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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Taste changes and develops.

Your question suggests that you are looking for "accessible" pieces of music that a beginner can appreciate. I think that as one listens to more and more music, ones taste develops and changes so that that which you come to like now, may not necessarily be easily appreciated by a novice listener. So, the following is just my list of pieces that moved me in the past and present that I "think" are reasonably accessible and have some kind of universal appeal that I did not see listed below:

Korngold: "Mariettalied" first act duet from "Die tod stadt"
Wagner: "Liebestod" from "Tristan und Isolde"
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Haydn: "The Rider" string quartet (last movement)
Beethoven: Seventh Symphony; "Spring" Sonata for Piano and Violin;
Violin Concerto
Schubert: "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet; "Trout" Quintet;
Quintet for Strings (D. 956) (a bit demanding, but magnificent);
Winterreise Song Cycle; Die Schone Mullerin Song Cycle
Haydn, Michael: Mass for Archbishop Sigismundo
Rachmaninov: Vespers
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Grand Partita
Shostakovich: Piano Trio #2.
Allegri: Misere
Tallis: Spem in alium\
Bach: B minor Mass
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem; Piano Concerto #2; Violin Concerto
Satoh, Somei: Birds in Warped Time 2 (pretty hard to find)
Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G maj. (2nd movement)


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  • Taste changes and develops. - Larry I 13:43:09 09/20/06 (0)


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