"100 Favorite Classical Masterpieces Mix" (2012)

by Ramón Sender Barayón
When I was fourteen, I discovered that I could tune the living room Magnavox radio
between stations to a place where it seemed that I could hear all the stations at the
same time. I then found I could audio-hallucinate any music I wanted out of that rich
sound. “Here comes the oboe solo,” I would say, and sure enough I would hear an oboe
arise from the sonic maelstrom. A lot of the electronic music I composed over the
years has been an attempt to duplicate that “hallucinate your own tune” experience,
especially in the series of drone pieces titled “World Food.”
This current piece is yet another attempt, but this time I stacked one hundred
segments from various over-exposed classical ‘war horses’ on top of each other to
create a rich sonic texture out of which the listener is encouraged to hear his own
music. I don’t expect the listener to recognize any of them, although occasionally a
tune does rise to the service briefly. But I personally find that the piece acts as a
‘sonic ear wash’ to clean out lingering tunes that you cannot banish from your brain
(ear worms. Here is a list of titles and their times segments:
55", Schumann - The Happy Farmer // 55", Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty Waltz // 1'11", Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Chinese Dance // 1'21", Godard - Berceuse // 1'26", Rimsky-Korsakoff - Capriccio Espanol // 1'26", Brahms -Waltz in A Major // 1'31", Haydn Emperor Quartet Adagio // 1'33", Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Tanz Schwáne // 1'33", Handel - Concerto Grosso #9 Op 6 // 1'34", R Strauss-Also Sprach Zarathustra // 1'37", Schumann - Kinderszenen Foreign Lands // 1'40", Offenbach - Höllengalopp // 1'45", Brahms-Hungarian Dance #10 // 1'46", Mendelssohn - Mid’s. Night Dream- Fairies Dance // 1'51", Mendelssohn - Midsumner’s Night Clown Dance // 1'51", Rimsky-Korsakoff - Flight of the Bumble Bee // 1'59", Tchaikovsky-Suite #1 March miniature // 2'05", Telemann - Trumpet Concerto // 2'06", Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake dance napolitane // 2'08", Mozart - The Marriage of Fig March // 2'09", Sinding - Rustles of Spring // 2'11", Verdi - Rigoletto Prelude // 2'12", Bizet - Carmet Suite Aragonaise // 2'13", Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Menuet // 2'18", Bizet-Carment - Les Toreadors // 2'22", Wagner - Die Meistersinger Dance of the Prentices // 2'23", Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera Prelude // 2'23", Strauss - Persian March // 2'30", Fibich - Poeme // 2'32", Schubert - Rosamunde Intermezzo // 2'33", Khatchaturian - Sabre Dance // 2'37", Couperin - Tic-Toc-Choc // 2'40", Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Dance Espanol // 2'42", Strauss - Tritche-Tratsch Polka // 2'46", Mendelssohn-Spring Song // 2'46", Bach - Overture/Suite #2 // 2'47", Bach - Toccata in D minor // 2'48", Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker March // 2'49", Grieg - Holberg Suite Prelude // 2'51", Strauss - Eljen a Magyar // 2'51", Beethoven - Fur Elise // 2'51", Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Szene #10 // 2'54", Strauss - Radetzky March // 2'55", Verdi - Otello Prelude // 2'56", Rachmaninoff - Variations on a Theme by Paganini // 2'57", Mozart - Serenata Notturna Marcia // 3'01", Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beau Panorama // 3'07", Schumann - Träumerei // 3'07", Schubert - Trout Quintet Theme and Variations // 3'08", Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals // min, Title // 3'19", Strauss - Thunder and Lightning // 3'23", Leoncavallo - Pagliacci Intermezzo // 3'29", Dvorak- New World largo // 3'33", Wagner - Meistersinger Aufzug // 3'34", Grieg - Peer Gynt Morning // 3'34", Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusti Intermezzo // 3'38", Vivaldi - 4 Seasons Spring // 3'38", Grieg - Peer Gynt Anitra’s Dance // 3'40", Lortzing - Zar und Zim Holzschuhtanz // 3'40", Toselli - Serenade // 3'41", Scott Joplin - Ragtime // 3'42", Mozart - Turkish March // 3'43", Albinoni - Adagio for Trumpet and Organ // 3'45", Dvorak - Waltz // 3'50", Mozart/Tchaikovsky - Ave Verum // 3'57", De Falla - Amor Brujo Fire Dance // 4'03", Offenbach - Duchess of Gerolstein Over // 4'06", Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Mazurka // 4'08", Bach - Air // 4'09", Gounod - Faust Adagio // 4'12", Dvork - Slavonic Dance No 1 Op 46 // 4'13", Mozart - Marriage of Figaro Overture // 4'13", Liszt - Liebestraum // 4'16", Mozaert - Abduction f Seraglio Overture // 4'38", Dvork - Slavonic Dance #3 // 4'45", Sibelius - Valse Triste // 4'48", Tchaikovsky - Eugen Onegin-Polonaise // 4'51", Schubert - Ave Maria // 4'53", J Strauss - Wine, Women, Song // 5'00", Mendelssohn - Wedding March // 5'10", Massenet - Thais Meditation // 5'12", Grieg - Solveig’s Song // 5'20", Wagner - Ride of the Valkeyries // 5'23", Schmidt - Notre Dame Intermezzo // 5'28", Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata // 5'29", Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No 2 // 5'31", Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Allegro // 6'06", Grieg -Last Spring // 6'26", Beethoven - Fidelio Overture // 6'27", Strauss - The Gypsy Baron Overture // 6'31", Rossini - La Scala di Seta Overture // 6'42", Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Waltz // 6'51", Suppé - Light Cavalry // 6'57", Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Waltz // 7'44", Mozart - Violin Concerto K216-Adagio // 7'59", Ravel - Bolero // 8'05", Svendsen - Romance Op 26 // 8'08", Verdi - La Forza del Destino Overture // 8'59", Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto B flat excerpt // 10'15", Beethoven-Symphony #9 excerpt //

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