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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Jobim Girl From Ipanema

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  • August 12, 2020August 12, 2020
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I’m giving an honorable mention to Antonio Carlos Jobim in my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical for his amazing and inventive song, The Girl From Ipanema.  Jobim was born in Brazil

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #14 Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551

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  • August 11, 2020August 11, 2020
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In the summer of 1788, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in one of the most inspiring compositional groove anyone can be in. He churned out his final three symphonies, No. 39,

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Shostakovich Suite for Variety Orchestra

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  • August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
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I need to give Shostakovich an honorable mention for his Suite for Variety Orchestra. Hardly anyone today knows it by that name. This is one of those pieces that got

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #15 Coltrane My Favorite Things

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  • August 7, 2020August 7, 2020
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Coming in at #15 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is John Coltrane, the amazing saxophonist, with his rendition of My Favorite Things, composed originally by Richard Rodgers for My

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C major, D 944

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  • August 6, 2020August 6, 2020
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I’m giving Schubert another honorable mention for his great Symphony No. 9 in C major. It is a grand symphony that deserves honors. It has beautiful melodies and technically proficient.

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #16 Dvorak Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

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  • August 5, 2020August 5, 2020
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This is the first Dvorak piece on my list, and there are still two others. Yeah, I like his style of romanticism, a beautiful blend of Czech nationalism infused with

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Saariaho L’Amour de Loin

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  • August 3, 2020August 3, 2020
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Kaija Saariaho comes in the list with an honorable mention for her recent opera, L’Amour de Loin. Premiered in 2000 in Salzburg, it also was only the second opera by

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #17 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

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  • August 1, 2020August 2, 2020
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Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1909 as part of the tour of the United States he had planned for the fall of that year. He had

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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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