Three 'Feel Good' pieces for you.

[AmpH]

1. SUPPE : Light Cavalry Overture ( the Paul Paray recording )

2. GERSHWIN : An American in Paris

3. Good BOOGIE WOOGIE on the piano .... from Meade Lux Lewis to Johan Blohm

[Panjandrum]

I'm going to cheat: Ute Lemper singing Mein Herr. Rrrrravishing!

[gamba]

1. Bach - Mass in G ' Gloria.' ( BWV 236 ) Ghent Collegium Vocale, Mellon, Lesne, Pregiedien, Kooy. cond. Phillipe Herreweghe

2. Handel - " What passion cannot music raise & quell " ( Ode for St. Cecilia's Day ) Felicity Lott, Anthony Pleeth ( cello ). The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock.

3. Boccherini - String Quartets op.32 1-6 ( Yes, all six ! ) Quartetto Esterhazy.

[amateur51]

what a pity Darts never covered the 9th.... that would have helped solve the problem of choosing only 3.... ....Den and Rita would have done a great job on the last movement.

Thurston Dart?!

[teamsaint]

Thurston Dart?!

quit over "musical differences" IIRC !!!!

[amateur51]

quit over "musical differences" IIRC !!!!

[Panjandrum]

Joel Grey "If You could See Her"

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaq0bS_lxYo

Mr Mayerl had me grinning from ear-to-ear - many thanks PJ

What a face!!! What fingers!

Fabulous clip! Inc the spooky reference to "this austerity business"....

[salymap]

And for the over 75s among us:

Harry Lauder - Keep Right on to the End of the Road

[Pabmusic]

Three overtures:

Bernstein: Candide
Wolf-Ferrari: Susanna's Secret
Reznicek: Donna Diana

Another three:

Barber: School for Scandal
Faure: Masques et Bergamasques
Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor

Three more:

Boeildieu: The Caliph of Bagdad
Herold: Zampa
RVW: The Wasps

[salymap]

Greedy I like most of them and Donna Diana certainly seems a favourite.

[Pabmusic]

Greedy

I haven't begun yet.

Here's three symphonies:

Parry 3 (infectiously happy from first bar till last)
Arriaga in D (just perfect)
Dittersdorf: Der Stürz Phaëtons (one of the best of a great collection)

And three more:

Sibelius 3 (my favourite Sibelius - partly because of the second movement)
Dvořák 9 (easy choice!)
Kalinnikov 2 (or 1? - I can't make my mind up!)

And again:

Beethoven 6 (sounds new every time, whoever conducts it)
Sibelius 6 (exquisite - and a great perky oboe tune in the last movement)
Borodin 2 (has been an uplifting piece for me since about 1967)

Still more:

Elgar 1 (fell in love the first time I heard it)
Suk: Asrael (I know it's about death, but the 'feelgood' factor comes from the reconciliation in the final chorale. You just can't listen to it very often)
Mendelssohn: Italian (difficult to fault for sheer exuberance)

I could go on...

[EdgeleyRob]

Parry 3 (infectiously happy from first bar till last)

I plumped for no 4 as one of my 3 but hey ho ANY Parry symphony makes me feel good.

[Dave2002]

http://open.spotify.com/track/3Gd3dMrO5BzpIxf6KnDwtr

Glinka Ruslan and Ludmilla overure. BBM might like this one!

http://open.spotify.com/track/3NXYeyUUIBz7wACqSosyV0

Mozart Diverimento in D

Grieg "Morning" from Peer Gynt

http://open.spotify.com/track/4iEMOdW3kKAkFaJ8jpgmGi

http://open.spotify.com/track/3KJs6TdKmYFhnPCozQHTPK

Quite a wide variation in pitches for the Grieg on some of the Spotify offerings.

[MrGongGong]

I haven't begun yet.

Here's three symphonies:

Parry 3 (infectiously happy from first bar till last)
Arriaga in D (just perfect)
Dittersdorf: Der Stürz Phaëtons (one of the best of a great collection)

And three more:

Sibelius 3 (my favourite Sibelius - partly because of the second movement)
Dvořák 9 (easy choice!)
Kalinnikov 2 (or 1? - I can't make my mind up!)

And again:

Beethoven 6 (sounds new every time, whoever conducts it)
Sibelius 6 (exquisite - and a great perky oboe tune in the last movement)
Borodin 2 (has been an uplifting piece for me since about 1967)

Still more:

Elgar 1 (fell in love the first time I heard it)
Suk: Asrael (I know it's about death, but the 'feelgood' factor comes from the reconciliation in the final chorale. You just can't listen to it very often)
Mendelssohn: Italian (difficult to fault for sheer exuberance)

I could go on...

That's 12 (are you in charge of the Albanian economy perchance ?)