If I Could Choose Only One Work By...RESPIGHI

It Would Have To Be...Three Botticelli Pictures One of the most perfectly illustrative pieces of music ever penned, and an exquisite blend of old and new so characteristic of this composer. The List So Far: 1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet) 2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major 4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” 6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker 7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2) 8: Handel: Saul 9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro 10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major 11. Vaughan Williams: Job 12. Bach: Goldberg Variations 13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs 14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust 15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87) 16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen 17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor 18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor 19. Chopin: Preludes 20. Verdi: Rigoletto 21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2 22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet) 23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos 27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire 28. Smetana: Ma Vlást 29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain 30. Bizet: Carmen 31. Elgar: In the South 32. Sullivan: The Mikado 33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA 34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies 35. Monteverdi: Orfeo 36. Scarlatti: Sonatas 37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17 38. Berg: Wozzeck 39. Hermann: Psycho (film score) 40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini 41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas 42. Holst: Suites for Military Band 43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex