Quick Either Or Questions For The Music Lovers

[joggerjayne]

Like a desert island thing. You can only have the works of one or the other.

(In alphabetical order, to exclude any suggestion of bias)

Verdi or Wagner?

Brahms or Liszt?

Beethoven or Mozart? (I think that's the hardest one)

Bach or Vivaldi?

Berlioz or Tchaikovsky? (these are hard, aren't they)

Chopin or Rachmaninov?

Leoncavallo or Mascagni?

Puccini or Rossini?

[Buenchico]

Flamin' heck, Cupid! Nobody's even mentioned Handel yet!

However your reference to his work would seem to add yet another question to JJ's list:

Handel or Haydn?
(I'm still thinking about that one!)

[joggerjayne]

Night, Jordy.

Thanks, Chris.

My problem with the New Worls is that it has become TOO MUCH that ad (and its humorous spin offs). I'll take the Moldau instead (is that how one spells it?)

Cupid ... good points.

[Canary42]

In alphabetical order :-

Brahms
Chopin
Leoncavallo
Mozart (yes that was the most difficult)
Rossini
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Vivaldi

[joggerjayne]

Oh, that's a no brainier for me, Chris.

The Queen of Sheba is fun, and I like the Water Music. And I like the fact that Handel was a bit of a high life guy, to Bach's staid traditionalism.

But I find "the big one" hard going. And I'm not a great Baroque lover.

So I'd dump Handel, and choose ...

Haydn

[joggerjayne]

(the big one being Handel's Messiah)

[Buenchico]

>>>But I find "the big one" hard going

I've found Handel's Messiah to be literally 'hard' on too many occasions, JJ; I think that every performance I've been to has always been in a church with rock-hard pews ;-)

So, slightly hesitantly, I'll go for Haydn as well.

[joggerjayne]

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock ...

(that was me doing the Clock Symphony for Chris)

(although it may have come across as more like Gwen Stefani's What You Waiting For)

[Mamyalynne]

I could float to the heavens with Samuel Barber's adagio but won't post it as I know not all like it.

[Buenchico]

This might be a better version, JJ ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1L6p4B2hBs

[joggerjayne]

That's nice, Chris. And a bit better than mine, I suppose.

Haydn can be simple, tuneful, and lovely. Given that so many of his works are written around a theme, I wonder what his music would've sounded like if he'd lived 50 years later, and had the influence of the high romantics. I think his symphonies would've been amazing. And bigger. And certainly not so many of them.