On another thread recently I noted a reference to someone's record collection numbering several thousand CDs and still growing rapidly. Among other things, it made me wonder how often one might listen to individual records in a collection so large. Even in my own comparatively meager collection there are dozens or even hundreds of CDs that I've not heard in years.
Running some numbers, I calculated that if I owned 1000 CDs and listened actively for 3 hours every day, it would take about a year to hear each of them once. Yet there are many pieces that I would rather hear two or three times a month than hear certain others once every two or three years. Just what are those most beloved pieces, I wondered...and don't they make up 80% or more of all my listening? Could I be fairly well satisfied with only a hundred or so records? And if I chose only 100 CDs (discs, not sets!), which would they be?
That reminded me of MNDave's tongue-in-cheek "100 Greatest Piccolo Concerti" threads. I know similar things have been done before, here and elsewhere, but still I thought it might be a service to the Classical Newbies who stumble onto our forum to find the current members' ideas about what, for each of us, constitutes the core repertoire for which--if necessary--we would happily forsake all others, keeping ourselves only unto the chosen 100.
And then I thought (http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRes5sscnHmlNTk8p8OeK6mUSwvPcuSBzRhWq4r_UyLf4dmU6c&t=1&usg=__QqqBKZazWzWpdwW6TqyMfz8rvWw=)) "Wait just a cotton-pickin' minute! What if each of us were to nominate just one disc, and so build an idiosyncratic recommended list that would truly reflect the tastes of our membership while offering newbies interested in building their own collections a list they're unlikely to find duplicated anywhere else?!"
If the idea intrigues you--or even if it doesn't but you want to participate anyway!--please add your candidate to the list started below. The rules are simple: each of us may add only one CD--or, in the case of single works spanning multiple CDs, such as most operas--then only one work. No box sets of symphony or sonata cycles, for instance. For grey areas, such as Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, customarily packaged as a single extended work spanning two CDs, please use your own discretion. If you would like to include a recommended recording, please do so, but feel free to list only the composer and work if you prefer.
The GMG Essential Collection1. Mahler,
Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
It took several pages to arrive at the list of 100 reproduced below:
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 07:09:44 AM
The GMG Essential 100
1 Anonymous Ludus Danielis Estampie-Munich Ensemble
2 Bach Cello Suites Fournier
3 Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
4 Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
5 Bach St Matthew Passion Fink/Goerne/Harnoncourt (2001)
6 Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Tureck/DG
7 Bartόk Wooden Prince Boulez/CSO
8 Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
9 Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
10 Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
11 Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
12 Beethoven Missa Solemnis
13 Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
14 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
15 Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman
16 Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
17 Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
18 Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
19 Brahms Piano Trios op 87 & 101/Clarinet Trio Op.114 Beaux Arts Trio /Pieterson
20 Brahms String Sextets Amadeus Quartet et al
21 Brahms German Requiem Kempe/Gruemmer/Fischer-Dieskau
22 Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
23 Chopin Études Pollini
24 Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
25 Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
26 Debussy Chamber Music for Woodwinds (+ Saint-Saens) Bennett/Gough/et al
27 Debussy Preludes Bks 1 & 2 Michelangeli
28 Debussy Prélude...faune, Jeux, Images, Danses Baudo/Czech Phil
29 Dufay Isorhythmic Motets Huelgas Ensemble
30 Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
31 Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
32 Dvořák Symphony 7 / The Water Goblin Belohlavek/Czech Phil
33 Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
34 Gluck Orfeo & Euridice Jacobs
35 Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
36 Grainger Country Gardens (+ works by Coates) Fennell/Eastman-Rochester Pops
37 Handel Messiah Christie
38 Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
39 Haydn 11 Keyboard Sonatas Brendel
40 Haydn String Quartets op 76 Quatuor Mosaïques
41 Hildegard A Feather on the Breath of God-Sequences and Hymns Kirkby, et al
42 Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
43 Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
44 Liszt Favourite Piano Works Bolet
45 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer
46 Mahler Symphony #5 Dohnanyi/CO
47 Mahler Symphony #9 Bernstein/RCO
48 Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
49 Martinu Symphony #4/Piano Cto #4/Tre ricercari Turnovsky
50 Massenet Mélodies Kruysen/Lee
51 Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
52 Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
53 Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pickett
54 Monteverdi Vespers Bernius
55 Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
56 Mozart Cosi fan tutte Böhm (1953)
57 Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
58 Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
59 Mozart Requiem Böhm/WP
60 Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet Frost/Oundjian/Amsterdam Sinf
61 Mussorgsky Boris Gudunov Abbado/BP
62 Pärt Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus Kremer/Jarrett/Sondeckis
63 Pärt Kanon Pokajanen
64 Pergolesi Stabat Mater Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
65 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Maazel/CO
66 Prokofiev War Sonatas Richter
67 Puccini Turandot Pavarotti/Sutherland/Mehta
68 Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
69 Rachmaninov Vespers Svechnikov/USSR Nat'l Choir
70 Rameau Keyboard Works Tharaud
71 Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
72 Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Dutoit/Montreal
73 Satie Selected piano compositions Aldo
74 Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
75 Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
76 Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
77 Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
78 Schumann Kinderszenen/Kreisleriana/Carnaval Cortot
79 Schumann Symphony #4 Furtwängler/BP
80 Schumann Dichterliebe Wächter/Brendel
81 Shostakovich String Quartet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
82 Shostakovich Symphony #7 "Leningrad" Ančerl/Czech Phil
83 Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
84 Sibelius Symphony #4 & #7/Tapiola Maazel/WP
85 Strauss Four Last Songs Janowitz/Karajan/BP
86 Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
87 Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO
88 Stravinsky L'oiseu de feu (complete) Rattle/CBSO
89 Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
90 Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
91 Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
92 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Svetlanov
93 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio op 50 (+ Shostakovich Piano Trio #2 op 67) Argerich/Kremer/Maisky
94 Vaughan Wms Symphony #5 Previn/RPO
95 Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
96 Victoria Requiem 1605 Christophers/The Sixteen
97 Vivaldi Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Alessandrini
98 Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
99 Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen Solti/WP
100 Weber Der Freischütz Keilberth
The GMG Essential Collection
1. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
2. Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
So far, so good--thanks, guys!
The GMG Essential Collection
1. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
2. Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
4. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
Grofé - Orchestral Works (Stromberg, Bournemouth SO, Naxos)
Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG :)
Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
The Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
The GMG Essential Collection
1. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
2. Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
4. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
5. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6. Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
7. Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
8. Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG :)
9. Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
10.The Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
11.Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
So many possibilities!
So far, no one has suggested chamber music, opera or violin concertos. And very little solo piano music.
And no one has proposed something by Shostakovich.
So, while I'd dearly love to propose Shostakovich's VC 1 (Mullova) or Beethoven's Late Quartets (just about anyone) or his late piano sonatas (Serkin), or Falstaff, I'll go with
--- Shostakovich's SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
Frank Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Marjana Lipovsek. ORF-Symphonieorchester / Lothar Zagrosek. Orfeo
Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
Durufle & Faure Requiems
Stephen Cleobury, ECO & Choir of King's College Cambridge; Peter Barley, Olaf Bar, Ann Murray
Quote from: RexRichter on September 02, 2010, 09:43:22 PM
Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
Nice pick!
Hope someone chooses the string quartets as well.
Quote from: erato on September 02, 2010, 09:54:12 PM
Frank Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Marjana Lipovsek. ORF-Symphonieorchester / Lothar Zagrosek. Orfeo
Now, that is one fine pick!!!
I am sure this brief case will never be a carry-on.
The GMG Essential Collection
1. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
2. Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
4. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
5. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6. Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
7. Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
8. Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG :)
9. Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
10. The Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
11. Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
12. Shostakovich's SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
13. Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
14. Frank Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek Orfeo
15. Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
16. Durufle & Faure Requiems- Cleobury/ECO & Choir of KCC/Barley/Bar/Murray
Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)
Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)
Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic
So hard, so hard! :'(
Okay, here is mine and this may be an obscure choice or not even a good choice, but...
Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
I could listen to this performance over and over and over again. I have never tired of this work. I could have went with a more popular composer, but where's the fun in that?
Twenty so far--hmmm, had I asked for five suggestions from each of us, we'd be done already! ;D
The GMG Essential Collection
1. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
2. Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
4. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
5. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6. Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
7. Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
8. Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG :)
9. Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
10. The Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
11. Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
12. Shostakovich's SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
13. Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
14. Frank Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek Orfeo
15. Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
16. Durufle & Faure Requiems- Cleobury/ECO & Choir of KCC/Barley/Bar/Murray
17. Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)
18. Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)
19. Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic
20. Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
I could cheat and add one more... :-[
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)
Quote from: Lethe on September 04, 2010, 06:19:54 AM
I could cheat and add one more... :-[
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)
Ooh, good one Sarah! :)
David, are you going up to the first 100 suggested recordings? I like this idea, as you said, it is a list that could never be duplicated anywhere else, and is based on all our own individual picks!
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 04, 2010, 10:24:06 AM
David, are you going up to the first 100 suggested recordings? I like this idea, as you said, it is a list that could never be duplicated anywhere else, and is based on all our own individual picks!
It seemed worth a try, Ray. So far I'm surprised by a few of the picks members deem essential for newbies, but that's partly the point of such a list, right? And I had thought more members might wish to participate, but perhaps I misjudged the number posting regularly these days. Guess I should have made it another "Mahler v. Bruckner: Deathmatch!" poll if I really wanted more to join in. ;)
So perhaps we should follow Sarah's lead and each nominate a second choice to see where that takes us...? So far we have (alphabetized):
1. Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG :)
2. Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3. Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
4. Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic
5. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6. Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
7. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
8. Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
9. Durufle & Faure Requiems- Cleobury/ECO & Choir of KCC/Barley/Bar/Murray
10. Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
11. Mahler,
Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
12. Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek Orfeo
13. Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
14. Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)
15. Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)
16. Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
17. Shostakovich SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
18. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
19. Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
20. Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
plus Lethe's second pick: Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)
for my second pick:
Sibelius, Symphony #5 + Violin Concerto, Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 04, 2010, 05:16:06 AM
Twenty so far--hmmm, had I asked for five suggestions from each of us, we'd be done already! ;D
So hard to choose one! Five would not be appreciably easier . . . .
My second pick:
Handel - Heroic Arias - Bowman/King/Hyperion.
I'd stuff the entire BWV Bach catalogue in that briefcase .... recordings selected by my humble personal self of course. 0:)
Pick #2
Beethoven - Pathetique Sonata - Ivan Moravec
For a Second pick:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Sviatoslav Richter/DG 8).
An 'essential' list must include Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique 8)
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Sir Colin Davis/London Symphony Orchestra
For my second pick:
Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1, Gilels/Jochum/BPO
Oh. Now we get a second pick.
OK. Schubert's Schwanengesang, with tenor Petre Munteanu.
Second pick: Since the Schubert Quintet has already been mentioned, I propose: Handel - The Messiah (Christie)
2nd pick
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms / Poulenc: Gloria / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Leonard Bernstein/London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Singers, Westminster Choir
2nd pick
Berg, Chamber Concerto. Boulez, Barenboim, Zukerman, Ensemble Intercontemporian.
Second pick.
Opera is still under-represented here.
Mozart Don Giovanni Rene Jacobs recording
Round Two (so far):
1. Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG :)
2. Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3. Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
4. Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic
5. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6. Beethoven - Pathetique Sonata - Ivan Moravec
7. Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Sir Colin Davis/London Symphony Orchestra
8. Berg, Chamber Concerto. Boulez, Barenboim, Zukerman, Ensemble Intercontemporian.
9. Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
10. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
11. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, Gilels/Jochum/BPO
12. Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
13. Durufle & Faure Requiems- Cleobury/ECO & Choir of KCC/Barley/Bar/Murray
14. Handel - The Messiah (Christie)
15. Handel - Heroic Arias - Bowman/King/Hyperion.
16. Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
17. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
18. Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek Orfeo
19. Mozart, Don Giovanni - Rene Jacobs
20. Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
21. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Sviatoslav Richter/DG 8).
22. Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)
23. Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)
24. Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
25. Schubert Schwanengesang, with tenor Petre Munteanu.
26. Shostakovich SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
27. Sibelius, Symphony #5 + Violin Concerto, Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
28. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
29. Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms / Poulenc: Gloria / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
(Bernstein/LSO/NYPO Camerata Singers, Westminster Choir)
30. Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
31. Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
32. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 05, 2010, 04:05:01 AM
Round Two (so far):
1. Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG :)
2. Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3. Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
4. Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic
5. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6. Beethoven - Pathetique Sonata - Ivan Moravec
7. Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Sir Colin Davis/London Symphony Orchestra
8. Berg, Chamber Concerto. Boulez, Barenboim, Zukerman, Ensemble Intercontemporian.
9. Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
10. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
11. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, Gilels/Jochum/BPO
12. Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
13. Durufle & Faure Requiems- Cleobury/ECO & Choir of KCC/Barley/Bar/Murray
14. Handel - The Messiah (Christie)
15. Handel - Heroic Arias - Bowman/King/Hyperion.
16. Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
17. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
18. Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek Orfeo
19. Mozart, Don Giovanni - Rene Jacobs
20. Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
21. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Sviatoslav Richter/DG 8).
22. Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)
23. Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)
24. Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
25. Schubert Schwanengesang, with tenor Petre Munteanu.
26. Shostakovich SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
27. Sibelius, Symphony #5 + Violin Concerto, Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
28. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
29. Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms / Poulenc: Gloria / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
(Bernstein/LSO/NYPO Camerata Singers, Westminster Choir)
30. Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
31. Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
32. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)
Hmmmm....no Strauss, no Elgar, no Bruckner, Haydn, Nielsen, Dvorak, no Second Viennese School...no Dittersdorf!!! What can I possibly choose :-\
Okay:
First choice: Bruckner Symphony #7, Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker
Second choice: Schoenberg 5 Pieces op.16, Webern 6 Pieces op.6, Berg 3 Pieces op.6, Levine, Berlin Phil
Sarge
Quote from: Scarpia on September 05, 2010, 04:53:46 AM
You missed the Berg I picked.
I didn't miss it; I remember now seeing it...but my brain erased my short term memory almost immediately after reading it. One of the perks of my age and medication ;D Nice choice by the way.
Sarge
Here are a couple from me (two I listen to quite often, and since I apparently missed the first go around):
Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin: Hamelin on Hyperion
Suppe/Auber Overtures: Paul Paray conducting DSO on Mercury
2nd pick: Tchaikovsky and Brahms Violin Concertos--Heifitz/Reiner/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
My 2nd: Beethoven op 131, Busch Quartet
Pick no.1: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Pick no.2: Medtner: Sonata op.25/2 "Night Wind"
1st pick: Beethoven's symphony No. 9 -- Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (Lucerne '54)
2nd pick: Bach St Matthew Passion -- Harnoncourt/Concentus Musicus Wien/ Prégardien/Fink/Goerne/Röschmann/Schäfer (2001)
Q
I've used my picks up, but someone, but something by Janacek up there, please!!!
Quote from: Scarpia on September 06, 2010, 06:24:03 AM
I've used my picks up, but someone, but something by Janacek up there, please!!!
I agree with you and Sarge that many worthy composers and compositions are not represented...yet. Looks as if it's time for round three. Why don't you start it off with something by Janáček if you like? (And next time I drop by I'll try alphabetizing all the latest additions 8) )
Third pick -
Chopin - Nocturnes - Claudio Arrau
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 06, 2010, 06:41:20 AM
I agree with you and Sarge that many worthy composers and compositions are not represented...yet. Looks as if it's time for round three. Why don't you start it off with something by Janáček if you like? (And next time I drop by I'll try alphabetizing all the latest additions 8) )
Ok, I'm having trouble deciding between two options. But I have to pick one.
Janacek, Cunning Little Vixen, Mackerras, Vienna Philharmonic. (Those who tend to the gloomy can substitute Jenufa, Mackerras, Vienna Philharmonic).
(There's an opportunity for someone to be a hero and pick something by Dvorak.)
We need an updated list before we start on round three.
Dufay, the Isorhythmic Motets, Huelgas Ensemble on HM
And since pick 4 is inevitable:
Monteverdi, Verspers, F. Bernius on HM
My third pick:
Mozart - Great Mass in C minor - Leppard/EMI
Quote from: Scarpia on September 06, 2010, 06:50:53 AM
(There's an opportunity for someone to be a hero and pick something by Dvorak.)
I'm torn between the Szell/Fournier Dvorak Cello Concerto (coupled with Elgar) or the Kubelik 8 & 9. Which way should I go?
Sarge
Quote from: Scarpia on September 06, 2010, 06:50:53 AM
Janacek, Cunning Little Vixen, Mackerras, Vienna Philharmonic.
Quote from: Bulldog on September 06, 2010, 08:19:08 AM
My third pick: Mozart - Great Mass in C minor - Leppard/EMI
Outstanding, both.
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 06, 2010, 08:27:16 AM
I'm torn between the Szell/Fournier Dvorak Cello Concerto (coupled with Elgar) or the Kubelik 8 & 9. Which way should I go?
Sarge
What kind of a Szellian are you? :-\
1st pick - Dvorak Symphony 8 and 9 - Sir Charles Mackerras/Prague Symphony
2nd pick - Mendelssohn VC - Hilary Hahn/Oslo Philharmonic
3rd pick - Copland Appalachian Spring - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Quote from: George on September 06, 2010, 08:28:47 AM
What kind of a Szellian are you? :-\
I know, I know...but I was trying to get the most bang for a buck, and with the Kubelik disc we get two great symphonies.
Sarge
Quote from: hornteacher on September 06, 2010, 08:30:07 AM
1st pick - Dvorak Symphony 9 - Sir Charles Mackerras/Prague Symphony
2nd pick - Mendelssohn VC - Hilary Hahn/Oslo Philharmonic
3rd pick - Copland Appalachian Spring - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Okay, hornteacher makes the Kubelik redundant. So, my third pick: Dvorak Cello Concerto, Szell, Fournier, Berlin Phil.
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 06, 2010, 08:30:36 AM
I know, I know...but I was trying to get the most bang for a buck, and with the Kubelik disc we get two great symphonies.
Sarge
I know, just teasin'.
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 06, 2010, 08:31:53 AM
Okay, hornteacher makes the Kubelik redundant. So, my third pick: Dvorak Cello Concerto, Szell, Fournier, Berlin Phil.
Sarge
There ya go. Tag teaming Dvorak. :)
Pick #3
Haydn: 11 Keyboard Sonatas
Alfred Brendel
Okay, per 3rd picks now underway, updated through hornteacher & Sarge's tag team Dvořák. That makes 49 so far. I've not added any 4th picks yet and will wait until we're running out of steam on pick number 3.
Bach Cello Suites Fournier
Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
Bach St Matthew Passion Harnoncourt/CMW/Fink, Goerne, et al (2001)
Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman/Ensemble Intercontemporain
Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
Chopin Études Pollini
Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
Handel Messiah Christie
Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
Shostakovich String Quintet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO/Camerata Singers/Westminster Choir
Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Bohm (1966)
Quote from: Franco on September 06, 2010, 09:10:45 AM
Pick #3
Haydn: 11 Keyboard Sonatas
Alfred Brendel
'bout time some Haydn showed up (guess Gurn's not participating...yet!)
Still no Bartόk or Debussy, Ravel or Prokofiev, Puccini or RVW...but for my third pick I'm going contemporary:
Pärt, Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus, Sondeckis/Lithuanian Chamber Orch
Here is my third pick (and it has to be Brahms) Otherwise, it's just not right! :)
Brahms - Piano Trio in C, Op.87; Piano Trio in C minor, Op.101; Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op.114 - Beaux Arts Trio & George Pieterson, clarinet
Let me know if these fly, David.
Hildegard: Sequences and Hymns (Emma Kirkby and others/CD title: A Feather on the Breath of God)
Mozart: Requiem (Wiener Philharmoniker/Bohm)
Rachmaninov: Vespers, Op. 37 (National Choir of the USSR/ Svechnikov)
I'm looking for Marvin or Andy D. to supply some more Vvvvvvagner! to the list. Or Strauss! :D
Quote from: Bogey on September 06, 2010, 09:54:40 AM
Let me know if these fly, David.
Hildegard: Sequences and Hymns (Emma Kirkby and others/CD title: A Feather on the Breath of God)
Mozart: Requiem (Wiener Philharmoniker/Bohm)
Rachmaninov: Vespers, Op. 37 (National Choir of the USSR/ Svechnikov)
Look good to me, Bill--picks 1, 2, & 3
My 3rd: Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Pickett
If DVD's are allowed, I'll change this to Jacob's BBC version with Keenlyside.
Quote from: erato on September 06, 2010, 10:07:31 AM
My 3rd: Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Pickett
If DVD's are allowed, I'll change this to Jacob's BBC version with Keenlyside.
Got it--let's stick with CDs but my interest is piqued in the Jacobs/BBC you mention.
catchin' up..... ;D
Pick # 2
Arvo Part - Kanon Pokajanen
Pick # 3
Pergolesi - Stabat Mater (Concerto Italiano / Alessandrini)
I can't imagine being on a desert island without the Janowitz/Karajan Vier Letze Lieder. Just gorgeous.
I also would be heartbroken not to have anything with Kirsten Flagstad singing on it. Even some old highlights cd.
I hope these won't be too surprising! ;)
1) Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine (Alessandrini).
2) Rameau: Keyboard works (Tharaud).
3) Massenet: Mélodies (Kruysen/Lee).
#2: Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet -- Maazel, Cleveland
#3: Prokofiev War Sonatas -- Richter (hope we dont overload on this pianist!)
Uh, some of us kinda need a WTC on our desert island... and a good load of other things ;D
Quote from: RexRichter on September 06, 2010, 11:12:58 AM
Uh, some of us kinda need a WTC on our desert island... and a good load of other things ;D
I'll recitfy the WTC absence when David gives the go-ahead for a 4th pick.
Quote from: Bulldog on September 06, 2010, 12:05:36 PM
I'll recitfy the WTC absence when David gives the go-ahead for a 4th pick.
....and let's not forget about a cd of organ works!
Third pic: Victoria - Requiem 1605 (The Sixteen, Christophers)
Third choice:
Haydn Op.76 quartets (Mosaïques Quartet)
Quote from: Lethe on September 06, 2010, 01:32:23 PM
Third choice:
Haydn Op.76 quartets (Mosaïques Quartet)
OO! I'll go with that!
Quote from: Bogey on September 06, 2010, 12:35:47 PM
....and let's not forget about a cd of organ works!
If you accept the challenge, please make sure it isn't Michael Murray. :)
Okay, we're at 66 picks and counting. Some are already itching for round 4 so let's go:
Sforzando's fourth round pick is listed as Monteverdi, Vespers, Bernius
and Bulldog Don's already champing at the bit for the WTC--gosh, I wonder which recording he'll choose... :-X
I still think Sibelius and Mahler are woefully underrepresented and note there's not a single Bartok nor Debussy disc yet, so let the games resume!
GMG Essential 100 (in progress)
Bach Cello Suites Fournier
Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
Bach St Matthew Passion Harnoncourt/CMW/Fink, Goerne, et al (2001)
Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman/Ensemble Intercontemporain
Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
Brahms Piano Trios op 87 & 101/Clarinet Trio Op.114 Beaux Arts Trio & George Pieterson, clarinet
Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
Chopin Études Pollini
Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
Handel Messiah Christie
Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
Haydn 11 Keyboard Sonatas Brendel
Haydn String Quartets op 76 Quatuor Mosaïques
Hildegard A Feather on the Breath of God-Sequences and Hymns Kirkby, et al
Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
Massenet Mélodies Kruysen/Lee
Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pickett
Monteverdi Vespers Bernius
Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
Mozart Requiem Böhm/WP
Pärt Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus Kremer/Jarrett/Sonceckis/Lithuanian Chamber Orch
Pärt Kanon Pokajanen Kaljuste?
Pergolesi Stabat Mater Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Maazel/CO
Prokofiev War Sonatas Richter
Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
Rachmaninov Vespers Svechnikov/Nat'l Choir of the USSR
Rameau Keyboard Works Tharaud
Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
Shostakovich String Quintet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
Strauss Four Last Songs Janowitz/Karajan/BP
Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO/Camerata Singers/Westminster Choir
Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
Victoria Requiem 1605 Christophers/The Sixteen
Vivaldi Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Alessandrini
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
#2 Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - Svetlanov (Melodiya)
#3 Gluck - Orfeo & Euridice - Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi)
Can't believe that the Mahler nuts have yet to include a numbered symphony ???
4th choice: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 (Giulini, Philharmonia, EMI)
Actually, I noticed a slightly greater omission:
4th choice: Brahms - String Sextets (Amadeus Quartet et al., DG)
4th pick
The disc I have been listening to just now:
Claude Debussy / Camille Saint-Saens: Chamber Music for Woodwinds
William Bennett, Rachel Gough, Robin Kennard, James Campbell, Ian Jones, et al.
#4 Miles Davis: Kind of Blue ;D >:D
....but if we are sticking to classical:
Quote from: Bulldog on September 06, 2010, 01:48:16 PM
If you accept the challenge, please make sure it isn't Michael Murray. :)
8)
Bach: Great Organ Works/Helmut Walcha....had to bypass the larger sets and stay with a 2 disc set.
Quote from: Lethe on September 06, 2010, 01:32:23 PM
Third choice:
Haydn Op.76 quartets (Mosaïques Quartet)
Beauty!
4th pick: Brahms - German Requiem (Kempe, Gruemmer (!!), Fischer-Dieskau)
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 06, 2010, 02:28:19 PM
Okay, we're at 66 picks and counting. Some are already itching for round 4 so let's go:
Sforzando's fourth round pick is listed as Monteverdi, Vespers, Bernius
and Bulldog Don's already champing at the bit for the WTC--gosh, I wonder which recording he'll choose... :-X
Well, I'm tempted to go with Belder's harpsichord set - excellent performances in great sound. Another enticing version is from pianist Roger Woodward on Celestial Harmonies - much better sound than Tureck and a somewhat similiar set of performances. But in the final analysis, why settle for substitutes? My 4th pick is:
Bach - Complete Well-Tempered Clavier - Tureck/DG
#4. Debussy, Preludes Bks. 1&2, Michelangeli
But what this list is really missing is Schumann.
Here is my second pick:
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, Andre Previn, Royal Philharmonic, Telarc
And my third pick:
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Decca
Bach WTC Gould (Columbia)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Pinnock)
Beethoven opus 132 (Borodin SQ)
Beethoven String Quartets (Takacs and Vegh...both sets or I'm not going anywhere)
Beethoven Symphonies (the Karajan '60's box, despite its faults)
Bruckner Symphonies (Karajan DG); also the 7th as conducted by Tintner.
Gorecki Symphony no. 3
Joseph Haydn opps. 20, 33, and 76 (Quatuor Mosaiques) opps 54 and 74 (Endellion); opus 77 (Kodaly)
Mozart Don Giovanni (Giulini, Schwarzkopf); The Requiem (Marriner); the String Duos and Trios (Guarneri)
Mahler Symphony nos. 6 and 9 (Abbado) and Symphony no. 7 (Solti)
Schoenberg The String Quartets (New Vienna); Pierrot Lunaire (Craft)
Richard Strauss Elektra and Salome (Solti, Nielsen); Die Alpensinfonie (Kempe)
Wagner 3 Rings (Solti, Boulez, Levine); 2 Tristan und Isolde (Bohm live, Kleiber studio recording); 2 Parsifals (Kubelik, Karajan); 2 Die Meistersingers (the old Solti set and the Horst Stein with Weikl).
There are probably more, and i haven't completely made up my mind on the different LvB Piano Sonata interpretations.
Quote from: AndyD. on September 06, 2010, 04:54:35 PM
Bach WTC Gould (Columbia)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Pinnock)
Beethoven opus 132 (Borodin SQ)
Beethoven String Quartets (Takacs and Vegh...both sets or I'm not going anywhere)
Beethoven Symphonies (the Karajan '60's box, despite its faults)
Bruckner Symphonies (Karajan DG); also the 7th as conducted by Tintner.
Gorecki Symphony no. 3
Joseph Haydn opps. 20, 33, and 76 (Quatuor Mosaiques) opps 54 and 74 (Endellion); opus 77 (Kodaly)
Mozart Don Giovanni (Giulini, Schwarzkopf); The Requiem (Marriner); the String Duos and Trios (Guarneri)
Mahler Symphony nos. 6 and 9 (Abbado) and Symphony no. 7 (Solti)
Schoenberg The String Quartets (New Vienna); Pierrot Lunaire (Craft)
Richard Strauss Elektra and Salome (Solti, Nielsen); Die Alpensinfonie (Kempe)
Wagner 3 Rings (Solti, Boulez, Levine); 2 Tristan und Isolde (Bohm live, Kleiber studio recording); 2 Parsifals (Kubelik, Karajan); 2 Die Meistersingers (the old Solti set and the Horst Stein with Weikl).
There are probably more, and i haven't completely made up my mind on the different LvB Piano Sonata interpretations.
Looks like more than four selections. ;D
Pick 4 -
Schumann - Kinderszenen, Kriesleriana, Carnaval - Alfred Cortot
Martinu Symphony No 4, Piano Concerto No 4, Tre Ricerari, Turnovsky
Quote from: AndyD. on September 06, 2010, 04:54:35 PM
Richard Strauss Die Alpensinfonie (Kempe)
Wagner Rings (Solti, Levine); 2 Tristan und Isolde (Bohm live)
Schwing!!
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Quote from: AndyD. on September 06, 2010, 04:54:35 PM
Bach WTC Gould (Columbia)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Pinnock)
Beethoven opus 132 (Borodin SQ)
Beethoven String Quartets (Takacs and Vegh...both sets or I'm not going anywhere)
Beethoven Symphonies (the Karajan '60's box, despite its faults)
Bruckner Symphonies (Karajan DG); also the 7th as conducted by Tintner.
Gorecki Symphony no. 3
Joseph Haydn opps. 20, 33, and 76 (Quatuor Mosaiques) opps 54 and 74 (Endellion); opus 77 (Kodaly)
Mozart Don Giovanni (Giulini, Schwarzkopf); The Requiem (Marriner); the String Duos and Trios (Guarneri)
Mahler Symphony nos. 6 and 9 (Abbado) and Symphony no. 7 (Solti)
Schoenberg The String Quartets (New Vienna); Pierrot Lunaire (Craft)
Richard Strauss Elektra and Salome (Solti, Nielsen); Die Alpensinfonie (Kempe)
Wagner 3 Rings (Solti, Boulez, Levine); 2 Tristan und Isolde (Bohm live, Kleiber studio recording); 2 Parsifals (Kubelik, Karajan); 2 Die Meistersingers (the old Solti set and the Horst Stein with Weikl).
There are probably more, and i haven't completely made up my mind on the different LvB Piano Sonata interpretations.
You have three picks coming, Andy, to catch up with the rest of us! ;)
Pick 4 - Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet, Martin Frost
Pick 4--Sibelius, Symphonies 4 & 7/Tapiola -- Maazel/WP
Quote from: RexRichter on September 06, 2010, 03:17:10 PM
#4. Debussy, Preludes Bks. 1&2, Michelangeli
But what this list is really missing is Schumann.
Nice pick! I took care of the Schumann.
Andy - Thus far we've only got 4 picks (works). So you gotta whittle down your list to four.
Here's the list so far, Andy, and you've had one pick already so get three to catch up.
Bach Cello Suites Fournier
Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
Bach St Matthew Passion Harnoncourt/CMW/Fink, Goerne, et al (2001)
Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Tureck/DG
Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman/Ensemble Intercontemporain
Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
Brahms Piano Trios op 87 & 101/Clarinet Trio Op.114 Beaux Arts Trio & George Pieterson, clarinet
Brahms String Sextets Amadeus Quartet et al
Brahms German Requiem Kempe/Gruemmer/Fischer-Dieskau
Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
Chopin Études Pollini
Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
Debussy Chamber Music for Woodwinds (+ Saint-Saens) Bennett/Gough/et al
Debussy Preludes Bks 1 & 2 Michelangeli
Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
Gluck Orfeo & Euridice Jacobs
Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
Handel Messiah Christie
Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
Haydn 11 Keyboard Sonatas Brendel
Haydn String Quartets op 76 Quatuor Mosaïques
Hildegard A Feather on the Breath of God-Sequences and Hymns Kirkby, et al
Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
Marinu Symphony #4/Piano Cto #4/Tre ricercari Turnovsky
Massenet Mélodies Kruysen/Lee
Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pickett
Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
Mozart Requiem Böhm/WP
Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet Frost/Oundjian/Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Pärt Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus Kremer/Jarrett/Sonceckis/Lithuanian Chamber Orch
Pärt Kanon Pokajanen Kaljuste?
Pergolesi Stabat Mater Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Maazel/CO
Prokofiev War Sonatas Richter
Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
Rachmaninov Vespers Svechnikov/Nat'l Choir of the USSR
Rameau Keyboard Works Tharaud
Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Dutoit/Montreal
Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
Schumann Kinderszenen/Kreisleriana/Carnaval Cortot
Shostakovich String Quartet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
Sibelius Symphony #4 & #7/Tapiola Maazel/WP
Strauss Four Last Songs Janowitz/Karajan/BP
Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO/Camerata Singers/Westminster Choir
Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Svetlanov
Vaughan Williams Symphony #5 Previn/RPO
Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
Victoria Requiem 1605 Christophers/The Sixteen
Vivaldi Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Alessandrini
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
Quote from: hornteacher on September 06, 2010, 05:34:25 PM
Pick 4 - Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet, Martin Frost
Great choice. It would be good if someone selected the Brahms clarinet quintet and sonatas.
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 06, 2010, 05:41:04 PM
Here's the list so far, Andy, and you've had one pick already so get three to catch up.
What happened to my third and fourth picks? :'(
Satie - Selected Piano Compositions - Aldo
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 06, 2010, 09:28:07 AM
'bout time some Haydn showed up (guess Gurn's not participating...yet!)
Still no Bartόk or Debussy, Ravel or Prokofiev, Puccini or RVW...but for my third pick I'm going contemporary:
Pärt, Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus, Sondeckis/Lithuanian Chamber Orch
Puccini--good point.
So my third pick will be;
Puccini--Turandot--the Pavarotti/Sutherland recording conducted by Mehta
And pick number four--time to pay homage to my favorite
Mahler: Symphony 9--Bernstein from the DG cycle
My fourth pick:
Bartok: The Wooden Prince (complete ballet), Pierre Boulez, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, DG
If we get a fourth pick then...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, Carlo Maria Giulini, Vienna Philharmonic, DG
If this continues, we'll eventually get to the point where all my 6000+ CDs are essential. Then I'll finally can show the list to the wife. Please continue!
Quote from: erato on September 06, 2010, 10:43:49 PM
If this continues, we'll eventually get to the point where all my 6000+ CDs are essential. Then I'll finally can show the list to the wife. Please continue!
Yeah, I've got around that many too. :) It's hard picking just four. I think 7,000 will do. :D
My first pick....
-Mozart...Cosi Fan Tutte (Fischer - DVD)
if dvd's are not allowed I choose....
-Mozart...Cosi Fan Tutte (Bohm, 1963)
3? Arrrrrgh :-\!
Beethoven String Quartets (Vegh)
Wagner Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Bohm)
Just one Ring? One LvB set of quartets?
Arrrgh redux!
Quote from: AndyD. on September 07, 2010, 02:24:32 AM
3? Arrrrrgh :-\!
Beethoven String Quartets (Vegh)
Wagner Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Bohm)
Just one Ring? One LvB set of quartets?
Arrrgh redux!
Nice try, Andy, but still no cigar :D Lethe already picked Böhm's Tristan and a complete set of of Ludwig Van's quartets violates the rule: one CD or one complete work (like an opera or ballet). The complete Ring will probably be allowed.
Sarge
My fourth pick: Mahler Symphony #5, Dohnányi, Cleveland
Sarge
Quote from: kishnevi on September 06, 2010, 08:28:20 PM
Puccini--good point.
So my third pick will be;
Puccini--Turandot--the Pavarotti/Sutherland recording conducted by Mehta
Mrs. Rock thanks you.
Sarge
#3 and 4:
Grainger/Coates: Country Gardens (Fennell/Eastman on Mercury)
Schumann: Dichterliebe (Wachter/Brendel)
My four choices
Weber Der Freischütz, Keilberth
Schumann Symphony 4, Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic
Dvorak Symphony 7 and Water Goblin, Belohlavek Czech Philharmonic
Ludus Danielis (The Play of Daniel), Estampie-Munich Ensemble for Early Music
Quote from: Sforzando on September 06, 2010, 07:31:24 PM
What happened to my third and fourth picks? :'(
Beats me--some glitch in transfering from excel to here--corrected, I hope
Andy--see the guidelines on page 1--making a list for newbies of 100 "essential" recordings--works or CDs, not cycles. Böhm's T&I is already on the list, maybe others will chime in whether to allow the full Ring or just one music drama at a time... (in which case you could make it four picks in one ;) )
The list so far:
Bach Cello Suites Fournier
Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
Bach St Matthew Passion Harnoncourt/CMW/Fink, Goerne, et al (2001)
Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Tureck/DG
Bartόk Wooden Prince Boulez/CSO
Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman/Ensemble Intercontemporain
Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
Brahms Piano Trios op 87 & 101/Clarinet Trio Op.114 Beaux Arts Trio & George Pieterson, clarinet
Brahms String Sextets Amadeus Quartet et al
Brahms German Requiem Kempe/Gruemmer/Fischer-Dieskau
Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
Chopin Études Pollini
Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
Debussy Chamber Music for Woodwinds (+ Saint-Saens) Bennett/Gough/et al
Debussy Preludes Bks 1 & 2 Michelangeli
Dufay Isorhythmic Motets Huelgas Ensemble
Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
Dvorak Symphony 7 and Water Goblin, Belohlavek Czech Philharmonic
Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
Gluck Orfeo & Euridice Jacobs
Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
Grainger/Coates: Country Gardens (Fennell/Eastman
Handel Messiah Christie
Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
Haydn 11 Keyboard Sonatas Brendel
Haydn String Quartets op 76 Quatuor Mosaïques
Hildegard A Feather on the Breath of God-Sequences and Hymns Kirkby, et al
Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
Ludus Danielis (The Play of Daniel), Estampie-Munich Ensemble for Early Music
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
Mahler Symphony #5 Dohnanyi/CO
Mahler Symphony #9 Bernstein/RCO
Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
Marinu Symphony #4/Piano Cto #4/Tre ricercari Turnovsky
Massenet Mélodies Kruysen/Lee
Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pickett
Monteverdi Vespers Bernius
Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
Mozart Cosi fan tutte Böhm (1953)
Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
Mozart Requiem Böhm/WP
Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet Frost/Oundjian/Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Pärt Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus Kremer/Jarrett/Sonceckis/Lithuanian Chamber Orch
Pärt Kanon Pokajanen Kaljuste?
Pergolesi Stabat Mater Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Maazel/CO
Prokofiev War Sonatas Richter
Puccini Turandot Pavarotti/Sutherland/Mehta
Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
Rachmaninov Vespers Svechnikov/Nat'l Choir of the USSR
Rameau Keyboard Works Tharaud
Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Dutoit/Montreal
Satie Selected piano compositions Aldo
Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
Schumann Kinderszenen/Kreisleriana/Carnaval Cortot
Schumann: Dichterliebe (Wachter/Brendel)
Schumann Symphony 4, Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic
Shostakovich String Quartet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
Sibelius Symphony #4 & #7/Tapiola Maazel/WP
Strauss Four Last Songs Janowitz/Karajan/BP
Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO/Camerata Singers/Westminster Choir
Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Svetlanov
Vaughan Williams Symphony #5 Previn/RPO
Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
Victoria Requiem 1605 Christophers/The Sixteen
Vivaldi Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Alessandrini
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
Weber Der Freischütz, Keilberth
That looks close to a hundred, yes?
Well, just in case I'm not too late, and without worrying whether these are really my four very favorite recordings:
Stravinsky, L'oiseau de feu (complete) / Rattle, CBSO
Shostakovich, Symphony № 7 Leningrad / Ančerl, Cz Phil
Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Jeux, Images pour orchestre, Danses sacrée et profane / Baudo, Cz Phil
Tchaikovsky, Pf Trio in a minor, Opus 50 / Shostakovich, Pf Trio № 2 in e minor, Opus 67 / Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 04:51:52 AM
That looks close to a hundred, yes?
yep--with Mrs Rock's and yours, that makes 98 by my count--and if we let Andy take the Ring, then 99...and one more disc of LVB 4tets for him would make an even 100.
Let's hold off while I square away what we have after up to 4 picks each.
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 05:19:26 AM
...if we let Andy take the Ring, then 99...
I'll always argue that the Ring is a single, unified work (the musical themes heard in Rheingold are developed throughout the four parts, and come to fruition in Götterdämmerung). The only reason I didn't pick it was because I thought someone like Marvin would surely do it for me. Andy returned just in time 8)
Sarge
There's certainly a good argument for including The Ring as one unified work that's a special case and far more fitting on such a list than some relatively obscure selections, so it stands.
By my count that makes 98 so far (and Andy's 2nd pick). No one has more than 4 picks and it doesn't look as if we'll need more to reach 100. As it stands, there are many of the usual suspects but also quite a few surprises of omission as well as commission. I think the list below is complete to this point, so the next two selections will finish it. Then it's time for our post-mortem game analysis!
1 Anonymous Ludus Danielis Estampie-Munich Ensemble
2 Bach Cello Suites Fournier
3 Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
4 Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
5 Bach St Matthew Passion Fink/Goerne/Harnoncourt (2001)
6 Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Tureck/DG
7 Bartόk Wooden Prince Boulez/CSO
8 Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
9 Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
10 Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
11 Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
12 Beethoven Missa Solemnis
13 Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
14 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
15 Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman
16 Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
17 Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
18 Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
19 Brahms Piano Trios op 87 & 101/Clarinet Trio Op.114 Beaux Arts Trio /Pieterson
20 Brahms String Sextets Amadeus Quartet et al
21 Brahms German Requiem Kempe/Gruemmer/Fischer-Dieskau
22 Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
23 Chopin Études Pollini
24 Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
25 Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
26 Debussy Chamber Music for Woodwinds (+ Saint-Saens) Bennett/Gough/et al
27 Debussy Preludes Bks 1 & 2 Michelangeli
28 Debussy Prélude...faune, Jeux, Images, Danses Baudo/Czech Phil
29 Dufay Isorhythmic Motets Huelgas Ensemble
30 Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
31 Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
32 Dvořák Symphony 7 / The Water Goblin Belohlavek/Czech Phil
33 Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
34 Gluck Orfeo & Euridice Jacobs
35 Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
36 Grainger Country Gardens (+ works by Coates) Fennell/Eastman-Rochester Pops
37 Handel Messiah Christie
38 Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
39 Haydn 11 Keyboard Sonatas Brendel
40 Haydn String Quartets op 76 Quatuor Mosaïques
41 Hildegard A Feather on the Breath of God-Sequences and Hymns Kirkby, et al
42 Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
43 Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
44 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer
45 Mahler Symphony #5 Dohnanyi/CO
46 Mahler Symphony #9 Bernstein/RCO
47 Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
48 Marinu Symphony #4/Piano Cto #4/Tre ricercari Turnovsky
49 Massenet Mélodies Kruysen/Lee
50 Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
51 Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
52 Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pickett
53 Monteverdi Vespers Bernius
54 Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
55 Mozart Cosi fan tutte Böhm (1953)
56 Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
57 Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
58 Mozart Requiem Böhm/WP
59 Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet Frost/Oundjian/Amsterdam Sinf
60 Pärt Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus Kremer/Jarrett/Sondeckis
61 Pärt Kanon Pokajanen Kaljuste?
62 Pergolesi Stabat Mater Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
63 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Maazel/CO
64 Prokofiev War Sonatas Richter
65 Puccini Turandot Pavarotti/Sutherland/Mehta
66 Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
67 Rachmaninov Vespers Svechnikov/USSR Nat'l Choir
68 Rameau Keyboard Works Tharaud
69 Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
70 Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Dutoit/Montreal
71 Satie Selected piano compositions Aldo
72 Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
73 Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
74 Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
75 Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
76 Schumann Kinderszenen/Kreisleriana/Carnaval Cortot
77 Schumann Symphony #4 Furtwängler/BP
78 Schumann Dichterliebe Wächter/Brendel
79 Shostakovich String Quartet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
80 Shostakovich Symphony #7 "Leningrad" Ančerl/Czech Phil
81 Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
82 Sibelius Symphony #4 & #7/Tapiola Maazel/WP
83 Strauss Four Last Songs Janowitz/Karajan/BP
84 Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
85 Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO
86 Stravinsky L'oiseu de feu (complete) Rattle/CBSO
87 Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
88 Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
89 Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
90 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Svetlanov
91 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio op 50 (+ Shostakovich Piano Trio #2 op 67 Argerich/Kremer/Maisky
92 Vaughan Williams Symphony #5 Previn/RPO
93 Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
94 Victoria Requiem 1605 Christophers/The Sixteen
95 Vivaldi Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Alessandrini
96 Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
97 Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen Solti/WP
98 Weber Der Freischütz Keilberth
#4 Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov - Abbado (Sony)
One pick left!
The list cries without a Verdi opera :(
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 06:24:51 AM
The list cries without a Verdi opera :(
Mrs. Rock wanted to pick MacBeth but I talked her out of it as being too eccentric. (MacBeth instead of Otello? Falstaff? Traviata?) So she picked a medieval "opera" instead. Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut ;D
Sarge
A very interesting list, and perhaps the fact that it is a bit idiosyncratic due the relatively random mode of its creation can be considered a feature. More interesting than those "canons" that we are all supposed to own and listen to dutifully.
But still, no Strauss or Liszt, that's a bit of a gap.
Quote from: Scarpia on September 07, 2010, 06:31:26 AM
A very interesting list, and perhaps the fact that it is a bit idiosyncratic due the relatively random mode of its creation can be considered a feature. More interesting than those "canons" that we are all supposed to own and listen to dutifully.
But still, no Strauss or Liszt, that's a bit of a gap.
Four Last Songs, #83 ... or did you mean The Waltz King?
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 06:32:19 AM
Four Last Songs, #83 ... or did you mean The Waltz King?
Duh, never mind.
#2 for me:
Liszt - Favourite Piano Works - Jorge Bolet
@Sarge: It is hard to pick just one - I would lean towards omitting Falstaff, Otello and Don Carlo, as they do not really represent his whole output. Falstaff is too advanced, Otello is too great, Don Carlo is too French. Perhaps Traviata or Aida are the best choices - probably Traviata for this list, as Puccini's Bohème hasn't made the cut (the two together would feel like duplication of a concept).
About the list: I was surprised at how the effort to make a "serious" and inclusive list made members such as myself pick good choices instead of the obscure crap we usually listen to. Even with some oddities, this list is better than the majority tossed around by paid writers.
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 06:08:37 AM
1 Anonymous Ludus Danielis Estampie-Munich Ensemble
Agreed that this is an interesting recording, but it is a strange choice being the only one on your list to represent the ages from 1100 to 1700 a.c.
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 06:37:40 AM
About the list: I was surprised at how the effort to make a "serious" and inclusive list made members such as myself pick good choices instead of the obscure crap we usually listen to.
I chalk that to Dave's OP which oriented the list towards newbies.
I figure that if anybody has already heard all of these, they generally don't need a catch-all list to help them look further - they can do it for themselves. Btw, thanks for rescuing Liszt from oblivion, MN Dave!
Quote from: premont on September 07, 2010, 06:41:35 AM
Agreed that this is an interesting recording, but it is a strange choice being the only one on your list to represent the ages from 1100 to 1700 a.c.
Not quite. There are two Monteverdi picks, representing the early Baroque; and Hildegard von Bingen, another medieval voice along with the Play of Daniel.
Sarge
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 06:45:56 AM
Btw, thanks for rescuing Liszt from oblivion, MN Dave!
:)
Go, Dave!
(Come back to the Shed!) : )
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 06:54:45 AM
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;)
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Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 06:46:26 AM
Not quite. There are two Monteverdi picks, representing the early Baroque; and Hildegard von Bingen, another medieval voice along with the Play of Daniel.
Sarge
Yes you are right, the others "disappeared" in the lot.
We also forgot the Tallis, Dufay and Victoria. The problem to me may be, that the classical and the romantic ages are heavily overrepresented on DR´s list..
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 06:45:56 AM
Btw, thanks for rescuing Liszt from oblivion, MN Dave!
Yes, they probably don't have internet in heaven, but maybe they have it where Liszt is. 8)
King Arthur: "On second thought, let's not go to Camelotthe Shed. It is a silly place."
Quote from: premont on September 07, 2010, 07:02:49 AM
We also forgot the Tallis, Dufay and Victoria.
Yes, I'm blind too! ;D
QuoteThe problem to me may be, that the classical and the romantic ages are heavily overrepresented on DR´s list..
It was bound to be so. The group is representative of the larger classical listening public, I think. There are fierce proponents of earlier music here (yourself of course) but they are in the minority.
Sarge
Finished! Okay, here's the completed list. I trust I'm not the only one who spies one or two unfamiliar items...? Big surprises for me are the relative lack of Beethoven sonatas and SQs and no symphony 3 or 6, no Bartόk CfO or concertos, the low number of Mahler and Bruckner and Sibelius works, no Mozart piano concertos, no Verdi operas, and very little post-modern music.
The GMG Essential 100
1 Anonymous Ludus Danielis Estampie-Munich Ensemble
2 Bach Cello Suites Fournier
3 Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
4 Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
5 Bach St Matthew Passion Fink/Goerne/Harnoncourt (2001)
6 Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Tureck/DG
7 Bartόk Wooden Prince Boulez/CSO
8 Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
9 Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
10 Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
11 Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
12 Beethoven Missa Solemnis
13 Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
14 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
15 Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman
16 Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
17 Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
18 Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
19 Brahms Piano Trios op 87 & 101/Clarinet Trio Op.114 Beaux Arts Trio /Pieterson
20 Brahms String Sextets Amadeus Quartet et al
21 Brahms German Requiem Kempe/Gruemmer/Fischer-Dieskau
22 Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
23 Chopin Études Pollini
24 Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
25 Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
26 Debussy Chamber Music for Woodwinds (+ Saint-Saens) Bennett/Gough/et al
27 Debussy Preludes Bks 1 & 2 Michelangeli
28 Debussy Prélude...faune, Jeux, Images, Danses Baudo/Czech Phil
29 Dufay Isorhythmic Motets Huelgas Ensemble
30 Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
31 Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
32 Dvořák Symphony 7 / The Water Goblin Belohlavek/Czech Phil
33 Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
34 Gluck Orfeo & Euridice Jacobs
35 Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
36 Grainger Country Gardens (+ works by Coates) Fennell/Eastman-Rochester Pops
37 Handel Messiah Christie
38 Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
39 Haydn 11 Keyboard Sonatas Brendel
40 Haydn String Quartets op 76 Quatuor Mosaïques
41 Hildegard A Feather on the Breath of God-Sequences and Hymns Kirkby, et al
42 Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
43 Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
44 Liszt Favourite Piano Works Bolet
45 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer
46 Mahler Symphony #5 Dohnanyi/CO
47 Mahler Symphony #9 Bernstein/RCO
48 Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
49 Martinu Symphony #4/Piano Cto #4/Tre ricercari Turnovsky
50 Massenet Mélodies Kruysen/Lee
51 Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
52 Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
53 Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pickett
54 Monteverdi Vespers Bernius
55 Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
56 Mozart Cosi fan tutte Böhm (1953)
57 Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
58 Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
59 Mozart Requiem Böhm/WP
60 Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet Frost/Oundjian/Amsterdam Sinf
61 Mussorgsky Boris Gudunov Abbado/BP
62 Pärt Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus Kremer/Jarrett/Sondeckis
63 Pärt Kanon Pokajanen
64 Pergolesi Stabat Mater Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
65 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Maazel/CO
66 Prokofiev War Sonatas Richter
67 Puccini Turandot Pavarotti/Sutherland/Mehta
68 Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
69 Rachmaninov Vespers Svechnikov/USSR Nat'l Choir
70 Rameau Keyboard Works Tharaud
71 Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
72 Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Dutoit/Montreal
73 Satie Selected piano compositions Aldo
74 Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
75 Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
76 Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
77 Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
78 Schumann Kinderszenen/Kreisleriana/Carnaval Cortot
79 Schumann Symphony #4 Furtwängler/BP
80 Schumann Dichterliebe Wächter/Brendel
81 Shostakovich String Quartet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
82 Shostakovich Symphony #7 "Leningrad" Ančerl/Czech Phil
83 Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
84 Sibelius Symphony #4 & #7/Tapiola Maazel/WP
85 Strauss Four Last Songs Janowitz/Karajan/BP
86 Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
87 Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO
88 Stravinsky L'oiseu de feu (complete) Rattle/CBSO
89 Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
90 Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
91 Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
92 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Svetlanov
93 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio op 50 (+ Shostakovich Piano Trio #2 op 67) Argerich/Kremer/Maisky
94 Vaughan Wms Symphony #5 Previn/RPO
95 Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
96 Victoria Requiem 1605 Christophers/The Sixteen
97 Vivaldi Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Alessandrini
98 Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
99 Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen Solti/WP
100 Weber Der Freischütz Keilberth
Edit: typo corrected
Fun list!
Do I have to buy all these now?
You've already got the Liszt! : )
Quote from: MN Dave on September 07, 2010, 07:12:25 AM
Do I have to buy all these now?
No, you can wait until we do the list of 100 essential box sets.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 07:18:01 AM
You've already got the Liszt! : )
Sings: "I've got a little Liszt! I've got a little Liszt!"
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 07:20:23 AM
No, you can wait until we do the list of 100 essential box sets.
oy
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 07:09:44 AM
Finished! Okay, here's the completed list. I trust I'm not the only one who spies one or two unfamiliar items...? Big surprises for me are the relative lack of Beethoven sonatas and SQs and no symphony 3 or 6, no Bartόk CfO or concertos, the low number of Mahler and Bruckner and Sibelius works, no Mozart piano concertos, no Verdi operas, and very little post-modern music.
When do we start voting on amendments? I got a large campaign donation from the Dittersdorf society and I think it is outrageous this great composer is not represented. At least a half-dozen slots have to be earmarked for Dittersdorf.
Oh, be-have!
I just wish to state for the record that I still prefer Ozawa/BSO in the Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet to Maazel/Cleveland. Not that the latter is at all bad, mind you . . . .
Quote from: Scarpia on September 07, 2010, 07:23:22 AM
When do we start voting on amendments? I got a large campaign donation from the Dittersdorf society and I think it is outrageous this great composer is not represented. At least a half-dozen slots have to be earmarked for Dittersdorf.
Dittersdorf earmarks are proportional to the number of junkets...er..
.fact-finding missions funded by the Dittersdorf Society.
But, forsooth, methinks it might be amusing to discuss proposed amendments. Anyone want to change their picks?
Not I . . . I only settled on them this morning! ; )
I don't think we should. Or if we amend, we only amend our own selection. Otherwise, what's the use?
Oh, no one gets to amend another's suggestion(s)! Fie upon the very thought!
Even if we can't amend other people's suggestions, we can try to convince people to change their own picks. For instance, if we have the entire Ring, do we need Tristan? Maybe Strauss's Salome or Rosenkavelier instead?
Is the Requiem that most characteristic Verdi? Why not Otello?
Quote from: Scarpia on September 07, 2010, 07:41:22 AM
Even if we can't amend other people's suggestions, we can try to convince people to change their own picks.
I agree. To that effect, please change your Berg Chamber Concerto to Berg's Violin Concerto ;)
Sarge
Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie (Kempe)
Wagner Parsifal (Kubelik)
A sweet plan. One Ring is enough Wagner for a short(ish) list.
98 Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
Strauss - Salome (Solti/Nilsson/Decca)
Issues alongside what David Ross observed: no Haydn or Schubert symphony disc, two Pärt discs (speaking as a fan, this is excessive), no Mussorgsky's Pictures, no Tchaikovsky PC1 or Sym6. No Grieg/Schumann PC coupling either. No Mendelssohn italian symphony either, eek!
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 07:54:18 AM
. . . two Pärt discs (speaking as a fan, this is excessive) . . . .
2/100 . . . agreed.
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 07:54:18 AM
Strauss - Salome (Solti/Nilsson/Decca)
I second (not that it matters).
Your agreement matters, Andy! : )
Quote from: AndyD. on September 07, 2010, 07:57:09 AM
I second (not that it matters).
Frankly, anyone who can enjoy the music and not be put off by the cover photograph is fine by me ;D
Nilsson is simply the best Salome. Whether you have to be blind or just enlightened to realise this, I am not sure.
Won't be the first cover I've had to disregard . . . .
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 07:48:40 AM
I agree. To that effect, please change your Berg Chamber Concerto to Berg's Violin Concerto ;)
Ok, I agree (Berg Violin Concerto, Mutter, Levine, Chicago Symphony) conditional on you changing your Mahler 5 to Barbirolli's recording. :P
Oh, gosh, I am sorry to see that Chamber Concerto recording go!
Quote from: Scarpia on September 07, 2010, 08:03:01 AM
Ok, I agree (Berg Violin Concerto, Mutter, Levine, Chicago Symphony) conditional on you changing your Mahler 5 to Barbirolli's recording. :P
Nah, Dohnányi and Cleveland blow the socks off the stodgy Barbirolli.
Sarge
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 08:00:29 AM
Frankly, anyone who can enjoy the music and not be put off by the cover photograph is fine by me ;D
Nilsson is simply the best Salome. Whether you have to be blind or just enlightened to realise this, I am not sure.
She was also the best Elektra, Brunnhilde, and definitely
maybe Isolde, in my humble opinion.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 07:59:21 AM
Your agreement matters, Andy! : )
You are very kind!
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 08:06:44 AM
Oh, gosh, I am sorry to see that Chamber Concerto recording go!
That's the problem with changing things now. I'm very sorry to see Tristan go...it's a far more important opera, in my opinion, than Salome.
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 08:08:46 AM
That's the problem with changing things now. I'm very sorry to see Tristan go...it's a far more important opera, in my opinion, than Salome.
Sarge
Would there have been a Salome without Tristan und Isolde? I'm betting there
certainly wouldn't have been an Elektra without it.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 08:06:44 AM
Oh, gosh, I am sorry to see that Chamber Concerto recording go!
Chamber Concerto Stays!
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 08:00:29 AM
Nilsson is simply the best Salome. Whether you have to be blind or just enlightened to realise this, I am not sure.
I prefer Behrens, Studer, Nielsen, Welitsch and Caballé (edit: and Natalie Portman, I forgot Natalie Portman)...but then, I'm completely unenlightened ;D
Sarge
As long as we don't come to blows, I welcome a vigorous discussion of alternatives, and lobbying is permitted, but as Grand Poobah of this thread, I rule against changing anyone else's picks but your own. Heck, I'm not sure even that is ideal, as many of our choices were doubtless conditioned by our expectations about what others might or might not select...but I'm open to it if y'all think a revised list would be interesting as well (and even though keeping track of revisions might prove a chore I'll regret! ;) )
And for those late to the party, or who wish to carry this exercise a step further in a slightly different direction, I've just started a Personal Essentials List thread here: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17174.msg447443.html#msg447443
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 08:12:18 AM
I prefer Behrens, Studer, Nielsen, Welitsch and Caballé (edit: and Natalie Portman, I forgot Natalie Portman)...but then, I'm completely unenlightened ;D
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 08:12:18 AM
I prefer Behrens, Studer, Nielsen, Welitsch and Caballé (edit: and Natalie Portman, I forgot Natalie Portman)...but then, I'm completely unenlightened ;D
Sarge
I liked the Studer, but the rest I haven't heard. I thought that Stratas was an excellent Salome, and I love the dvd.
It's hard for me not to pick Nilsson, she's my favorite female heavy metal singer, ever.
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 06:24:51 AM
The list cries without a Verdi opera :(
If the Verdi Requiem is not an opera, what is?
Quote from: Sforzando on September 07, 2010, 11:18:00 AM
If the Verdi Requiem is not an opera, what is?
But where is the cross-dressing? :'(
Maybe in the Lacrymosa . . . ?
There are a few surprising omissions in my opinion:
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Verdi Otello
Holst The Planets
Rimsky-K: Scheherezade
I would also, personally, have limited the composers to three works in order to make room for more variety of composers. If we did that now, we would have to vote off a few works and replace them with something (perhaps from the same person whose choice got the boot). I would try to focus on composers who have been left out myself (so Prokofiev and Verdi, good as they are, would have less of a priority for me from the 4 I mentioned). Just a thought. If one is looking to have a few polls, this might be fun.
Quote from: ukrneal on September 07, 2010, 12:10:03 PM
There are a few surprising omissions in my opinion:
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Verdi Otello
Holst The Planets
Rimsky-K: Scheherezade
I would also, personally, have limited the composers to three works in order to make room for more variety of composers. If we did that now, we would have to vote off a few works and replace them with something (perhaps from the same person whose choice got the boot). I would try to focus on composers who have been left out myself (so Prokofiev and Verdi, good as they are, would have less of a priority for me from the 4 I mentioned). Just a thought. If one is looking to have a few polls, this might be fun.
I can't see a reason for reconsideration of any aspect of the poll. Dave gave us well-defined parameters, and each of us carried through honestly.
As for certain well-known works that are not on the list, let's keep in mind that nobody who submitted entries included those works. We made our choices based on our priorities; if you don't like the results, you only have yourself to blame. So, case closed.
Now if Dave wants to go over the 100 mark in order for those popular works to be included, that's his choice to make. He's the boss of this thread, and I'll certainly go along with his mandates.
While I'm on this little rant, I have to say that I get real tired of board members grousing about polls on the board. A member plans a poll, develops and initiates it, then records the results. What he/she often gets in return is a bunch of grumpy responses or replies that are non-responsive. If you don't like a poll, don't participate. If you think there's a better way to do the poll, start your own.
Another thing that bugs me are the folks who essentially say, "Oh, I can't possibly make this decision. It's too hard." What rubbish!!! Each of us makes multiple decisions every day that are much more significant than making a list of a few recordings.
Well, I'm off to the supermarket to buy tonight's dinner. It might be too hard to decide what to eat, given all the choices at my disposal. :P
A rant from Don. *marks calendar*
Quote from: Bulldog on September 07, 2010, 12:32:27 PM
Well, I'm off to the supermarket to buy tonight's dinner. It might be too hard to decide what to eat, given all the choices at my disposal. :P
To read your post, I never would have known that your stomach was empty. ;D
I can't decide what I think of Don's post.
Quote from: Bulldog on September 07, 2010, 12:32:27 PM
I can't see a reason for reconsideration of any aspect of the poll. Dave gave us well-defined parameters, and each of us carried through honestly.
As for certain well-known works that are not on the list, let's keep in mind that nobody who submitted entries included those works. We made our choices based on our priorities; if you don't like the results, you only have yourself to blame. So, case closed.
Now if Dave wants to go over the 100 mark in order for those popular works to be included, that's his choice to make. He's the boss of this thread, and I'll certainly go along with his mandates.
While I'm on this little rant, I have to say that I get real tired of board members grousing about polls on the board. A member plans a poll, develops and initiates it, then records the results. What he/she often gets in return is a bunch of grumpy responses or replies that are non-responsive. If you don't like a poll, don't participate. If you think there's a better way to do the poll, start your own.
Another thing that bugs me are the folks who essentially say, "Oh, I can't possibly make this decision. It's too hard." What rubbish!!! Each of us makes multiple decisions every day that are much more significant than making a list of a few recordings.
Well, I'm off to the supermarket to buy tonight's dinner. It might be too hard to decide what to eat, given all the choices at my disposal. :P
No idea why you ranted at me. I am neither unhappy with the results nor upset with the process. I was merely making suggestions if other criteria were to be considered (as well as observing some interesting and popular omissions). Perhaps you were just hungary (I get grumpy myself when I haven't eaten).
Goodness knöws, when I'm hungary, I'm magyar than a wet hen!
I think Don said it best. I like this list, because it is our list, with our input. It is unique. I think this thread should be pin-marked for new users.
Let's just hope that perhaps this list of 100 GMG is Volume I! Volume II may be in the planning stages. ;) :)
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 07, 2010, 01:57:21 PM
I think Don said it best. I like this list, because it is our list, with our input. It is unique. I think this thread should be pin-marked for new users.
Let's just hope that perhaps this list of 100 GMG is Volume I! Volume II may be in the planning stages. ;) :)
I see you and Don both are anticipating me. ;) Certainly we've yet to exhaust the works many of us deem essential, so if there's enough demand I think a second volume might be helpful to newbies looking to probe a bit deeper.
Quote from: ukrneal on September 07, 2010, 12:56:52 PM
No idea why you ranted at me. I am neither unhappy with the results nor upset with the process. I was merely making suggestions if other criteria were to be considered (as well as observing some interesting and popular omissions). Perhaps you were just hungary (I get grumpy myself when I haven't eaten).
I really wasn't ranting at you - just used your post as my introduction to the rant.
Quote from: Bulldog on September 07, 2010, 02:10:47 PM
That's a good one. 8)
Yeah, but what did you get for dinner tonight? Tamales? (I'm making red beans and rice with Louisiana hot sausage.)
Quote from: DavidRoss on September 07, 2010, 02:13:51 PM
Yeah, but what did you get for dinner tonight? Tamales? (I'm making red beans and rice with Louisiana hot sausage.)
Eye-round roast beef, baked potatoes, salad and apple pie. There's nothing like red meat, and I'm loaded with it.
Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 11:52:26 AM
But where is the cross-dressing? :'(
I take it you've never heard Pavarotti sing it live.
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 03:54:55 AM
Mrs. Rock thanks you.
Sarge
Always glad to be of service to a lady. And a warm welcome to her, too.
I think that's one of only two recordings I owned in both an LP and CD versions, the other being Furtwangler's Bayreuth 9th.
Quote from: AndyD. on September 07, 2010, 08:33:26 AM
I liked the Studer, but the rest I haven't heard. I thought that Stratas was an excellent Salome, and I love the dvd.
It's hard for me not to pick Nilsson, she's my favorite female heavy metal singer, ever.
My admiration for Nilsson knows no bounds. A tremendous talent, a unique voice, a force of nature....utterly mindboggling live (I only heard her once unfortunately). But the love is missing. I just don't
love her voice, especially in
Salome where I think Behrens is more sensitive to the text, Studer more beautifully sung, Caballé more girlish sounding, and Nielsen far more believable as a spoiled adolescent brat determined to get her way. Considering her vocal acting, Nielsen is my favorite Salome.
Sarge
Quote from: ukrneal on September 07, 2010, 12:10:03 PM
There are a few surprising omissions in my opinion:
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Verdi Otello
Holst The Planets
Rimsky-K: Scheherezade
If it is any consolation, I finally decided on my two discs after several days of agonizing, while in the shower this morning, and then checked this thread to see the game is over :( :( but at least, without consulting the thread, I chose to include one of those four works!!
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Scriabin: La poeme d'extase. LSO, Evgeny Svetlanov (BBC Legends)
Gershwin by Grofe: Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, etc. Lincoln Mayorga, Al Gallodoro, Harmonie Ensemble (harmonia mundi)
Because it is the CD I play the most often, I nominate:
Bonis: Piano Quartets, especially No.2 in D Major (Mozart Piano Quartet)
Not only does this CD provide two works of exceptional vigour and spirituality but as an added bonus the delightful 'Soir' and 'Matin' for violin, cello and piano. 'Matin' is almost the perfect piece of music to wake up to!
I think this has been fantastic and shouldn't be allowed to sink. I suggest that David Ross add a final post with the finalized list (maybe including who suggested each entry) that the thread be locked and made into one of those sticky threads stuck at the top.
I wonder if that list can be somehow put on the GMG classical music home page www.good-music-guide.com (http://www.good-music-guide.com)?
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 12, 2010, 07:42:40 AM
I wonder if that list can be somehow put on the GMG classical music home page www.good-music-guide.com (http://www.good-music-guide.com)?
Does anyone
ever look there? I never have. But one doesn't preclude the other.
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 12, 2010, 07:42:40 AM
I wonder if that list can be somehow put on the GMG classical music home page www.good-music-guide.com (http://www.good-music-guide.com)?
There's a Basic Collection link already there, but only 10 or releases are listed.
Quote from: Scarpia on September 12, 2010, 07:43:23 AM
Does anyone ever look there? I never have.
You are probably right, however for someone new searching for the site, they could be led there with their searching, instead of www.good-music-guide.com/community.
Just an idea.
Quote from: Scarpia on September 12, 2010, 07:40:13 AM
I think this has been fantastic and shouldn't be allowed to sink. I suggest that David Ross add a final post with the finalized list (maybe including who suggested each entry) that the thread be locked and made into one of those sticky threads stuck at the top.
Sounds like a great idea!
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 12, 2010, 07:50:26 AM
Sounds like a great idea!
I second! I would have loved seeing that back in 2006 (my first foray onto the site).
Quote from: George on September 12, 2010, 07:44:17 AM
There's a Basic Collection link already there, but only 10 or releases are listed.
E'en so, that's not at all a bad list for the person just starting out. Not every beginner
wants to buy 100 CDs at the outset.
QuoteThe GMG Essential 100
1 Anonymous Ludus Danielis Estampie-Munich Ensemble
2 Bach Cello Suites Fournier
3 Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Enescu
4 Bach Goldberg Variations Hantai/Mirare
5 Bach St Matthew Passion Fink/Goerne/Harnoncourt (2001)
6 Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Tureck/DG
7 Bartόk Wooden Prince Boulez/CSO
8 Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 Kleiber/WP
9 Beethoven Piano Cto #5 Kempff/van Kempen/BP
10 Beethoven Pathetique Sonata Moravec
11 Beethoven String Quartet #14, op 131 Busch Quartet
12 Beethoven Missa Solemnis
13 Beethoven Symphony #9 Furtwängler/London Philharmonia (1954)
14 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Davis/LSO
15 Berg Chamber Cto Boulez/Barenboim/Zuckerman
16 Bloch Evocations Sedares/NZSO
17 Brahms Symphony #4 Reiner/RPO
18 Brahms Piano Cto #1 Gilels/Jochum/BP
19 Brahms Piano Trios op 87 & 101/Clarinet Trio Op.114 Beaux Arts Trio /Pieterson
20 Brahms String Sextets Amadeus Quartet et al
21 Brahms German Requiem Kempe/Gruemmer/Fischer-Dieskau
22 Bruckner Symphony #7 Karajan/WP
23 Chopin Études Pollini
24 Chopin Nocturnes Arrau
25 Copland Appalachian Spring Orpheus Chamber orch
26 Debussy Chamber Music for Woodwinds (+ Saint-Saens) Bennett/Gough/et al
27 Debussy Preludes Bks 1 & 2 Michelangeli
28 Debussy Prélude...faune, Jeux, Images, Danses Baudo/Czech Phil
29 Dufay Isorhythmic Motets Huelgas Ensemble
30 Dvořák Symphonies 8 & 9 Mackerras/Prague
31 Dvořák Cello Cto (w/Elgar cello cto) Fournier/Szell/Wallenstein/BP
32 Dvořák Symphony 7 / The Water Goblin Belohlavek/Czech Phil
33 Durufle Requiem (w/Faure Requiem) Barley/Bar/Murray/Cleobury/ECO
34 Gluck Orfeo & Euridice Jacobs
35 Godowsky Studies on the Etudes of Chopin Hamelin
36 Grainger Country Gardens (+ works by Coates) Fennell/Eastman-Rochester Pops
37 Handel Messiah Christie
38 Handel Heroic Arias Bowman/King
39 Haydn 11 Keyboard Sonatas Brendel
40 Haydn String Quartets op 76 Quatuor Mosaïques
41 Hildegard A Feather on the Breath of God-Sequences and Hymns Kirkby, et al
42 Janáček Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras/WP
43 Ligeti Etudes, bks 1-3 Aimard
44 Liszt Favourite Piano Works Bolet
45 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer
46 Mahler Symphony #5 Dohnanyi/CO
47 Mahler Symphony #9 Bernstein/RCO
48 Martin Der Cornet/Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek
49 Martinu Symphony #4/Piano Cto #4/Tre ricercari Turnovsky
50 Massenet Mélodies Kruysen/Lee
51 Medtner Sonata op. 25/2, "Night Wind"
52 Mendelssohn Violin Cto (w/Shostakovich Violin Cto #1) Hahn/Wolff/Oslo Philharmonic
53 Monteverdi L'Orfeo Pickett
54 Monteverdi Vespers Bernius
55 Mozart Don Giovanni Jacobs
56 Mozart Cosi fan tutte Böhm (1953)
57 Mozart Late Symphonies Harnoncourt/RCO
58 Mozart Great Mass in C minor Leppard (EMI)
59 Mozart Requiem Böhm/WP
60 Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet Frost/Oundjian/Amsterdam Sinf
61 Mussorgsky Boris Gudunov Abbado/BP
62 Pärt Tabula Rasa/Fratres/Cantus Kremer/Jarrett/Sondeckis
63 Pärt Kanon Pokajanen
64 Pergolesi Stabat Mater Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
65 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Maazel/CO
66 Prokofiev War Sonatas Richter
67 Puccini Turandot Pavarotti/Sutherland/Mehta
68 Rachmaninov Piano Cto #2 (w/Tchaikovsky Piano Cto #1) Richter
69 Rachmaninov Vespers Svechnikov/USSR Nat'l Choir
70 Rameau Keyboard Works Tharaud
71 Ravel Piano Trio Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller
72 Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Dutoit/Montreal
73 Satie Selected piano compositions Aldo
74 Schoenberg 5 pieces op 16 (w/ Webern & Berg) Levine/BP
75 Schubert String Quintet in C major Emerson or Melos SQ w/Rostropovich
76 Schubert Sonata in G, D.894 Richter
77 Schubert Schwanengesang Munteanu
78 Schumann Kinderszenen/Kreisleriana/Carnaval Cortot
79 Schumann Symphony #4 Furtwängler/BP
80 Schumann Dichterliebe Wächter/Brendel
81 Shostakovich String Quartet #8 Emerson or Borodin SQ
82 Shostakovich Symphony #7 "Leningrad" Ančerl/Czech Phil
83 Sibelius Symphony #5/Violin Cto Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth
84 Sibelius Symphony #4 & #7/Tapiola Maazel/WP
85 Strauss Four Last Songs Janowitz/Karajan/BP
86 Stravinsky Rite of Spring Bernstein/NYPO (1958)
87 Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms (w/Poulenc & Bernstein) Bernstein/LSO/NYPO
88 Stravinsky L'oiseu de feu (complete) Rattle/CBSO
89 Suppe Overtures (w/ Auber Overtures) Paray/DSO
90 Tallis Spem In Alium/Salve Intermerata Summerly/Oxford Camerata
91 Tchaikovsky Violin Cto (w/Brahms Violin Cto) Heifetz/Reiner/CSO
92 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Svetlanov
93 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio op 50 (+ Shostakovich Piano Trio #2 op 67) Argerich/Kremer/Maisky
94 Vaughan Wms Symphony #5 Previn/RPO
95 Verdi Requiem Toscanini/NBC (1951)
96 Victoria Requiem 1605 Christophers/The Sixteen
97 Vivaldi Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Alessandrini
98 Wagner Tristan und Isolde Böhm (1966)
99 Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen Solti/WP
100 Weber Der Freischütz Keilberth
Agree concerning 8,62,69,
and perhaps no. 5 & 99 ...
Suppé Ouvertures - and no Nielsen, for instance :o
There´s a lot of important repertoire missing here ...
Quote from: DieNacht on November 03, 2011, 01:45:52 PM
Suppé Ouvertures - and no Nielsen, for instance :o
There´s a lot of important repertoire missing here ...
You aren't seriously suggesting that Nielson is better than Suppe are you?!?!? Nah, can't be... :-X (in case you hadn't guessed, that was my nomination).
It is difficult to pick this sort of list - and with lots of contributors, there are bound to be disagreements. If I could only bring 5 cd's with me to the so-called desert island, that would be one of them. I can't imagine life without it.
Well, we can agree that Paray is one of the best in such repertoire (Scherchen together with him also) ...
Quote from: DieNacht on November 03, 2011, 02:11:01 PM
Well, we can agree that Paray is one of the best in such repertoire (Scherchen together with him also) ...
Common ground! Excellent!
I'm not sure whether this thread is alive and kicking, and counting it's way up to the magical 'Top 1000' disks or not, but my choice will be:
Schumann: String Quintet/ String Quartet: Michelangelo Qtt: Chandos/ Chaconne
If however, you've already reached your milestone, then please ignore me... ;D
I have a feeling of that the list this thread finally produced back in 2011 is very biased (as most lists) based on the active members' interests at the time. A "new" list would probably replace at least half of the entries, don't you think? I guess we at GMG have a love/hate relationship with lists..... >:D
Quote from: Moonfish on March 24, 2015, 11:44:42 PM
. . . I guess we at GMG have a love/hate relationship with lists..... >:D
Aye.
Quote from: Moonfish on March 24, 2015, 11:44:42 PM
I guess we at GMG have a love/hate relationship with lists..... >:D
Yes. That is no 1 on my list of things I have a love/hate relationship with.
Quote from: Moonfish on March 24, 2015, 11:44:42 PMI guess we at GMG have a love/hate relationship with lists..... >:D
It's not so much of a hate thing with me. I like making lists, but the only problem I seem to run into is these lists become irrelevant once a new phase begins. In terms of my own 'Essential Collection,' I'm quite happy with my list even though I didn't include any Delius or R. Strauss.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17174.msg685511.html#msg685511
Quote from: The new erato on March 25, 2015, 03:42:28 AM
Yes. That is no 1 on my list of things I have a love/hate relationship with.
;D :D ;D
Sarge