before. What's it like?



    Very descriptive, very dramatic, very accessable. You could easily set it to film images.

    The rest of the album also contains great works including 'Mysterious Mountain' which was also conducted by John Williams on his Five Sacred Trees album, there's also the Vaughan Williams influenced ( and mentioned in the albums liner notes ) Alleluila and Fugue and is very 'Thomas Tallis' like ( Thor, if you're reading this, believe me, you'd LOVE this piece ).

    Sold!

    On reading this I found a used copy at amazon.co.uk for £4. I look forward to hearing it!
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  30. Alan Hovhaness just got another fan on your recommendation. smile
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