Mimi asked:
>But where is our profound musical 'home'? Who are the composers we most
>turn to when we are feeling like we want to cleanse our tastebuds? Which
>are the compositions we select when we need a good old pal, or want to
>renew ourselves after a very stressful time? What is our own personal,
>guaranteed, tried-and-true feel-good music? What are the pieces of music
>we have sought out more than five times in the last year?
An eclectic list of just a few of my personal musical elixirs:
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
Bach: The B-Minor Mass; the St. Matthew Passion; the Art of Fugue
Mozart: Mass in C-Minor; Requiem; Symphony No. 41
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in d; SQ No. 15 in G; Mass in A-flat
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 or Symphony No. 5
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Tallis Fantasy
Edmund Rubbra: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 6
Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil; Symphony No. 2
Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony; Visions de l'Amen
John Williams: Scores to The Empire Strikes Back; Superman; A.I.
John Proffitt
Houston, TX