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As the posts here so nicely illustrate, the "five greatest pieces ever" have different faces and names depending on the ears and brains on the receiving end. And I bet many would have a somewhat different list next year, and the year after...
This is one of the great things about what we call "art" (for lack of a better word): it speaks differently to different people at different times and in different ways--in other words, it is almost infinitely varied, even when nothing concrete has actually changed (same notes on the page, for example...) I know some people get all up in arms at "Top 10" lists and the like, but I think it's kind of cool that you can have a sincere personal top five that might include 200 or 300 pieces over the course of a lifetime!
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Originally posted by argerichfan: Originally posted by ecm: Can anyone make any sense of the post above yours, ecm? Yes, I think AJB's top five come from '60's, and he still has a stash.
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Originally posted by HammerHead: Yes, I think AJB's top five come from '60's, and he still has a stash. Oh, so that's where this is all coming from. (Perhaps I need to ask my mum for '60's clarification... but she was more into Cream and that stuff.) But we need to go easy on the old burned-out classical music hippies. They really thought serialism was the wave of the future. They wrote volumes attesting to the apparent fact that Mahler's Das Lied was supposed to be the birth of "modern music". Good grief: Mahler, a 19th century poseur as a 20th century visionary. Will wonders ever cease? These same people said Elgar was a relic of Colonel Blimp and Empire. My, the axes that must be grinded at all costs, reality be damned.
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To me the greatest piece ever is often the the one I just listened to....
So the concert-year 2006 both as listener and choir-singer gave me 5 heights:
Joseph Rheinberger: Stabat Mater Egil Hovland: "Du såg mig" J.S. Bach: Motet: "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied" W.A. Mozart: Pianoconcert 23 (A major) Edvard Grieg : Ballade G minor (piano)
(and then I would have liked to add Chopin's Eminor piano concert, Faure's Siciliano, Mozarts Missa Brevis (Gmajor), Mahlers 5th symphony....and all other wonderful music I have heard live this year.)
Ecm : I think it spells "Verklärte Nacht" (Some years since I heard this piece - it is like a key to your hidden sorrows) Ragnhild
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Setting aside such things as most popular pieces, or most seminal influence on other composers, I'll stay simply with those compositions that have the greatest emotional impact on me.
Chopin - 3rd Sonata Puccini - La Boheme Schubert - Der Wintereisse Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavelier Verdi - Requiem
Now for some runners-up in no particular order
Handel - Messiah Cantaloube - Songs of the Auvergne Orff - Carmina Burana Rossini - Barber of Seville Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe Mahler - 8th Symphony Faure - Requiem Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Resphigi - Pines of Rome Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus Wager - Das Reingold Rodgers - Oklahoma Copland - Rodeo Bach - St. Matthew Passion Beethoven - any string quartet, plus the quartet from Fidelio Mozart - too difficult to choose
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Originally posted by USAPianoTrucker: Most irritating songs that you hear in a piano store:
1.) Sarah Hale: Mary Had a Little Lamb 2.) Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fur Elise 3.) Euphonia Allen (under the pseudonym Arthur DiLulli): Chopsticks 4.) Frank Loesser: Heart and Soul 5.) Paul S. Boyer: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition. You mean that someone actually admitted to "composing" Chopsticks?? Well I never!
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1. Linus and Lucy 2. Spongbob square pants theme song (aye aye captine) 3. Your Song - Elton John 4. Hanon Exercise #7 5. The Mario theme played by a blindfolded kid. Matt
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I'm going to pick my favorite of the more popular pieces:
1. Debussy - Clair de Lune 2. Beethoven - Appassionata 3. Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto no2 4. Brahms - Violin concerto 5. Brahms - Variations/Fugue on a theme by Handel (just because I wanted to include it not because it's overly popular)
Really hard to pick 5. I limited to classical only.
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1. Liszt Ballade No. 2 2. Rach 2 3. Mozart 20 4. Beethoven Appassionata 5. Liszt Mephisto Waltz
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Schuetz: Musicalische Exeguien Bach: Mattaus-Passion Haydn: Schoepfung Mozart: Don Giovanni Beethoven: 9th symphony
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Lol... that's a very difficult one to choose...
Liszt - Sonata Liszt - Paganini etudes Rachmaninoff - THIRD concerto Rachmaninoff - Moments musicaux Bach-Busoni - Chaconne ------------------------------------------------ Yes, of course many others, including: Beethoven - 4th concerto, Brahms - both piano concertos AND the violin concerto, Liszt - piano concertos, Dante sonata, Mazeppa (symphonic poem), Wagner - Rheingold... I can't count them all, alright? =}
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Schumann piano Concerto a minor Brahms op 118 Schubert Wanderer Fantasy Debussy L'isle Joyeux Beethoven op 110
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Wagner Tristan Liszt Mazeppa B minor mass Bach B minor Sonata Liszt Handel's Messiah Verdi Requiem Brahms Requiem Brahms Symphony No. 1
Are among my favorite pieces.
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Are you forgetting the perennial favorite which is
Lean on Me - Bill Withers?
I'm trying to
It don't mean a ting if it don't have dat swing
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The statistics makes this really interesting, so since I answered the wrong questions last time I will enter the IMO greatest pieces ever . I hope many others will keep BruceD occupied with changing the statistics.... Beethoven: Violin Concerto Rachmaninov: 2. piano-concert Bach: Brandenburger concert no 2 Mozart: Piano concert no 23 Handel: Messias Ragnhild
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Originally posted by dnephi: Wagner Tristan Liszt Mazeppa B minor mass Bach B minor Sonata Liszt Handel's Messiah Verdi Requiem Brahms Requiem Brahms Symphony No. 1
Are among my favorite pieces. Ok then make my 5 votes: B minor Sonata Liszt Handel's Messiah Verdi Requiem B minor mass Bach Brahms Symphony No. 1 P.S. to anyone who chose the Busoni transcription of the Chaconne, I suggest hearing the original. I strongly prefer it.
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What are the numbers next to your suggestions BruceD? I first thought it was the number of the movement until i found 6 next to Rachmaninoff's concerto. Originally posted by BruceD: Revised : Bach : Brandenburg Concerto No 2 – 1, One of my favorite pieces of music of all time!
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Originally posted by BruceD: Revised :
Elgar : Dream of Gerontius I didn't expect to see that one up on anybody's list, but it is certainly on my list.
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