Collecting classical music Part 1
Just finished listening to The Teaching Company course "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" which was lent to me by Robert.
So naturally I'm on a classical music kick. I've been raiding the local libraries and Half-Price Bookstores to try and round out my classical music collection on CD.
Fortunately, when Susan and I first got married in 1990 I joined the BMG Music Club and for about the first year and a half got their classical music selection every month. In retrospect, I wish I'd kept it up longer. But it gave me a pretty decent collection to start off with. The selections were all high quality recording labels of top artists performing works by the classical masters.
Here is a rundown of the CDs that I got in that manner:
Bach: The Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould
Beethoven*Schumann Piano Quartets with James Laredo, YoYo Ma, Isaac Stern and Emanuel Ax
Ode to Freedom - Bernstein in Berlin - Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Bernstein the Final Concert - Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Britten Four Sea Interludes
Brahms Violin Concerto - Nigel Kennedy and the London Philharmonic - Klaus Tennstedt
Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Wiener Philharmoniker with Carlos Kleiber
YoYo Ma Concertos from the New World - Dvorak * Herbert: New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur
Handel: Watermusic and Royal Fireworks by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Holst: The Planets / Varese: Arcana - Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra
Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d' un faune / Rhapsody for Saxophone / La Mer and Ravel: La Valse / Bolero - New York Philharmonic with Kurt Masur
Mozart: Concerto and Sonata for Two Pianos - Alicia DeLarrocha, Andre Previn The Orchestra of St. Lukes
Rachmaninoff * Prokofiev Cello Sonatas by Emanuel Ax and YoYo Ma
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade - Royal Conertgebouw Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly
Saint Saens: Symphonie No. 3 "Organ" / Cypres et Lauriers - Michel Plasson and the Orchestra du Capitole de Toulouse
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C - San Francisco Symphony with Herbert Blomstedt
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Romeo and Juliet - Chicago Symphony Orchestra Daniel Barenboim
Verdi Ballet Music - The MET Orchestra James Levine
Schumann: Complete works for Piano and Orchestra - Murray Perahia and Berlin Philharmonic with Claudio Abbado
Not bad for having no clue about classical music and getting random stuff shipped to me every month about 15 years ago.
So naturally I'm on a classical music kick. I've been raiding the local libraries and Half-Price Bookstores to try and round out my classical music collection on CD.
Fortunately, when Susan and I first got married in 1990 I joined the BMG Music Club and for about the first year and a half got their classical music selection every month. In retrospect, I wish I'd kept it up longer. But it gave me a pretty decent collection to start off with. The selections were all high quality recording labels of top artists performing works by the classical masters.
Here is a rundown of the CDs that I got in that manner:
Bach: The Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould
Beethoven*Schumann Piano Quartets with James Laredo, YoYo Ma, Isaac Stern and Emanuel Ax
Ode to Freedom - Bernstein in Berlin - Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Bernstein the Final Concert - Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Britten Four Sea Interludes
Brahms Violin Concerto - Nigel Kennedy and the London Philharmonic - Klaus Tennstedt
Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Wiener Philharmoniker with Carlos Kleiber
YoYo Ma Concertos from the New World - Dvorak * Herbert: New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur
Handel: Watermusic and Royal Fireworks by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Holst: The Planets / Varese: Arcana - Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra
Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d' un faune / Rhapsody for Saxophone / La Mer and Ravel: La Valse / Bolero - New York Philharmonic with Kurt Masur
Mozart: Concerto and Sonata for Two Pianos - Alicia DeLarrocha, Andre Previn The Orchestra of St. Lukes
Rachmaninoff * Prokofiev Cello Sonatas by Emanuel Ax and YoYo Ma
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade - Royal Conertgebouw Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly
Saint Saens: Symphonie No. 3 "Organ" / Cypres et Lauriers - Michel Plasson and the Orchestra du Capitole de Toulouse
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C - San Francisco Symphony with Herbert Blomstedt
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Romeo and Juliet - Chicago Symphony Orchestra Daniel Barenboim
Verdi Ballet Music - The MET Orchestra James Levine
Schumann: Complete works for Piano and Orchestra - Murray Perahia and Berlin Philharmonic with Claudio Abbado
Not bad for having no clue about classical music and getting random stuff shipped to me every month about 15 years ago.
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