Christo
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... an opening of those magic casements ...
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I can only mention a few compositions that, for me, qualified as the 'most beautiful' years ago or over a longer period of time, often decades ago. This unmistakably sentimental list includes:
Khatchatur Avetissian, Oratorio in memoriam 1915
Samuel Barber, Second Essay for Orchestra
Lennox Berkeley, Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
Joly Braga Santos, Variacoes Sinfónicas sobre um tema Alentejano
Leo Brouwer, Retrats catalans
Claude Debussy, La Mer
Manuel de Falla, El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Alberto Ginastera, Variaciones concertantes
Vagn Holmboe, Sinfonia boreale
Gustav Holst, The Hymn of Jesus
Bohuslav Martinů, Parables
Arvo Pärt, Te Deum
Gabriel Pierné, Divertissements sur un thème pastoral
Ottorino Respighi, Lauda per la Nativitá del Signore
Germaine Tailleferre, Concertino pour harpe et orchestre
Veljo Tormis, Unustatud rahvad
Ralph Vaughan Williams, A Pastoral Symphony
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… music is not only an `entertainment’, nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found. RVW, 1948
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