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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Schubert String Quartet No. 14, D. 810 “Der Tod und das Mädchen”

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  • July 31, 2020July 31, 2020
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Invoking the emergence of Death, hearkening back a few years to Beethoven’s Fifth, and inspiring metal rock and roll in the future, Schubert strikes a slashing D minor in fortissimo

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #18 Mozart Don Giovanni, K. 527

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  • July 29, 2020July 29, 2020
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart appears once again on my list of Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with his opera, Don Giovanni. This is where I have real beef with Peter Shaffer’s play

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Desmond Take Five

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  • July 27, 2020July 27, 2020
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When I revise this Top 50, this piece by Paul Desmond, and played by the Dave Brubeck Band will be added in the Top 50, because it is just so

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #19 Liszt Les Preludes, S. 97

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  • July 26, 2020July 26, 2020
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Franz Liszt comes in at #19 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with Les Preludes, and with it the birth of the symphonic poem. He didn’t name it a symphonic

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Wagner Die Walküre

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  • July 25, 2020July 25, 2020
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Richard Wagner loved the theater. He considered himself a composer of theatrical dramas, rather than operas. This mindset changes the way he viewed his operatic compositions. Wagner was inspired a

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #20 Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492

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  • July 24, 2020July 24, 2020
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Now that I’ve arrived at the Top 20, we get our first entry for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart is a really unique composer because he is an example of a

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Puccini Tosca

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  • July 23, 2020July 23, 2020
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I wanted to give an honorable mention to Puccini for his great opera, Tosca. Puccini blended a mix of Wagnerian operatic style with Italian bel canto and verismo. Bel canto

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #21 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op. 20

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  • July 22, 2020July 22, 2020
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky appears once again on my list of Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with his first attempt at a ballet, in 1876 with Swan Lake. I can’t say how

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Davis So What

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  • July 21, 2020July 21, 2020
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The separation of lines in music are supposedly drawn bright and clear since the 20th century. Classical music follows this line with these “rules.” Film scores follow with these “rules.”

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #22 Mahler Symphony No. 2

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  • July 20, 2020July 20, 2020
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Gustav Mahler comes in at #22 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical Music with his amazing Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection,” though Mahler was not the one who

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