[brotagonist]

Today is International Day of Happiness :lol:

The United Nations Organization has revealed the world's happiest playlist #HappySoundsLike but it is enough to make a serious music lover sad

What should be on the TC Happiness Playlist (as an antidote to the other list)? :devil:

 

[MoonlightSonata]

Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It is an Ode to Joy after all.

 

[Albert7]

This song makes me feel so happy today:

 

[Guest]

One of the most spritely and sunny melodies that come to mind:

 

[Weston]

Handel wrote the happiest sounding movement ever to me in his Organ Concerto No. 14 in A major.

 

[Morimur]

Happiness? What's that?

 

[20centrfuge]

1. Grieg: Wedding day at Trolhaugen
2. Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
3. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
4. Holst: The Planets: Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity
5. Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
6. Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra (Thieving Magpie)
7. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
8. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1
9. Strauss, J. (II): The Blue Danube Waltz
10. Copland: Rodeo: *** Down

 

[isorhythm]

 

[20centrfuge]

I guess the middle word in the Copland piece could be misconstrued as a 'lady of the evening' -- It was automatically sensored.

 

[Weston]

One of the most spritely and sunny melodies that come to mind:

Wow! I never knew Alfvén wrote that. I've heard it most of my life, but thought I had only recently discovered Alfvén.

 

[Guest]

As a bit of a disappointing prospect that took a bit of a detour in early adulthood, I'll be simply ecstatic when I finally hear that little Elgar march play for me.

Until then, it's just Elgar.

 

[KenOC]

Happiness? What's that?

Happiness is finding out that you don't need that anoscopy after all. Happened to me today and I was VERY happy! :clap:

 

[Becca]

5. Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise

Happiness is a drunken wedding :lol:

 

[science]

For those of us whose happiness is connected to chemical stimulation, perhaps Bach's Coffee cantata would be appropriate.

I don't ordinarily like happy music; I can't believe it. I was a grumpy old man before I hit adolescence.

But the playful part of Smetana's Moldau is ok with me. As long as it's not too sunny outside.

 

[brotagonist]

Happiness? What's that?

Happiness is vacuuming the entire place clean. What else are you going to do when it's foggy all day long? I didn't hear any music until around suppertime, though, but I'm making up for it.

There is so much happiness music! Aside from Ode to Joy, which I knew would get the playlist started I think these are very happy:

Ligeti Piano Concerto
Prokofiev Piano Concerto 2
Bartók Rhapsodies 1 & 2

 

[elgar's ghost]

I'm sobering up after an uncharacteristically heavy session on the ale. I'm now listening to Shostakovich's Viola Sonata just to remind me what a lucky fellow I am.

 

[MoonlightSonata]

There's no shortage of cheerful Haydn.

 

[KenOC]

I'm sobering up after an uncharacteristically heavy session on the ale. I'm now listening to Shostakovich's Viola Sonata just to remind me what a lucky fellow I am.

You're listening to the Viola Sonata to sober up? Be sure to write down where to send the remains...

 

[Huilunsoittaja]

Happiness summed up on one piece:

 

[Templeton]

Beethoven's Sixth, obviously.

The final movement of Beethoven's Seventh.

And, a somewhat offbeat addition, Offenbach's Schlittenfahrt/Sleigh Ride: