What are you listening 2 now?

[Henk]

Great recording.

It makes imo sense to perceive the voices in a work like Berio's as coming from the unconsious or memories.

[DavidW]

You guys are really strange  ... The first classical piece I remember (I must have been four at the time) is Stockhausen's Gruppen.

Ha!

[Linz]

Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor Op.43, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

[brewski]

You guys are really strange  ... The first classical piece I remember (I must have been four at the time) is Stockhausen's Gruppen.

So that explains it!     

Seriously, and I thought I got an early start with postwar music, but you win the prize. 🏆

-Bruce

[Todd]

Starting in on the Abbado Sony/RCA box.  33 of the 39 discs are new to me.  If only one is good, all the rest are gravy.  Since Abbado's Sony Boris Godunov is my reference, I decided to start with this Mussorgsky recording.  Lots of gravy awaits me.

[ritter]

So that explains it!     

Seriously, and I thought I got an early start with postwar music, but you win the prize. 🏆

-Bruce

TBH, the first classical  compositions  I remember were:

Stravinsky's The Firebird. My parents had Lorin Maazel's recording of the suite (on DG) in their collection, and I remember the introduction would scare the living daylights out of me! 



Then, there was the opening andante grazioso of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, which was used by Austrian TV (I lived in Vienna from age 3 to to tell children it was bedtime.

Boulez and Stockhausen came somewhat later...

[brewski]

TBH, the first classical  compositions  I remember were:

Stravinsky's The Firebird. My parents had Lorin Maazel's recording of the suite (on DG) in their collection, and I remember the introduction would scare the living daylights out of me! 

Then, there was the opening andante grazioso of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, which was used by Austrian TV (I lived in Vienna from age 3 to to tell children it was bedtime.

Boulez and Stockhausen came somewhat later...

Amazing. Thanks for that bit of personal history. And so much for people starting out with Bach. (Nothing wrong with that, of course.)

-Bruce

[Mapman]

Mozart: Piano Sonata #8, K. 310
Perahia

The rondo is great!

[Kozi_9]

[Spotted Horses]

I started

But I'm not clicking with it, so I switched to Chopin (joining the bandwagon) and I immediately prefer this Pollini album:

Not clicking with the greatest audio recording of all time?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Kodaly's Sonata for Solo Cello with Janos Starker on Delos.

[foxandpeng]

Philip Glass
Naqoyqatsi
Michael Riesman
Philip Glass Ensemble

Unquestionably Glass. Good for the small hours.

[JBS]

Starting off another box set

CD 1
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (with Harp and Piano)*
Quartet for Piano and Strings**
Piano Variations***
Nocturne****
Vitebsk*****
Ukelele Serenade****

*A Copland conducting
Benny Goodman clarinet
Columbia String Orchestra
Recorded Nov 17, 1951
**New York Quartet
Recorded Feb 28, 1951
***A Copland Piano
****Comprising Nos 1 and 2 of Two Pieces for Violin and Orchestra
Jacques Gorden violin
A Copland piano
*****Ivor Karman violin
David Freed cello
A Copland piano
These last four were all recorded April 22, 1935.

Both the Clarinet Concerto (with Goodman) and the Quartet were recorded again in the 1960s, as was the orchestral version of the Variations: two of several works with two performances in this set.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Harawi - Chant D'Amour Et De Mort

[steve ridgway]

Holst: The Planets (RPO, Groves)

[Roasted Swan]

Holst: The Planets (RPO, Groves)

wadya think?!

[Traverso]

Weckmann



No SACD in this box

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Last night, I followed the Kodaly with Disc 1 from this set:



It is comprised of: 

Jealousy (the original prelude to Jenufa)
The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite
Šárka - Overture
Taras Bulba

Great performances and in wonderful sound (also available as a DVD).

[Florestan]