Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2005/01

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Your Hit Parade
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:36:24 -0500

I have a great deal more sympathy for the top of your list I have to
say........

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: 03 January 2005 22:30
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re: Your Hit Parade

Matthew Lloyd wrote:

>They do this over in Blighty each year at Easter on Classic FM.
>
>The Mozart concerto came in at number 2. Talk about a pearl among
>swine.....
>
>1 - Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (okay I suppose, but
>hardly a masterpiece!)
>2 - Mozart Clarinet Concerto
>3 - Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
>4 - Vaughan Williams R., The Lark Ascending (and if I had a gun it
would
>be the lark descending - rapidly!!!)
>

Interesting how radically different that is from the list over here on
the Pacific Coast of America.

1 - Beethoven, Symphony #9 in D minor, "Choral"
2 - Bach, Brandenburg Concertos
3 - Dvorak, Symphony #9 in E minor, "From the New World"
4 - Beethoven, Symphony #6 in F major, "Pastoral"
5 - Beethoven, Piano Concerto #5 in Eb, "Emporer"
6 - Handel, The Messiah
7 - Beethoven, Symphony #5 in C minor
8 - Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto #2 in C minor
9 - Mozart, Requiem
10 - Barber, Adagio for Strings

The Bruch is #64, and the Vaughn Williams is #38.

The top 5 were exactly the same in 2003. However, the Mozart Clarinet
Concerto dropped from #33 to #50. Clearly, unless Mr. Mozart is able to

come up with something new and exciting to revamp his image, he runs the

risk of losing his tennis shoe endorsements to one of the rising
newcomers.

The lists can be found here:
* http://www.allclassical.org/Top100_2004.php
* http://www.allclassical.org/Top100_2003.php

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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