Barrett Reynolds asks:

>what pieces comprise your absolute musical zenith? What's that piece of
>music that, when you hear it, it totally rejuvenates your spirit, gives
>you mental clarity, and elevates your being to a consciousness worlds
>above the earth?

This is the sort of question that I'm inclined to answer "it depends",
but there are a number of pieces that I turn to fairly consistently to
"recharge my batteries", as it were:

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3
Chopin Preludes
Chopin Ballades
Beethoven Symphony No. 8
Beethoven Piano Sonata "Waldstein"
Beethoven Piano Sonata "Appassionata"
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Bruckner Symphony No. 8
Schubert Wanderer Fantasy
Schubert Symphony No. 8
Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Strauss Four Last Songs
Liszt Transcendental Etudes (especially Harmonies du Soir)
Mahler Symphony No. 2
Mahler Symphony No. 3
Mahler Symphony No. 8
Schmidt Symphony No. 4
Stenhammar Piano Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich Symphony No. 8
Tchaikovsky Piano Trio
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Dvorak Symphony No. 7
Schumann Fantasy Op. 17
Poulenc Concerto for Organ Strings and Timpani
Saint Saens Piano Concerto No. 2
Saint Saens Symphony No. 3
Vaughan Williams Piano Concerto
Miaskovsky Symphony No. 6
etc.

Obviously, I'm an incorrigible romantic.

"Len Fehskens" <[log in to unmask]>