What is your personal Top Twenty?

[Chaszz]

Mine is:

1. Bach, 'A Musical Offering'
2. Wagner, ‘Tristan und Isolde’, 2nd act love duet
3. Wagner, 'Siegfried Idyll'
4. Beethoven, Late Quartets
5. R. Strauss, Four Last Songs
6. Bach, 'B Minor Mass'
7. Louis Armstrong, 1924 – 1930 recordings
8. Bach, Magnificat in D
9. Wagner, Lohengrin
10. Bach, Cantata No. 50
11. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, last two movements
12. Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata, third movement
13. Wagner, from ‘Gotterdammerung’(the Ring): ‘Siegfried’s Rhine Journey’ and ‘Siegfried’s Funeral Music’
14. Wagner, from ‘Siegfried’ (the Ring): ‘Forest Murmurs’ music
15. Brahms, Symphony No. 3
16. Maria Callas, from Bellini’s ‘Norma’, aria ‘Casa Diva’
17. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9
18 Mozart, Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter', last mvmt.
19. Beethoven, Symphony No. 6
20. Beethoven, Symphony No. 8

- Chaszz
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[Sorrano]

That's a tough one! There are probably 150 works crammed in my top 20.

[Peter]

An impossible one Chaszz!

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[King Stephen]

My 'Top 20' evolves by the hour, by the day and by the year. Never constant, thank the lucky stars.

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by King Stephen:
My 'Top 20' evolves by the hour, by the day and by the year. Never constant, thank the lucky stars.

This is meant as somewhat more a permanent
assessment, what has moved one most over the years, rather than what is favorite at the current moment. I have worn deep grooves into my brain with these, hardly listen to them anymore, and certainly could not listen to any of them more than once or twice in a row now. Nonetheless they are very roughly and approximately my best in terms of the intense meanings they had for me when I was consumed by them. I'd expect this list to change, but would be surprised if more than one (or at most) two composers were added to it. (Handel is making a strong bid right now.)

Chaszz



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[Ellery]

1. Symphony No.9, Beethoven.
2. Violin Concerto, Tchaykovski.
3. Piano Concerto No.2, Brahms.
4. Piano Sonata No.29, Beethoven.
5. Violin and Piano Sonata No. 9, Beethoven.
6. Piano concerto No.2, Rachmaninnov.
7. Tzigane, Ravel.
8. Lascia ch'io pianga, Rinaldo, HWV.7, Handel.
9. Goldberg Variations, Bach.
10. Egmont Overture, Beethoven.
11. Piano concerto No.20 Mozart.
12. Symphony No.8, Schubert.
13. Piano concerto, Schumann.
14. Symphony No.5, Beethoven.
15. Sonata No.2, Rachmaninnov.
16. Suite Bergamasque, Debussy.
17. Prelude No.5, Debussy.
18. Moment Musicaux No.4, Rachmaninnov.
19. Choral Fantasy, Beethoven.
20. Scherzo No.1, Chopin.

[King Stephen]

Chaszz,
I don't think I could come up a personal top twenty. I do remember, at the tender age of 11 or so hearing and loving four works that were and still are at the top of my favorites list and they are Beethoven's 3rd and 7th Symphonies and his 5th piano concerto and the Dvorak symphony no.6. After better than 50 years later I still play these works quite frequently.

[Ludwig]

here is my list:
1-Beethoven: Symphony N 9
2-Beethoven:Meersestille und Glucklische fahrt;
3-Beethoven:Christus am Oblerge-oratorio
4-Beethoven:Mass in C
5-Beethoven:Symphony N 5
6-Beethoven:Symphony N 4
7-Beethoven:Symphony N 2
8-Beethoven i Weiche das Hauses
9-Fidelio
10-Beethoven:Overture Egmont
10-Mozart-Symphony N 25
11-Mozart-Requiem
12-John Williams -Jurasic Park theme.

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by King Stephen:
Chaszz,
I don't think I could come up a personal top twenty. I do remember, at the tender age of 11 or so hearing and loving four works that were and still are at the top of my favorites list and they are Beethoven's 3rd and 7th Symphonies and his 5th piano concerto and the Dvorak symphony no.6. After better than 50 years later I still play these works quite frequently.

I shall have to try the Dvorak Symphony No. 6.



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[Chaszz]

Originally posted by Ludwig:
here is my list:
1-Beethoven: Symphony N 9
2-Beethoven:Meersestille und Glucklische fahrt;
3-Beethoven:Christus am Oblerge-oratorio
4-Beethoven:Mass in C
5-Beethoven:Symphony N 5
6-Beethoven:Symphony N 4
7-Beethoven:Symphony N 2
8-Beethoven i Weiche das Hauses
9-Fidelio
10-Beethoven:Overture Egmont
10-Mozart-Symphony N 25
11-Mozart-Requiem
12-John Williams -Jurasic Park theme.

Ludwig, you are aptly named. Your parents were unusually sensitive and prescient.

[Hofrat]

Originally posted by Chaszz:
I shall have to try the Dvorak Symphony No. 6.

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The Dvorak 6th Symphony is a remarkable piece. It is absolutle amazing what Dvorak does in the codas of the 1st and 4th movements.

[Sorrano]

Originally posted by King Stephen:
Chaszz,
I don't think I could come up a personal top twenty. I do remember, at the tender age of 11 or so hearing and loving four works that were and still are at the top of my favorites list and they are Beethoven's 3rd and 7th Symphonies and his 5th piano concerto and the Dvorak symphony no.6. After better than 50 years later I still play these works quite frequently.

Out of curiosity, what number did the Dvorak 6th Symphony have assigned to it at that time? I know that the symphonies were renumbered fairly recently (as in the past 20 - 30 years).

[LudwigSebastianMozart]

1)Die zauberflote Mozart
2)Don giovanni Mozart
3)Requiem Mozart
4)Missa solemnis Beethoven
5)9th Symphony Beethoven
6)Symphony "jupiter" Mozart
7)Le nozze di Figaro Mozart
8)Tristan und Isolde Wagner
9)Cosi Fan Tutte Mozart
10)Meistersinger von nurnberg Wagner
11)Johannes passion Bach
12)Mattheu passion Bach
13)6th Sympfhony Tsaikovski
14)Piano concerto no.23 Mozart
15)symfonia concertante kv.364
16)Piano concerto no.4 Beethoven
17)Violin concerto op.61 Beethoven
18)Piano sonata D959 Schubert
19)String quartet op.131 Beethoven
20)String quintet kv.516 Mozart

MOZART AND BEETHOVEN FOREVER

[LudwigSebastianMozart]

And many many others.....like 40th symphony, ring de nibelungen, op.106 hammerklavier,unfinished,9th schubert,6th mahler,die frau aun chatten strauss r.,preludes op.28 chopin...............

[spaceray]

Originally posted by LudwigSebastianMozart:
And many many others.....like 40th symphony, ring de nibelungen, op.106 hammerklavier,unfinished,9th schubert,6th mahler,die frau aun chatten strauss r.,preludes op.28 chopin...............

I must agree with LSM here ,these lists never appeal to me top ten composers or top 20 works.I'm not very good with the desert island question either.I'm not anxious to commit I suppose because I keep discovering new(for me) composers and great pieces to listen to.
Up until a few months ago the only works I had ever heard of Hummel's were pieces for brass and woodwinds.But I've just discovered his chamber works and I think they are splendid.
Does anyone know the work of Belgian Composer Guillaume Lekeu,I am particularly
interested in the Violin Sonata that he dedicated to Ysaye.