List of The Greatest Music 9

Eva Cassidy: Imagine
The Beatles: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)
The Beatles: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
The Beatles: Golden Slumbers
Mike Oldfield: The Songs of Distant Earth
Joan Baez: There But For Fortune
Joan Baez: Donna Donna
Van Morrison & the Chieftains: Raglan Road
Dire Straits: Private Investigations
Simon & Garfunkel: Scarborough Fair/Canticle
Simon & Garfunkel: The Sounds of Silence
Ewan MacColl: Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
Schubert: Arpeggione sonata for violin and piano (D821)
Schubert: Piano Sonata D960
Albinoni: Oboe Concerto Op.9-2
Al Stewart: Roads to Moscow
S Vodjani/Karmapa: Sacred Buddha
Bob Dylan: Lay Lady Lay
Bob Dylan: Ring Them Bells
Bob Dylan: Hurricane

Note on diversity: You will have noticed that amongst the 70 titles already listed above there are various artists and composers for whom a number of works are listed. Clearly, therefore, the object of this list was not purely to create a list that would be as diverse as possible in its representation of humanity's musical achievements: that would be a different list. No, I have sought to list each piece of music on its own merit, regardless of whether or not there were already other pieces of music listed for the same artist or composer. This is because each such piece is of such high quality that I feel it would be unjust to swipe it from the list in favour of a lesser piece of music by a different artist or composer merely for the sake of making the list more diverse.

Beyond the 70 pieces listed above, I'm currently still in the process of assessing a shortlist of hundreds of other pieces, in order to decide which to add to the above list of priority. . .

There are pieces I am already inclining to want to add the 70 above, such as Mozart's C-minor Mass, or Mozart's 10th piano sonata K330, or Chopin's 19th Nocturne, or Chopin's Fantasy, or Enigma 3, or Sting's 'Shape of My Heart,' or Mendellsohn's 46th Song Without Words, or Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto, or Sacred Spirit's 'Culture Clash,' or Tracy Chapman's 'Don't Dwell,' or Beethoven's 4th piano concerto, and so on. . . However, the sifting process remains unfinished, and there is much to sift through! -

This includes other works by artists already listed, plus in addition other artists not yet listed in the above 70 titles, such as for example (in no particular order): Tracy Chapman, Elvis Presley, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Frank Harte, The Eagles, Bob Marley, Mecano, The Gypsy Kings, Loreena McKennitt, Genesis, Phil Collins, Procul Harum, Sacred Spirit, Tom Petty, Elton John, Steeleye Span, Silvio Rodríguez, Verdi, Puccini, Lama Gyurmé, Joan Armatrading, Enya, Geoffrey Oryema, Tom Waits, Hans Zimmer, The Cure, Rod Stewart, Brahms, Hothouse Flowers, Liam O'Flynn, Samuel Barber, Fauré, Schumann, Mark Knopfler, Edith Piaf, Ray Charles, Ben E King, The Humblebums, Joni Mitchell, Percy Sledge, Juan Luis Guerra, Debussy, Yann Tiersen, Led Zeppelin, Joan Osborne, Arvo Part, Alan Stivell, Garbage, Khaled, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Maná, Nick Drake, Palestrina, Poulenc, The Cranberries, Santana, U2, Sinead O'Connor, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Supertramp, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mike Figgis, Vivaldi, Sibelius, Ella Baila Sola, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Jeff Buckley, Jim Wafer, Jarabe de Palo, John Tavener, Joaquín Sabina, Lúnasa, Norah Jones, Stevie Wonder, Suzanne Ciani, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Tori Amos, Vangelis, Phil Ochs, Elgar, Pachelbel/Seiffert, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Chico César, John Denver, Dvorak, Purcell, Alanis Morissette, Cara Dillon, Chris Rea, James Brown, Peter Gabriel, Kim Wilde, Sting, The Police, Bill Douglas, Tanita Tikaram, The Bee Gees, Coolio, Johnny Cash, Sheryl Crow, Queen, Enigma, King Curtis, Lou Reed, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Tejedor, Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Rolling Stones, Handel, Haydn, Mendellsohn, Michael Jackson, The Manic Street Preachers, Damien Rice, Nina Simone, Abba, Jan Garbarek, Fleetwood Mac, Aguaviva, Toto, and so on. . .

Does this list look diverse enough for starters? I hope so. It's already a lot of music for me to survey, possibly too much as it is, since I can't of course be acquainted with all of the works of all these artists and the ones listed previously, only with certain of their works which I have had access to as well as time to explore!

By listing these names here, I also do not mean to suggest that these artists are better or worse than others - just that I'm currently in the process of trying to decide which of their works may or may not warrant inclusion on this list in addition to the 70 already listed above! Some will eventually be excluded, others included. . .

After deciding, I'll add the other titles here, and I may also append a list of some of the runners-up, for fun! After all, there are many other pieces of recorded music - many of them masterpieces - which have touched me greatly and can be counted among the close runners-up to the main list itself. This will be merely a small selection of some examples of the other great pieces not listed above but definitely worth mentioning as well - and even then, there are countless others which either I have not heard yet, or have not fully appreciated yet, or have heard and appreciated but not remembered to include on this list!!

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