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coffee

Thanks man. I think Penderecki's Luke Passion is the only work by him that I really, really like. It won't be for everyone, but I find myself really liking 20th century choral music, such as Ligeti's Lux Aeterna - which P's SLP sometimes sounds a bit like. If you've heard the soundtrack to Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Wojciech Kilar, it also sounds a bit similar, though even darker and of course more pounding.
Liberty for the wolf is death for the lamb.

coffee

I changed Scarlatti sonatas from Pogorelich to Scott Ross.
Liberty for the wolf is death for the lamb.

TheGSMoeller

Quote from: coffee on November 15, 2011, 07:41:12 PM
Black Angels - Kronos Quartet
Piazzolla: Tango Zero Hour
Glass: Aguas da Amazonia - Uakti


Three special "one of a kind" albums right there, the Glass/Uakti collaboration is heavenly.
Great list, Coffee.  ;D

Jared

Quote from: coffee on November 15, 2011, 07:41:12 PM
I'd like to call this a first draft!

Chant Byzantin - Marie Keyrouz
Perotin - the Hilliard Ensemble
Officium - Jan Garbarek & the Hilliard Ensemble
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - Gardiner
Rebel: Les Elemens; Gluck: Alessandro; Telemann: Sonata - Goebel

Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcell; Allegri: Miserere; etc. - Preston 
Purcell: King Arthur - Pinnock
Scarlatti: Sonatas - Scott Ross
Bach: Goldberg Variations - Gould
Bach: Mass in B minor - Richter 1962

Beethoven: Late Piano Sonatas - Pollini
Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7 - Kleiber
Chopin: Nocturnes - Rubinstein
Brahms: Symphonies, etc. - Abbado - Box Set #1
Dvorak: Symphonies 8 & 9 - Kertesz

John Williams: Albeniz - Echoes of Spain
Rachmaninoff: Elegiac Piano Trios - Beaux Arts Trio
Syzmanowski: Stabat Mater, etc. - Stryja
Elgar: Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures, Cockaigne Oveture - Barbirolli, Du Pre, Baker
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (ECM)

Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time, Twill by Twilight, Requiem
Black Angels - Kronos Quartet
Piazzolla: Tango Zero Hour
Glass: Aguas da Amazonia - Uakti
Penderecki: St. Luke Passion - Wit

that's a cracking list, Coffee... many thanks for posting it!  8)

chasmaniac

I'll allow a metric to substitute for qualitative judgement here. My personal essentials are those pieces of which I possess at least 3 recordings.

Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame

Bach - Cello Suites
Goldbergs
Brandenburgs
Orchestral Suites
Bm Mass
Motets
Cantatas 4, 6, 12, 18, 36, 56, 61, 82, 85, 106, 131, 132, 172, 180, 182, 196, 199

Handel - Messiah

Haydn - Seven Last Words
SQs opp. 20, 33, 42, 64, 71, 74, 76, 77, 103
Paris Symphonies
Symphonies 90-92
London Symphonies
the 6 late masses

Mozart - Symphonies 40 & 41

And that's it! Not very catholic, am I?
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI §217

Karl Henning

You have three recordings of the Haydn masses?
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Jared

Quote from: karlhenning on December 22, 2011, 10:40:05 AM
You have three recordings of the Haydn masses?

and what pray, would be wrong with that???? 

some people have more than three versions of The Ring Cycle...  ;)

chasmaniac

Quote from: karlhenning on December 22, 2011, 10:40:05 AM
You have three recordings of the Haydn masses?

Aye. Willcocks, Guest and company on Decca (spread over several packages), Gardiner on Philips and the Naxos box.

Does that seem odd? Strikes me as odd, I must say. (Not wrong, but odd, given the sort of chap I am.) But that's the neat thing about a metric. It can reveal things one wouldn't otherwise be aware of.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI §217

Karl Henning

No, indeed — naught wrong with that. That was not the significance of my surprise : )
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

PaulSC

Of course, the downside of that metric is that it absolutely excludes music that has been recorded fewer than three times, including virtually all contemporary music.
Musik ist ein unerschöpfliches Meer. — Joseph Riepel

Xenophanes

1.   Bach, Brandenburg Concertos¸ PinnockHandel, Messiah, Robert Shaw
2.   Haydn, Paris Symphonies, Marriner
3.   Mozart, Symphonies, Pinnock
4.   Mozart, Brahms, Clarinet Quintets, Reginald Kell, Fine Arts Quartet
5.   Beethoven, Complete Symphonies, Leibowitz
6.   Beethoven Violin Concerto, Francescatti, Walter
7.   Beethoven, Complete String Quartets, Quartetto Italiano
8.   Beethoven, 3 Sonatas (Moonlight, Appassionata, Pathetique), Horowitz
9.   Chopin, Ballades, Scherzos, Earl Wild
10.   Chopin, Nocturnes, Rubinstein
11.   Brahms, Symphonies, Walter
12.   Brahms, Symphony No. 4, Reiner
13.   Brahms, Violin Concerto, Francescatti, Bernstein
14.   Wagner, Ring Cycle, Solti
15.   Debussy, La mer, Reiner
16.   Mussorgsky-Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition; Prokofiev, Classical Symphony, Lt. Kije, Ansermet
17.   Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole,
18.   Rachmaninoff, Symphonies, Ormandy
19.   Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances, Isle of the Dead, Previn, LSO
20.   Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3, Earl Wild, Horenstein
21.   Sibelius, Symphonies, Maazel, VPO
22.   Sibelius, Violin Concerto, Ricci, Fjelstad
23.   Mayuzumi, Samsara, Essai, Pieces for Prepared Piano and Strings, Robert Whitney, Akira Endo
24.   Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky Cantata, Lt. Kije, Dutoit
25.   Puccini, La Boheme, Beecham

nico1616

1.  Beethoven, violin concerto - Perlman, Giulini EMI
2.  Brahms, violin concerto - Perlman, Giulini EMI
3.  Bruckner, symphony 9 - WP, Giulini DG
4.  Mozart, Don Giovanni - Waechter, Taddei, Schwarzkopf, Sutherland, Giulini EMI
5.  Handel, Ariodante - Minkowski Archiv
6.  Handel & Scarlatti, suites and sonatas - Perahia Sony
7.  Janacek, Jenufa - Mackerras Decca
8.  Mozart, complete piano concertos - Perahia, Sony
9.  Schubert, Piano sonata D784 - Pires DG
10. Tchaikovsky, symphony 6 - Jansons Chandos

11. Offenbach, les contes d'Hofmann - Domingo, Sutherland, Bonynge Decca
12. Brahms, complete symphonies - BP, Von Karajan DG
13. Haydn, London symphonies - Minkowski Naïve
14. Rameau, Platée - Minkowski Erato
15. Wagner, die Walküre - Von Karajan DG
16. Verdi, Aida - Price, Vickers, Gorr Decca
17. Schumann, symphony 2 - Thielemann DG
18. Handel, Semele - Battle, Aler, Horne, Nelson DG
19. Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov - Kotcherga, Ramey, Abbado Sony
20. Strauss, Elektra - Nilsson, Solti Decca

21. Sibelius, complete symphonies - Ashkenazy Decca
22. Dvorak, Cello concerto - Rostropovich, Von Karajan DG
23. Puccini, La fanciulla del west - Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Capuana Decca
24. Puccini, Il trittico - Pappano EMI
25. Puccini, Madame Butterfly - Scotto, Bergonzi, Barbirolli EMI

Nico
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

TheGSMoeller

Quote from: nico1616 on March 12, 2012, 11:41:08 AM

14. Rameau, Platée - Minkowski Erato

Nico


Such a great recording of Platée, Nico, nice list.

nico1616

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on March 12, 2012, 12:14:29 PM

Such a great recording of Platée, Nico, nice list.

Thanks! It is difficult to choose among Minkowski opera recordings. I also love his Handel Amadigi on Erato or Giulio Cesare and Hercules on Archiv. And Rameaus Hippolyte et Aricie, but Platée is just so funny and irresistible  ;)
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

TheGSMoeller

Quote from: nico1616 on March 12, 2012, 01:20:50 PM
Thanks! It is difficult to choose among Minkowski opera recordings. I also love his Handel Amadigi on Erato or Giulio Cesare and Hercules on Archiv. And Rameaus Hippolyte et Aricie, but Platée is just so funny and irresistible  ;)

Nailed it!  ;D

Octave

I'd just like to thank everyone for sharing their lists; it's a wonderful education!  These lists also tend to have so much more character than those I've seen generated by the sanctioned tastemaking organs.  Maybe it's more fair to say that I'm enthused to find such a wide array of names, approaches, labels, and epochs represented.  I wish I could make my own list, but I'm still too new to these music, and I'm making several big discoveries a week...it's just too hard to whittle down a list, making me all the more grateful for the lists shared here.

Also thanks to all contributors to that lovely "Desert Island Briefcaseful" thread/list, which is also super useful to me (I think I'd heard only about half the items on that lists, maybe less).  Any newcomers to the forum would probably enjoy that list as much as I did:
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17151.0.html
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StLukesguildOhio

#116
I couldn't begin to limit myself to 25... but I will offer a visual of the discs I absolutely couldn't go without (although given more time, I don't doubt I'd come up with nearly as many again):











Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
-John Ciardi

Nothing is more useful to man than those arts which have no utility.
-Ovid

Mirror Image

#117
I deleted my list from 2010. Apparently, I can live without many of these recordings. :P A new list would look something like this (in no particular order):

1. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8, Haitink, RCO, Decca
2. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Bernstein, NY Phil., Sony (1979 Live in Japan)
3. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Lisa Batiashvili, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bavarian RSO, DG
4. Prokofiev: Le Pas d'Acier; L'enfant prodigue, Michail Jurowski, Cologne Radio SO, CPO
5. Elgar: Enigma Variations, In the South, Serenade for Strings, Sir Andrew Davis, Philharmonia Orch., Signum Classics
6. Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2, Sir Andrew Davis, Philharmonia Orch., Signum Classics
7. Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, Nocturnes, Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Claudio Abbado, BPO, DG
8. Debussy/Ravel: Orchestral Works, various orchestras, Jean Martinon, EMI
9. Debussy/Ravel: Chamber Works, Nash Ensemble, Virgin Classics
10. Vaughan Williams: Job - A Masque for Dancing, Richard Hickox, Bournemouth SO, EMI
11. Vaughan Williams: Complete Symphonies, Bryden Thomson, LSO, Chandos
12. Berg: DG Collection
13. Bartok: The Wooden Prince, Cantata Profana, Pierre Boulez, CSO, DG
14. Bartok: Concertos, Kyung-Wha Chung, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Solti, CSO, Decca
15. The Essential Sibelius, BIS
16. Stravinsky: Robert Craft Edition, Naxos
17. Part: Summa, Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten, etc., Paavo Jarvi, Estonian NSO, Virgin Classics
18. Villa-Lobos: Complete Choros and Bachianas Brasileiras, Neschling, BIS
19. Honegger: Symphonies 2 & 5, Pacific 231, Neeme Jarvi, Danish NRSO, Chandos
20. Roussel: Orchestral Works, Stephane Deneve, RSNO, Naxos
21. Janacek: Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta, Tilson Thomas, various soloists, LSO & Chorus, Sony
22. Tippett: Symphonies, Concerti, etc, Howard Shelley, Richard Hickox, Bournemouth SO, Chandos
23. Tippett: A Child of Our Time, various soloists, Richard Hickox, LSO & Chorus, Chandos
24. Koechlin: The Jungle Book, David Zinman, Berlin RSO, RCA
25. Koechlin: Orchestral/Vocal Works, Heinz Holliger, Stuttgart RSO, Hanssler Classics

Karl Henning

Quote from: canninator on September 08, 2010, 06:40:44 AM

[...]

15. Faure-Requiem (Willcocks-Cambridge College Choir)
16. Durufle-Complete Organ Works (Friedhlem Flamme, cpo)
17. Debussy-Orchestral Music (Haitink)

[...]

20. Nielsen-Symphony 4; Sibelius-Symphony 5 (Simon Rattle, CBSO)
21. Shostakovich-VC1 and 2 (Vengerov, Rostropovich, LSO)

Interesting selections, recordings-wise.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

TheGSMoeller

Quote from: StLukesguildOhio on January 02, 2013, 09:34:29 PM
I couldn't begin to limit myself to 25... but I will offer a visual of the discs I absolutely couldn't go without (although given more time, I don't doubt I'd come up with nearly as many again):

The Gesualdo, Monteverdi and Biber are great choices, StLuke, both in music and recordings.