Five pieces you would be very sad never to hear again

[Barbirollians]

On a positive note your all time favourites . Stick to five please !

1. Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5
2. Mahler Das Lied von Der Erde
3.Mozart Marriage of Figaro
4. Beethoven : Violin Concerto
5. Beethoven Opus 111

Too much Beethoven probably .

[visualnickmos]

Too much Beethoven probably .

An oxymoron - if ever there was one.

[Nick Armstrong]

Tough, to the point of seeming absurd and random, but first 5 out of the pack:

1. Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto
2. Sibelius 5
3. Sheppard Media Vita
4. Chausson Concert for violin, piano and string quartet
5. Shostakovich 15

But no room for Bach, Ravel, Elgar, Rameau, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Fauré, Finzi...

[vinteuil]

Tough, to the point of seeming absurd and random...

... mnyes. today's choice -

Beethoven op 111
Bach Goldberg vars
Mozart Cosi
Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie
Scarlatti K55


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[Pulcinella]

This thread, and its partner in crime (which might better have been worded.....that you wouldn't mind never hearing again), remind me of a story I read about some surprise being expressed over Janet Baker's choice of Desert Island Discs: I paraphrase, but she said something to the effect that she had so much music inside her that she could summon it up without needing to hear it.
I'd like to think that some of that applies to me: naturally, I'd miss not hearing some pieces ever again, but many of my favourites are pretty well lodged in the old grey matter, and I think I could survive a while without actually hearing them.
But I hope never to be put to the test.

[cloughie]

As they say on Strictly, in no particular order these five pieces are safe:

Ravel:Daphnis et Chloe
R Strauss:Ein Heldenleben
Elgar:Sym 1
Tchaikovsky:Sym 4
Mozart:Sym 39

[french frank]

Bach, Art of Fugue (tomorrow: Goldbergs)
Mozart, A Major piano sonata, K 331 (yes, that one atm, but it could be others)
Schubert, Bb piano sonata, D960
Beethoven, A minor string quartet, op 132
Janáček, Piano sonata 1.X.1905 In the Mists

Hmm, not many symphonies there

[jean]

This thread, and its partner in crime (which might better have been worded...

But I would defend to the death its right to its split infinitive, which the present one has chosen not to assert...

[Pulcinella]

But I would defend to the death its right to its split infinitive, which the present one has chosen not to assert...

Oh, me too!

Or do you mean......to not assert?

[Zucchini]

There is absolutely no (classical) music that I would be "very sad never to hear again".
Performers (live not recorded) is a different matter ...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This is very difficult.

Mozart: Symphony no 40
Elgar: The Kingdom
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6
Puccini: La Boheme

[robk]

Beethoven Op 111
Beethoven Op 131
Elgar Cello Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No 7
Brahms Op 118 Piano Pieces

But this is just too painful to think about.

[Lat-Literal]

On a positive note your all time favourites . Stick to five please !

1. Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5
2. Mahler Das Lied von Der Erde
3.Mozart Marriage of Figaro
4. Beethoven : Violin Concerto
5. Beethoven Opus 111

Too much Beethoven probably .

I am not sure that all of the five pieces I would be very sad never to hear again would qualify as my favourites.

Crosse - The Demon of Adachigahara - wouldn't make my list of one hundred favourites but it is one of my five.

[french frank]

There is absolutely no (classical) music that I would be "very sad never to hear again".
Performers is a different matter ...

I did think of adding "but in performances I enjoy, otherwise no need to bother".

[LMcD]

Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasia (for personal as well as musical reasons) (Barbirolli)
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 K491 (preferably played by Murray Perahia)
Elgar 2nd symphony (my first real 'breakthrough' piece when I was finding my way into classical music) (LPO/Vernon Handley)
Butterworth 6 Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' (especially when sung by Roderick Williams)
Britten Serenade for tenor horn and stings (especially Robert Tear's truly terrifying account of the 'Dirge')