What was your first classical LP or CD?

[George]

Also picked up Maasaki Suzuki's Harpsichord version on BIS. From the samples I heard over at eMusic, I think I'm gonna prefer this work on its intended instrument (which has a particularly fine tone on this recording, from the sound of it).

Ironically, I just got rid of Jeno Jando's Naxos version ... because of some weird noise in the background! Don't think it was humming, though; probably just mics too close to the piano. Or not ...

Hmm. 

[Steve]

Just managed to get two new reissues of these performances for next to nothing on Amazon.

Do you have the link?

[Mark]

Do you have the link?

Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould ('55)

Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould ('81)

[Harry Collier]

Double purchase: Beethoven 5th Symphony (Concertgebouw, Kleiber) and 3rd (Philharmonia, Karajan). Took all my pocket money for several months.

[op.110]

I remember my first classical LP was Beethove 5th (DG, but remember the conductor) in 1977-78 when I was 7-8 years. Then it took some years before I bought this one in 2002:

An interesting first (sort of) purchase. I listen to this recording when I'm in the mood of listening and studying voice-leading and Bach.

[Bogey]

Not sure which, both from my father-in law, who left us his collesction.  These were the first two to get a spin. :



and

[AB68]

Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony (Karajan/BP)

[sunnyside_up]

Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony and Beethoven 6, both passed on to me from my grandmother, when I was about 12 years old. They were scratched old LPs, and I used to have to put a two cent coin on top of the needle to stop the records from jumping.

[donaldopato]

Beethoven Piano Concerto # 1 Dorfmann/Toscanini RCA. LP from early 70's. My parents got it for me for my birthday. I had asked for a "Beethoven Recording". Kept it for years but it got water damaged and moldy while in storage and had to be tossed.

[mahler10th]

1982

Classics for Pleasure - Richard strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
Originally released on Decca, the RPO conducted by Henry Lewis.  I still love this take on it.

At the same time, The Planets, Halle Orchestra conducted By James Loughran.

Hmm...I'd just watched (for the first time) 2001: A Space Oddysey one week before making my Classical purchses, both of which cost £1.99 each.

[Kullervo]

[drogulus]

     

[Daverz]

I seem to have lost it in a move.  I think all this stuff came out on Scribendum CDs.

[Moldyoldie]

Goodness!   What a blast from the distant past!   I'm sure I still have mine...somewhere.

For me it was...


Critics seem to hate it, but it's still my favorite Fifth. 0:)

[Solitary Wanderer]

1985; I was 19.

I bought Bach at his Best on cassette. I still have it. I can't find the cover online but this is the composer image used:



I remember a friend who visited picking up the cassette cover and saying 'freaky looking dude!' 

[Subotnick]

[Renfield]

If you don't count a few cassettes and two Tchaikovsky CDs that were lying around the house as part of my parents' large-but-not-classical music collection, the first CD I personally sought out and bought (ca. 2004) was actually a set:




That was also how I first learned about this Karajan fellow.

And even though I've since switched to the newest remastering, I still keep the older set, honoris causa.

[Dundonnell]

Mahler Symphony No.1: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra(Paul Kletzki) and Holst's Planets: B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra(Sir Malcolm Sargent)-HMV LPs.

Both bought for me by my father to start my record collection-1962.

First CD: Robert Simpson's Symphony No.9, December 1990.

[Drasko]

LP: Schubert Unfinished, Sawallisch/Dresden on Philips (can't find the picture), B-side was compilation type with some lieder and piano pieces and I think one movement from Trout (can't recall who played those).

Cassette: Mozart's Requiem on Hungaroton, Ferencsik conducting, same artwork as on this CD


CD: Funnily, can't remember exactly what was the first although was much later than above, Ashkenazy's 'favorite Chopin' on Decca/London was definitely among the first discs I bought.

[Daverz]

More nostalgia





Bartok PC3/Ravel PC in G - Katchen/Kertesz





Prokofiev PC3/Ravel Left Hand PC - Browning/Leinsdorf/Philharmonia

I started collecting budget Lps in the early 80s.  Lots of London Stereo Treasury (I didn't know about the vastly better orange labels), RCA Gold Seal, Seraphim, and Quintessence.