A few musical favorites
"Classical"
- Bach - Toccata and Fugue in a minor, d minor; many piano, organ,
orchestral, choral works
- Barber - Violin Concerto, Knoxville..., Piano Concerto
- Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra; Hungarian Xmas Carols;
Piano Concerto #2, 2nd movement
- Beethoven - Symphony #9, 3rd movement of Emperor piano concerto
- Berg - Lulu suite; last act of Wozzeck; Sonata for piano
- Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique; Requiem
- Bizet - Peer Gynt Suite
- Brahms - Requiem; Piano Concerto #1; many Intermezzos; Ballades;
Piano Trios; Violin Sonatas; Piano Trios & Quartets; lieder,
etc...
- Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb; A Ceremony of Carols; Piano Concerto
- Bruckner - Symphony #9 (esp. 2nd movement)
- Busoni - Piano Concerto; Turandot Suite
- Chopin - Barcarolle; Ballades; numerous Etudes etc;
Piano Concerto #1
- Durúflé - Requiem
- Dvorak - Piano Trio #1 (Dumky)
- Fauré - Requiem; Pavanne; Ballade for piano & orchestra;
Piano Quartets; Dolly suite
- Franck - Symphonic Variations, Chorale #3 in A minor for Organ
- Grieg - Piano Concerto; solo piano pieces
- Hindemith - Requiem opening, especially use of pedal tone
and the second to last chord before the singing starts.
- Janacek - Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta
- Keuris, Tristan
- To Brooklyn Bridge, Sinfonia
- Liszt - Sonata in b minor; Piano Concerto #1; Hungarian Rhapsody...
- Mahler - Symphony #6, #10 (Wheeler), #3, #7, #8, #9, #2
- Messiaen - Theme & Variations for violin/piano; Concerto for four;
organ works
- Mozart - Requiem; Symphony #40
- Moussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition
- Orff - Carmina Burana
- Poulenc - Gloria; Piano Concerto; 2-Piano Concerto; Les Biches suite
- Puccini - arias: Un bel di, O mio babino caro, (song of Doretta), etc.
- Prokofiev - Piano Concertos #1 and 2; Alexander Nevsky; solo piano
- Rachmaninoff - Piano Concertos (all four); Rhapsody on a theme of
Paganini; Symphony #2; Sonata #2 (original); Prelude in C# minor
- Respighi - Piano Concerto, Fountains of Rome, Church Windows?
- Saint Saëns - Symphony #3; Carnival of the Animals
- Schumann - Fantasy, Op. 17; Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15;
Faschingswank, Op. 26; Carnaval, Op. 9; Piano Concerto
- Scriabin - Piano Concerto, Etude Op. 8 number 12, Sonata No. 1,3
- Shostakovich - Trio #2 in e for Violin, Cello & Piano, Op. 67;
Symphony #5, #7, #14; Chamber Symphony (Quartet #??)
- Sibelius - Symphony #2 (?)
- Starer, Robert - Concerto a quattro
- Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring; Petrouchka suite; Symphony of Psalms;
Symphony in C
- Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto #1, Symphony #4, 5, 6, Sextets,
Nutcracker (especially the parts that are left out of the suites)
- Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
- Verdi - Aida parts, Requiem parts
- Wagner - excerpts
Non-"Classical"
- XTC - Skylarking (voted best album of the 80's by KTCL listeners)
- The Beatles - "White album" (even Revolution 9)
- Blood, Sweat, & Tears (self titled album, though the sound is awful)
- Earth, Wind & Fire - '70s through mid '80s stuff
- Quincy Jones - Mellow Madness (1973)
- Genesis - everything before they went to hell in the late 80's
- Pink Floyd - everything before they went to hell in the late 80's
- Yes - Close To The Edge, Going For The One
- Some early-mid 1980's "Top 40" which I am not apologetic for liking
- Prince - Pop Life 12", When Doves Cry
- Soundtrack to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, film. Michael Legrand -
I usually hate musicals but I make an exception for this one.
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Big band: Les Elgart, Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, ...
- Some Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet (sp?), Nat King Cole
"Techno", Electronica, Ambient, Acid Jazz, Drum & Bass, and Psychedelic
- Aphex Twin
- Journeyman
- Neotropic
- Orbital: Way Out
- Amon Tobin
- Fibre (Brooklyn)
- Autechre: Overand, Eutow
- ENO/Kluster - After the Heat
- Sneaker Pimps: Becoming X
- Portishead - Dummy
- Massive Attack: Special Cases
- Groove Collective
- Spiritualized