Your top programs from the last quad?

[satine]

Your Gold, Silver, & Bronze programs from the last quad?

EDIT: Blades of Passion had a great idea to award each discipline gold, silver, and bronze medals! Unfortunately, I cannot change the title of the thread to match the title of the post, boo!

The categories are:
Men's SP
Men's FS
Ladies' SP
Ladies' FS
Pairs SP
Pairs FS
Dance SD
Dance FD

Rank your top 3 per category! You don't have to do all of them and you don't have to list 3. No ties!! Every time someone names a program as their top fav it will earn 3 points, 2 points for second, and 1 point for third place. They'll be tallied as we go along and awarded Gold, Silver, Bronze for the top programs of the last quad!

So, what are your personal favorites?

 

[Interspectator]

This will be Fun!

Men LP

1.Hanyu Romeo and Juliet 2012
2.Fernandez Charlie Chaplain 2013
3.Jason Brown River Dance

Men SP
1.Daisuke Rock and Roll Medley 2013
2. Hanyu Parisienne Walkways 2014
3. Machida East of Eden 2014
3.Tomas Verner Dueling Banjos 2014


Women LP
1. Akiko 'O' 2012
2. Lipnitskaya Schindler's List 2014
3. Akiko Phantom of the Opera 2014

Women SP
1. Mao I got Rhythm 2013
2. Kiira Girl with the flaxen hair 2012

 

[willdu]

Ladies
1. Mao Asada Rach LP (Sochi)
2. Yuna Kim Les Mis LP (Worlds)
3. Mao Asada Chopin SP (Worlds)
4. Julia Lipnitskaia Schindler's List LP (Sochi team)
5. Carolina Kostner Bolero LP (Whenever she didn't fall )
6. Carolina Kostner Ave Maria SP (Sochi)
7. Akiko Suzuki POTO (Japanese Nationals)

Honorable Mentions: Ashley Wagner Samson and Delilah LP (Worlds 2014) and Black Swan LP (4CC), Akiko Suzuki O, Yuna Kim Giselle and Homage (Would've made it to my top if she she had gone clean), Joannie Rochette Notre Dame LP (Japan Open), Osmond Mambo SP (Worlds), Nagasu Geisha LP (4CC 2011), Zijun Li Sleepy Beauty LP (Worlds 2013)

 

[Meoima]

PChan LP 2012
Daisuke LP 2012
Yuzuru LP Romeo 2012
Yuzuru SP PW
Yulia Lip LP SL
Carolina Ave Maria
Carolina Bolero
Jason Brown RiverDance
Mao Asada Rach 2 LP (damn, I hate Rach but...good choreography)
V&T SP Khachaturian Waltz

 

[karne]

In no particular order:

- Jason's Liebestraume - beautiful. Just beautiful. Soft and gentle and with his gorgeous lines and *sigh*
- Joshua's Schindler's List - far and away the best SL of the whole quad with no arguments.
- Max's Tron - high energy and fun! I can almost feel my heartrate climbing at the thought!
- Artur's St Louis Blues - ridiculous and delightful and brilliant.
- Brendan's Nothing Else Matters - exquisite, beautiful, and lines to die for.
- Evgeni's Storm - the energy and passion he brought to this program was brilliant
- Dani and Greg's Circus - fun, delightful, wonderful, and always a joy to watch!
- Brooklee's The Secret - beautiful, graceful, gorgeous.

 

[HanDomi]

Javier Fernandez Pirates of Caribean
Chan's 2012 LP
Hanyu Romeo 1 LP
Hanyu Etude SP
Hanyu's PW SP

Random order, but propably PW my favourite program

 

[noidont]

Liza Tuk's Adios Ninos
Adelina's Capriccio Espagnol
Nikol's Nocturne by Joe Hisaishi
Carolina's violin SP from 12-13 season, and Bolero.
Mao's Tango from 10-11 season
Anna Ovcharova's SP last season
Radionova's Freda program
Mae Meite's Feeling Good

Daisuke's Blues for Klooks is hands down the best program. Nothing to compare with it in my book. In fact there was no other men's program I really loved other than this one. I think with all the quads we often watch the guys trying to catch breath more than anything. Gachinski had that sp to the Highlander I liked.

In dance:
W/P's Je Suis Malade and Maria from Buenos Aires
I/K's SD and FD Olympics Season
V/M's Olympic FD and Carmen
D/W's Die Fledermaus
Z/G's Zombie Dance the first time around

Didn't pay much attention to pairs. Everything I've seen of V/T and S/S bored me.

 

[Buttercup]

I can't come up with that many programs that I liked, but here are some that I enjoyed:

-Daisuke Takahashi, In the Garden of Souls and Blues for Klook. Best performances: 2012 WTT.
-Carolina Kostner, Alegretto from Piano Trio no. 2 by Shostakovich, her Mozart LP, Ave Maria, Bolero - in general, Caro is a goddess. Best performances: Ave Maria at 2014 Worlds and Bolero at the Olympics.
-Akiko Suzuki, Hungarian Rhapsody and O.
-Mao Asada, Rach 2 at the Olympics. In fact, I realize that the emotional performance in Sochi may have played into this.
-Sara Hurtado/Adria Diaz, Picasso. Best performance: Olympics. (still underrated by the judges. Stupid judges)
-Sinead/John Kerr, Exogenesis. Best performance: 2011 Euros.
- Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov, Claire de Lune and February. Best performance: probably 2011 Euros, which they should have won.
- The best program of the past four years: Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy, Pina (though I liked Pink Panther and Korobushka, too). Best performances: Pink Panther at 2011 Worlds, Pina at the 2011-12 GPF.

Now for fun, I'll do the same for the previous quad, off the top of my head:
Men: Lambiel's Poeta; Takahashi's Eye and La Strada; Verner's Tango and Zorba the Greek (great fun); Joubert's All For You and Metallica; Schultheiss's crazy program; Abbott's Eight Seasons; Amodio's Amelie Circusy thing.
Ladies: Kostner's Dumky Trio, Riders From the Storm and Canon in D; Yuna Kim's Tango de Roxanne, Danse Macabre and Bond medley; I liked Mao's tango gala in 2009.
Pairs: Savchenko/Szolkowy's Out of Africa, Send in the Clowns, Schindler's List, L'Oiseau, okay basically everything they did; Dube/Davison's Blower's Daughter; Mukhortova/Trankov's Nobody Home; Volosozhar/Morozov's Pearl Harbour (I always knew she was awesome).
Ice dance: with the caveat that I only started watching in 2008 - Delobel/Schoenfelder's Great Gig in the Sky, Virtue/Moir's Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Pink Floyd and their Flamenco OD, Pechalat/Bourzat's Craziness and Circus, plus Four Seasons which I watched after I became a fan; Cappellini/Lanotte's Requiem for a Dream (Anna playing against type was awesome), the Kerrs' Scottish OD; Faiella/Scali's Tarantella OD and The Immigrants; Samuelson/Bates' 2008-9 OD. I have a vague memory of liking the Shibs' Cinema Paradiso at 2009 JW.

I'm sure I missed a few.

See the difference? This is why I don't care as much about skating these days. The programs and skaters have gotten progressively less interesting, possibly because everyone now understands how to play the IJS game.

 

[TheCzar]

Ladies:

Mao Asada: 2014 Sochi FS, 2014 Worlds SP, 2013 4CC SP, 2012 GPF FS, 2011 4CC FS
Yu Na Kim: 2013 Worlds FS, 2014 Sochi FS, 2011 Worlds FS (Still hoping she'll revive Arirang at some point. At some show.)
Carolina Kostner: 2013 Worlds FS, 2012 FS
Ashley Wagner: 2014 Worlds FS (I love Samson and Delila and I think this was it's best outing)
Akiko Suzuki: 2012 Worlds FS
Li Zijun: 2013 Worlds FS
Yulia Lipnitskaia: 2014 Europeans FS

To be honest I only watch the Men's in passing, and Pairs and Ice Dance even less- but I thought Patrick Chan's Elegie was excellent, and so was his Four Seasons. Jason Brown's Riverdance, Daisuke Takahashi's Blues for Klook, and Jeremy Abbott's Exogenesis 2.0 come to mind as the best of the bunch.

 

[silverfoxes]

Daisuke - Blues for Klook, In the Garden of Souls, Rock'n'Roll Medley
Yuzuru - R&J1
Tomas - Duelin' Banjos
Kevin Reynolds - Chambermaid Swing

Elena Radionova - Nero
Yulia - Schindler's List

V/T - Masquerade Waltz
S/S - Pink Panther

P/B - The Pharaoh & His Mummy

 

[anyanka]

Oooooh fun!!! Free skates only, in an approximate order of preference (I can be persuaded to switch rankings any day of the week across all disciplines), and I limited to one entry on the list per competitor / team:

Ladies:

1. Yuna Kim - Les Miz (2013 W)
2. Mao Asada - Rach 2 (2014 OG)
3. Carolina Kostner - Bolero (2014 OG)
4. Yulia Lipnitskaya - Schindler's List (2014 OG - Team)
5. Sarah Meier - Love in the Time of Cholera (2011 E)
6. Akiko Suzuki - Die Fledermaus (2012 W)
7. Ashley Wagner - Black Swan (2012 4CC)
8. Gracie Gold - Sleeping Beauty (2014 US)

HM: Joannie Rochette - Notre Dame (2013 Japan Open), Caro - Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A (2012 W), Yuna Kim - Adios Nonino (2014 OG)

Dance:

1. V/M - The Seasons (2014 OG)
2. D/W - Notre Dame de Paris (2013 W)
3. W/P - Je Suis Malade (2012 W)
4. I/K - Swan Lake (2014 OG)
5. P/B - City Lights (2011 E)
6. Kerrs - Muse (2011 E)
7. C/L - Barber of Seville (2014 W)
8. Gilles / Poirier - Hitchcock (2014 Canadian Nationals) [highly unorthodox but so much fun]

HM: D/W Scheherazade (2014 OG), V/M Samba / Mambo (2011 W), W/P Maria de Buenos Aires (2014 W), P/B Le Petit Prince (2014 OG)


Pairs:

2. S/S - Pina (2011 GPF)
3. K/S - Clair de Lune (2011 E)
4. V/T - Black Swan (2012 W)
5. P/T - Les Mis (2013 GPF)
6. MT/M - La Strada (2014 OG)
7. D/R - Angel (2013 W)
8. S/K - Addams Family (2014 OG)
9. T/T - Quebec (2012 W)

HM: S/S - Nutcracker (2014 W), V/T - Violin Muse (2013 W)

Men:

1. Daisuke Takahashi - Blues for Klook (2012 W)
2. Patrick Chan - Phantom of the Opera (2011 W)
3. Yuzuru Hanyu - Romeo & Juliet (2014 W)
4. Javier Fernandez - Chaplin (2013 E)
5. Denis Ten - The Artist (2013 W)
6. Jeremy Abbott - Muse (2014 W)
7. Nobunari Oda - William Tell Overture (2013 GPF)
8. Tatsuki Machida - Firebird (2014 W)

HM: Jason Brown - Riverdance (2014 US), Brian Joubert - Matrix (2012 W - although I feel this was from at least two or three quads ago, too!)

 

[Meoima]

In Ice Dance I also like I/K Dead Swan, and B/S LP at Sochi. :yes:

 

[starlight97]

Yuna Kim Send in the clowns 2014 (Sochi) "You could hear a pin drop in here"
Yuna Kim Les Mis 2013 (Worlds)
Adelina Sotnikova Habanera 2014 (Sochi) "TAKE THAT !"
Alexandra Proklova Indian theme? 2014 (Nationals)
Yulia Lipnitskaya Schindler's List 2014 (Europeans+ Skate Canada) " Can you believe what you're watching?! It's a standing ovation and I can't speak.."

V/T Mascarade Waltz 2014 (Sochi team)
V/T The Godfather 2012 (Rostelecom Cup)
S/K Adams Family 2014 ( Sochi pairs)

I/K Bei mir bist du Schön 2014 (Europeans)
I/K Ave Maria 2012 (Worlds)
D/W I could have danced all night 2013 (Nationals)

Yuzuru Hanyu Parasian Walkways 2014 (Sochi individual) !!!

 

[jcoates]

D/W Die Fledermaus, Giselle, Notre Dame de Paris, Scheherazade
P/B The Little Prince, City Litghts
W/P Maria de Buenos Aires
Alexander Johnson Eleanor Rigby
Jason Brown Riverdance
Carolina Ave Maria, Bolero
Ashley Black Swan
Lipnitskaya Schindler's List
Savchenko Szolkowy Pina, Pink Panther
Hanyu Parisian Walkways

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

The singles skater ones that standout the most for me:

Hanyu's "Parisienne Walkways"
Kostner's "Ave Maria" and "Bolero"
Kim's "Les Miserables"
Takahashi's "Blues For Klook"
Suzuki "O"
Brown's "Riverdance"
Asada's "Nocturne"
Chan's "Take Five" & "Four Seasons"

 

[ioanna]

Akiko Suzuki - O, Hungarian Rhapsody, Kill Bill
Ashley Wagner - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Carolina Kostner - Ave Maria, Bolero
Mao Asada - Nocturne, Tango, Liebesträume
Yuna Kim - Homage To Korea, Les Miserables, Adios Nonino
Daisuke Takahashi - In The Garden Of Souls, Blues For Klook, Rock n' Roll Medley
Denis Ten - The Artist
Jason Brown - The Question Of U, Reel Around The Sun
Patrick Chan - Take Five, Elegie
Takahiko Kozuka - Theme From Exodus, Unsquare Dance
Tatsuki Machida - F.U.Y.A., East Of Eden
Yuzuru Hanyu - Romeo & Juliet (2011-2012), Parisienne Walkways

 

[noskates]

Jason Brown's SP and LP, hands down. Tatsuki Machida's East of Eden, mostly because I love the music and he did interpret it well - if not a little OT. White and Davis' Sheherazade, Mao's Liebestraume, and Takahashi's In the Garden of Souls. Many more were memorable but I can't remember them......

 

[unico]

Patrick Chan - Elegie (2012 W EX), Phantom of the Opera (2011 Nationals!!!!)
Javier Fernandez - Chaplin (2013 E)
Yuzuru Hanyu - Romeo+Juliet (2012 W), PW (Olympics)
Daisuke Takahashi - Garden of Souls (I like the nationals version), Blues for Klook
Jason Brown - Reel Around the Sun (2014 Nationals), Question of U
Tatsuki Machida - F.U.Y.A.

Akiko Suzuki - Hungarian Rhapsody, O, Die Fledermaus, Hymne à l'amour/POTO (2013 Nationals)
Carolina Kostner - Ave Maria/Bolero (Olympics), Mozart
Mao Asada - Nocturne (2014 W), Rach 2 (Olympics)
Yuna Kim - Homage to Korea, Les Mis (2013 Worlds)

Weaver/Poje - Yo soy Maria, Je suis Malade
Virtue/Moir - Carmen
Hurtado/Diaz - Picasso (Olympics)
Gilles/Poirier - Hitchcock (2014 Nationals)

Regret to admit I don't watch a lot of pairs. :

 

[satine]

I'm thrilled Akiko is getting mentioned so much! And I'm also pleasantly surprised Ashley's BS hasn't been forgotton The drama of this spiral at 2:40 is just

 

[jimeonji]

Akiko Suzuki - O, Kill Bill, Hungarian Rhapsody, Hymne a l'amour
Yuna Kim - Homage to Korea, Send in the Clowns, Adios Nonino
Mao Asada - Rach 2, Nocturne, Liebestraume
Daisuke Takahashi - Mambo, Blues for Klook, In the Garden of the Souls, Sonatina
Jason Brown - Riverdance
Patrick Chan - Elegie, La Boheme
Takahiko Kozuka - Exodus
Tatsuki Machida - FUYA, East of Eden
Yuzuru Hanyu - R&J1, Parisienne Walkways
Elena Radionova - Frida
Kanako Murakami - Prayer for Taylor
Carolina Kostner - Ave Maria