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03/16/2005: "Now for Something Completely Different"

You have heard the saying, "music calms the animal within", well in that vain in my rushed and hurried world I am purposefully inserting more moments of calm and more moments of beauty.

One of the ways I am doing that is by listening to great music. I found a great list of classical music to calm the beast. Two things are happening, I am becoming more familiar with great music and I am also becoming more calm (at least for moments).

See if you can find anything interesting here.

Classical CD Guide -- Top 10 Orchestral Works to Start Your Classical Music Collection

Top 10 Essential Orchestral Works

1 Stravinsky: Rite of Spring -- Igor Stravinsky
A scandalous ballet.

2 Handel: Water Music -- Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
How to get in the good graces of a king.

3 Ravel: Bolero; Debussy: La Mer -- Herbert von Karajan
Orchestral landscapes and seascapes.

4 Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites -- Mstislav Rostropovich
The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies, and much more.

5 Mozart: "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" -- Bruno Walter
The famous serenade hides a mystery.

6 Holst: The Planets -- Charles Dutoit
Music that's out of this world.

7 Copland: Applachian Spring -- Leonard Bernstein
The American master's Simple Gift to posterity.

8 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade -- Valery Gergiev
Musical storytelling from the Arabian Nights.

9 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra -- Fritz Reiner
Swan song for a man of many talents.

10 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris -- Leonard Bernstein
The fusion of Jazz and Classical.

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