If I Could Choose Only One Work By...Bruch
It Would Have To Be...The Scottish Fantasy Even better than the famous First Violin Concerto, the Scottish Fantasy allows Bruch the rare opportunity to set his imagination free on a fabulous collection of tunes, gorgeously orchestrated. 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 44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures 45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony 46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw 47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen 49. Korngold: Violin Concerto 50. Tallis: Spem in Alium 51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat 54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov 55. Franck: Violin Sonata 56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) 57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian” 58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins 59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater 60. Albeniz: Iberia 61. Bernstein: Mass 62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony 63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith 64. Dukas: Piano Sonata 65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess 66. Tippett: Piano Concerto 67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs) 68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 69. Gluck: Alceste 70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3 71. Puccini: La Bohème 72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic” 73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39 74. Dutilleux: Métaboles 75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya 76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening) 77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa 78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella 79. Arnold: Symphony No. 5 80. Fauré: Piano Quartets (Trio Wanderer) Harmonia Mundi 81. Hovhaness: Fra Angelico 82. Martinu: Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies symphoniques” 83. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy 84. Corelli: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 85. Bellini: Norma 86. Ives: “Concord” Sonata 87. John Williams: Jaws (film score) 88. Honegger: Le Roi David (King David) 89. Kodály: “Peacock” Variations 90. Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse (10 CD Set, Erato) 91. Scriabin: Piano Sonatas (Hamelin/Hyperion) 92. Casella: Concerto for Orchestra 93. Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus 94. Chabrier: España 95. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians 96. Waxman: Sunset Boulevard (film score) 97. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie 98. Suk: A Summer Tale 99. Delius: A Song of the High Hills 100. Telemann: Tafelmusik 101. Stenhammar: Serenade 102. Orff: Trionfi (Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina, Trionfo di Afrodite) 103. Bax: Symphony No. 2 104. Turina: Canto a Sevilla 105. Glass: Koyaanisqatsi 106. Zelenka: Missa Dei Filii 107. Martin: Petite sinfonie concertante 108. Braga Santos: Symphony No. 3 109: Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles 110. Harris: Symphony No. 3 111. Magnard: Symphony No. 4 112. Bloch: Concerto symphonique for Piano and Orchestra 113. Harrison: Solstice 114. Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony

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