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#1 · (Edited)
About two years ago I started a game series where each game was devoted to the favorite works of any member who submitted a "favorites" list.

As an example, there was a favorite solo keyboard category, and many members submitted their list for game purposes. The problem with this process was that there was much repetition among the submittals.

What I would like to do now is revise this series with a new rule that once a member submits a particular favorites list, no other member can submit a list of the same subject. Using the above example, once a member uses "My Favorite Solo Keyboard Works", nobody else may use the same subject.

Another new rule is that the list does not have to be "works" driven. It could be a list of favorite performers or composers as well, or favorite Russian composers or Italian composers etc.

I won't be submitting the first list unless nobody else does so in the next 24 hours or so.

Note: Your favorites list may range from a minimum of 10 line-items to a maximum of 20. Each game will be a one-rounder.

I look forward to your submittals which I will cover in chronological order.

Please keep in mind that the more narrow your subject matter, the more likely it is that participation will decline as well.

Make your submittals on this thread.

One more thing. Please do not submit more than once every few days. Give others the opportunity for their very own games.
 
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#4 · (Edited)
Well, I'll take the obvious one ;):

My Top 20 Symphonies:

Alfvén: Symphony no. 3 in E major
Arnold: Symphony no. 5
Atterberg: Symphony no. 3 in D major "West Coast Pictures"
Barber: Symphony no. 1 in One Movement
Braga Santos: Symphony no. 4 in E minor
Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in E minor
Bruckner: Symphony no. 9 in D minor
Damase: Symphonie
Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G major
Elgar: Symphony no. 1 in A flat major
Hanson: Symphony no. 2 in D-flat major "Romantic"
Korngold: Symphony in F-sharp
Lloyd: Symphony no. 4 in B major "Arctic"
Martinů: Symphony no. 1
Nielsen: Symphony no. 5
Peterson-Berger: Symphony no. 3 in F minor "Same Ätnam"
Rachmaninoff: Symphony no. 2 in E minor
Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3 in C minor "Organ"
Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 in D major
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 2 "A London Symphony"
 
#5 · (Edited)
"Unusual concertos"*.

* 20 different composers and 20 different instruments excluding piano, organ, violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, horn, harp and guitar.

Adams, J - Electric violin 'The Dharma at Big Sur'
Aho - Theremin
Arnold - Harmonica
Cage - Prepared piano
Chin, U - Sheng 'Su'
Corigliano - Percussion 'Conjurer'
Dahl - Alto saxophone
Davies, PM - Bassoon
Dorman - Piccolo
Gorecki, H - Harpsichord
Gubaidulina - Bayan
Henze - Double bass
Holmboe - Tuba
Jolivet - Ondes martenot
Miyoshi - Marimba
Rouse - Trombone
Takemitsu - Shakuhachi and biwa 'November steps'
Tubin - Balalaika
Tveitt - Hardanger fiddle 2
Vasks - Cor anglais
 
#6 ·
Guitar Concertos:

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - #1
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - #2
Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
Joachin Rodrigo - Concierto Madrigal
Joachin Rodrigo - Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre
Joachin Rodrigo - Concierto para una Fiesta
Manuel Ponce
Malcolm Arnold
Leo Brouwer - Concerto #3 (Elegiaco)
Leo Brouwer - Concerto #4 (Concerto de Toronto)
Villa Lobos
Lennox Berkeley
Hovhaness - #2
Stephen Dodgson - #1
Henze - Ode to an Aeolian Harp
Ross Edwards - Arafura Dances
Stephen Goss
Nigel Westlake - Antarctica
Steve Gray
Richard Harvey - Concerto Antico
 
#7 ·
My Favorite Chamber Works:

Bacewicz - Piano Quintet no. 1
Beethoven - Cello Sonata, op. 5/1
Brahms - Violin Sonata no. 1, op. 78
Brahms - Clarinet Quintet, op. 115
Dvorak - Piano Quintet no. 2, op. 81
Elgar - Violin Sonata, op. 82
Haydn - String Quartet, op. 20/2
Juon - Piano Quartet no. 1, op. 37 "Rhapsody"
Kabalevsky - String Quartet no. 1
Mozart - Oboe Quartet, K. 370
Mozart - Clarinet Quintet, K. 581
Ravel - String Quartet
Saygun - String Quartet no. 4
Schmidt - String Quartet in A major
Schubert - String Quartet no. 15, D. 887
Schubert - String Quintet, D. 956
Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 8, op. 110
Walton - Violin Sonata
Weber - Grand Duo Concertante for Clarinet and Piano
Zemlinsky - String Quartet no. 2
 
#8 · (Edited)
Piano Concertos

Beach - Piano Concerto in C sharp minor
Busoni - Piano Concerto in C major
Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
Cras - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Delius - Piano Concerto in C minor
Dohnanyi - Piano Concerto No 2, Op 42
Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F major
Gipps - Piano Concerto in G minor
Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor
Hanson - Piano Concerto in G major
Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Rautavaara - Piano Concerto No 1
Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major
Stanford - Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor
Tcherepnin, A - Piano Concerto No 4 "Fantaisie"
Tcherepnin, N - Piano Concerto, Op 30
Villa-Lobos - Piano Concerto No 3
 
#9 · (Edited)
My favorite works by Brahms:

Piano Concerto no. 1
Piano Concerto no. 2
Violin Concerto
Double Concerto
Symphony no. 1
Symphony no. 2
Symphony no. 3
Symphony no. 4
Serenade no. 1 in D major, op. 11
Clarinet Sonata no. 2 in E flat major
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115
Cello Sonata no. 1 in E minor, op. 38
Piano Trio no. 1 in B major, op. 8 (original 1854 or edited version, 1891)
Piano Quartet no. 2 in A major, op. 26
Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34
String Quintet in F major, op. 88
String Sextet no. 1 in B flat major
String Sextet no. 2 in G major
Academic Festival Overture
Alto Rhapsody, op. 53
 
#11 · (Edited)
My favorite works by Beethoven at this moment:

Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra ("Choral"), Op. 80
Fidelio, Op. 72
Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major ("Emperor"), Op. 73
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ("Appassionata"), Op. 57
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major ("Hammerklavier"), Op. 106
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
String Quartet No. 7 in F major ("Razumovsky"), Op. 59 no. 1
String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major (with the Grosse Fuge), Op. 130
String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ("Eroica"), Op. 55
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Symphony No. 6 in F major ("Pastoral"), Op. 68
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral"), Op. 125
 
#12 · (Edited)
Symphonic Poems

Bax - Tintagel
Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia "
Debussy - Prelude a L'apres Midi D'un Faune
Delius - On Hearing The First Cuckoo in Spring
Duparc - Lenore
Gliere - The Sirens
Griffes - The White Peacock
Liszt - Les Preludes
Lloyd Webber, W - Aurora
MacDowell - Lamia
Novak, V - In the Tatra Mountains
Respighi - The Pines of Rome
Revueltas - Sensemaya
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade
Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy
Sibelius - Tapiola
Still - Africa
Suk - The Ripening
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Williams, G - Penillion
 
#16 ·
My favorite string quartets (this was really tough to do -- so many great SQs out there):

Bartók - String Quartet no. 3, Sz. 85
Bartók - String Quartet no. 4, Sz. 91
Beethoven - String Quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Borodin - String Quartet no. 2 in D major
Debussy - String Quartet in G minor, L. 85
Ginastera - String Quartet no. 1, Op. 20
Janáček - String Quartet no. 2, JW 7/13 "Intimate Letters"
Lachenmann - String Quartet no. 1 "Gran Torso"
Martinů - String Quartet no. 3, H. 183
Prokofiev - String Quartet no. 2 in F major, Op. 92
Rădulescu - String Quartet no. 4, Op. 33 "infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite"
Saariaho - Nymphéa - Jardin secret III
Scelsi - String Quartet no. 3
Schnittke - String Quartet no. 3, Op. 168
Schoenberg - String Quartet no. 3, Op. 30
Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 9 in E flat major, Op. 117
Szymanowski - String Quartet no. 1 in C major, Op. 37
Xenakis - ST/4, 1-080262
Xenakis - Tetras
Zemlinsky - String Quartet no. 4, Op. 25

Also under consideration were: Bacewicz 7, Bartók 5, Berg, Crumb, Dvořák 12, Ferneyhough 3, Hindemith 7, Lajtha 10, Ligeti 2, Rădulescu 5, Roussel, Saygun 1, Schoenberg 4, Schubert 14-15, Shostakovich 8
 
#21 ·
12 Etudes for Piano

Bacewicz - Etude no. 1, Allegro non troppo (from Ten Etudes)
Chopin - Etude op. 10, no. 3, "Tristesse"
Chopin - Etude op. 10, no. 12, "Revolutionary"
Chopin - Etude op. 25, no. 11, "Winter wind"
Debussy - Etude no. 8, Pour les agréments. Lento, rubato e leggiero
Debussy - Etude no. 11, Pour les arpèges composés. Dolce e lusigando
Ligeti - Etude no. 13, The Devil's Staircase. Presto legato, ma leggiero
Liszt - Dance of the Gnomes (Gnomenreign, from Zwei Konzertetüden, S.145)
Nancarrow - Study for Player Piano no. 21, Canon X
Riley - Keyboard Study no. 1
Scriabin - Etude op. 8 no. 12, Patetico
Scriabin - Etude op. 42 no. 3, Prestissimo
 
#23 ·
My Favorite Bach Works:

Solo Cello Suites
Goldberg Variations
Well-Tempered Clavier
French Suites
Keyboard Partitas
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
Overture in the French Style
Art of Fugue
Musical Offering
Brandenburg Concertos
Orchestral Suites
Pastorale for Organ
Leipzig Chorales for Organ
Clavier-Ubung III for Organ
Mass in B minor
St. Matthew Passion
Cantata BWV 21 "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"
Cantata BWV 82 "Ich habe genug"
Cantata BWV 140 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
Cantata BWV 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"
 
#24 · (Edited)
My favorite Bach works that did not make Bulldog's list:

Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV 1001- 1006
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWV 564
English Suites BWV 806-811
Magnificat BWV 243
Easter Oratorio BWV 249
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
St. John Passion BWV 245
Cantata BWV 54: Widerstehe doch der Sünde
Cantata BWV 198: Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl "Trauerode"
Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1052
Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1056
Concerto for Four Harpsichords BWV 1065
Violin Concerto BWV 1041
Double Violin Concerto BWV 1043
Concerto BWV 1060
Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba BWV 1027-1029
Organ Sonatas BWV 525-530
Italian Concerto BWV 971
Lute Suites BWV 995-1000
 
#25 ·
tdc:

Your subject is already in rotation.

Part of the OT: What I would like to do now is revise this series with a new rule that once a member submits a particular favorites list, no other member can submit a list of the same subject. Using the above example, once a member uses "My Favorite Solo Keyboard Works", nobody else may use the same subject.
 
#26 ·
Just using "My Favorite Bach Works" as an example, here's a partial list of potential remaining games devoted to Bach that could be used:

Bach Sacred Choral Works
Bach Solo Keyboard Works
Bach Chamber Works
Bach Concertos
Bach Keyboardists
Bach Pianists
Bach Harpsichordists
Bach Violinists
Bach Guitarists
Bach Vocalists
Bach Perfoming Artists
Bach Conductors/Directors

I'm sure there are more. At any rate, there are a host of Bach games that are available, and this would also apply to other composers as well.
 
#29 ·
My Favourite Pianists:

Martha Argerich
Claudio Arrau
Idil Biret
Jorge Bolet
Rudolf Buchbinder
Shura Cherkassky
Alfred Cortot
Clifford Curzon
Emil Gilels
Vladimir Horowitz
Julius Katchen
Wilhelm Kempff
Alicia de Larrocha
Radu Lupu
Tatiana Nikolayeva
Artur Rubinstein
Rudolf Serkin
Vladimir Sofronitsky
Geoffrey Tozer
Krystian Zimerman
 
#31 ·
My Favorite Piano Trios:

Andreae: Piano Trio no. 1 in F minor, op. 1
Arensky: Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 32
Babajanian: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor
Brahms: Piano Trio no. 1 in B major, op. 8
Dvořák: Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor, op. 65
Faure: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120
Franck: Piano Trio no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1
Juon: Piano Trio no. 1 in A minor, op. 17
Kuula: Piano Trio in A major, op. 7
Martin: Trio sur des melodies popularizes irlandaises
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor, M. 67
Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 92
Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50
 
#32 ·
My Favorite Piano Trios:

Andreae: Piano Trio no. 1 in F minor, op. 1
Arensky: Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 32
Babajanian: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor
Bowen: Piano Trio in E minor, op. 118
Brahms: Piano Trio no. 1 in B major, op. 8
Dvořák: Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor, op. 65
Faure: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120
Franck: Piano Trio no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1
Juon: Piano Trio no. 1 in A minor, op. 17
Kuula: Piano Trio in A major, op. 7
Martin: Trio sur des melodies popularizes irlandaises
Martinů: Piano Trio no. 3 in C major, H. 332
Raff: Piano Trio no. 4 in D major, op. 158
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor, M. 67
Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 92
Schoenfeld: Café Music
Schubert: Piano Trio no. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929
Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 67
Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50
 
#33 ·
My Favorite Piano Sonatas:

Protopopov: Piano Sonata no.3, op.6
Bortkiewicz: Piano Sonata no.2, op.60
Sviridov: Piano Sonata
Chopin: Piano Sonata no.3, op.58
Chopin: Piano Sonata no.2 "Marche Funebre", op.35

Prokofiev: Piano Sonata no.9, op.103
Prokofiev: Sonata no.8, op.84
Prokofiev: Sonata no.4, op.29
Ives: Piano Sonata no.2 "Concord"
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.178

Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.2 "Sonata-Fantasy", op.19
Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.5, op.53
Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.7 "White Mass", op.64
Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.8, op.66
Shostakovich: Piano Sonata no.2, op.61

Szymanowski: Piano Sonata no.2, op.21
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata no.2, op.36
Medtner: Sonata-Reminiscenza, op.38
Medtner: Sonata-Tragica, op.39
Medtner: Sonata-Minacciosa, op.53

No room for Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, or Mozart here - sorry Germany/Austria, I appreciate the obvious merit and brilliance of your sonatas, but this is a list of favorites, and my heart is with Russia! My only regret is not being able to squeeze more Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Medtner in. I tried to vary it up and introduce some lesser heard composers just to keep things more interesting (if I hadn't stopped myself, it'd likely be 90% the three above composers). But I still feel like I need to post my honorable mentions below just for those who would like some listening material :D

Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.3, op.23
Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.4, op.30
Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.9 "Black Mass", op.68
Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.10, op.70
Prokofiev: Sonata no.2, op.14
Prokofiev: Sonata no.3, op.28
Prokofiev: Sonata no.7, op.83
Medtner: "Night Wind" Sonata, op.25
Medtner: Sonata-Ballade, op.27
Medtner: Sonata-Romantica, op.53
Medtner: Sonata-Idyll, op.56
Grieg: Piano Sonata in E minor, op.7
 
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