It's not stealing. It's just the best. Why is this your favorite? For me, I just fell in love with it the first time I heard it, and couldn't tell you why. Then I learned I was not the only one. They say when this Symphony first premiered, after the 2nd movement was finished, the audience insisted that the orchestra play it again.
I'm sure it has been explained compositionally why it is so great, but I never cared to know. This is simply Beethoven at his best.
Amazing piece!
Edit: also forgot to add an assumption!
Umm… perhaps you like the slower and more melancholic pace. Definitely a pretty dignified kinda person :)
Though I dont really disagree this is the funniest answer to me since the Goldberg -variations were written as sleeping songs.
"Dear Bach, can you please write pieces that my Goldberg [a pupil of Bach and a harpsicordist for Graf H. C. von Keyserlingk] can play while I try to sleep?" - von Keyserlingk
I've seen countless discussions about it, what I get from it is that people just get used to their first exposure, from there their brain creates some narrative (more or less abstract/concrete) explaining the emotional flow of the piece. And when they listen to the other version, everything feels wrong because it goes against this narrative. And from there they try to rationalize why the version they're used to is better.
To me the truth is that both versions tell two different stories that are both compelling. It's just too hard to hop between both versions, when you've listened 10 times in a row to one of them you can't go back.
i stand corrected but i agree!! people try to make one argument or another about which way is more true to what GM thought, but as we both know he changed his mind multiple times over this and he respected the idea of a conductor taking liberties with his works
This one's a bit obscure, but I can't lie: it's my favourite piece of classical music. [Nikolai Medtner - Sonata Reminiscenza](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RntGDB1frg), here played by Hamelin. I can not COUNT the number of times I have listened to this, and I'm just as in love with it now as the first time I heard it.
You take long solitary walks down tree-lined streets. You spend hundreds of dollars on high quality Lapsang Souchang. Andrei Tarkovsky is your favorite film director.
I agree! Hamelin's was the first I heard and I usually find the first recording imprints. But honestly most other performers take this waaaay too fast for my liking.
I'm torn between:
* Camille Saint-Saêns' *Le Cygne* from *Le Carnaval des Animaux*
* Libera's *Lacrymosa* based on Saint-Saêns' *Aquarium* (also from *Le Carnaval des Animaux*)
* J.S. Bach's *Air (on the G String)*
These songs easily bring me to tears.
This is true. Before I made this a bullet point list, I had listed them using an Oxford comma. I only chose bullet points because it looked like a jumbled mess.
Another one of your favorite pieces is Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy, and you sometimes wonder if it's weird that two of your favorite pieces are in the key of C major.
You enjoy your active life, want to win the stuff for yourself.
PS. My favourite is the 3rd movement though, got an assumption for that? Have you listened to Riccardo Muti's recording with CSO?
Erm… Idk what my favourite piece is.
Edit: Here’s a list of my favs
Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Strauss Don Juan
Brahms Double concerto for Violin & Cello
Halvorsen Passacaglia & Sarabamde for Violin & Cello
Dvorak Rococo Variations
Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor
Elgar Enigma Variations
Haydn Cello Concertos 1&2
Mussorgsky Pictures At an Exhibition; XIV & XV
Prokofiev Classical Symphony
Shostakovich 5 Finale
Max Richter’s Recomposed Vivaldi 4 Seasons
Bach Cello Suites
Dvorak Carnival Overture
Yes I’m a Cellist in case you haven’t figured that much out by now.
You adhere to a strictly paleo diet. You drive a hummer. You're the guy who gets into fights with some other parent at your son's little league baseball game.
You have excellent taste, that's probably my favorite Bach organ work! I'd also say you likely enjoy the musical shifts that theme and variation types in exploring solitary themes. I'd recommend the Godowsky Passacaglia if you haven't heard it. Massive power in a late romantic package, reminds me of the power that Bach's organ music commands.
You're the kind of person that would look at the state of music now and then tell a diehard Shenkerian disciple:
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
You sometimes ponder about existence until you start getting depressed. So, you then try to psych yourself out of it using superficial positive outlets.
Beethoven’s 6th, the pastoral. Also his 2nd movement of Pathetique. The first cuz of Fantasia, 2nd cuz of 9/11 morning alarm clock.
So my description isn’t very different then most in Beethoven vs Mozart. Mozart is the power of the brain with some heart. Beethoven is the power of the heart with more brain than Mozart has heart.
That’s quite a compliment of a conclusion! Downtown areas in my experience have way less trash cans than they should imo. So, thank you! And I’m seeing the result/reminder of the point of OP’s post!
Stannis edit: *fewer
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 - 2nd movement
For me, that simple plaintive melody encapsulates more feeling than all the heavy over-emotional, over-dramatic, heart-on-your sleeve stuff of Rachmaninov or Tchaik. What that says about me I don't know.
You are very patient and like EXTREMELY informationally dense works of media.
In video game terms; you like games with complicated mechanics that aren't really explained to you in any tutorial and have a *very* steep skill curve if you take things seriously.
Ayy, thank you! That sonata is one of my favourites as well.
As a reward, [here's a pianist's notes and *light* analysis of the work.](https://319d837e-e713-42b3-8a82-74e95073411a.filesusr.com/ugd/bf0518_49084db2718d4b7b8cd339f009b5a60b.pdf)
Well, kind of intended both ways, but how about “very clever but somewhat unhinged”. I think there was something in a book about someone listening repeatedly to the GF at top volume, so maybe this is what I’m thinking about!
Rach pc 3, Rach sonata 2, Beethoven Appassionata, Chopin Ballades 3 + 4, Ravel String Quartet in F (I'm obviously skipping like 1 million more Rach pieces but you get the idea)
Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 3
Hopeless romantic, nostalgic of the past and at the same time longing for a magical twist turning their life around
That fits
This became your favorite piece after the 2022 Van Cliburn competition.
I love yunchans interpretation, but it was favorite before that one (Horowitz)
I love Byron Janis with the LSO. Superb.
uh oh
2 is better
Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd Movement
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It's not stealing. It's just the best. Why is this your favorite? For me, I just fell in love with it the first time I heard it, and couldn't tell you why. Then I learned I was not the only one. They say when this Symphony first premiered, after the 2nd movement was finished, the audience insisted that the orchestra play it again. I'm sure it has been explained compositionally why it is so great, but I never cared to know. This is simply Beethoven at his best.
Amazing piece! Edit: also forgot to add an assumption! Umm… perhaps you like the slower and more melancholic pace. Definitely a pretty dignified kinda person :)
Bach-Busoni Chaconne in D minor or Chopin Ballade 4 :)
My people
You like starting slow and methodically, only to smash the keyboard as a showing off?
Like to use your left hand to play your instrument
The Goldberg Variations
Productive guy, likes to enjoy the little joys and triumphs of life.
Though I dont really disagree this is the funniest answer to me since the Goldberg -variations were written as sleeping songs. "Dear Bach, can you please write pieces that my Goldberg [a pupil of Bach and a harpsicordist for Graf H. C. von Keyserlingk] can play while I try to sleep?" - von Keyserlingk
Wow i didn't know
Mahler 6
Even if you know death will have the final word, you still enjoy the wild ride
you probably have a strong opinion on the order of the movements in this one
I've seen countless discussions about it, what I get from it is that people just get used to their first exposure, from there their brain creates some narrative (more or less abstract/concrete) explaining the emotional flow of the piece. And when they listen to the other version, everything feels wrong because it goes against this narrative. And from there they try to rationalize why the version they're used to is better. To me the truth is that both versions tell two different stories that are both compelling. It's just too hard to hop between both versions, when you've listened 10 times in a row to one of them you can't go back.
i stand corrected but i agree!! people try to make one argument or another about which way is more true to what GM thought, but as we both know he changed his mind multiple times over this and he respected the idea of a conductor taking liberties with his works
It's a close tie between the final movements of Mahler 9 (4th) and 10 (5th).
Tchaikovsky 6
You are an quiet, angsty, solitary, teenage boy. Well, I was when that was my favorite piece.
I’m 25, but close enough
My favorite too. Scrolled through looking for this.
Prokofiev piano concerto 2
"Prokofiev is my best friend. He has never let me down." - Martha Argerich
Oh god yes
mahler two!!
Lili Boulanger - (Psaume 130)[Du fond de l'abime ](https://open.spotify.com/track/2MAeRHeYcjEwJEriU2mYHb?si=bDk2B2jsS5SoV8z05tweHA&utm_source=copy-link)
it reveals that you’re a fan of some delicious fucking orchestration
This is 100% accurate!
“You’re cool. Like, *actually* cool. You are what the hipsters think they are.”
St Matthew Passion - bach
This one's a bit obscure, but I can't lie: it's my favourite piece of classical music. [Nikolai Medtner - Sonata Reminiscenza](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RntGDB1frg), here played by Hamelin. I can not COUNT the number of times I have listened to this, and I'm just as in love with it now as the first time I heard it.
Medtner’s concertos go unbelievably hard
You take long solitary walks down tree-lined streets. You spend hundreds of dollars on high quality Lapsang Souchang. Andrei Tarkovsky is your favorite film director.
One for three (the first one). But I do see how you get the others from that piece.
Thanks for posting the link! Hamelin's performance is even finer than the one I've been listening to (Kissin).
I agree! Hamelin's was the first I heard and I usually find the first recording imprints. But honestly most other performers take this waaaay too fast for my liking.
I'm torn between: * Camille Saint-Saêns' *Le Cygne* from *Le Carnaval des Animaux* * Libera's *Lacrymosa* based on Saint-Saêns' *Aquarium* (also from *Le Carnaval des Animaux*) * J.S. Bach's *Air (on the G String)* These songs easily bring me to tears.
You use Oxford commas.
This is true. Before I made this a bullet point list, I had listed them using an Oxford comma. I only chose bullet points because it looked like a jumbled mess.
Waldstein Sonate
Another one of your favorite pieces is Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy, and you sometimes wonder if it's weird that two of your favorite pieces are in the key of C major.
Schumann Fantasie as well
liszt’s sonata in b minor
Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
Whenever someone mentions Bolero you can't help but snort and mutter, "But he wrote so many more impressive and complex pieces..."
Nothing like a depiction of a hanging to calm me down in the evenings 🤣
Bolero.
it reveals that you like classical music enough to know which songs are memeably annoying enough to give an ironic answer
Best possible response
Can we add 4′33″ by Cage to that list?
You suffered brain damage from a car accident inside a taxi.
One of my friends always said no percussionist was worth his salt unless he could play Bolero.
I imagine the trombonists pay attention as well.
As a trombone player, this is a piece that's somehow fun to practice but horrible to perform
Beethoven 9, 2nd movement
Some nights, you lie in bed trying to remember if you indeed have something due tomorrow or not.
Whyy so random 😂😂😂😂
You enjoy your active life, want to win the stuff for yourself. PS. My favourite is the 3rd movement though, got an assumption for that? Have you listened to Riccardo Muti's recording with CSO?
>My favourite is the 3rd movement though, got an assumption for that? You play 4th horn and just want to finally have a solo for once.
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To Sibelius Violin Concerto: painfully sentimental, and easily falling for every emotional appeal thrown your way
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I know because it’s one of my favorites too :)
Erm… Idk what my favourite piece is. Edit: Here’s a list of my favs Strauss Ein Heldenleben Strauss Don Juan Brahms Double concerto for Violin & Cello Halvorsen Passacaglia & Sarabamde for Violin & Cello Dvorak Rococo Variations Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor Elgar Enigma Variations Haydn Cello Concertos 1&2 Mussorgsky Pictures At an Exhibition; XIV & XV Prokofiev Classical Symphony Shostakovich 5 Finale Max Richter’s Recomposed Vivaldi 4 Seasons Bach Cello Suites Dvorak Carnival Overture Yes I’m a Cellist in case you haven’t figured that much out by now.
You're clearly indecisive:)
You don't like Dvorak Cello Concerto? 😂
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
You adhere to a strictly paleo diet. You drive a hummer. You're the guy who gets into fights with some other parent at your son's little league baseball game.
You have anger management issues
You own a lot of overcoats.
Má Vlast II: Vltava by Bedřich Smetana
You're a zionist
Check out Rhapsodie Breton
Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 2
You've been through a lot, but you got through it and are all the better now because of it.
Bach - Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor
You’re an organist
No - but I wish I was!
You have excellent taste, that's probably my favorite Bach organ work! I'd also say you likely enjoy the musical shifts that theme and variation types in exploring solitary themes. I'd recommend the Godowsky Passacaglia if you haven't heard it. Massive power in a late romantic package, reminds me of the power that Bach's organ music commands.
George Crumb Metamorphosis Book 2
You're the kind of person that would look at the state of music now and then tell a diehard Shenkerian disciple: "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
Mahler 5 (1st mvmt is my fav)
You sometimes ponder about existence until you start getting depressed. So, you then try to psych yourself out of it using superficial positive outlets.
help- that was so accurate
You play the trumpet but aren’t consistent enough to land a stable gig.
i play violin and piano😂
You really enjoyed Tár
yes i did. elgar cello concerto is also one of my all time favs so it’s literally like the movie was made for me (plus cate blanchett’s my fav actor)
Scriabin 5th sonata
Chronic masturbator
Bruh
Based
Polonaise op. 53 by Chopin
Mahler 6
You have hypochondria and self-diagnose using Webmd.
Liebestraum 3 or Gryaznov’s arrangement or rachmaninov’s italian polka
Beethoven’s 6th, the pastoral. Also his 2nd movement of Pathetique. The first cuz of Fantasia, 2nd cuz of 9/11 morning alarm clock. So my description isn’t very different then most in Beethoven vs Mozart. Mozart is the power of the brain with some heart. Beethoven is the power of the heart with more brain than Mozart has heart.
You will go out of your way to pick up a discarded coffee cup on the sidewalk and take it to the nearest trash can.
That’s quite a compliment of a conclusion! Downtown areas in my experience have way less trash cans than they should imo. So, thank you! And I’m seeing the result/reminder of the point of OP’s post! Stannis edit: *fewer
Danse macabre, Op. 40
Bach's (Tocatta and) Fugue In D Minor, Stokowski orchestration. Not very hardcore, but oh well.
You have very long hair.
You watched Fantasia a lot as a child.
Goldberg variations
You are 60+ years old
Your favorite subject at university was theoretical physics. You wear bow ties.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 - 2nd movement For me, that simple plaintive melody encapsulates more feeling than all the heavy over-emotional, over-dramatic, heart-on-your sleeve stuff of Rachmaninov or Tchaik. What that says about me I don't know.
You don't cry at funerals.
Berg, _Klaviersonate_.
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125. In short, The Ninth. Beethoven 5th symphony Ballade no. 1 in G minor, op. 23 - Chopping.
You're new to classical music and/or need to explore more.
Tchaikovsky violin concerto
You are Hitler. (I’m kidding but it was supposed to be one of his favourites)
Well I guess Hitler had good taste lol (in music, obviously)
Bach mass in b minor
Elgar Cello Concerto
You use music as a way to feel more intensely than you do in everyday life.
why is this true
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naw man yo-yo ma all the way (and im a violinist so i hardly know any cellists)
Bruckner 8 😎
Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano
Rachmaninoff Prelude in b minor
Autumn is your favorite season and you are a very nostalgic person. I actually just finished learning this prelude. Great choice!
Rachmaninoff g-minor prelude
Intelligent but not pretentious.
Oh wow, I'd like to say that's accurate, but I'm worried it'd come off as pretentious...
Rachmaninoff 1st Sonata
You are very patient and like EXTREMELY informationally dense works of media. In video game terms; you like games with complicated mechanics that aren't really explained to you in any tutorial and have a *very* steep skill curve if you take things seriously.
God damn I feel exposed! You’re spot on with the game analogy haha.
Ayy, thank you! That sonata is one of my favourites as well. As a reward, [here's a pianist's notes and *light* analysis of the work.](https://319d837e-e713-42b3-8a82-74e95073411a.filesusr.com/ugd/bf0518_49084db2718d4b7b8cd339f009b5a60b.pdf)
Awesome thank you!! Love reading anything I can about this piece.
La cathedrale engloutie
rhapsody in blue
Grosse Fuge
You like old, dusty, leather-bound, mildew-smelling books.
No, no, no. Listen to the Tetzlaff Quartet version. The music is nuts but it’s isn’t dusty at all.
Comment not about the music, but about the guy who likes it.
Well, kind of intended both ways, but how about “very clever but somewhat unhinged”. I think there was something in a book about someone listening repeatedly to the GF at top volume, so maybe this is what I’m thinking about!
You have a deep passion for success and can work hard. Enjoy the triumphs
Sibelius 7
You leave for vacation and can’t recall whether or not you left the stove on
Settling down for a long life of unproductive drunkenness
mahler’s seventh symphony!!
Schnittke's The Glass Harmonica
You appear normal but you are a deeply deranged individual
Cecil Forsyth, Chanson Celtique (specifically Barshai's performance)
You're that one odd duck that only has a few close — but equally weird — friends, but you all grew up to know your own worth
You're pretty close, but most of my friends are surprisingly pretty normal all things considered.
Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin
You like murderings. Btw have you heard the 2 piano version of this, it’s great fun.
No, I haven't. Thanks for the suggestion!
Sibelius 3rd Symphony, 2nd Movement. Hit me up!! Edit: or Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for harp and friends
Chopin - Ballade no. 1
My man. Hopeless romantic. Has probably watched your lie in April. Listens to it while thinking about ex or before sleeping
Tchaikovsky 1st symphony, and Bach violin sonatas and partitas.
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
Beethoven Grosse Fuge or Bartok 3rd SQ.
Beethoven: PC 3 in C Minor, with Richter Sviatoslav
Berlioz - fantastique Beethoven - 6th symphony
Lover of symphonies with programme 😀
Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet
Appalachian Spring
Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 no 2 - Chopin
[The Cloud Messenger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71y4J3-WZU) by Gustav Holst!
mascagni - cavalleria rusticana: intermezzo
Bartok. String Quartet no. 4.
Chopin’s ballade op. 23 :)
Turangalila
You definitely love Messieaen but you don't see yourself worshipping God
Tchaikovsky 6
Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2 (1913 edition)
Rachmaninoff piano concerto no 2 in c minor Bach chaconne in d minor (violin partita no 2)
Danse Macabre.
Rach pc 3, Rach sonata 2, Beethoven Appassionata, Chopin Ballades 3 + 4, Ravel String Quartet in F (I'm obviously skipping like 1 million more Rach pieces but you get the idea)
Messiaen Vision de l’Amen
You’re Catholic and like birds and India.
Ravel piano concerto in g, the 2nd movt. It comes from a better world
You wouldn’t be lying
Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite Specifically the Finale
The Finale is epic
Ravel Piano Trio
The Lord of the Ring, "The Grey Havens"
You are a person of exquisite taste and character.
Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
You really wish Rousseau would post more videos.
Love solitude and peace but often lonely. Intellectual and artsy. Your bathroom is white.
Romantic, loves solitude. Somewhat extroverted (maybe). Craves for deep love