As I was driving home today, I started thinking about overtures I've always liked. Von Suppe's "Poet and Peasant" and "Light Cavalry" overtures are fun, and it's easy to make comparisons between them and "William Tell". I started a mental tabulation in my head, and when I got home I did a search to remind me of the many, many others I listened over the years. "La Gazza Ladra", "The Marriage of Figaro", and "Die Meistersinger" rank high on my list of favorites -- although I don't actually have *
A* favorite.
If you have Broadway or movie overtures that you like, please name them. I especially the overture and fugue for tinhorns in "Guys and Dolls".
I don't use Spotify, but I thought the list in this link might spur some memories as it did with me.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6vAgh1YJ01m2dotpY20jLn
rhy 0 points 10 months ago
I love a lot of classical music, from the classical era all the way up to modern stuff. I don't go for the baroque usually.
Some of my favorites:
Holst the planets
Mozart's Requiem
You only live twice soundtrack by John Barry
That's sibelius string quartet.. can't remember the name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rxl5KsPjs