HERE are Pierre Boulez's Top Ten Hits from the 20th Century. Anyone can play! And should, because the fun is in the process of thinking, not in Beckmessering a result. My Top Ten Hits of the 20th Century. In Random Order. Subject to change at any moment.
Britten : Violin Concerto (more here)
Messiaen :Et exspecto resurrectionem Mortuorum (more here)
Messiaen : Chronochromie
Messiaen : Sept Hai kai (more here)
Britten : Death in Venice
Boulez : Pli selon Pli
Janáček : Diary of One Who Disappeared
Szymanowski : Symphony no 3 (more here)
Szymanowksi: Violin Concerto
Sibelius : Luonnotar
Sibelius : Symphony no 7
Mahler : Symphony no 8
Mahler : Symphony no 10 Cooke III completion (Harding)
Janáček : Sinfonietta (first version)
Brian Ferneyhough : Shadowlines
Britten : Billy Budd
Franz Schreker : Die Gezeichneten, or Irrelohe, or Christophorous
Walter Braunfels : Jeanne d'Arc (more here)
Berg : Wozzeck
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Edgard Varèse : Ionization, Equatorial
Elgar : The Dream of Gerontius
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Six Songs from a Shropshire Lad
Gerald Finzi : Dies Natalis
George Butterworth : Songs from A Shropshire Lad, Banks of Green Willow
Benjamin : Into the Little Hill
Birtwistle : Thesus Games, Earth Dances (more here)
Ernst Krenek : Reisebuch aus den österreichIschen Alpen (more here)
K A Hartmann : Simplicius Simplicissimus (more here)
K A Hartmann : Gesangszene (more here)
Braunfels : Die Verkündigung (more here)
Puccini : Madama Butterfly (lots on this site)
Mahler : Das Lied von der Erde
Xenakis :
Boulez : Derive 2
Oops that's 80+ dashed off in 20 minutes, and loads left out.
Britten : Violin Concerto (more here)
Messiaen :Et exspecto resurrectionem Mortuorum (more here)
Messiaen : Chronochromie
Messiaen : Sept Hai kai (more here)
Britten : Death in Venice
Boulez : Pli selon Pli
Janáček : Diary of One Who Disappeared
Szymanowski : Symphony no 3 (more here)
Szymanowksi: Violin Concerto
Sibelius : Luonnotar
Sibelius : Symphony no 7
Mahler : Symphony no 8
Mahler : Symphony no 10 Cooke III completion (Harding)
Janáček : Sinfonietta (first version)
Brian Ferneyhough : Shadowlines
Britten : Billy Budd
Franz Schreker : Die Gezeichneten, or Irrelohe, or Christophorous
Walter Braunfels : Jeanne d'Arc (more here)
Berg : Wozzeck
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Edgard Varèse : Ionization, Equatorial
Elgar : The Dream of Gerontius
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Six Songs from a Shropshire Lad
Gerald Finzi : Dies Natalis
George Butterworth : Songs from A Shropshire Lad, Banks of Green Willow
Benjamin : Into the Little Hill
Birtwistle : Thesus Games, Earth Dances (more here)
Ernst Krenek : Reisebuch aus den österreichIschen Alpen (more here)
K A Hartmann : Simplicius Simplicissimus (more here)
K A Hartmann : Gesangszene (more here)
Braunfels : Die Verkündigung (more here)
Puccini : Madama Butterfly (lots on this site)
Mahler : Das Lied von der Erde
Xenakis :
Boulez : Derive 2
Oops that's 80+ dashed off in 20 minutes, and loads left out.
My bet, not on quality but liking, on a deserted island:
ReplyDelete1 Debussy : Images
2 Bartók : Piano Concerto n°2
3 Stravinsky : Petrushka (orchestra or piano)
4 Ravel : Left hand concerto
5 Ligeti : Preludes for piano
6 Britten : Billy Budd (when mental health allows)
7 Mahler : Symphony 7
8 Rimsky : Golden Cockerel
9 Puccini : Madama Butterfly (with Lemieux)
10 Elgar : Symphony n°2 (I like beckmerisng)
11 Walton : Partita for orchestra
12 Stravinsky : Histoire du Soldat
13 Albéniz: Iberia
14 Dutilleux : Symphony 1
15 Messiaen : Turangalila
16 Sibelius : Pohjola's Daughter
17 Schoenberg : Variations op 28
18 Shostakovich : Symphony 10
19 Poulenc : Le bestiaire
20 Nielsen : Symphony 4
21 Lutoslawski : Quartet
22 Me : unwritten works
Not one work by Strauss...
ReplyDeleteOr Prokofiev?
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