Your Classical TOP TEN

 

 

Durufle's Requiem is WONDERFUL, it's my favourite requiem

 

 

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Hey, you're an admirer of the Mighty Five, I see. And with Tchaikofsky and Rachmaninoff I count 7 Russians. With Smetana 8 Eastern Europeans. Were you aware of that? Probably.

 

Eric Satie

Mozart

 Beethoven

Sibelius

Grieg

 Chopin

Vivaldi

Chaikovsky

Stravinsky

Holst

 

 

 This are the musicians that I listen more but there hundreds of classical that I LIKE

 

10. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (original version, though Rimsky-Korsakov's version is quite great)

9. Haendel - Messiah (the whole Oratorium), Firewroks Music, Most of the Concerto Grosso

8. Sibelius - Symphony # 2 and 3, Karelia Suite, Valse Triste.

7. Mahler - Symphonies #1 ("Titan"), 5, 6 (this one mostly).

6. Tchaikovsky - Symphony # 6 "Pathetique", Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, Francesca Di Rimini (Symphonic poem)

5. Shostakovich - Symphonies #1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11.

4. Bruckner - Symphonies # 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

3. Beethoven - Symphonies # 3,5,7,9, Piano Concerto # 4 and 5 ("Emperor"), Missa Solemnis, Overtures: Leonore # 1, 2 and 3, Egmont, Fidelio, Piano Sonatas.

2. Mozart - Requiem in D minor K 626, Concertos for piano (# 20 the greatest ever), Symphonies # 25 in G m, 39, 40, but mostly 41 in C, the closing movement with the fugal coda the greatest thing ever composed (as many others), Don Giovanni.

1. Bach - Everything. But mostly: Weihnachtsoratorium, Matthew Passion, Mass in B minor, Das Kunst Der Fugue, Three Violin Concertos, Brandemburg Concerti, $ Symphonic Suites, everything by the Master. THE Master. b*****ds.

 

Mozart is one of the greatest masters ever.. He was my favorite until I properly re-discovered Bach's work.

 

The Wagner fans are sitting in an opera house still waiting for Die Meistersinger aus Nuremberg to end........it lasts like 20 hours! .... No, he's a master. But, for example in my case, I prefer orchestral works, I'm not much of an opera guy (specially italian opera, I have to say). I'm a weakling for symphonies mostly, and when it comes to choral  music, I prefer masses and, generally, sacred works, or works where a CHORUS is the great protagonist, like Soviet cantatas or nationalist operas. And maybe many people also dislike Wagner for his views on the world, which for me is nonsense as one thing is music, other is politics. But maybe for many people,  that matters.

 

He sold out you might say, but circumstances were different. Plus, he never lost the taste for complexity, only a bit more light than other disturbed souls

 

Good call - the Kronos Quartet's interpretations of his music are amazing!