Question of the Week: August 4, 2022

August 3, 2022

If you could only listen to three music albums for the rest of your life what would they be? 

Randy Aires:

  • Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 12 (“American”) by the Emerson String Quartet

Sara Matthews:

  • 1200 curfews by Indigo Girls
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
  • Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons 

Julie Miller:

  • Out of Time by REM
  • Paper Airplane by Alison Krauss & Union Station
  • The Music of Kings: Choral Favorites from Cambridge by the Kings’s College Choir

Tim Mosher

  • Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (The Resurrection Symphony) recorded by New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein  
  • Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere recorded in the Merton College Chapel, Oxford in 1980 by the Tallis Scholars
  • Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1 – 13 by the Borodin Quartet

Jim Royer:

  • More of The Monkees by the Monkees
  • A Song For Two by Cashman and West
  • Belly Up by Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show