{"id":433,"date":"2012-04-04T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2023-06-14T00:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T04:37:51","slug":"best-of-the-best-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/best-of-the-best-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the best: music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my favourite 20 albums in three categories. There are lots of great individual songs but these are great albums to listen to as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Soundtracks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Klaus Badelt &#8212; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl<\/li>\n<li>John Barry &#8212; Dances With Wolves<\/li>\n<li>Christophe Beck &#8212; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score<\/li>\n<li>Tan Dun &#8212; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/li>\n<li>Cliff Eidelman &#8212; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/li>\n<li>Danny Elfman &#8212; Batman<\/li>\n<li>Michael Giacchino &#8212; Up<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Goldsmith &#8212; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/li>\n<li>James Horner &#8212; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Jones &#8212; Dark City<\/li>\n<li>Michael Kamen &#8212; Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Dennis McCarthy &#8212; Star Trek: Generations<\/li>\n<li>Ennio Morricone &#8212; The Mission<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Newman &#8212; WALL-E<\/li>\n<li>John Powell &#8212; How to Train Your Dragon<\/li>\n<li>Howard Shore &#8212; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King<\/li>\n<li>Alan Silvestri &#8212; Back to the Future Part III<\/li>\n<li>Yann Tiersen &#8212; Am\u00e9lie<\/li>\n<li>John Williams &#8212; Jurassic Park<\/li>\n<li>Hans Zimmer &#8212; The Rock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Popular<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abba &#8212; Gold<\/li>\n<li>Lily Allen &#8212; Alright, Still<\/li>\n<li>The Arrogant Worms &#8212; C&#8217;est Cheese<\/li>\n<li>Barenaked Ladies &#8212; Gordon<\/li>\n<li>The Beach Boys &#8212; The Greatest Hits<\/li>\n<li>The Beatles &#8212; 1262-1966<\/li>\n<li>Holly Cole Trio &#8212; Don&#8217;t Smoke in Bed<\/li>\n<li>Phil Collins &#8212; No Jacket Required<\/li>\n<li>The Essentials &#8212; &#8230;And Then Some<\/li>\n<li>Fine Young Cannibals &#8212; The Raw &amp; the Cooked<\/li>\n<li>Garfunkel &amp; Oates &#8212; All Over Your Face<\/li>\n<li>INXS &#8212; Kick<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson &#8212; Thriller<\/li>\n<li>Billy Joel &#8212; River of Dreams<\/li>\n<li>Huey Lewis &amp; the News &#8212; Sports<\/li>\n<li>Moxy Fr\u00fcvous &#8212; Bargainville<\/li>\n<li>The Nylons &#8212; Run For Cover<\/li>\n<li>The Police &#8212; Greatest Hits<\/li>\n<li>Paul Simon &#8212; Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar<\/li>\n<li>The Temptations &#8212; The Best of, Volume 1: The 60s (The Millennium Collection)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Classical<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300 Years of Classical Music (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern &amp; Opera) &#8212; various artists<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Brass &#8212; Best of the Canadian Brass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Johann Sebastian Bach &#8212; Violin Concertos &#8212; Akiko Suwanai, Chamber Orchestra of Europe<\/li>\n<li>Ludwig van Beethoven &#8212; Piano Concerto No. 5, Piano Sonata No. 15 &#8212; Stefan Vladar, Capella Istropolitana<\/li>\n<li>Ludwig van Beethoven &#8212; Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (Path\u00e9tique, Moonlight, Appassionata) &#8212; Jen\u00f6 Jand\u00f3<\/li>\n<li>Ludwig van Beethoven &#8212; Symphonien 1 &#8211; 9 &#8212; Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker<\/li>\n<li>Hector Berlioz &#8212; Symphonie Fantastique, L\u00e9lio ou le retour \u00e0 la vie &#8212; Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony<\/li>\n<li>Brahms &#8212; The Symphonies, Orchestral Works and Concertos (Symphonies 1 &#8211; 4, Hungarian Dances) &#8212; Eduardo Marturet, Berlin Symphony Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Copland &#8212; Copland Conducts Copland (Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Fanfare For The Common Man) &#8212; Columbia Symphony Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>Anton\u00edn Dvor\u00e1k &#8212; New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9, Slavonic Dances, Stabat Mater) &#8212; Libor Pesek, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>George Gershwin &#8212; Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Porgy &amp; Bess &#8212; Libor Pesek, Slovak National Philharmonic Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>George Frideric Handel &#8212; Music for the Royal Fireworks &amp; Water Music &#8212; Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin In the Fields<\/li>\n<li>Gustav Holst &#8212; The Planets &#8212; Andrew Davis, the Toronto Symphony<\/li>\n<li>Aram Khatchaturian&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;Gayne &amp; Masquerade Suites &#8212; Aram Khatchaturian, Philharmonia Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>Gustav Mahler &#8212; 10 Symphonien &#8212; Rafael Kubelik, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks<\/li>\n<li>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart &#8212; Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenata notturna, Lodron Night Music No. 1 &#8212; Peter Sundkvist, Swedish Chamber Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>Modest Mussorgsky &#8212; Pictures at an Exhibition &#8212; Carlo Maria Giulini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra [with Maurice Ravel &#8212; Ma M\u00e8re l&#8217;Oye &#8211; Rapsodie Espagnole]<\/li>\n<li>Sergei Prokofiev &#8212; Favourite Orchestral Suites (Lieutenant Kij\u00e9 Suite, Romeo &amp; Juliet) &#8212; Sir Neville Marriner, London Symphony Orchestra &amp; others<\/li>\n<li>Bedrich Smetana &#8212; M\u00e1 Vlast &#8212; Antoni Wit, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>Antonio Vivaldi &#8212; The Four Seasons &#8212; Alberto Lizzio, Baroque Festival Orchestra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know what else I have in my music collection, I list pretty much everything here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/music-part-1-soundtracks\/\">soundtracks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/music-part-2-popular\/\">popular<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/music-part-3-classical\/\">classical<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my favourite 20 albums in three categories. There are lots of great individual songs but these are great albums to listen to as a whole. Soundtracks Klaus Badelt &#8212; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl John Barry &#8212; Dances With Wolves Christophe Beck &#8212; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,13,72],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-music","tag-soundtracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21598,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/21598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}