If I Could Listen to Only 3 Classical Pieces for the Rest of My Life (What Would Yours Be?)
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how about another ridiculous question: If there was only one symphony that could survive a catastrophe that would erase all other symphonies, which one would you preserve?
Lol, actually, your question is not as ridiculous as mine. For me, it will be Mahler's Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection".
@@MelodiousHeart1 Played by...?
@@issadad London Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein.
@@MelodiousHeart1 Agree, fantastic, all the more since most favor the NY Lenny's. I've got all 3 LB's, this one's glorious & gripping, not to mention Janet Baker! Also love the Klemperer. My current top pick's probably the live Tennstedt with Yvonne Kenny from 1989 with LPO. Matches LB's immersive excitement w/out the slightly churchy acoustic on the LSO (unless there's a new release?). Thanks.for bringing us all out.
Brahms 2nd (Bruno Walter / Columbia Symphony)
Use this like button as Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto
The Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2 is my "stranded on a desert island for the rest of my life" choice. The second movement brings me to tears no matter how many times I hear it.❤
@@barbaraleidich1564 Dude same here. The ending part of the second movement literally.brings me to tears every time. The strings combined with the soft pulsing piano is just unbelievable. That song helped me through so many things. It's totally my stranded on a desert island song too.
@@barbaraleidich1564 I feel the same about the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. The first two pieces can be replaced with other pieces, but the Rachmaninoff piece can't be replaced.
@@barbaraleidich1564 I agree, 100%! Twenty years ago, asked a woman on a first date to a concert that included the Rach' 2. [Yes, I confirmed that she liked classical music, before asking!] She was a bit freaked when she saw me brush tears from my eyes during the 2nd movement. Later, I learned that she was interested in me because I'm a broad shouldered, tall 'lumber sexual' type of guy [before that moniker was part of the lexicon]. An emotional reaction to such beautiful music didn't fit her image of whom _she_ thought I was. Good to learn those things early on.
Rach' 2
Emperor Piano Concerto
Beethoven's 7th Symphony [The reason I fell in love with Classical Music.] or Lark Ascending or Scheherazade or New World Symphony or Mahler Symphony # 1 or Mendelsohn's String Octet
Be well & Best regards,
Gottfried
@@gottfriedschuss5999 Wonderful story! I gather the relationship didn't go anywhere after that?
The first time I heard the Rachmaninoff was at a Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Concert. I was dating the principal cellist who brought me to the concert. We were both music majors at a nearby college. They had me at the opening chord!
I have the score written for 2 pianos and play some excerpts here and there. I am in awe of the concert pianists I have watched perform this!
So far I've narrowed it down to 297 pieces, needs more work.
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Same here, 297 or so classical. Then there is my (long) list of jazz favorites, and oh! Some of that Prog Rock has to be in there...
this is REAL music. That's why it has lasted 100's of years
Unlike some modern songs that die out after a few months.
That attitude is what causes the uninitiated to think of "Classical" Music as elitist and obtuse. There are only two types of music, good and bad.
Rite of Spring
Dvorak 9
Symphonie Fantastique
Thank you for the fantastic list! I appreciate it.
1. Rachmaninoff - Piano concerto number 2
2. Edvard Grieg - Piano concert number 1
3. Beethoven - Kreutzer Sonate
GREAT selection!! Thank you very much!
If I was trying to have a variety of music I would pick: Heifetz Mandelson Concerto (the copy I has is from a cheap compilation from older recordings), Furtwängler's Beethoven 3 (I think from the early 50s), Gould Goldberg variations. There are over a dozen things making the top 3 so performances make the difference, before I heard the Furtwangler change in pace and dynamics the 3rd was not in my top 20. I sat through a live Chicago Symphony performance of Mahler's 9th conducted by Tilson Thomas, listening to that symphony, even the recording I owned by the CSO and Solti was a mental slog of noises, his emphasis on the romantic and themes changed my attitude and fortunately CSO made one of the performances accessible on their web sight.
It’s best to note that grieg only made 1 concerto, so it is best that it be referred to as the “concerto in a minor” and not “griegs concerto no 1”
Only three? Madness. There’s so much sheer magnificence and beauty available, it’s impossible to decide.
I agree that there's so much beautiful and magnificent music available. Luckily, we never have to choose just three.
This video is so outstanding, so beautiful and amazing, this is what classical music is all about. My heart is very happy with those tunes.
Thank you for sharing.♥️🌹💐
1. Rach 2 ....2. Carmina Burana....3. Beethoven 9 simphony. Thanks to all who post, I have realized about many beautiful pieces to listen again.
아름다운 연주곡 잘 들었읍니다~감사합니다~🎵🎻🎹
You're welcome, my friend. I appreciate your presence.
Just love it again,
wonderful music...i love it
Best regards, Lolo
Hello Lolo, I didn't recognize your channel name, but it's wonderful to have your visit. Thank you.
Very very nice! very emotional! Thank you for sharing. Thumb up!
Wow, beautiful music my friend. 👌👌👌👌👌🎶🎶🎶🎶
Very reassuring to see so many folks with such sophisticated tastes in classical music!
"Sophisticated tastes", indeed. I've been discovering so many great works from them, it's been wonderful!
I concur.
I'm wondering how many people who have responded to this are professional musicians. I am not a musician at all--tried but quickly learned I didn't have much natural talent. I heard classical music my whole life growing up and got very interested in my last 2 yrs of high school and have kept on going. I'm 70 now. It's so nice to talk about "my kind of music" with others for a change. I tend to love the romantic composers and the loud and boffo stuff most, and I do love a great coda. Brahms is my all-time favorite, but Dvorak and Beethoven are high on the list. I'm trying to get into Bruckner--he seems to be the in-between guy for Brahms to Mahler to my ear---but I just can't handle Schoenberg, Bartok, and the atonal/12-tonal stuff. I have to have a tune! Anyhow, I'm just interested in the types of people who care enough about our music to comment here and if I am the only total non-musician or if I am among like folks who love music as much as me but can't play it either!
@Texas Judi, I'm with you all the way concerning classical music. I did study it a little as a kid back in high school, but that was pretty elementary stuff really. It did give me a liking for Mussorgsky (Night on a Bare Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition) and introduced me to the choral stuff via Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria. Of course my musical tastes have varied over time and these days you'll find me also listening to the likes of Leonard Cohen or Eva Cassidy, perhaps some BB King and through to the Canadian rock legends, Rush and of course from your neck of the woods the biggest little old band in the world, ZZ Top.
Where I live we have a purpose-built concert hall which sits on acoustically dampening springs to isolate it from the outside world and there's many a cultural feast to be had there. I took my old aunt there once along with my missus (who is a classical music newbie) to attend the festival of organ music. Now the hall itself is basically built around the huge pipe organ and hearing Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor played on that leviathan made a lasting impression.
I do appreciate that current technology allows for this interchange too, with a stranger from what I'm guessing is the other side of the Pond from me.
Keep enjoying the music eh? It's one of life's joys...
Like you Brahms is in my blood. Yet so many others are as well.
@@mikecook7530 When people ask me what kinds of music I like, I tell them classical and 1960's rock and roll. Weird mix, but that's me. I spent most of my school years in Europe and heard the Bach on an organ in a cathedral built in the 1600's in Holland. You can't even imagine the difference that makes, with the acoustics like they are when Bach wrote it. The T&F in D minor is my favorite. It completely envelops you. Happy listening!
Texas Judi I’m not a musician, I don’t play anything but a few chords off a guitar. Music is like a cocaine or heroin to me. I close my eyes and I feel high like I’m in tranced when I listen to classical music or metallica.
Texas Judi I am totally with you. No musician but always been guided by the old masters. My father was a real symphony and opera fanatic and on weekends played his records (the black ones) all day long. I am entirely into Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. But I'm open to anything else. I also love the baroque masters Handel, Albinoni, Vivaldi and Bach's Organ works, that drive tears into my eyes. Always.
But recently I came to the video linked below by chance and was instantly excited.
th-cam.com/video/ojBYW3ycVTE/w-d-xo.html
What a talented gifted artist is this man. I truly admire him.
Greetings to Texas
I almost always end up with one of your postings. Exquisite selections. Thank you, again, for all you do in compiling gems that touch the mind, heart and soul. I think the goal of art it to take you somewhere. These pieces do that for me.
Excellent sharing dear friend, thank you so much 🎶🙏🎼Love and light 🌟🌟🌟
Thank you, Siya!
Even at the age of 18, I had not heard Rachmaniev's piano concerto no 2, the first time I heard it was so moved that I was crying for 30 minutes, it still moves me just like the first time I heard it. How talented, it's impressive
Muy bonito.nice
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Beautiful video. Sounds great. 👏👍🎶
今回も良い動画でした！楽しみました！
次回も楽しみに待っています！👀
I answered this months ago when it showed up in my TH-cam feed. My take away from perusal of most recent replies is how many choices we have! Last time I took it upon myself to revisit others choices and was amply rewarded with many hours of wonderful music during the lockdown. Stay well everyone.
Thank you for the wonderful comment! You stay well, too.
Absolutely agree with election No.1 & 3, and you have made me to rediscover this monumental Beethoven :)
Beethoven is the greatest mind and soul of music who ever visited this planet! Let 2020 be one hell of a celebration!!!
I'm glad that you agree with my 2 selections, and also glad that I made you rediscover the great Beethoven piece. :-)
@@vidarbonsak7855 I love what you said about Beethoven. He is my absolute favorite composer of all time!
The "Emperor" is my favorite piece.
Really enjoyed watching your lovely video. Really hope you are well and having a great Wednesday. Love your music 🎶. Many thanks from Chris and Jane ❤🎉
Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome.
1. Bach Goldberg Variations
2. Mozart Piano Concerto 20 in D minor
3. Beethoven 9th Symphony
Excellent list!! Thank you for watching and for the comment.
Definitely Mozart's Piano Concerto in Dm Number 20.
Vivaldi's Sacred Choral Music.
Beethoven's Pathetique
have you heard Angela Hewitt's record of the Goldberg Variations? - fabulous!
@@peterjongsma2754 I LOVE the Mozart and Beethoven pieces, but not familiar with Vivaldi's. Will check it out. Thank you.
Just a blessing for the souls and the ears!
Thank you so very much my dear friend for sharing all this magic with us!
It's always a joy to have you on my channel, Katerina. Thank you!
Such beautiful pieces of music, such a nice edit, thank you so much for sharing this amazing video 🎻 🎼 💯 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Thank you for such a nice comment, I appreciate it!
@@MelodiousHeart1 it is an absolute pleasure 😁 🙏
Great music and excellent performance. I listened with great pleasure. Thanks!
I wish you all the best and further creative success !
Mahler's Second Symphony
Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto
Chopin's First Ballade
Lmao for me rach 3 and 4>2 and Chopin ballades 2 and 4>1. Mahler 2 is good but so is 5
Ketexon, You listed all 3 of my top favorite pieces! Thank you!
Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto number 21
The Aria Una Furtiva Lagrima from Donizetti’s L’elisor d’amore sung by Jussi Bjorling.
Now you mentionBjőrling I haves to add the duet In the Depths of the Temple by Bjőrling & Robert Merrill
A beautiful selection of pieces, thanks!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Thanks for all these recommendations; so many pieces to now explore!
I've been learning so many great pieces I didn't know before from the commentators here.
1. Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
2. Bach - St. Matthew Passion
3. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Very tough choices and these are not necessarily my 'favourite' pieces but are ones that over my lifetime I could get more enjoyment from compared to short and simple pieces. Works that just missed out are: Bach's Goldberg Variations, Art of Fugue or WTC, a lot of his choral work could get on here such as his masses, Albeniz's Iberia Suite is also a master work, Mendelssohn's Saint Paul is a beautiful work along with the likes of Brahms' German Requiem and of course Mozart's Requiem. I love many operas, Mozart, Verdi, Rossini etc. but being one of the most complex and deep works I chose Tristan und Isolde so after many listens I would still be untangling it. Eroica is a masterpiece and is in my opinion unrivaled by any other symphony, it transcends the form but some honourable mentions are Mahler 2, 6, and 8, Bruckner 8, and 9, Beethoven 6, 7, and 9, Mozart 41, Shostakovich 5, Berlioz Symphonie-Fantastique... I could go on but that's enough reading.
Wow, I can see that you have an extensive knowledge in classical music! I love many of the pieces you mentioned, but there are also some that I haven't experienced before. Thank you for your time and an exceptional comment! I really appreciate it.
Omg how could I not have thought of Mozart's Requiem! Great mistake...
@@enelabe Mozart's Requiem was one of many pieces that I had a very difficult time leaving out from this list.
1) Mozart Concerto for clarinet (to wake up)
2) Brahms Hungarian Dance n5 (to live through the day)
2) Debussy Clair de Lune (to go to sleep)
Great selections! 👍
A hard choice, so many wonderful selections to choose from. For what it may be worth, we'll go with: Beethoven's 9th, Bach's Prelude and Fugue in Dminor, and Holst's "Planets", in no particular order. There is nought to say against the choices others have made. Were we all to find ourselves together in some post-apocalyptic scenario, and each of us having brought recordings of our choices, we would listen well together. My salutes to you all.
This comment section is pure gold
Well said!
eeeyeah
I agree!
Satie: Gymnopedie n.1
Shostakovich: Piano Trio N.2 in E minor, Op.67
Liszt: La Campanella
Thank you so much for the remarkable selection!! I really appreciate it.
Beautiful! 👏
Thank you!
Lovely selection❤️🎵❤️
Thank you!
Beethoven - Ninth Symphony.
Tchaikovsky - First Piano Concerto.
Sibelius - Violin Concerto.
The first two are constants. Number three changes almost daily.
Toscanini, when asked what one opera he would choose to have with him on a desert island, replied that if he were restricted to only one opera, he would walk out into the ocean and drown himself.
Thank you. I needed a lift today.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching and for the wonderful words.
Beautiful sharing super
#1 Piano Concerto #2 (S. Rachmaninoff), #2 Symphony #9 (Beethoven), #3 St Matthew Passion (Bach).
Great list! You are the second person who mentioned Matthew Passion, which I'm not familiar with. I should check it out soon. Thank you!
1.Mahler symphony 5
2.Sibelius violin concerto
3.Mozart requiem in d minor
Exceptional choices!! Thank you!
Dear Melodious Heart, thank you so very much for your picks. I shamelessly cried through all of them. 🥰 Especially loved Claudio Abbado's interpretation
Oh, I am happy that my selection and the short performances touched you. Thank you!
Great video dear have a wonderful day.
Thank you! Have a wonderful weekend!
1.Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 by Cho-Seong Jin (Especially 2nd movement!)
2.Ravel Piano Concerto In G Major (Also I prefer 2nd movement)
Maybe my liking for classical music is kind of music that makes me relaxed and can be drawn a charming spectacle when i just sit on a chair, look at any scene with Woods, clouds on gloomy weather.
Ooh~ It's so good to imagine!
3.Bruch Violin Concerto In G minor by Hilary Hahn
Honestly was too tough to choose my favorite music to 3, but i did it!!
Thank you for uploading every video XD
Fantastic selection! I also LOVE the three pieces you mentioned. I love Seong-Jin Cho but haven't heard his performance of the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1. Will have to listen to it soon.
Oh yes, for the second movement of Chopin's piano concerto No. 1. I imagine angels playing that...
I am partial to Chopin, as a pianist, as well as other romantic composers. But I would need The concerto with Chopin's solo piano, nocturnes, ballades etc and Lizst Liberstraum.
@@pianoman0609 Chopin is one of my top 3 composers, along with Beethoven and Schubert.
@@MelodiousHeart1 Understood. Music can create so many feelings in a person that it's almost impossible to just pick three pieces, and not want more. So many great composers and pieces.
Chopin's Ballade no.1 in G minor (Op 23), an incredible and emotional ride. Trying to play this at the moment :>
Chopin's Ballade no.3 in A flat major (Op 47), it's just beautiful, as the piece slowly transcend to insanity.
Mendelssohn Violin concerto in E minor (Op 64), wonderful, calming, and AmAzInG
I absolutely love the pieces you have selected and also love how you described them. Thank you for the wonderful comment!
Thank you for reminding me of these beautiful pieces. Makes me realize I should give more time to the classics.
You're welcome, thank you for watching and for the nice comment.
I fully agree to this commentary of these well elected and interpreted masterpieces of music and musicians. thank you so much🎻🎺...🏆🏁
@@xoggy9843 You're very welcome, and thank you for your time and such nice words.
Wonderful music! 👌
Thank you!
1. Liebestraum no3 - Liszt
2. Concerto no2 - Rachmaninoff
3. Ballade no1 in G minor - Chopin
Rach 3
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet suite
Chopin piano concerto 1
Thank you for the great input, I love them all!!
Romeo and Juliet suite was by Prokofiev?
@@donnytello1544 there is another composition by tchaikovsky, it called romeo and juliet overture
@@assafgeron3466 interesting I didn’t realize tchakovsky also did a Romeo and Juliet inspired sutie
SUPER!!!!! Thank you
You're welcome, thank you for watching!
Wow, great performance, the best
Even to ask which 3 classical composers would already be too much to ask; to ask for 3 classical _pieces?_ You might as well ask me which 3 breaths I would like to breath for the rest of my life.
Haha, I can relate. I'm struggling to even get my list down to 50
I can't imagine ever limiting my self to 3 or even 300! I'm pleased to say such madness will never happen.
*I really enjoy classical music., Thanks, friends.*
Bravo! Spot on!
Thank you!
Brahms, 2nd Piano Concerto, Vaughan Williams, the Lark Ascending and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for Harp, etc
1. Rachmaninff - Piano Concerto 2,
2. Sibelius - Violin Concerto,
3. Schubert - Unfinished Symphony 8,
and as a bonus for the unfinished piece by Schubert I would add "Vocalise" by Rachmaninoff...
Now that's a great selection.
Brilliant performance and selection
Thank you!
This is amaging,... awesome dear friend.... greetings from bali indonesia 🤗❤❤❤
Thanks for stopping by. :-)
Twoset Violin has seen your content
I just watched the video and commented on it. :-)
1 Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concerto, 2nd movement.
2 Beethoven Emperor Concerto 2nd movement.
3 Mozart piano concerto 21 andante.
1 and 3 played by Anna Fedorova. 2 played by Lang Lang.
Oh, I love these 2nd movements so much! Lang Lang's performance of the Emperor Concerto is divine. I just watched Fedorova's performance, that was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for the great input!
So many great musicians.
Wow, these performances were stirring and moving as you said.
I was a teen in the 70's (yeah I got to see a LOT of great concerts) and didn't care for classical until I saw a program , maybe on pbs, with John Williams who I only knew from scoring most movies of the time. In the program he explained how music moves emotions. He explained how he used that to score films and he went through many classicals to further demonstrate how point. When that program was over I couldn't get enough of classical. I found Vivaldi's Four Seasons on a cassette mixed in with Eric Clapton, David Bowie and pink Floyd when I was given my uncle's tapes after he passed away around 1977. I wore that tape out.
Symphony no 6 Beethoven, 1st piano concerto Shostokovich & ...........who knows. When I was young I bought a cd of Shostakovich piano concertos 1 & 2 in the cheepo bin in Woolworths, I still play it 40ish years later. and love it far more than versions by people you may have heard of. Longer ago than that , the first classical vinyl album I bought (in Boots, Western Road, Brighton, UK) was Grieg's Peer Gynt, the other side had symphonic dances, I didn't play them much but every time one turns up on radio3 I ask myself what that gorgeous tune is, and then the presenter tells me... PAY ATTENTION you've owned this music for nearly 50 years.
Thank you for the story that brought a smile on my face. I really appreciate your comment. My sincere wishes to you.
Steve Muscato WOW, your story triggered a memory, a good one.
I remember buying an LP of Borodin 2nd Symphony from a tiny hole in the wall shop on Cherry Street in central Birmingham within earshot of the thunder of the presses of the Birmingham Post.
That was in the 1960s I still have the LP and many more treasured recording, I bought them with me when I came to the USA in 1970 when I was hired by a US Corporation for my almost 10 years of main frame computer experience.
After 49 years here in the USA I still remember that wonderful little shop, thanks to you.
Best wishes.
My first classical record I bought in 1966. Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite.
Muy bonito, nice
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your choice is very good. And yyi am glad we have youtybe unbelievebel all music free and the whole day bravo youtube!!
This video is what twoset was talking about cool cool
I'm glad you mentioned it, as I just watched the video. :-)
Hungarian rhapsody 2
Appasionata 3rd movement.
Beethoven 9th symphony
Great selection, thank you! I adore all the pieces you mentioned.
@@MelodiousHeart1 the most genius pieces i have ever heard..... No composer was as genius as Beethoven and Franz Liszt. Of course Bach was the first, but these 2 took it to the last level
Waldstein! Pathetique!
Very nice!
Thank you!
Marvellous music 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵💜
You are kidding dear Kim! Which are my fav three?? Exactly these ones! Needless to say that you did a perfect choice for each compositon. If I had done this video I would have taken the same excerpts. The only technical difference is I would have sorted the composers in chronological order.. but that is irrelevant! Thank you for this totally enjoyable video! With gratitude... Cheers, Eddy.
Wow, it is, indeed, amazing that we both choose exact same pieces out of so many great ones! Sorting the pieces in chronological order is a good idea. I just sorted them in order of my preference. You're welcome, and thank you for the great comment! I always appreciate your words on my videos.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone out in the world is listening to what I am at the same time. In that moment, I want to know who I'm connecting with..
Wow! Your three are definitely in my top 5!
Oh, that's fantastic!! Thank you! What are your other 2 favorites if I may ask?
Excellent choice!
Thank you!
I just finished twoset's new Video
1.Mahler symphony no.2 (Resurrection)
2. Bruckner symphony no.8
3. Brahms symphony no.1
Bonus: Bach mass in B minor.
So many, so many.....
Sibelius Symphony No.2, Saint Saens Organ (#3) Sym, Dvorak New World, Hovhaness Mysterious Mountain, Schubert's "Great" #9 etc, etc. There's just too much good music out there to just name a few. So happy to have a wide range of orchestral music from which to choose! I wish never to lose my sense of hearing.......
Enchanting!
After reading thru all of the lists on this thread, I am very impressed with the quality of the choices folks have put forward.
You all really know your stuff.
Hats off to you, Ladies & Gentlemen
I agree. I've been learning so many great pieces I hadn't known before from the commentators here.
At the end of the year listen to NYs classical radio 105.9 and you'll see some very lively debate when they run their top 100 classical pieces of all time. FYI Beethoven's 9th has topped the list for I don't know how many years now. Certainly since I've been listening.
What sparked my interest in classical music was Emerson Lake and Palmer.
@@davidabart I live in Vegas and unfortunately u can't pick up any decent Classical channels.(if course u can listen to a channel on the Cable tv)but I will try and track that NY channel down,via an App maybe?.In the mean time I listen to the UK"s Classic FM..U might want to check that out,it"s free&has very few interruptions ,with most presenters"drying up"and playing some beautiful music..Just an little free trivea from a cultural Desert 🏜️
@@tonyfrancesco3701 It was Genesis for me, though it was to strengthen an aready existing interest in classical music, as well as folk, and jazz.
There's only ONE - Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto in C Minor. Especially the 2nd movement. It is SUBLIME. Feeds my SOUL. Fell in love with it fifty years ago and have been working on it ever since! Will never quit. Will never be able to play it as the professionals do, but just being able to play it at ALL is such a joy. Hearing it is heavenly.
I started listening to this piano concerto when I was in my teens babysitting for a couple that had it on a record. I am now 73 yrs. old and still love it today.
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment! Out of hundreds of pieces I adore, Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto is the only one that always stays on top. It's also one of very few multi-movement pieces that I absolutely love all movements. It must be great to be able to play it!
There are many others, but your selection is awesome 👏
There surely are many others, but I'm glad that you like my selection. :-) Thank you.
Beethoven's 9th, Copelands' "Appalachian Spring", Dvorak, "New World Symphony" - I grew up in Chicago and played New World as first chair flute for the Lane Tech Symphony Orchestra - sweet memories - Thanks for your choices, very lovely...
You're welcome, and thank you for the outstanding selection!
3 very good choices. I would have to consider a couple of Chopin pieces.
Lovely
Thank you.
Just started watching this. 20 seconds in. Goosebumps....
1. Chopin nocturne in C sharp minor
2. Elgar cello concerto in E minor
3. Dvorak symphony no 9
Such a divine selection, I love them all! Thank you!
1.Richard Strauss , 4 Last Songs with Gundula Janowitz
2.Gustav Mahler , Symphony #2
3.Antonin Dvorak , New World Symphony
Thank you for the fantastic selection!! I really appreciate it.
Muy. Lindo,bien ml gracias......
So agree with your last two selections. I would have chosen Sir Edward Elgar's pieces, just about any or all of them, as my third! Thank you so much. Listening with ear phones. Almost like being there!!
You're welcome. I also love most Elgar's pieces, at least the ones I know. Thank you for watching and for the great comment!
1 - The Lark Ascending - simply beautiful
2 - Moonlight Sonata
3 - Theme from Schindler's List
1. Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto (Played by Sviatoslav Richter)
2. Bruckner’s 8th Symphony
3.Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony
Thank you for the magnificent selection! Richter is one of my favorite pianists but haven't heard his Rach 2nd yet. Will go listen to it.
Melodious Heart great, you must! Although the recording is a little bad. You’d soon forget about it once you hear him play. There are many wonderful pianist who have played this piece well yet still not to the likes of Richter. Here’s the link. It’s from his ‘59 performance with the Warsaw philharmonic orchestra under Stanisław Wisłocki.
m.th-cam.com/video/5fzGXaFQloc/w-d-xo.html
And thanks for the video. Loved the selection of pieces.
nice
Very nice
Thank you.