Faculty's Choice: Best Music
This article is a part of The Gazelle’s series Faculty’s Choice. Every week, we will ask various faculty divisions about the most influential or ...
Dec 13, 2014
This article is a part of The Gazelle’s series Faculty’s Choice. Every week, we will ask various faculty divisions about the most influential or significant works in their field. This week, we asked the Music faculty for their top 10 albums, compositions or recordings.
Omar Shoukri
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony number 7, Allegretto, second movement, “drives me to tears”Friedrich Smetana — The Moldau
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — 40th Symphony
Yann Tiersen — Amelie
Michael Jackson —Thriller, album
Phillip Glas — The Hours OST
Ella Fitzgerald — Summertime, Porgy & Bess Album
Paco de Lucia — Entre dos aguas
Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody
Hans Zimmer — Batman Begins, Pirates of the Caribbean etc. “legendary in his virtual orchestral compositions”
Carlos Guedes
Johann Sebastian Bach — Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould, piano, second recordingPat Metheny Group — Travels
Radiohead — OK Computer
Nine Inch Nails — Ghosts I-IV
Keith Jarret, Gary Peacock, Jack Dejohnette — Standards, Vol. I & II
Miles Davis — Tutu
The Ramones — It's Alive
Pink Floyd — The Wall
Sting — Bring on the night
Johann Sebastian Bach — Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Arthur Grumiaux
Andres Rodriguez is editor in chief. Email him at arodriguez@thegazelle.org.
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