What is currently your favorite piece of music?

I'm always stricken by "Gabriel's Oboe" from the movie The Mission by Ennio Morricone.

I don't know why but for the last past couple of weeks, I've really been feeling Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concert movement 2.

Fuex Follets by Liszt! Currently playing at the moment! ^ ^

'Nigun' from Bloch's Baal Shem suite.

Rachmaninov Piano Concert no.2

Trying to learn o.O

Varese - Ameriques. Makes Rite of Spring sound like a kitten purring in comparison.

Currently, the Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky is okay. I particularly liked the "Gnoumus" movement for its unusual theme and stuff. The whole suite was pretty cool overall.

Currently, the Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky is okay. I particularly liked the "Gnoumus" movement for its unusual theme and stuff. The whole suite was pretty cool overall.

I love Mussorgsky. I kind of like his position as an "imperfect" composer, who was corrected by more idiomatic composers like R-K.

Medeski Martin and Wood's Radiolarians CDs have been pretty good...

Medeski Martin and Wood's Radiolarians CDs have been pretty good...

yes.. they ARE good :)

Piece for Cello or Viola and Piano by Ernest Chausson

Very good late chamber work by an excellent, often ignored French late Romantic (although it doesn't always *feel* romantic).

One of the pieces from Nikos Skalkottas' "32 Klavierst

Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead.

Greatest song of our time.

Impresario, what I named myself after. By Mozart.

Gluck's Gavotte in A, transcribed by Brahms, played by Josef Hoffman.

Britten's "Sonata in C" for cello and piano.

Rued Langgaard's fifth symphony. This symphony has two versions and my favourite piece of music is second version. This one-movement (approx. 20 mins.) symphony's name is "Nature of the Steppe".

the hamster dance

Its a hard one to get out of your head once its in there. And you cant help but dance to it. Hilarious.

Currently my favorite thing to listen to is the traffic passing by my house about 100 yards away, which is randomly interrupted and overpowered by the trains that pass right behind my house.

John Adams' Chamber Symphony, namely movement 3: Roadrunner. This piece was inspired by both Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony no. 1 and the musical scores from old-school TV cartoons. Adams was studying Schoenberg's score in one room, his 6 year-old was watching cartoons in the other room and the two came together to inspire this amazing piece. check the great video of Ensemble Intercontemporain play all 3 movements on YouTube.

I listen to Roadrunner almost EVERYDAY. It has inspired many elements of my music, mainly my new chamber piece, Myriad. There's minimalism, there's atonality, tonality, and some GREAT orchestration to boot!

Rachmaninoff's Piano Trio No. 1

Liszt's Dante Symphony

Stravinsky's Violin Concerto

Bruckners 8th symphony

Verdi's Requiem. It's absolutely stunning. I've been switching between that and Orff's Carmina Burana, which is equally as stunning.

Fran

Either

Alkan's - Le Festin d'Esope

or

Lyapunov - Variations and Fugue on a Russian Theme