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Chopin - anything
Gustav Holst - The Planets - Jupiter (The entire Planets suite is awesome)
Bedrich Smetana - Die Moldau
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E Minor OP.64
Dvorak - New World Symphony
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Dvorak - Humoresque in G-flat major, Op. 101 #7
Bach's cello suites (played by Yo Yo Ma) - close to a 3 hour performance
And as always, Beethoven's 9th Symphony... written after he was almost completely deaf. This is one of those "put on repeat all day" pieces
Chopin - anything
Gustav Holst - The Planets - Jupiter (The entire Planets suite is awesome)
Bedrich Smetana - Die Moldau
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E Minor OP.64
Dvorak - New World Symphony
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Dvorak - Humoresque in G-flat major, Op. 101 #7
Bach's cello suites (played by Yo Yo Ma) - close to a 3 hour performance
And as always, Beethoven's 9th Symphony... written after he was almost completely deaf. This is one of those "put on repeat all day" pieces
When the audience applauded—testimonies differ over whether at the end of the scherzo or the whole symphony—Beethoven was several measures off and still conducting. Because of that, the contralto Caroline Unger walked over and turned Beethoven around to accept the audience's cheers and applause. According to one witness, "the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them." The whole audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times; there were handkerchiefs in the air, hats, raised hands, so that Beethoven, who could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovation gestures.
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