Top Ten Pieces of Music Written Before 1900

Me ^ | 12-05-01 | Pharmboy

[Pharmboy]

Ask the question this way: If you were stranded on a desert island with a CD player and a good sound system, what ten pieces would you take with you that were written before the 20th Century?

My list:
1) Beethoven's Appassionata sonata for piano
2) Bach's Partita Number 2 for solo violin
3) Mozart's Symphony Number 41
4) Wagner's Overture to Tristan und Isolde
5) Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 131
6) Chopin's Ballade Number 4
7) Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (IMO the only worthwhile thing he ever wrote)
8) Schubert's Impromptus (all of them)
9) Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata
and 10) Bach's Mass in B Minor

[RavenATB]

“1) Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
2) Handel’s Messiah
3) Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture
4) Pachelbel’s Canon
5) Handel’s Watermusic
6) Puccini’s Turandot
7) Bach’s Jesu, the Joy of Man’s Desiring
8) Bizet’s Carmen
9) Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto # 3
10)Verdi’s Requiem

I could skip #6, but the rest of your list is outstanding.

[decal]

In absolutely no order at all, and it could well be completely different tomorrow:

Tallis: Spem in Alium

Berlioz: Requiem, op. 5

Purcell: The Funeral Music for Queen Mary

Tchaikovsky: The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Bruckner: Ninth Symphony

Mascagni: The "Hymn to the Sun" from Iris

Satie: Gnossiennes

Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht

Handel: Messiah

PDQ Bach: The Art of the Ground Round, S. $1.19/lb

[newguy357]

I was never a huge fan either...until I heard his first two string quartets...and learned one of his rhapsodies for the piano. I highly recommend the string quartets.