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What Is the Greatest Musical Work of All Time?
3/1/2006 | Reaganesque

Posted on 03/01/2006 7:54:55 PM PST by Reaganesque

I was sitting here tonight listening to Mozart's Requiem and I got to thinking: what do I consider to be the best work of music ever? For my part, Mozart's work really does the trick for me when I need to be re-energized. Therefore, I believe that his Requiem is the greatest work of all time. There just isn't another work that is as powerful and passionate. When the chorus sings the final "Amen" at the end of "Lacrimosa" I get the feeling that he knew it was the last thing he would ever write. It gives me chills at times.

Other favorites are:

Handel's Messiah

The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky


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To: Reaganesque

Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium.

I've heard it a hundred times and I still get a lump in my throat.


481 posted on 03/02/2006 4:19:23 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: beaver fever
A friend of mine spent a week in Cabo San Lucas. The hotel lounge singer did a version of Feelings.

On a vacation to Thailand I was in a revolving restaurant at the Pattaya Park hotel. They had a lounge singer/piano guy covering American songs phoenetically. Sort of.

He sang, "Donut make my brown ass, Donut make my brown ass, Donut make my brown ass...brue."

482 posted on 03/02/2006 4:24:46 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: Reaganesque
Glenn Miller's In The Mood.
483 posted on 03/02/2006 4:25:43 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Reaganesque

"Hail To The Chief"


484 posted on 03/02/2006 4:29:18 AM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Reaganesque
Bach's B Minor Mass

Paul Paray's Mass

Best musical moment in music?...The transition in the Credo of Bach's B Minor Mass from the "passus et se pultus est" (He suffered died and was buried) to "et resurrexit" (He arose again).

485 posted on 03/02/2006 4:31:50 AM PST by Diva
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To: Reaganesque
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. His Viola Concerto in G. His Little Fugue for Organ. Almost anything by Mozart but I'm especially fond of his Turkish Rondeau. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Most Tchaikovsky, especially his ballets but his Slavic March and Cappricio Italian and the 1812 Overture. Copeland's Appalachian Spring and Rodeo. Nothing by Mahler.
486 posted on 03/02/2006 4:33:32 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Reaganesque

Handel's Messiah.


487 posted on 03/02/2006 4:33:34 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Reaganesque

Beetovhen's 9th


488 posted on 03/02/2006 4:34:38 AM PST by Blackirish
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To: Ben Ficklin

... "lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart"
... "like a storybook ending, I'm lost in your charms"


489 posted on 03/02/2006 4:36:32 AM PST by Rte66
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To: Reaganesque
Queensryche --- Operation Mindcrime

Simply Genius.
490 posted on 03/02/2006 4:37:21 AM PST by Pantera
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To: albyjimc2
I am a huge Dream Thatre fan. Not a big fan of "Scenes from a Memory" though.

"Awake" to me was the best.
491 posted on 03/02/2006 4:39:12 AM PST by Pantera
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To: 7thson

... AND ... "couple of jiggers of moonlight and add a star... pour in the blue of a June night and one guitar ... mix in a couple of dreamers and there you are ... lovers hail the Moonlight Cocktail! ... you'll awake in the morning and start to sing ... Moonlight Cocktails are the Thing!"


492 posted on 03/02/2006 4:43:21 AM PST by Rte66
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To: Reaganesque

Late to the party - can't make up my mind ... if the thread is a jukebox, then I'm punching:

23
41
78
81
108
122
151
162
168 - I'll Be Seeing You - to be played at my funeral
184 - Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
189
221
339 - Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody & Liebestraum
353!!!!!!!!!! - Those were my Top 4 forever!!!
366! Yee Haw! Take it away, Leon!
384
398 - Hurrah, hurrah!
399 - plus "I'm My Own Grandpa"
431 - + Winds of War
470
473


493 posted on 03/02/2006 4:47:23 AM PST by Rte66
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To: sitetest; Reaganesque

My favorites:

Mahler-Symphony #1
Respighi-The Pines of Rome
Brahms-Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Bach-Brandburg Concerto #2 played by Maurice Andre or Rolf Smedvig

BTW-has anyone ever heard Pendrecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima"? It's not something you would sit down to listen to to relax, but it's "interesting".


494 posted on 03/02/2006 4:48:50 AM PST by Born Conservative (Acts of intolerance will not be tolerated at The Pennsylvania State University.)
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To: Onelifetogive

Sweet Home Alabama

I want to thank you. I just saw this thread and noticed that there was over 450 replies. I was ready to scroll through all of them to see if any one said Sweet Home Alabama and low and behold I only had to read three posts.

The intro riff is the greatest I have ever heard. Right up there with Louie Louie and Brown Eyed Girl.


495 posted on 03/02/2006 5:20:25 AM PST by babydoll22 (If you stop growing as a person you live in your own private hell.)
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To: Reaganesque

"House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals.


496 posted on 03/02/2006 5:25:34 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: sitetest
I prefer JSB's Violin Concerto #1 in A minor to his Brandenburgs. I'm a sucker for A minor pieces.

Also right up there: Mozart's Piano Concerto #23 (at least, I think it's 23), often referred to as "Elvira Madigan" because it was featured in some odd Swedish film. Lovely piece of music.

497 posted on 03/02/2006 5:35:12 AM PST by grellis (can't sleep clown will eat me)
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To: commish
Several Species of small furry animals gathered in a cave and grooving with a pict.

Best gimmicky title, maybe, but one of Floyd's weaker moments. Fearless would probably be my PF pick...today, at least.

498 posted on 03/02/2006 5:39:45 AM PST by grellis (can't sleep clown will eat me)
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To: Reaganesque

499 posted on 03/02/2006 5:41:05 AM PST by P.O.E.
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To: Reaganesque

Well, as classical goes, I'm partial to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

Other faves are Sam Cooke, John Barry, The Kingston Trio and The Beatles


500 posted on 03/02/2006 5:46:19 AM PST by william clark
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