Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2005/01

From: Andy Jablonski <ajablons@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Your Hit Parade
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:21:06 -0500

Wasn't there talk a while back of someone putting the Mozart to a rap beat?
;)

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From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 2:30 PM
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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