Some of my favorite pieces part 1

I will precede this "Blog" with:  Pardon all errors of spelling, et-cetera, as this was a list simply compiled on my telephone in a stream-of-illuminatory ideas.....

These are pieces that I enjoy particularly listening to, figuring out, or simply enjoy- or learning about, and their composers.  Aside from Rachmaninoff and the great classical composers preceding him, I have not too much interest in their personal lives,  I am generally interested in the lives of the composers though post-Rachmaninoff-ish, sort of. 

Perhaps one day, I will make links to each piece so that also you may easily click and hear.  One day....Some day.  Blessed#

The playlist compiled above is just sort of my constantly evolving list that I keep on Spotify that I enjoy- it may contain some of the following pieces, but it isn't a playlist of the following.

​Favorite Classical Music Pieces Part 1:

1: Francis Poulenc: Sextour

The Rest are in no certain order, though I do love these tremendously, because I am compiling this list without the assistance of reference; just memory.

Brahms: Paganini Variations

William Albright: The Dream Rags

Franck: Violin Sonata

Lowell Liebermann: Sonata for piano and flute

Pierre Boulez: Sonata for Piano 2

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstucke 1

Luciano Berio: Yes....all of his stuff.

Sylvano Bussotti: Requiem, Piano works, et-cetera.

Gyorgy Ligeti: Musica Ricerata, Harpsichord music

Dan Locklair: Voyage

J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata in E Minor, for Organ

Louis Vierne: Symphony VI for organ, Movement 1 only

Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony (Piano, Ondes Martenot, Orchestra)

Rachmaninoff: Concerto 3, for piano and orchestra

Prokofiev: Concerto 1 for Piano and Orchestra

Ravel: Miroirs, La Valse, Daphnis et Chloe

George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children

John Cage: Bacchanale

Conlon Nancarrow: Prelude (From Prelude & Blues)

John Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola, Shaker Loops, Phrygian Gates

David Fanshawe: African Sanctus

Lou Harrison: Piano works (Boriskin recording)

Saint Saens: Carnival of the Animals

William Bolcom: Gospel Preludes for Organ

William Albright: The King of Instruments

Larry King: Visions of St. John the Divine

David Tudor: Rainforest (recording)

Mario Davidovsky: Syncronisms No. 5 (I think that's the piano one, with electronic sounds etc.)

Mozart: Fantasia and Sonata in C Minor (K. 457?)

Scriabin: Poeme of Extacy, Piano Concerto, Piano Sonatas, Piano Etudes

Richard Rodney Bennett: Noctuary (sur theme un Scott Joplin)

Brian Ferneyhough: Lemma Icon Epigram

Wagner: Liebestold

Maurice Durufle: Requiem

Gabriel Faure: Requiem

Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto, Excursions, Souvenirs (Orchestral version), Ballade, Piano Sonata, all the songs..., I dislike his organ works strangely enough.

Rachmaninoff: Preludes for Piano: Bb Major, Moments Musicaux, Piano Sonatas, Piano transcriptions, All piano works- well, pretty much everything of his, I love.

Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite, Hollywood Suite

Joseph Jongen: Symphonie Concertante (Organ & Orchestra)

Canteloube: Chanson L'Auvergnes: Bailero

John Adams: This is Prophetic (Nixon in China?)

Douglas Moore: Willow Song (Ballad of Baby Doe?)

Ned Rorem: Summer Music, Organ music, Alleluia, Holy Songs

Norman Dello Joio: A Jubilant Song

Olivier Messiaen: Nativite, L'ascension, Le Banquet Celeste, (Organ music)

Richard Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto

Liszt: Piano Concerto 1, Totentanz, Un Sospiro, Paganini Etudes, Transcendental Etudes, Sonata for Piano, Opera Transcriptions for Piano

Eldin Burton: Sonatine for Piano and Flute

Prokofiev: Toccata for Piano

Khatchaturian: Toccata, Piano Concerto, Spartacus

David Conte: Organ Music, Choral compositions

Carl Vine: Piano Sonata

Healey Willan: Introduction, Passacaglia, & Fugue, for Organ

Simon Preston: Alleluyas, for organ

Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata, Piano Concerto 5: Movement 2 only
David Del Tredici: Virtuoso Alice, Piano & Orchestral Works

Revueltas: Night of the Mayans

Charles Ives: Concord Sonata

Robert Muczynski: Moments for Flute & Piano, Masks, Desperate Measures (Paganini Variations), Toccata, Flute Sonata

Aaron Copland: Rodeo, Appalachian Spring (Choral only at the end of the show)

Chopin: Etudes, Preludes, Ballade 1 & 4, Piano Concerto 1, Waltzes