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My top 5 does not reflect the most profound, but rather those works which
I have found the most uplifting during hard times:
1. Ravel Piano Music -- Le Tombeau de Couperin/Gaspard de la Nuit
2. Mahler Symphony #6
3. Vaughan Williams Symphony #5
4. Gershwin Concerto in F
5. Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
I have a problem selecting a specific piece among Ravel's works for solo
piano. Somehow the body of work is greater than the sum of its parts.
But Le Tombeau and Gaspard lead the pack.
My dismay at excluding the following is assuaged by assuming that others
will list them:
6. Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Firebird
7. Gershwin Porgy&Bess
8. Mahler Symphonies #5 & 9
9. Schoenberg Transfigured Night
10. Shostakovich ALL the string quartets (an almost incomparable body of
work -- how could you select among them?)
11. Bartok ALL the string quartets
12. Rachmaninoff PC #3, Symphonic Dances
13. Ravel Daphnis&Chloe
14. Shostakovich Syms #5 & #10
15. Prokofiev Syms #5 & #7
16. Barber Violin & Piano Concerti
17. Copland -- The Ballets
18. Petterson -- The Symphonies
19. Strauss Rosenkavelier
20. Debussy LaMer, Nocturnes
21. Ravel Piano Concerti
and on and on...
What a great century for music!
Donald L. Gunter, Ph.D.
Dept. of Medical Physics and Diagnostic Radiology
Rush-Pres. St. Luke's Medical Center
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