One Hundred Favorite Classical Masterpieces

Ramón Sender Barayón

One Hundred Favorite Classical Masterpieces – 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 a 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. Here is a list of the titles used and their timed segments:

min

Title

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

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
Ramón Sender Barayón
Ramón Sender Barayón

Ramón Sender Barayón has created various personas as communitarian, electronic music composer, clown, performance artist, and spiritual explorer. The current American Groves Dictionary of Music contains a bio and list of his early compositions, and several electronic works are included in the DVD bundled with book, "The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and The Avant-Garde" (UCPress - 2008). His 1960s musical chants are included in the book "Being of the Sun" (co-authored with Alicia Bay Laurel, Harper & Row - 1974). He also is the proud inventor of The Gruntler (a one reed instrument) and The Thwisher (a rattle tuned to the sound of his nervous system). (http://www.raysender.com)