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Originally posted by narya
Do concertos count? I swoon over Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and his concerto for two keyboards in C.
I like Bach's keyboard music better than his orchestral music.
Preludes and Fugues are my favorite, and his organ music

Haydn - Cello
Arnold Bax - Cello
Rachmoninov - Piano Concertos
Samuel Barber - Piano, Violin
Khatchatorian Violin
Prokofiev - Piano

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Originally posted by jaywill
Great Question.

I don't know. I await the answer.

Do you know what famous American symphony served as the trailer theme to the Sci Fi picture [b]Alien?


It was Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony (#2). After all the Alien mayhem the peacefulness of Hanson's theme was a most fitting conclusion. I suspect the number of people who recognized it I ...[text shortened]... from all the horrors of the Alien.

Better yet go buy Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony.[/b]
Sounds good, I'll seek it out. The Eisenstein question is one I've posted many times before even on classical music sites and no-one seems to know - it's peculiar because the strain is classic Shostakovich, parody and bombast and a slightly sinister violin piece.