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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #31 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

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  • June 30, 2020June 30, 2020
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Sergei Prokofiev is a Russian composer of the 20th Century, and his life story is quite fascinating, tragic, as well as quite successful. For me, he has two pieces here

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #32 Chopin Nocturne in Bb minor, Op. 9, No. 1

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  • June 28, 2020June 28, 2020
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In November 1994, I went with some friends to Stanford Hospital to visit an acquaintance who had just gotten out of back surgery. We saw her, and on the way

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #33 Debussy Images, Book 1, L. 100

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  • June 27, 2020June 27, 2020
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Debussy makes a second entry in the Top 50 with his inestimable Images, Book 1. He composed these not long after completing the Pour le piano suite. They are gorgeous

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #34 Debussy Pour le piano, L. 95

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  • June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
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Claude Debussy comes in on my list of Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical at #34 with his amazing suite literally called For the Piano. It is a suite of three pieces,

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #35 Chaminade Guitare, Op. 32

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  • June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
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Cécile Chaminade has her second entry here in my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with this lovely little piece for piano entitled Guitare, Op. 32. What I love about this piece

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #36 Chopin Berceuse in Db major, Op. 57

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  • June 23, 2020June 23, 2020
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Coming in at #36 in this beautiful piece from Frédéric Chopin’s late compositional period, the Berceuse in Db major, Op. 57.  Frédéric Chopin composed this gorgeous little lullaby in 1844,

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #37 Boulanger Nocturne and Morceaux pour le piano

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  • June 22, 2020June 22, 2020
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Lili Boulanger was a French composer on par with Debussy, Fauré and Ravel, but she had the misfortune to get sick when she was 2 years old. The bronchial pneumonia

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #38 – Schönberg Les Misérables

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  • June 21, 2020June 21, 2020
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It’s a rather odd thing that the musical Les Misérables is so well known that if you just say Les Mis, everyone knows what you’re talking about, but unlike Andrew

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On Father’s Day

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  • June 21, 2020June 21, 2020
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now that it is after midnight, it’s apparently father’s day. it makes me sad, still, that I had such a crappy father, abusive, womanizer, lazy dolt. I can’t be appreciative

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #39 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

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  • June 21, 2020June 21, 2020
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Sergei Rachmaninoff is an amazing composer who created a number of rich, beautiful, melodic pieces that touch deeply into your heart. Growing up, I’ve always loved his famous Prelude in

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  • Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #1 Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor
  • Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74
  • Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #3 Wagner Götterdämmerung
  • Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #4 Gershwin An American in Paris
  • Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #5 – Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

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