Recommend me (for a limited time)

[Thatfabulousalien]

Recommend me two different recordings of a piece that I would have never heard before (something people here will know I'll like). It's for an assignment, I don't know what to choose. The golden rule is that it's something I HAVEN'T heard before... 

This is only for today really, but this thread could easily turn into something else....idk

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Try some Mozart

[Monsieur Croche]

Poulenc ~ Le Bal Masqué [I hope you haven't yet heard it; it's a blast :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q54TGx3C6dM
- Performers: Franck Leguérinel (baritone), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Jean-Marc Phillips (violin), Françoise Groben (cello), Serge Krichewski (oboe), Marc Bauer (cornet), Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet), Marie Gondeau (bassoon), Françoise Rivalland (percussion)
- Conductor: Pierre-Michel Durand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_mXBGy-rmg
Piano: Francis Poulenc, Baritone: Pierre Bernac,
Conductor: Louis Fremaux, members of the Orchestre du Téâtre National de l´Opéra de Paris

[some guy]

Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamium.

Might be difficult to find both. (There are only two recordings.) Arkiv lists the one on Chandos with Bamert. Discogs has the one on Montaigne with Colomer, so what I said about difficult must have been wrong! There's only one of each there. Amazon has a download of the Colomer for half the price of the Discogs disc and some used copies of the Bamert for quite cheap.

Also fun to have is Gong by Poul Ruders. Amazon has the first recording, with Segerstam. Discogs has that and the Solar Trilogy (of which Gong is one section) with Schønwandt.

Both of these are good to have as, one, each one of a pair is quite different from its mate, and two, it's just nice to have multiple recordings of pieces that don't get that much attention.

[nathanb]

Actually a very challenging thread, assuming (1) you already know a lot of music, (2) not a lot of music necessarily gets recorded left and right, and (3) you probably want quick access to each recording via youtube.

Here's a random one. Did I guess correctly that maybe you don't know it (and that, perhaps, you'll like it too)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jRKeTAQnRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO2SvBVFXGA

[nathanb]

Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamium.

Might be difficult to find both. (There are only two recordings.) Arkiv lists the one on Chandos with Bamert. Discogs has the one on Montaigne with Colomer, so what I said about difficult must have been wrong! There's only one of each there. Amazon has a download of the Colomer for half the price of the Discogs disc and some used copies of the Bamert for quite cheap.

Also fun to have is Gong by Poul Ruders. Amazon has the first recording, with Segerstam. Discogs has that and the Solar Trilogy (of which Gong is one section) with Schønwandt.

Both of these are good to have as, one, each one of a pair is quite different from its mate, and two, it's just nice to have multiple recordings of pieces that don't get that much attention.

Speaking of Ruders, I've enjoyed both of these recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOt07t1uQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5i_MVi9BiA

[PerfectWagnerite]

Something you haven't heard or something you haven't heard of?