What is currently your favorite piece of music?

D clarinet?! Lies! All such instruments were thrown into the bonfire. :evil:

Mahlers 8th and 2nd (I still cannot listen to it enough

A fairly new piece (New enough that i have to listen to it on youtube) from Frank Ticheli

Called Angels in the Architecture (like i am talking stilll in manuscript new)

and oh yeah Pines of Rome Respigii ( I really need to get a church windows recording)

Scriabin's 7th sonata. Initially, I hated this piece. I think I even described it as "11 minutes of dissonant white noise". But after about 15 listens and a very long and deep analysis of the score, I can safely say it's grown on me... a lot. The amount of variety and development he creates with so little source material (a good portion of the sonata being based on just one chord) and his use of the octatonic scale is truly amazing. Though I still can't say I understand the "heavenly" context that Scriabin was apparently going for. I always picture a sort of "Judement day" scenario where the Messiaeh comes down to give one final mass as church bells ring and the Earth crumbles. Regardless of my interpretation though, I still find it to be a brilliant piece of music.

Hmmm...mine seem to change very often...

Hindemith's Sonata for Oboe and Piano

Schoenberg's Six Little Pieces for Piano

Poulenc's Sonata for Oboe and Piano

A tie between four Eric Whitacre pieces: When David Heard, Lux Aurumque, Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, and The Stolen Child. When David Heard is probably the most amazing of the four, but they're all incredibly expressive and beautiful.

Chopin Valse Op. 64 no. 2

Lately it has been Arabian Dance from the Nutcracker Suite.

Poulenc's Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon. I love listening to it, and performing it is a kick.

There's this beautiful piano piece I found on the KORG website for their keyboard SP250. I don't know who wrote it, I guess someone from Korg.

It's called "Noise Of Time"

>linkage<

I was looking at the ceiling, and then I saw the sky - John Adams.

I came across it and wash very surprised... This isn't Adams! I thought. It's catchy, uplifting, intellectual.

It's kind of how I wish popular music had turned out. not necessarily in that style, but this level of catchiness along side this level of intellect. It would have opened up so much variable opportunity, as opposed to the re-spitting of old ideas (simplified), with a rap about hoe's or whatever, which is the case these days. REAL musicians would be creating REAL pop music. What a dream.

Digressing, but anyway, it's great.

I have been listening a lot to soundtrack music lately. Here are two of my favourites:

Perfect Day - Miriam Stockley

Jesus of Nazareth - Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre passed away this Sunday by the way.

Alexandros

Reminds me of a none-creepy, boring version of Silent Hill Music crossed with 'we're walking in the air' (the first one)

The first one is from BBC's "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends" based on Beatrix Potter's work.

I am really digging Shubert's 8th Symphony right now, it sucks he never completed it!

Well my favorite piece of music.... Actually there are a lot lol.

Clasical/Romantic Music:

Antonin Dvorak - 9th Symphony "From the New World" (Incredibly Amazing!)

Claude Debussy - Le Mer (This thing is full of feeling!) and Clair de Lune for piano (LOVE Dvorak and Debussy)

Beethoven's 9th Symphony damn it

Progressive Music:

Dream Theater's song: Metropolis Part I "The Miracle and the Sleeper" and album: Metropolis Part II "Scenes from a Memory" I love Dream Theater

Pain of Salvation's album: BE, the album: Remedy Lane and the album: One Hour by The Concrete Lake. I love Pain of Salvation also.

Jazz Fusion:

Guthrie Govan's album: Erotic Cakes. I love Ner Ner, Fives, and Wonderful Slippery Thing

Govan's Ner Ner

Contemporary Guitar Music:

Erik Mongrain - The Silent Fool

Mongrain's Silent Fool

At this very moment, my favorite pieces are Khachaturian's Waltz from Masquerade (for full orchestra) and Mozart's 41st Symphony.

Wow. I just realized how truly random those two pieces are...

Debussy's late sonatas - particularly, the cello sonata and the sonata for flute, viola, and harp. To think, if he'd lived longer, he might have turned into a neoclassicist - or maybe more like Ravel.

Bo Linde's Cello Concerto is pretty cool, from a vastly underrated composer.

Debussy's late sonatas - particularly, the cello sonata and the sonata for flute, viola, and harp. To think, if he'd lived longer, he might have turned into a neoclassicist - or maybe more like Ravel.

Bo Linde's Cello Concerto is pretty cool, from a vastly underrated composer.

Didn't I say something like that almost verbatim to you in the shoutbox ? COPIER!

Debussy's underappreciated Khamma (Ballet orchestrated by Koechlin) was a favourite of mine for some time. Perhaps it's not quite as good as Jeux though.

At the moment my favourite piece is probably the Belfagor Overture by Respighi but it's not my all time favourite!

At this very moment, my favorite pieces are Khachaturian's Waltz from Masquerade (for full orchestra) and Mozart's 41st Symphony.

Wow. I just realized how truly random those two pieces are...

Their random nature is verging on the unprecedented. You must be highly unusual.

Movement 6 (O Albion) of Ad

Right now it is Stockhausen's Hymnen for me. It is really fantastic! I urge everyone to seek out a copy! (It is rather long though.. around 4 hours)

Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez just about does it for me. ESPECIALLY the adagio movement. Quite possibly my all time favorite piece. I may be biased though as I have some spanish ancestry way back in the family tree somewhere...:)

New favorite! "Voices" for clarinet and orchestra by Derek Bermel. It rivals the Copland concerto.

Didn't I say something like that almost verbatim to you in the shoutbox ?

Yes, but I was thinking it already. Really.

New favorite! "Voices" for clarinet and orchestra by Derek Bermel. It rivals the Copland concerto.

"Jamm on Toast!"

Reminds me of a jazz band in 8th grade!

Current favorite work, (other than Mahler 2)...

Mahler 9, last movement. So tragic, melacholic, joyful, crying, aching, wishing, longing, accepting.

:happytears: :forlorn: :sadtears: :happytears:

Yes. I'm emotional.