Cupid StuntI voted this for number 1.. #Classic100
Mary-AnneDo primary school kids learn The Hobbit Theme on their recorders these days?
Good thing that Vivaldi didn't grow up in Darwin and only have two seasons to write music about! #Classic100
Toccata and fugue was my introduction to Bach yet it is so very different to the contemplative Bach that I now enjoy
@juliew2010 maybe more non regular listeners have voted?
aesmaelMaybe next year I will take the weekend off work so I can listen to the Classic 100 Countdown live. Apparently the official hashtag is #ABCC100GOAT which is… functional for disambiguating, but unlovely.
I don't know how much commentary I will feel like doing; I did get to listen to a chunk of this morning's pieces on the drive home, but trying to get the archived stream up on the desktop at home was more of a frustration than in past years.
This was the first year I actually voted. In the past, especially the first few instalments, I looked forward to the countdown as an opportunity for discovery and didn't dare try and exert any influence of my own. So this is an experiment in stepping outside of my past and becoming something alive.
I did leave the voting very late and given longer to think about it would surely have chosen differently (more varied modes). But that's alright. Ultimately for 'greatest of all time' I chose to vote for music that sweeps me away, that transports me outside or deep inside myself. As near as I can find to something sublime.
In no particular order:
- Antarctica, by Nigel Westlake
All for the Penguin Ballet.
- Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ', by Camille Saint-Saëns
It's so loud, so triumphant
- The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky
Like holding a storm in your hand
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565, by Johann Sebastian Bach
Disputed authorship or not this surely justifies the pipe organ as an instrument. I once heard it live at the Sydney Opera House and cherish the memory
- Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 'Enigma', by Edward Elgar
How true and marvellous a friendship that must have been, to inspire such beauty as this. Seldom can I listen with entirely dry eyes.
- Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 85 'From the New World', by Antonin Dvořȧk
The sound of the 20th century, or the portion of it that fell under the shadow of the USA
- Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral', by Ludwig van Beethoven
Look, I didn't want to vote for this one. It always wins. I wish we had some variety, it certainly doesn't need my help. But is it the greatest of all time? Yes, yes it is. So I wouldn't have felt honest leaving it off the ballot, although now there are too many symphonies.
- The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, by Karl Jenkins
As though the world stopped for a moment
- Metamorphosis, by Philip Glass
I would have liked to put more minimalism on the list. This will have to stand in for the rest.
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed, by Max Richter
I could hardly stand to listen to the Four Seasons any more. This makes them new again. Like wandering a hall of mirrors, reflecting fragments of eternity #ABCC100GOAT, #Classic100, #ABCClassic100
I don't know how much commentary I will feel like doing; I did get to listen to a chunk of this morning's pieces on the drive home, but trying to get the archived stream up on the desktop at home was more of a frustration than in past years.
This was the first year I actually voted. In the past, especially the first few instalments, I looked forward to the countdown as an opportunity for discovery and didn't dare try and exert any influence of my own. So this is an experiment in stepping outside of my past and becoming something alive.
I did leave the voting very late and given longer to think about it would surely have chosen differently (more varied modes). But that's alright. Ultimately for 'greatest of all time' I chose to vote for music that sweeps me away, that transports me outside or deep inside myself. As near as I can find to something sublime.
In no particular order:
- Antarctica, by Nigel Westlake
All for the Penguin Ballet.
- Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ', by Camille Saint-Saëns
It's so loud, so triumphant
- The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky
Like holding a storm in your hand
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565, by Johann Sebastian Bach
Disputed authorship or not this surely justifies the pipe organ as an instrument. I once heard it live at the Sydney Opera House and cherish the memory
- Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 'Enigma', by Edward Elgar
How true and marvellous a friendship that must have been, to inspire such beauty as this. Seldom can I listen with entirely dry eyes.
- Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 85 'From the New World', by Antonin Dvořȧk
The sound of the 20th century, or the portion of it that fell under the shadow of the USA
- Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral', by Ludwig van Beethoven
Look, I didn't want to vote for this one. It always wins. I wish we had some variety, it certainly doesn't need my help. But is it the greatest of all time? Yes, yes it is. So I wouldn't have felt honest leaving it off the ballot, although now there are too many symphonies.
- The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, by Karl Jenkins
As though the world stopped for a moment
- Metamorphosis, by Philip Glass
I would have liked to put more minimalism on the list. This will have to stand in for the rest.
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed, by Max Richter
I could hardly stand to listen to the Four Seasons any more. This makes them new again. Like wandering a hall of mirrors, reflecting fragments of eternity #ABCC100GOAT, #Classic100, #ABCClassic100
Earthy in EV heaven
geraldewHere are my votes in the ABC Classic 100
- Holst - The Planets
- Wagner - The Ring
- Delibes - Lakme
- Bach - BWV 565 Toccata and Fugue in Dm
- Cheetham Fraillon, Deborah - Eumeralla
- Beethoven - Symphony #5
- Reinhold Glière - Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E-flat major, Op. 74
- Reinhold Glière - Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Op. 82
- Franz Schubert - "The Shepherd on the Rock", D. 965
- György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
#Classic100 #ABCClassic
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/classic/countdown/classic100
- Holst - The Planets
- Wagner - The Ring
- Delibes - Lakme
- Bach - BWV 565 Toccata and Fugue in Dm
- Cheetham Fraillon, Deborah - Eumeralla
- Beethoven - Symphony #5
- Reinhold Glière - Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E-flat major, Op. 74
- Reinhold Glière - Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Op. 82
- Franz Schubert - "The Shepherd on the Rock", D. 965
- György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
#Classic100 #ABCClassic
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/classic/countdown/classic100
@juliew2010 I think some movie music will survive in the same way the best folk songs survive :)
btw I'm a real fan of the Games Music show, there's some really interesting stuff
Having said all this, I'm guessing number 1 will be Beethoven's 9th