Which of these three compositions do you prefer?

I wondered where you were going with this poll, until I read your post. Very clever!

I like Porgy and Bess, performed by Miles Davis......I'll pick option one (1) I suppose.

My traditional favourite of these is Carmine Burana, which I have listened to so many times. It’s one of the first CDs I had, which was often double-bilked with Holst’s The Planets which also has cinematic qualities. “O Fortuna” was the original hook, but I love the whole thing, and actually can still much of it. With O Fortuna, it reminded me of films and music such as Jerry Goldsmith’s The Omen soundtrack. And methinks it was used in a John Boorman’s (he of Zardoz infamy) Exacalibur which I loved. Prog y and Bess just got blasted in the house one too many times. It’s wonderful music, but my dad, who was hard of hearing due to an explosion when he was army, would play it very loudly and very often. We lived in a house with a fair sized yard, but the neighbors complained about that one specifically. Somehow they never complained when he was blasting Brahms. That said, I’m voting for the Bartok which I haven’t heard nearly as much, but highly enjoyed listening to earlier thanks to this topic.

And that Verdi is wonderful.

Speaking of Boiorman and Zardoz and cinematic, films really did get me very much into a lot of classical. I so love Beethoven’s Seventh in Zardoz, and his Ninth in Kubrick’s A Clocksork Orange and in the short film The Mumbler (Mompelaar or something like that). And the Hunger for the Delibes and Schubert. I love soundtracks.

Gerschwinbartorff is Kobaian for zeuhl

I like them all.

Orff for moi. 

Bartok for me, then Gershwin. Orff I've heard too often.