A to Z recommendations.

Doshea3

How's about this: we post in sequence, creating an A-Z of composers and a recommended piece by each.

Allegri — Miserere

Next person posts B for Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bizet, Britten, Byrd, Busoni or whatever other B composer comes to mind. Get it?

tSubh Dearg

Bruckner - Te Deum

I think once we've done one round we can go around again until we run out of composers or recommendations

Marathon Man

Chopin- Prelude in E minor, op. 28 no. 4

il gatto

Dvorák- New World Symphony (From The New World Op.95)

il gatto

Elgar - Nimrod

il gatto

Fauré - Pavane (while I'm at it. I'll stop now:o)

Doshea3

Good idea, tSubh.

Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue

Calina

Handel - Zadok the Priest

Sinfonia

Ives - The Unanswered Question

il gatto

Ummmm... Joplin - The Entertainer.

banquo

KODÁLY, Zoltán - Háry János Suite

ZorbaTehZ

Liszt - First Mephisto Waltz.

Doshea3

Messiaen -- Quartet for the End of Time

Marathon Man

Nielsen- Wind Quintet Op. 43

Doshea3

Orff — Carmina Burana (any movement except "O Fortuna" )

amity island

Prokofiev, Sergei -Peter and the Wolf

ZorbaTehZ

It's wrecking my head trying to think of a Q...

amity island

Quantz, Johann Joachim -Flute Concerto in G Major (Flute,Piano)

1697-1773
German flautist, teacher, composer of 300 flute concertos alone! :eek:

Of course I had to look this up... does that still count
http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/quantz

il gatto

I looked that up too:) Felt it would make me a fraud to use it though;) If I had, I would have owned up to looking it up too....honest:rolleyes:
R
Reinhold, Hugo - Impromptu in C# minor (opus 28. I think)

Calina

Camille Saint Saens Danse Macabre

ZorbaTehZ

Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major (3rd)

Sinfonia

Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack

banquo

Bollocks. So I'm stuck with 'U'?

tSubh Dearg

SumGuy wrote: »

Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack

I thought that was 'U'?

Therefore you would have the relatively simple 'V'

ZorbaTehZ

Vivaldi - Violin Concerto No.2 (3rd)

Wagner - Forest Murmurs from Siegfried.

Mwahahaha have fun trying to get those last 3.

Doshea3

Can we safely skip X, Y and Z to avoid consternation? Next time around I'd suggest skipping any letter which is too tricky.

Albinoni — Adagio (bollocks suggestion, I know)

ZorbaTehZ

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (1st and 3rd)

funky penguin

I know he's not 'classical', but Zimmer, Hans! :eek:

His Gladiator score is wonderful.

For C....

Cohen, Avishai. Might call him Jazz musician more than anything, but the man is a damn fine composer and arranger. Had the privilege of seeing him play last weekend at the jazz festival in Cork. Met him afterwards, and he was a real gentleman. Check out the album "Continuo", especially the track 'Elli'.

In fact, check it out on his myspace if you want. You can download it as well.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=99025636

Call my blasphemer if you must!

Doshea3

Debussy — "Les collines d'Anacapri" from Preludes Book I.

Sandwich

Einaudi - Le Onde

tSubh Dearg

Got to go with Fauré again only this time his Requiem, it's definitely one of my favourites.

Sinfonia

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis


(also I'm throwing this in for the last revolution's 'X' entry -
Iannis Xenakis - Persephassa)

cornbb

SumGuy wrote: »

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis

Ah nuts, I was gonna suggest Satyagraha by Glass

Umm ok I'll go with Handel - Water Music

amity island

Ives, Charles

His 4th Symphony (XXL stage required )

Talliesin

Doshea3 wrote: »

Can we safely skip X, Y and Z to avoid consternation? Next time around I'd suggest skipping any letter which is too tricky.

Frank Zappa did some classical pieces. Unfortunately the last time I listened to them I'd gotten quite intoxicated listening to his psychedelic rock stuff (hey, it was college days) so I couldn't really recommend or not.

Somebody check out http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:20th_century_classical_composers&from=X and see if there's any good stuff.

cornbb

Talliesin wrote: »

Somebody check out http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:20th_century_classical_composers&from=X and see if there's any good stuff.

Xenakis, La Monte Young, Zappa, and John Zorn are the only names I recognise there.

So we're onto J then...

Janáček - Sinfonietta

The Mad Hatter

Doshea3 wrote: »

Can we safely skip X, Y and Z to avoid consternation? Next time around I'd suggest skipping any letter which is too tricky.

Albinoni — Adagio (bollocks suggestion, I know)

Xenakis, Yamada, Zemlinsky?

Can't name anything I'm really fond of by the outer two, but certainly Yamada's symphonic poem Madara no Hana is a piece I like a lot.

In any case, Kabalevsky: Violin Concerto.

Sinfonia

In honour of the Remembering Ligeti festival next weekend,

Ligeti - Musica ricercata

ZorbaTehZ

Mozart - Overture to Le Nozze Di Figaro

Doshea3

Bren—Never heard of Yamada, actually. Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony!

Nancarrow—Studies for Player Piano

Sinfonia

Leo Ornstein - Impressions of the Thames

Interesting Fact: Ornstein was alive in three centuries, having been born in 1893, and dying at the age of 108 in 2002

Doshea3

Fabulous! Just like harper Dennis Hempson.

Poulenc—Gloria

banquo

/quickly googles

"Um.. QUANTZ, Johann Joachim"

/Beams with pride

ZorbaTehZ

Rossini - Sombre Foret

Interesting Fact: I saw Rossini's grave 2 months ago at Pere Lachaise.

Pride Fighter

Shostakovic- Piano Concerto Number 2, second movement.

amity island

Tchaikovsky - Piano concerto no.1

Doshea3

****. 'U' again.

Uhl, Alfred—Drei Tanzstücke

(Real composer!)

cornbb

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians

Sinfonia

cornbb wrote: »

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians

With a capital 'V'?

Verdi - La Donna È Mobile, from Rigoletto (can't argue with a classic!)

cornbb

SumGuy wrote: »

With a capital 'V'?

D'oh

Doshea3

Peter Warlock — Serenade for Strings