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    Posted: December 22 2004 at 18:07

As many of you undoubtedly have at least some interest in classical music, I would be very interested in knowing your five favorites.

I'll start off with five of mine.

1. Beethoven - Symp #3 "Eroica", in the second movement about 12 minutes in when it gets real heavy is extraordinarily awesome.

2. Beethoven - Symp #6 "Pastorale", creates grand atmospheres of some of natures landscapes and occurrences

3. Tchaikiovsky - Symp #6 "Pathetique", exceptionally beautiful and powerful melodies

4. Dvorak - Symp #9 "From the New World", symphonic presentation of folk melodies

5. Holst - The Planets, seven tone poems, powerful.
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 18:14

John Dowland - Lachrimae

J S Bach - Cello Sonatas

Debussy - Prelude A L'Apres Midi d'Une Faune

Erik Satie - Everything (plus his prose writing - Memoirs of an Amnesiac should be on every bookshelf)

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana 



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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 18:37
Rodrigo-Concierto Di Aranjuaz



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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 20:34

a few reference threads on the topic:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1839

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1566

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=518

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=54

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1388
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 21:15
Geez James...it must have taken forever to dig all those up. Wouldn't it have been easier to say who you liked or just plain ignore the thread?
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 21:38
Nah... he did it for all of us, Greg...
THIS IS ELP
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2004 at 21:42

Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Nah... he did it for all of us, Greg...

That is true. James only wants us to be wiser through his tutorship of the newbys. Here's to James and his considerateness....
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I am humbled...actually it only took about a minute and a half. We have a pretty good search engine on the forum.

And my favorite is Liberace, of course.

http://www.liberace.org/
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stravinsky/varèse (drunk)
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Points: 2632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2004 at 01:16

Stockhausen, Frescobaldi, and anyone else with a strange-sounding name...

Just kidding...

Anything with Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.  There has never been a better fit of conductor and orchestra in the history of recorded music, and everything they ever recorded is as close to what one hears in Heaven as one is likely to hear on earth.

Peace.
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