Top 10 Classical
Thursday, 08 July, 2004
I decided to lump together all sorts of stuff under the vague heading of “classical”. It includes opera, ballets, oratorios, symphonies, etc. Hope you guys don't mind. Not sure if I can get to 10 in this list but I'll try. I also can't be bothered noting down my favourite recordings of these pieces so you'll just have to live without. Same deal about the order as previous posts.
- Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
- Cinderella (Sergey Prokofiev)
- Quarto libro dei madrigali (Claudio Monteverdi)
- La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
- Chants d'Auvergne (Joseph Canteloube)
- La Mer (Claude Debussy)
- Bolero (Maurice Ravel)
- Symphony 2: Resurrection (Gustav Mahler)
- Swan Lake (Piotr Tchaikovsky)
- Requiem (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Hmm, that was easier than I expected. I feel a bit bad about leaving out Beethoven's Symphony 6: Pastorale and I was sorely tempted to put in The Marriage of Figaro and Concerto for Flute and Harp in C by Mozart but anyway ...
Maybe that's another list I could do one day—Top 10 CDs to fall asleep to.
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How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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I believe that Mozart’s Requiem is that playing in the last scene in Elizabeth (with Cate Blanchett, directed by Shekhar Kapur). It’s rather lush and powerful indeed.