Listening! Now tell us what to listen to…
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I guess I’ll just list some stuff I like that not everyone would automatically know about (mozart, beethoven, and haydn stuff) / about all of what I’ve actually heard (most of which I listened to in Su’s class or otherwise school related):
Solo Piano:
Chopin’s preludes (especially E minor)
Erik Satie (gymnopedies and gnossiennes)
George Gershwin (CD called Gershwin plays Gershwin; piano arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue on this CD is phenomenal)
String Quartet:
Bartok (especially No 4)
Ravel’s string quartet
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Black Angels by George Crumb
Orchestra:
Charles Ives (all FOUR symphonies)
Nielsen (first symphony)
Opera/Musical Theater:
Gershwin – Porgy and Bess
Purcell – Dido and Aeneas
Benjamin Britten – Peter Grimes
Bernstein – West Side Story
Mozart operas (die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute])
Rent – Jonathan Larson
Cats – Andrew Lloyd Webber
Little Shop of Horrors
Fiddler on the Roof
The Producers
Moulin Rouge