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Due to, most probably, my musical ignorance, I don't like Jazz music. My favorite music styles are:

Classical Music

My favourite editor:

My favourite composers are:

• Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
  Listen as soon as possible:
  • Ode "An Die Freude"/Friedrich Von Schiller - Choral part  of the 4^th Movement of the 9th Sinfonia Op. 125
  • 7^th Sinfonia
  • 6^th Sinfonia
  • 9^th Sinfonia
  • 5^th Sinfonia
  • 3^rd Sinfonia
  • Concert for Violin and Orchestra
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 3
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 5
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 1
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 4
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 2
  • 4^th Sinfonia
  • Sonata n. 14 ("Moonlight")
  • Sonata n. 8 ("Pathetic")
  • Song "Für Elise"
• Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
  Tops:
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 3
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 2
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovski (1840-1893)
  I prefer:
  • Concert for Violin and Orchestra
  • 6^th Sinfonia
  • 5^th Sinfonia
  • The Swan Lake (Ballet)
  • The Nutcracker (Ballet)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Ballet)
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  The best:
  • 3^rd Sinfonia
  • Concert for Violin and Orchestra
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 2
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  I select (it does not fit everything here):
  • 40^th Sinfonia
  • 41^st Sinfonia
  • Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 21
  • Requiem
  • Die Zauberflöte (Ópera "A Flauta Mágica")
  • Don Giovanni (Ópera)
  • Cosi Fan Tutte (Ópera)
  • Le Nozze di Figaro (Ópera "As Bodas de Fígaro")
• Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
  I emphasize:
  • 8^th Sinfonia
  • 5^th Sinfonia

As for Conductors, I prefer Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein and Karl Böhm.

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My favourite bands are (Best album/best track) [alphabetical order - group name/artist's last name]

• Adiemus (Songs of Sanctuary/Kayama)
• José Afonso (Traz outro Amigo também/Filhos da Madrugada)
• AC/DC (Back in Black/Back in Black)
• Barclay James Harvest (Turn of the Tide/How Do You Feel Now?)
• Jacques Brel (Collection disk/Les bonbons)
• Chico Buarque [de Hollanda] (Meus Caros Amigos/Meu Caro Amigo)
• Jessi Colter et al.  (White Mansions/Story to tell)
• Dire Straits (Making Movies/Romeo and Juliet)
• Sérgio Godinho (Noites passadas/Fado gago)
• Elton John (The very best of.../I guess that is why they call it the blues)
• Rita Lee (Meus momentos/Lança Perfume)
• Bob Marley and the Wailers (Legends/No Woman no cry)
• Men at Work (Business as usual/Down Under)
• Moody Blues (Long Distance Voyager/Nervous)
• Jorge Palma (O melhor de Jorge Palma/Dá-me Lume)
• Pink Floyd (Wish you were here/Shine)
• Queen (A Night at the Opera/Bohemian Rhapsody)
• Quinta do Bill (Dias de Cumplicidade/Dias de Cumplicidade)
• Amália Rodrigues (O melhor de Amália - Estranha forma de vida/Barco negro)
• Stranglers (In the night/Heaven or Hell)
• Supertramp (Crisis? What Crisis/A Soapbox Opera)
• Bonnie Tyler (em Banda Sonora de "Metropolis"/Here she comes)
• Caetano Veloso (Minha História/O Leãozinho)
• Wilson Phillips (Wilson Phillips/A Reason to Believe)
• Xutos e Pontapés (...ao vivo na Antena 3/Chuva Dissolvente)
• zillions of others...

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I strongly advise:  (translation in preparation)

• The Lord of the Rings, trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
  1. The Fellowship of the Ring
  2. The Two Towers
  3. The Return of the King
     
• The Foundation, heptology by Isaac Asimov
  1. Prelude to Foundation
  2. Foundation
  3. Fundation and Empire
  4. Second Fundation
  5. Fundation's Edge
  6. Fundation and Earth
  7. Forward the Foundation
     
• The Bourne Identity, trilogy by Robert Ludlum
  1. The Bourne Identity
  2. The Bourne Supremacy
  3. The Bourne Ultimatum
     
• Mila 18, by Leon Uris
• Armageddon, by Leon Uris
• Exodus, by Leon Uris
• Trinity + Redemption: duology by Leon Uris
• The Icarus Agenda, by Robert Ludlum
• The Matarese Circle + The Matarese Countdown: duology de Robert Ludlum
• Other Books by J. R. R. Tolkien
  4. Silmarillion
  5. The Hobbit
  6. Unfinished Tales from Númenor and the Middle Earth
• Other Books by Leon Uris
  6. QB VII
  7. The Haj
  8. Topaz
  9. A God in Ruins
  10. The Mitla's Pass
  11. Battle Cry
      
• Other books by Robert Ludlum

  The Apocalipse Watch The Aquitaine Progression The Rhinemann Exchange The Prometeu's Deception The SIGMA Protocol The Matlock Paper The Scarlatti Inheritance Trevayne The Scorpio Illusion The Parsifal Mosaic The Cry of the Halidon The Gemini Contenders The Chancellor Manuscript The Holcroft Convenant The Road to Gandolfo The Road to Omaha The Osterman Weekend The Hades Factor (with Gayle Lynds) Cassandra Crossing (with Phylip Shelby) The Paris Option (with Gayle Lynds) The Jansen Directive The Altman Code (with Gayle Lynds) The Tristan Betrayal

• Other books by Isaac Asimov
  8. Nine Tomorrows, vol. 1
  9. Nine Tomorrows, vol. 2
  10. Azazel, vol. 1
  11. Azazel, vol. 2

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movies

Link to my favourite cinema page! And here are two cinema pages in Portuguese! : Sétima Arte dvd.pt

Uau! Well, for a start, I should stress that I see a movie as I read a book: only for pure entertaining, by the absolute value of its script/story (this is not totally independent from the already mentioned cultural poverty).

When I like the story very much, then I start to pay attention to the details of the movie, like the coherence of its direction, the photography, the chain of planes and events, the interpretation of actors and actresses alike, etc.

My favourite styles are:

• terror (in particular the terror/suspense connected with religious matters)
• political suspense (conspiracies, etc)
• science fiction/fantasy
• animation
• policial suspense
• action
• commedy

My favourite directors are:

My favourite actors are (left to right, top to bottom order)

My favourite actresses are (ordered as above):

Finally, between my favourite movies, are (original titles):

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My favorite sport is SKI (downhill ski, that is, UFDTM(*)). 

For starters, I strongly advice artificial lanes: generally the cost is very low, and for those that want to learn basic techniques, it serves fine. If you have some practice already, I like a lot the Avoriaz ski resort (base altitude of 1800 m), in the French Alps, by the sheer size of its skiable area, and the Val Veni/Courmayeur ski resort, in the Italian Alps, just behind the Mont-Blanc, for its natural beauty (atop the station, you can enjoy a direct view to the Mont-Blanc summit, only a few hundreds of meters away - but Be Careful!: to come back you'll need to ski down a red lane - large but very steep).

More information in the 

• French ski page
• page of the CERN Ski Club

You also practice ski in Portugal:

• Serra da Estrela Ski Resort
• artificial Ski Park of Sameiro, close to Manteigas, in Serra da Estrela

You can also find here a Downhill Dictionary, extracted from a Reader's Digest old magazine, of skiing terms they'll never teach you at the school...

(*)UFDTM=Uncontrolled Fall Down The Mountain!

Besides this, I also like to follow the 

• Portuguese Football league 

(I am a fan of Sporting Club de Portugal, of Lisbon), and the main international Football Championships: 

• the World Cup, 
• the European Cup, 
• the UEFA Champions League and the 
• UEFA Cup.

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(any doubt?)

The Settlers of Catan!

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Last update in: 23 Set 2004 09:00