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?

[Prudie]

Verdi, Liszt, Beethoven definitely, Vivaldi, Tchai,,. Chopin. who?, don't know

[Mamyalynne]

Verdi, Brahms , Beethoven, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Leoncavallo, Rossini.

[-Talbot-]

Wagner?

Liszt?

Beethoven

Bach

Tchaikovsky

Rachmaninov

Leoncavallo

Puccini

[joggerjayne]

Interesting that it's 3-0 to Beethoven.

I agree, but I thought Mozart would fare better.

[joggerjayne]

It's not easy, is it.

If you don't pick Berlioz, you have to live without the Symphony Fantastique.

Don't pick Mascagni, and you lose the Intermezzo music from Cavalleria Rusticana.

I think if you were listening to either of those when you made your choice, you'd have to keep them.

[Buenchico]

1. Wagner (as long as you don't expect me to listen to the whole Ring Cycle in one sitting - that's when enjoyment slowly turns into suffering!)

2. I'm frequently associated with both Brahms & Liszt around this time of night! I'll opt for Liszt's piano works though.

3. Beethoven as long as I've got the time to listen to it properly. (Mozart if it's just on in the background).

4. Vivaldi, definitely!

5. Tchaikovsky every time!

6. Having had Liszt provide the piano music, I don't need Chopin, so it's Rachmaninov for me.

7. Leoncavallo (because Mascagni only really wrote one great work, Cavalleria Rusticana).

8. How could anyone leave Rossini off such a list!

Some more questions:

Dvořák or Smetana?

Mussorgsky or Rimsky-Korsakov?

Lehár or Offenbach?

Vaughan Williams or Thomas Tallis?

Elgar or Delius?

Leonard Bernstein or Aaron Copland?

(I reckon that they're all 'close calls' but I'll opt for the second one in every case).

[-Talbot-]

If you don't pick Berlioz, you have to live without the Symphony Fantastique.

mmmmmm, yes........., what a dilemma!

[joggerjayne]

Crikey, Chris. Those are good.

Mussorgsky

Offenbach

Tallis (cos VW gets on my tits)

Copland (I can't bear Bernstein)

I'm still thinking about the other two.

[joggerjayne]

Talbot ... YES!! ... it would be a dilemma ...
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[joggerjayne]

[joggerjayne]

Oh, forget it!

[joggerjayne]

Smetana

Elgar

[joggerjayne]

It was the 2nd movement of Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique (un bal, or the waltz).

But pleeeeze ... not with Leonard Bernstein conducting. I was trying to post the Simon Rattle clip.

Thanks, Jordy. Why only three of the four seasons, by the way? Do you not like winter, or something?

[Buenchico]

I'm pleased that you chose Smetana, JJ.

However losing Dvořák means losing this ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJi_5T0jSnA

[Buenchico]

G'night, Jordy

Let's try JJ's video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_jyI9ML8ZQ

[cupid04]

Rachmaninov- variation on Paganini

Handel's Messiah -Handel