Oh come on, this list is total crap!

/must be said about any music list
//seriously, where is Fauré?

The proceeding is an installment of the series "Phrases that could only exist on the World Wide Web..."

Gershwin FTW!

I think Mozart can be done thusly "All of it, just all of it". Though I'm impressed two Czech composers made the list. Though for a Janacek opera I'd go with The Cunning Little Vixen or Janufa or maybe The Makropolis Affair/Case

RaKellaKAT: Oh come on, this list is total crap!

/must be said about any music list
//seriously, where is Fauré?

Exactly!

Here's some for you...Requiem in D minor, Op. 48

Rossini's La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

About 2:15 you should recognize this piece of music, that is if you've seen a certain movie.

Where the deuce is Gustav Holst? Bah, absolute poppycock!

I was arrested last time i whipped out my Furtwängler, I ain't falling for that again.

DocSatchmo:


Gershwin FTW!


Never thought I'd see the name of a classical composer with an internet abbreviation next to it


/I love Rhapsody in Blue

Did they list Brahms' 3rd racket?

/too obscure?

Rndhed: Did they list Brahms' 3rd racket?

/too obscure?

Don't forget the menus.

no Stravinsky?

bruch, delius and handel, but not stravinsky, bartok, or schumann?

fail

also, shostakovich wrote 15 quartets..the set they recommend has the first 13...for some reason the # they give is 14? are they just taking the average?

double fail

No Prokofiev?

I thoroughly agree with the Bach violin concerto.

TCHAIKOVSKY

Violin Concerto; National SO; Dutton

Ida Haendel's dazzling 1946 recording, conducted by Basil Cameron, is a timely reminder of her astonishing accuracy and expressive interpretation. The disc includes her equally stunning account of the Dvorák.

the Dvorák WHAT?

Ol' Furtwängler is a distant relative of mine on my mom's side :)

Truth.

Where's Quartetto Italiano playing Debussy, and Loriod playing Messiaen's "Vingt Regards..."? I've heard a few of the ones listed, though, and they're good choices, but the Emerson Quartet playing Bartok's six needs to be in there, too.

List is missing:

Will Continue to Monitor:

good call on the emerson's bartok..they tear it up.

Good to see other Faure lovers...

/Sicilienne rocks...

liquid duane-o: bruch, delius and handel, but not stravinsky, bartok, or schumann?

fail

also, shostakovich wrote 15 quartets..the set they recommend has the first 13...for some reason the # they give is 14? are they just taking the average?

double fail

Double-dog fail for you, Duane. FTA:

SCHUMANN

Piano Concerto and Carnaval; Myra Hess; Dutton

Recorded in 1937 with an uncredited orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr. Dame Myra had no truck with the slow, sentimental approach to the concerto; her Carnaval is full of fantasy and poetry.



Also, any list without Ives is useless.

I guess they hate the ballet, no Tchaikovsky ballet (Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker), Aaron Copeland ( Appalachian Spring, Rodeo) or Igor Stravinsky (Rite of Spring, Firebird, Petruska)

where's Enya?

There are many great recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, but the emotionally shocking one I've ever heard was recorded at Bayreuth on the opening of the hall at the end of WWII, with Furtwängler conducting.

Don't think appeared publicly much after that.

puckrock2000:

Double-dog fail for you, Duane.

*hangs head in shame*

thanks for pointing out the glaringly obvious

i not moran