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Hmm...had a look today at my top listened-to files on iTunes. Now, I know that the particulars of my listening habits are of no interest to anybody, but it might prove amusing if several people were to similarly put up lists (I know that windows mediaplayer can also do it as, I suspect, can most reasonably developed media players).
1. Atom Hearts Club Suite #2 - Yoshimatsu
2. Anamorfosi - Sciarrino
3. In the Hothouse - Sorabji
4. Variations Op. 41 - Kapustin
5. Music for Queen Mary - Purcell
6. Snowdrift - Finnissy
7. Les Guitares Bien Temperes - Castelnuovo-Tedesco
8. 24 Preludes - Bowen
9. Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise - Bolcom
10. Allegro de Concerto - Granados
(In the interest of keeping things varied, whole works were put down where particular tracks featured, and once a composer got on, I ignored subsequent occurrences of works by them).
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« Reply #1 on: 23:08:13, 30-06-2007 » |
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« Reply #2 on: 23:18:06, 30-06-2007 » |
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That sure is a weird list. Surprised not to see the complete works of Ignaz Brüll there, combined with a little known ondes-martenot piece of Florent Schmitt, and several Kalkbrenner sonatas?
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« Reply #3 on: 23:28:56, 30-06-2007 » |
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ah, another successful thread. I'm waay out of my league with this list.......  |
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« Reply #4 on: 23:32:11, 30-06-2007 » |
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ah, another successful thread. I'm waay out of my league with this list....... eru, that's as maybe. What's YOUR list? (I'll have to have a think about mine, since I don't use my iPod, er, much...)  |
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« Reply #5 on: 23:36:02, 30-06-2007 » |
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Ah come on guys, someone else put a list up; I'm feeling rather naked here! That sure is a weird list. Surprised not to see the complete works of Ignaz Brüll there, combined with a little known ondes-martenot piece of Florent Schmitt, and several Kalkbrenner sonatas?
Certainly better known composers have much larger discographies, so individual tracks would not get as many listenings. You recommend Brüll then? Can't say I've ever been terribly taken by Kalkbrenner alas. (Really what one'd want would be something that would list one's top ten composers by enumerating all the products of the number of times a track was listened to by it's length. Only that'd be much more representative and therefore probably rather boring). |
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« Reply #6 on: 23:38:02, 30-06-2007 » |
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I was a bit disappointed to find out that my list had reset itself after the last time I consolidated my music library (about a month ago) so it doesn't actually reflect anything except for the very recent past (and largely reflects the music that got me through the last days of the PhD) but never mind, here goes:
1. Server for Experimental Music (Cage and Beyond) [
2. Philip Glass: Koyaaniaqatsi
3. The Goodies: Funky Gibbon
4. Karlheinz Stockhausen: ...Kannst Du Dein Antlitz Nicht in Harmonie Zum Lichte Werden (from Samstag aus Licht)
5. Mika: Life in Cartoon Motion
6. Dufay: Missa l'Homme Armé
7. Busnois: Missa l'Homme Armé
8. Martyn Harry: Regenstimmen
9. Cornelius Cardew: Ode Machine 4, Verse 1 from The Great Learning Paragraph 5
10. Giacinto Scelsi: Okanagon
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« Reply #7 on: 23:47:27, 30-06-2007 » |
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I was a bit disappointed to find out that my list had reset itself after the last time I consolidated my music library (about a month ago) so it doesn't actually reflect anything except for the very recent past (and largely reflects the music that got me through the last days of the PhD) but never mind, here goes:
Oh, thanks. Hmm. I consolidated about a month ago also (when I got my new disk drive), but everything pretty much stayed the same. I'm not familiar with any of that music (and most of the people) at all really. Would you recommend the Cage on your list? (I only know his prepared piano stuff really). |
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« Reply #8 on: 23:50:56, 30-06-2007 » |
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You recommend Brüll then? I wouldn't worry too much if you haven't heard his stuff (stick to Brahms, the real thing). |
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« Reply #9 on: 23:53:57, 30-06-2007 » |
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What's YOUR list? I don't use WMP (or MediaMonkey) very often at all these days: it's not worth turning the comp on for when it takes a good 10 minutes to get started. I need a laptop! But at a guess (in alphabetical order as i look along the shelf-and-a-bit): Bruckner: Symphony no. 7 Elgar: Symphony no. 1 Ferguson: Piano Concerto Mahler: Symphony no. 5 Mahler: Symphony no. 9 Parry: Symphony no. 4 Schubert: Winterreise Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10 Walton: Symphony no. 1 Wagner: Götterdämmerung (yes, all of it) gosh, how varied   |
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« Reply #10 on: 23:54:19, 30-06-2007 » |
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It's the radio server for the Wandelweiser composers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandelweiser) rather than being a specific piece by Cage (though they do broadcast some Cage occasionally). It can be found here: http://www.wandelweiser.deBut I would recommend Cage! Do you know the Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra? The Constructions are also very good as is just about everything now I come to think of it... Don't expect a consistent sound-world between pieces, they can be sharply contrasted depending upon the means used to compose them. I was listening to the Europeras (3+4) the other day and not really knowing what to make of it. I enjoyed it though. I have a distinct memory of the Arditti's playing the string quartet version of Four at Huddersfield that completely wowed me. |
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« Reply #11 on: 00:06:48, 01-07-2007 » |
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You recommend Brüll then? I wouldn't worry too much if you haven't heard his stuff (stick to Brahms, the real thing). I ordered the sextet disk you recommended in may, but alas I put it together with some books that are only due to arrive in late July. Am waiting for then. Do you know the Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra?
I do *not*; indeed, it sounds like it might appeal to me a lot in some immediate way that the others, given that I have way too much music on my plate at the moment anyway (though I do appreciate the recommendations, and will consult them when time permits), might not dependably do. |
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« Reply #12 on: 04:14:20, 01-07-2007 » |
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Via a bit of Googling, I see I am not alone in wishing Nonesuch would re-issue their disc of Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra, coupled with Foss's Baroque Variations, on CD*. My LP is still in reasonable condition, and there are more recent* recordings* of the Concerto available, but the Takahashi was my introduction to the work, and has a special place in my affections. It has been issued on CD in Japan, but I have had no luck finding a copy*. [* = links.] |
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« Reply #13 on: 18:42:02, 01-07-2007 » |
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I don't use iTunes and I can't work out how to get a list out of Windows Media Player I can give you a list of the last ten CDs I played because they're sitting here in a pile next to the computer, but that's definitely not the same as my ten most played  |
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« Reply #14 on: 19:10:33, 01-07-2007 » |
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Well, for what it's worth, here's my top ten most listened to on iTunes...:
1. La Carpinese (Tarantella) from La Tarantella - L'Arpeggiata/ Christina Pluhar (actually, there are four tracks from this album in my most listened 25!)
2. Mendelssohn – Scherzo from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ - André Previn/ London Symphony Orchestra
3. Vivaldi - Orribile lo scempio from Tito Manlio - Nicola Ulivieri; Accademia Bizantina/ Ottavio Dantone
4. Debussy - Prélude ŕ l'aprčs-midi d'un faune - Emmanuel Pahud; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/ Claudio Abbado
5. Elgar: ‘Nimrod’ from Enigma Variations - Mark Elder/ Hallé Orchestra
6. Prokofiev - War and Peace II. Intermezzo - May Night - Neeme Järvi/ Philharmonia Orchestra
7. Finzi - Five Bagatelles IV. Forlana - Victoria Soames; John Flinders
8. Rachmaninov - Ne poy, krasavica, pri mne Op.4 no.4 - Anna Netrebko; Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre/ Valery Gergiev
9. (appropriately!) – Verdi – Don Carlos: Restate! - O Signor, di Fiandra arrivo - Boris Christoff, Ettore Bastianini/ Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala/ Gabriele Santini
10. Handel: Semele - Air: With fond desiring - Danielle de Niese; Opera Fuoco/ David Stern
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