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What is currently your favorite piece of music?

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I don't know why but for the last past couple of weeks, I've really been feeling Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concert movement 2.

Currently, the Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky is okay. I particularly liked the "Gnoumus" movement for its unusual theme and stuff. The whole suite was pretty cool overall.

Currently, the Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky is okay. I particularly liked the "Gnoumus" movement for its unusual theme and stuff. The whole suite was pretty cool overall.

I love Mussorgsky. I kind of like his position as an "imperfect" composer, who was corrected by more idiomatic composers like R-K.

Medeski Martin and Wood's Radiolarians CDs have been pretty good...

Piece for Cello or Viola and Piano by Ernest Chausson

Very good late chamber work by an excellent, often ignored French late Romantic (although it doesn't always *feel* romantic).

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Rued Langgaard's fifth symphony. This symphony has two versions and my favourite piece of music is second version. This one-movement (approx. 20 mins.) symphony's name is "Nature of the Steppe".

Currently my favorite thing to listen to is the traffic passing by my house about 100 yards away, which is randomly interrupted and overpowered by the trains that pass right behind my house.

John Adams' Chamber Symphony, namely movement 3: Roadrunner. This piece was inspired by both Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony no. 1 and the musical scores from old-school TV cartoons. Adams was studying Schoenberg's score in one room, his 6 year-old was watching cartoons in the other room and the two came together to inspire this amazing piece. check the great video of Ensemble Intercontemporain play all 3 movements on YouTube.

I listen to Roadrunner almost EVERYDAY. It has inspired many elements of my music, mainly my new chamber piece, Myriad. There's minimalism, there's atonality, tonality, and some GREAT orchestration to boot!

Verdi's Requiem. It's absolutely stunning. I've been switching between that and Orff's Carmina Burana, which is equally as stunning.

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Either

Alkan's - Le Festin d'Esope

or

Lyapunov - Variations and Fugue on a Russian Theme

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