[Pharmboy]

I just don't tire of listening to the above. I have always been impressed with Freeper taste and have an open mind and am willing to learn (I also expect to get several good suggestions for CDs to buy myself for the Holidays).

[ohioWfan]

Mozart Requiem
Brahms Requiem
Beethoven 7th Symphony, Second Movement
Bach, B minor Mass, 'Crucifixus'
Any Palestrina Mass
Purcell, Queen Anne Funeral Music
Tchaikowsky, 5th Symphony
Brahms Intermezzi
Schubert Mass in G
Beethoven 'Pathetique' Sonata

I sound like I like the sad stuff, don't I? Maybe I could throw in a little Gilbert and Sullivan to keep my spirits up! LOL!

[Wm Bach]

what ten pieces would you take with you that were written before the 20th Century?

Well, since you said ten pieces, I'm going to label entire masses, operas, volumes, etc. as a "pieces".

1)Bach - Mass in b moll
2)Bach - The Well Tempered Clavier
3)Bach - Goldberg Variations
4)Bach - Magnificat
5)Mozart - Mass in c moll
6)Mozart - Requiem
7)Beethoven - Mass
8)Schumann - Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42 9)Brahms - Deutche Requiem
10)Chopin - Concerto in e moll

[Puppage]

Che Gelida Manina-Puccini (La Boheme)

[martin gibson]

All right, ya PANSIES....

Lets not forget any of the transcribed tunes published in O'Neill's Music of Ireland.

[Publius6961]

It's remarkable how provincial and "center-of-the-universe" some classical music enthusiasts become.
The comments attached to the list are a humorous "my taste is more sophisticated than your taste" aside to this pompous exercise.

Gheeeeeez.

[Old Fud]

1. Bach: B Minor Mass (any challengers?)

2. Beethoven: Missa solemnis

3. Brahms: Motet, Es ist das heil uns kommen herr(sp?)

4.Mendelssohn: Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

5. Henry Purcell: "Hear my prayer, O Lord"

6. Bach: Fugue in D Major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

7. Beethoven: Symphony #9

8. Gabriel Faure: Requiem

9. Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

10. Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele: Prologue

One doesn't really need to go past Bach to receive all the enrichment to the soul that music can provide.

[BibChr]

I am astonished your list leaves out the best. So here's mine:

1. Handel's Messiah
2. Handel's Messiah
3. Handel's Messiah
4. Handel's Messiah...

You get my drift.

Dan

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Numbers 3 and 4 are good. No Rossini?

[tx4guns]

Dvorak's New World composed in 1893 is Top 10.

[bwteim]

"Trois Gymnopédies" and "Trois Gnossiennes" by Erik Satie.

[Cacique]

bookmark bump

[WSGilcrest]

bump for the gnuts

[Cool Guy]

BUMP!

[Republicus2001]

the Verdi Requiem would be all I'd need...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Do you really like Mozart's Symphony # 41 more than his Symphony # 25? I would put # 25 at the top of my list. Except for maybe J.S. Bach's String quartet in B flat for oboe d'amour.

[B Knotts]

Cave 76 anthem:

"Let 'em all go to hell, except Cave 76."

[Martin Tell]

Hard to believe that only you (#62) and rightofrush (#72) mentioned my fav, Franz Joseph Hayden. I would recommend (demand) the piano sonatas, some of the quartets, and any of the symphonies. I listened to Symphony #100 (the Military) yesterday on the commute into work. I was ready to slay some Taliban when I arrived, if you know what I mean.

Also worthy of note, Shuman's trios.

[austinTparty]

Dunno about top 10, but my votes for the Desert Island set are:

Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos
Bach: Magnificat
Bach: 6 Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
Monteverdi's "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria"
Walter Frye--mid 15th century composer (good CD out by the Hilliard Ensemble)
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turques
Verdi: L'Elisir d'Amore (really only for "Una Furtiva Lagrima")
Anton Rubenstein: "Melody in F"
Ferdinand Sor: 20 studies for classical guitar
Ernesto Lecuona: Malaguena (hey, he was BORN in 1895... does that count? :D)

[maxwell]

AC/DC's Back in Black!!!

(Oh before 1900... Hmmmm...)

[lowbridge]

bump