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Thread #90211   Message #2064402
Posted By: Steve Shaw
30-May-07 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: Classical music - what makes you listen?
Subject: RE: Classical music - what makes you listen?
All Mozart. Bach too. The late string quartets by Beethoven and the Diabelli Variations. And the late piano sonatas. Schubert's Quintet in C, the Great C Major Symphony and the last three piano sonatas. Schumann's piano works, especially Kreisleriana if Martha Argerich is playing it. "Rach Two" of course, because my teenage son played the clarinet in it once. Absolutely anything by Ravel and Vaughan Williams. Absolutely nothing by Vivaldi, Chopin, Tippett, Britten or Wagner (fascist pig!) and very little by Brahms and Elgar (both lugubrious) or Stravinsky (irritating), though I have exceptions apropos of the last three.   Thanks for asking.