Because sometimes, less is more

I just listened to Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 6 for the sixth time, and it beats all modern music--hands down.

Of course, these works do carry more than the average modern song, with their full orchestra and choirs and grandeur--but somehow, they can be underrated by how overrated they are portrayed.

When I finally do get around to listening to a full symphony, and not just selections and movements, I realize that the composers were geniuses, and all of them artists in the purest sense of the word. They created whole worlds in their heads in the same way authors and painters did--except they did it with music, the epitome of emotion.

Hmmm.

It's like poetry, without words.

Beethoven's fifth, and ninth.
Mozart's Requiem
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and 6th.

Some of my favorites. Listen to them and close your eyes.