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Here is a short list, SteveO.-Ron
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[h=1]LIST OF FAVORITE MUSIC [/h][h=1]AND [/h][h=1]INDEX TO MY COLLECTION OF RECORDS[/h]
PREAMBLE:

The exercise of listing one’s favorite music is no easy task after the passing of some seven decades. If a person is young, say in their childhood or adolescence the task is not as great. It may be better for such young people to wait for some years before making such a list, waiting until they survive the perils of: (a) their sporting interests, (b) their love life, © their job life, (d) their other leisure pursuits, (e) their desires and passions, wants and wishes as well as (e) the many slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that inevitably come into life.

In my lifetime there has come to be a world of sound in which I can drown, happily or not-so-happily as the case may be. The lists below contain some of the happier sources, pieces, items, songs, inter alia that give me pleasure now and at various times in my 69 years of life, 1943-2012.
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In the three year period June 2002 to May 2005, I compiled periodically a list of my favourite music. It was an attempt to define, to give expression to, to list what had become by then a vast sea of pleasurable sounds produced in a number of genres of music. My first memories of listening to music were in about 1948, although I was exposed to music right from the word go in 1943 by two parents who played the piano. I would post the full list here, but it is too long. I would post here "a short list" of nearly 70 years of musical experience, musical pieces I have enjoyed from a longer list of music that gave me pleasure, but it is, as I say, too long to include.

It is just a start to making a comprehensive list, a brief survey, a dip in the sea, so to speak. There are now over 1000 items in this full and comprehensive list that I put together in the years 2005 to 2012. I added to that initial list from time to time in the next six years and it came to well over 1000 items. If I continue to add to this list systematically and regularly the list will become completely unmanageable and necessitate far too much of a focus on music in my otherwise highly interdisciplinary life. But the names of many of my favourites are found below for my interest and occasionally to post at a website when others ask about my musical tastes. Since it seems impossible for me to remember the names of many of the pieces, this list helps assist me in bringing to memory these names when and if required. The exercise is interesting to me in its own right without any particular practical value.

Most of the items listed below are in my personal music collection(LPs, 45s, CDs and cassettes) or they are items that I have access to temporarily on the radio, or any time I chose from the vast list now available on the internet.

As I began adding every item to this list from what I heard on ABC FM Radio in and after 2002, and on the internet, it became obvious that, in the end, the list would become too long if I took the exercise seriously with any sense, as I say, of making a comprehensive collection. What is found here serves as: (a) a list of musical pieces I own/have access to in my collection and (b) a list of additional material I would like to have access to in my study, but do not. As I say, this is a list of musical favourites that I will never bring to an end. The sea is just too full. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Last Updated on: 19 June 2011.

CATEGORIES OF MUSIC:

A.1 CLASSICAL:

1.1 Bach: Symphony No.2 E-minor
1.2 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F; 12.2 No.6 in Bflat Major; No3, 4
1.3 Bach: Goldberg Variations
1.4 Bach: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
1.5 Bach: see my 20 record collection of Bach--too many to list here
2.1 Beethoven: Sonata #8 opus 13 and Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61
2.2 Beethoven: Symphonies: set 1-9, especially no.#5
2.3 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Opus 57(Appassionata)
2.4 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# major, Opus 78
2.5 Beethoven: Pathétique Sonata, Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor Op.13
2.6 Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, Piano Sonata No.14 in C-sharp minor Op.27/2.
2.7 Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5(Emperor)
2.8 Beethoven: Fur Elise(Bagatelle No.25 in A minor, G.173
2.9 Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.3, Opus 72 and 72a
2.10 Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata, Piano Sonata No.21 in C major Op.53
2.11 Beethoven: Piano Trio #7 in B Flat Opus 97(The Archduke)
2.12 Beethoven: too many other pieces of Beethoven’s to list due to prolixity
3. Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
4.1 Johannes Brahms, Symphony No.1 in C-Minor
4.2 Brahms, Piano Concerto # 1 in D Minor, Opus # 15
5.1 Frederick Chopin: Scherzo 1,2,3 and 4 ; 11.2 Ballads 1 to 4
5.2 Chopin: Fantasy Impromptu in C sharp minor, Opus 66
5.3 Chopin, 24 Preludes(C#minor,A-Flat-Major)
5.4 Chopin, Waltz No.7 in C Sharp minor, Opus 64/2
5.5 Chopin, Study No.3 in E major Opus 10 Tristesse
5.6 Chopin: Polonaise in A Flat, Op. 53 "Heroic"
5.7 Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9 No. 2
5.8 Chopin: Etude Op.10 No. 3 in E
5.9 Chopin: to list all of Chopin’s music that I enjoy would lead to prolixity
6.1 Claude Debussy: Claire de Lune from the Suite Bergamasque
6.2 Debussy: Preludes, “Girl With the Flaxen Hair” among other preludes
7.1 Anton Dvorak: New World Symphony
7.2 Dvorak: Symphony #3

  1. Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, op.104
  2. Dvorak: Symphonic Variations, Opus 78
8. Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt, Suite No.1

  1. Frederick Handel, Water Music Suite
  2. Gabriel Faure, The Pavane in F-sharp minor, opus 50
11. Franz Joseph Hayden: Concerto in D. Major
12. Franz Liszt: Concerto No.1 in E Flat Major
12.1 Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat, S 541 / III.
12.2 Liszt: Consolation, for piano No. 3 in D-flat Major
[h=1]12.3 Liszt: La Campanella[/h]12.4 Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2 in C-Sharp Minor

13. Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (pronounced Goretsky), Symphony #3.
14. Jules Massinet: Meditations
15. Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony #4 in A(Italian), Opus 90
16.1 Amadeus Mozart: Sonatas for Piano
16.2 Mozart: Divertimenti for strings, Adagio & Fugue in C Minor
16.3 Mozart: Piano Concerto #20 in D minor, K466
16.4 Mozart: Piano Concertos: other
16.5 Mozart: Symphony #40 in C minor
16.6 Mozart: too many other pieces of Mozart to list due to prolixity
17. Giacomo Puccini:One Fine Day, Madame Butterfly
18. Nicoli Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
19.1 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
19.2 Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Minor, Opus 23, No.5
19.3 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 D Minor
19.4 Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C sharp Minor Op.3 No.2
19.5 Rachmaninoff: too many other pieces of Rachmaninov to list due to prolixity
20.1 Joaquin Rodrigo: Ecos de Sefarad-guitar
20.2 Joaquin Rodrigo: need to familiarize myself with his repertoir
21. Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No.1
22.1 Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F. Minor, D 940
22.2 Schubert: Ave Maria, Symphony #8 in B-minor
22.3 Schubert: Octet Quintet in F major(For 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, horn and bassoon)
22.4 Schubert: Impromptu No.3 in G flat major D.899/Op.90
22.5 Schubert: Impromptu No.7 in E flat major opus 6
22.6 Schubert: Impromptu No.7 in E-flat major opus 90 no.2
22.7 Schubert: String Quartet #14: Death of a Maiden, D 810
22.8 Schubert: String Quintet in C.
22.9 Schubert: Piano Trios in E Flat Major, D 929 and 897
22.10 Schubert: Piano Quintet In A major: 'Trout' D667
22.11 Schubert: Impromptu in A Flat Major. Op. 90, No. 4
23.1 Robert Schumann: Concerto in A-Minor
23.2 Schumann: Symphonies 1-4
23.3 Schumann: Etudes
23.4 Schumann: Romance Violin
[h=1]23.5 Schumann: Fairy Tales for Viola and Piano
[/h][h=1]23.6 Schumann: violin concerto op 134 d minor
[/h][h=1]23.7 Schumann: Mondnacht
[/h][h=1]23.8 Schumann: Traumerie[/h]
24.1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in B Minor
24.2 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto D Major
24.3 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Opus 50
25. Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerti #3; trumpet concerti for 4 violins

[h=2]Circa: 80 pieces of classical music are found above[/h]
A.2 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL


  1. Elgar: Cello Concerto, 1st Movement, J. du Pre
  2. Eric Satie, Gymnopedies

B. FOLK/POPULAR:

B.1 Baha'i CDs:

There were over 50 CDs in the Launceston Baha’i community files by 2005. I played them for several years as “presenter of programs” on City Park Radio. I have none of these in my personal collection. I have listed elsewhere these 50 CDs. These 50 CDS had many individual songs that I came to enjoy and could list them as favourites. I have listed a few of them below.


  1. Parrish and Toppano, The Shores of This Great Ocean(Call Out to Zion)
  2. Parrish and Toppano, Royal Falcon & The Girl That I Never Knew
  3. Hummingbird, Dash Crofts
  4. Advance Guards, Dash Crofts
  5. One Planet One People, Dash Crofts
  6. Windflower, Dan Seals and Dash Crofts
  7. We May Never Pass This Way Again, Crofts
  8. Hollow Reed, Crofts
  9. One Planet One People, Crofts
  10. East of Ginger Trees, Seals and Crofts
  11. Angela Wood, Gentle Warrior
  12. Year of Sunday, Seals and Crofts
  13. Grant Hinden Miller, several CDs
  14. Radio Nur 2002-extensive output by 2005
  15. The Voices of Baha: Live At Carnegie Hall
  16. Many new CDs are produced annually--too many to list here

B.2 Non-Baha'i CDs/LPs/Cassette Tapes©:


  1. Working Class Man, Bruce Springsteen
  2. Born In The USA©, Bruce Springsteen
  3. Angel Clare(LP) Art Garfunkel
  4. Astral Weeks(LP)Van Morrison
  5. Songs for Beginners, (LP)Graham Nash
  6. Leave Love Enough Alone, (LP) Doug Ashdown
  7. Moody Blues, (LP) On the Threshold of a Dream
  8. Moody Blues, (LP) Seventh Sojourn
  9. Joni Mitchell, (LP) The World Of Joni Mitchell
  10. James Taylor,(LP) Sweet Baby James
  11. Bob Dylan, Lay Lady Lay, All Along the Watchtower, A Hard Rain's, If Not for You and more-too many to list here.
  12. Tom Rush, (LP) Merrimack County
  13. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 3LPs-4 Way Street, Celebration Copy, Déjà vu
  14. Michael Murphy, (LP) Blue Sky Night Thunder
  15. Cat Stevens, (LPs) Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat.
  16. Yesterday When I Was Young, Lena Horne
  17. The Impossible Dream, Several Artists
  18. Non-Baha’i-non-classical CDS--too many to list here.
  19. That Was Then This Is Now, Michael Stocks(CD)
  20. Bob Seeger, Greatest Hits(CD)
  21. Gordon Lightfoot: If you could read my mind and Summer Side of Life: too many songs to list here.
  22. Andrew Wells, Journeys(CD)
  23. Angela Armstrong© Personal Compilation
  24. Leonard Cohen, Suzanne and too many other songs to list here.

B.3 FROM MY SONG BOOKS(NOT-IN-RECORD COLLECTION):


  1. We are the World
  2. Cats in the Cradle
  3. Fire and Rain, James Taylor
  4. Paul Simon, Kathy's Song--too many others to list here.
  5. Gordon Lightfoot, Go My Way
  6. -Mother of a Miner's Child--too many others to list here.
  7. Mull of Kintyre
  8. The Streets of London
  9. As Different As We Are, John Denver
  10. Rocky Mountain High, John Denver
  11. Many more could be added from my songbook from the 40 years when I played the guitar for singalongs and to entertain: 1968-2008.

C. BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR READING/WRITINGCDs/LPs)


  1. Frans Brugger, Blockflotin, Vol.2
  2. Sammartini, Symphony in A. Major
  3. Some of the music in sections A and B is good background music.
  4. Lucky Oceans plays hundreds of pieces over the months/years on his ABC Radio National Programs. I could include much of that music here.

D. 1 LITURGICAL/CHOIR

D.1:

1. Faure, Blockflotin, Vol.2
2. Mahler, Symphonies No. 4/5
3. Some of the above in sections A and B

D.2:

1. Puccini, Turandot.

E. JAZZ


  1. Phil Morrison Trio, Sea Island Blues, 12 Tracks(T)
2. Jeff Jones, Live in Concert, 14T
3. Tenor/Saxaphone songs(2??) from Porgy and Bess
4. Many ‘jazz’ pieces from radio programs which I could and will include here at a future time.

F. OTHER:

F.1

1. Lucky Oceans plays a great deal of material on ABC Radio National in his afternoon program from many musical genres. Some of the material he plays could be added here and will, when time permits, at a future time. At this stage there seems to be just too much to add to this list and too many other things for me to do to make this list comprehensive.

2. Other musical programs on ABC Radio bring in “other” music that I have begun to add here, but can not do so in any comprehensive sense due to prolixity.
3. Friends also introduce me to CDs from time to time and some of this material may be added here in future. Again, the collections of others is just too extensive to make any attempt to list here.

F.2

1. The Lord's Prayer, Mahelia Jackson
2. Other: to be done at a later date

F.3:

1.Talks on Cassette-Ten collections of material to be indexed later.
2. Talks: (a) on internet-written and (b) on internet-spoken

Ron Price: Last Updated On: 21 June 2011
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INDEX TO COLLECTION OF RECORDS

Preamble:

After having music in my life for 65 years(1943-2008) and after collecting records for 40 years(1965-2005), the time finally arrived to index the collection I had acquired. By 2005 music in the form of CDs, at least for me, were replacing LPs as a source of new recorded music. A separate collection of some 15 CDs is now found in the chest of drawers near the radio in the dining room. Cassette tapes had begun to be a source of music already by the 1960s and I now have some 30 cassette tapes found in that same place in the dining-room. This index, this list here, does not include these CDs and the cassette tapes or, indeed, the 3 mini-discs acquired when I was a presenter of programs at City Park Radio from 2001-2004. At a future time I hope to index the CDs and the cassette tapes. Much of the material on the CDs, the cassette tapes and the mini-discs is not music, but other types of recorded resources: talks, radio programs, et cetera.

There are three sections for the records in this collection found in my study: (A) popular, (B) classical and © 45s. They are all kept in my study beside a small inexpensive($40 in 2008) Jensen turntable radio/phonograph at 6 Reece Street in George Town Tasmania. The index for this collection is alphabetical by: author/composer/writer/singer/artist. In the popular section the first name of the author/singer is often used for the base of the indexed item; for example, “Joan” in Joan Baez;. In the classical section the index is entirely based on the last name.—Ron Price, 1 September, 2008.


  1. POPULAR:


  1. Bee Gees(2)
  2. Bob Dylan
  3. Cat Stevens(3)
  4. Carly Simon
  5. Cleo Laine
  6. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young(4)
  7. Don McLean
  8. Doug Ashdown
  9. Edward Woodward(3)
  10. 1844(Eighteen-Forty-Four)
  11. Focus
  12. Elton John(2)
  13. Gershwin
  14. Helen Ready(2)
  15. Herb Alpert
  16. Hits(Collections-2)
  17. Ian Paulin
  18. James Taylor(2)
  19. John Denver
  20. Joan Baez
  21. Joni Mitchell
  22. Melanie
  23. Michael Murphy
  24. Nash, Graham
  25. Moody Blues(4)
  26. Neil Diamond
  27. Neil Young(2)
  28. Pentangling
  29. Peter, Paul and Mary
  30. Seals and Crofts(3)
  31. Simon & Garfunkel(2)
Simon(2)
Garfunkel(2)

  1. Tom Rush
  2. Stephen Foster
  3. Summer of 42(Movie Sound-Track)
  4. Van Morrison


  1. CLASSICAL:


  1. Collections: Great Composers-12 records
-Piano-1

  1. Collections: 4 & singles-Bach-21 records total
  2. Beethoven-12
  3. Bruggen
  4. Berlioz
  5. Chopin
  6. Dvorak
  7. Elgar
  8. Faure
  9. Handel(5)
  10. Haydn(2)
  11. Liszt
  12. Mahler
  13. Mendelssohn
  14. Mozart(9)
  15. Samartini
  16. Schubert
  17. Schumann
  18. Sibelius
  19. Strauss(2)
  20. Tchaikovsky(2)
  21. Vivaldi(3)

  1. 45s:

  1. Abba
  2. Beatles
  3. Cover
  4. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  5. Elton John(2)
  6. Joan Baez
  7. Judy Collins
  8. Seals & Crofts -Last Indexed on: 1 September 2008
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