Musical memeishness

[ellarien]

Via amberdine:

Below the cut is a list of classical music tracks. (Apologies to real classical music buffs; we're not distinguishing between recordings here, just pieces.) Bold the ones you own; italicize ones where you own a different part of the same piece.



Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 2 - 7. Badinerie

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 - 3. Allegro Assai

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 - 3. Allegro

Bach - Toccata And Fugue In D Minor - 1. Toccata

Bach - Toccata And Fugue In D Minor - 2. Fugue

Beethoven - Sonata No. 8 'Pathetique' - 2. Adagio Cantabile

Beethoven - Sonata No. 14 'Moonlight' - 1. Adagio Sostenuto - Attacca

Beethoven - Sonata No. 14 'Moonlight' - 3. Presto Agitato

Beethoven - Sonata No. 21 'Waldstein' - 3. Allegretto Moderato

Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 - 1. Allegro Con Brio

Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 - 4. Allegro

Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral' - 5. Allegretto

Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 - 1. Poco Sostenuto, Vivace

Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 - 2. Allegretto

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 'Choral' - 2. Molto Vivace

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - 4. Marche Au Supplice

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - 5. Songe D'une Nuit De Sabbat

Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 1 - 1. Les Toredors - Allegro Giocoso

Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 2 - 2. Habanera - Allegretto Quasi Andantino

Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 2 - 4. Chanson Du Toredor - Allegro Moderato

Boccherini - Quintettino - 4. Passacalle

Brahms - Hungarian Dances - No. 5


Charpentier - Te Deum - Prelude (Rondeau)

Chopin - 'Heroic' Polonaise In A-Flat Major

Chopin - 24 Preludes - 20. Prelude In C Minor

Chopin - Sonata No. 2 - 3. Marche Funebre - Lento - Attacca

Chopin - 'Minute' Waltz

Chopin - Waltz In C-Sharp Minor

Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary

Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man

Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 'From The New World' - 4. Allegro Con Fuoco

Elgar - Pomp And Circumstance - March No. 1 - Allegro Con Molto Fuoco

Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue

Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - 4. In The Hall Of The Mountain King

Handel - Water Music - Suite No. 2 - 2. Alla Hornpipe

Holst - The Planets - 4. Jupiter - The Bringer Of Jollity

Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag

Joplin - The Entertainer

Khatchaturian - Gayaneh - Sabre Dance

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (also multiple copies)

Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wedding March

Mendelssohn - Overture 'The Hebrides' ('Fingal's Cave')

Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - 4. Rondo - Allegro

Mozart - Requiem - Dies Irae

Mozart - The Magic Flute - Overture

Mozart - The Marriage Of Figaro - Overture

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20 - 2. Romance

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - 2. Andante

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 22 - 3. Allegro, Andante Cantabile, Tempo I

Mozart - Sonata No. 11 'Turkish March' - 3. Alla Turca - Allegretto

Mozart - Sonata No. 16 'Semplice' - 1. Allegro

Mozart - Symphony No. 25 - 1. Allegro Con Brio

Mozart - Symphony No. 29 - 1. Allegro Moderato

Mozart - Symphony No. 40 - 1. Molto Allegro

Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain

Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - 9. La Cabane De Baba-Yaga Sur Des Pattes De Poule

Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition - 10. La Grande Porte De Kiev

Offenbach - Gaite Parisienne - 03. Polka

Offenbach - Gaite Parisienne - 10. Tempo Di Marcia

Offenbach - Gaite Parisienne - 21. Vivo

Orff - Carmina Burana - O Fortuna

Ponchielli - La Gioconda - Dance Of The Hours

Prokofiev - Love For Three Oranges - Suite - 3. March

R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra - 1. (Sonnenaufgang)

Respighi - Pines Of Rome - 4. I Pini Della Via Appia

Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade - 2. The Story Of The Kalander Prince

Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia - Overture

Rossini - La Gazza Ladra - Overture

Saint-Saens - Carnival Of The Animals - Finale

Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre

Saint-Saens - Introduction Et Rondo Capriccioso

Shubert - Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished' - 1. Allegro Moderato

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 - 1. Allegro

Strauss - Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka

Strauss - Die Fledermaus Overture

Strauss - An Der Shoenen Blauen Donau (The Blue Danube)

Strauss - Kaiserwaltzer (Emperor's Waltz)

Stravinsky - Firebird Suite - 5. Infernal Dance Of King Kaschei

Stravinsky - Firebird Suite - 7. Finale

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - March

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - Trepak (Russian Dance)

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - Waltz Of The Flowers

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 - 4. Finale - Andante Maestoso

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique' - 3. Allegro Molto Vivace

Verdi - Il Travatore - 01. 'Vedi! Le Fosche Notturne Spoglie'

Wagner - Die Meistersinger Von Nurnburg - Procession Of The Masters

Wagner - The Valkyrie - Ride Of The Valkyries

Wagner - Tannhauser - 1. Overture



I'm interested to note that though I own quite a bit of Mozart, it doesn't overlap that much with the list. I really ought to index the CD collection one of these days, so I can shop a bit more systematically.

Also, though I own Also sprach Zarathrustra, I've never actually played it. I bought it after hearing the piece at a concert, but I'm completely intimidated by it.

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I guess I don't have the Charpentier, and that number from Il Trovatore. All the rest I have, either in sheet music or recordings, and most of them in both. Wait, the Passacaglia from the Boccherini? Weird choice. I have the well-known Boccherini minuet, and I don't know if it's from the same quintet or another. Some strange choices, period. Well, it's different from the average meme, which is nice.

[ellarien]

It's someone else's five-star rated classical tracks, so it's bound to be idiosyncratic, I suppose.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I ended up (as they say) taking it back to my own nest, and found that I wasn't quite correct in my assessment above, finding another track or two I wasn't sure of having.

Cathy said that meant they were upstairs in the attic and I didn't know I had them. She could be right.

[doubt72.livejournal.com]

The well known Boccherini Minuet is from String Quintet in E, which is a different piece altogether. (The track from Il Travatore is better known as the Anvil Chorus.)

That was originally my list, as you seem to have discovered. My list of favorite complete pieces would be somewhat different, considering that I rated the tracks on how they stand alone, not on the basis of the whole piece -- except, of course, when the track happens to be the whole piece.

At any rate, the fact that these were rated by track (and the whole tip-of-the-iceberg experience of just grabbing the top 90 of 2530 tracks) along with my quirky tastes in general is probably what gives this particular list its character (such as it is). I'm sure, though, that my list of favorite pieces would be nearly as quirky.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I added a comment to my own post on the subject this morning, indicating my favorite non-original versions of the selected pieces. Turns out I have alternate versions of just about all of them.