What is currently your favorite piece of music?

Mahler Symphony No. 2

Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 (which not many people know :()

^I know Shosty 8! I like his 6th (of which even fewer people know) better personally.

I love...

Prokofiev Symphony 5

Stravinsky Rite of Spring

Ravel and Poulenc piano concertos (Enigmus, I have a recording of the Poulenc by Charles Dutoit, Pascal Rog

Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie (Quartal harmony :D)

Webern's Four Pieces for Violin and Piano No. 4

Hindemith's Clarinet Sonata, Mvmt. 3

Webern's Four Pieces for Violin and Piano No. 4

A treat, aren't they? I can't wait to find an excuse to put them into one of my recitals.

Currently, Scriabin's 5th Sonata.

Mine has been flip-floping between Eric Whitacre's "Sleep" and "When David Heard" since October. Yet I must say Schubert's "Maginficat" was forefront at Christmas

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5

Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2

Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata"

And this other piece I can't identify :/ I'm assuming the label is wrong, unless it's a Concerto the LAPO played other than the Bartok one, but I'm unable to find out.

Concerto For Orchestra by Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Listen to Free Music

If you happen to know, please PM me the title, composer and performer, if possible. Many thanks!

OK so what is currently your favorite piece?

Mine Changes about every week last week it was Brahms' Requiem, and today its Beethoven's Grosse Fuge:wub:.

Album of Violin Pieces, Everybody's Favorite Series #6 - This collection includes 30 pieces for violin & piano.

Mine changes constantly as well.

I don't know if this counts as a favorite yet - only heard it once, and, given the circumstances, probably won't get to hear it again for awhile. But...

tonight, on public radio...from a simulcast of the NJSO

Neeme J

Passacaile by Frank Martin

Quatre Chants pour Franchir le Seuil by G

Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy - Save The Best For Last.

Stunning.

King's College' date=' London

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:O Are you studying with George Benjamin?!?!?! :O

And this other piece I can't identify :/ I'm assuming the label is wrong, unless it's a Concerto the LAPO played other than the Bartok one, but I'm unable to find out.

Concerto For Orchestra by Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Listen to Free Music

If you happen to know, please PM me the title, composer and performer, if possible. Many thanks!

um, this IS the Bartok concerto for orchestra... how can it be one of your favourite pieces and you do not recognize the finale?

:O Are you studying with George Benjamin?!?!?! :O

Haha, no. Well, not yet anyway. He is resident here, but he only teaches a select few postgraduate students.

He does give the odd awe-inspiring lecture here though. His last one was on Messiaen

Haha, no. Well, not yet anyway. He is resident here, but he only teaches a select few postgraduate students.

He does give the odd awe-inspiring lecture here though. His last one was on Messiaen

Capriccio espagnol, Rimsky-Korsakov

Concerto for Oboe, Strings, and Continuo in D Minor, Alessandro Marcello (except the C minor version is better IMHO)

Symphony No. 7, Beethoven (but really only the second movement)

About the Beethoven: Just listening to it, I actually like the first two movements, and the third to a point. But when I was actually playing it, the only movement I could stand was the second. Does anyone else notice how actually playing something and just listening to it tends to color perceptions of a piece? Or is it just me?

D minor is better. :whistling:

You're such an oboe-geek. Why don't you play it?

D minor is better. :whistling:

You're such an oboe-geek. Why don't you play it?

I do. I forgot to edit that into my profile, though :O

EDIT: I will say the D minor version has its merits, but I like the overall sound of the C minor version better because it sounds darker.

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, Richard Wagner (which is the perfect unicycle/music drama) and Symphony 6, Mahler (which is the perfect symphony). I also love "Le sacre du Printemps", Dvorak`s 4th symphony(NOT the eight, according to the new numbers) and Eine Alpensinfonie, Richard Strauss.

But above all DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, Richard Wagner (which is the perfect unicycle/music drama) and Symphony 6, Mahler (which is the perfect symphony). I also love "Le sacre du Printemps", Dvorak`s 4th symphony(NOT the eight, according to the new numbers) and Eine Alpensinfonie, Richard Strauss.

But above all DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay, another one for the Ramone/Tokke/Sapphy-Maxy club.

Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy - Save The Best For Last.

Stunning.

:O

This is absolutely gorgeous!

Aaron Copland, Sextet for String Quartet, Clarinet, and Piano

Aaron Copland, Sextet for String Quartet, Clarinet, and Piano

ah, the famous "Short Symphony".

Concerto for Bassoon in E Minor, RV. 484 - Vivaldi

Devil to play, strangely moving to listen to.