Well I was young :D When I bought my first CD, I owned about ~400 vinyl records. My first CD player was a Philips 620 something, and IT STILL WORKS WELL! Must be from 1990.
My 1st Vinyl:
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1st CD:
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My first classical CD is something for Cptn. Obvious:
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First vinyl that was all mine:
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First CD:
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When I got into classical, I think I bought five or six discs at once to get a broad sample. Can't remember them all.
My first CD was the Labeque sisters playing An American in Paris.
First vinyl, purchased early in 1966, Elgar/Vaughan Williams conducted by Barbirolli. Still have it.
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First CD, Bach by Mutter and Accardo
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Sarge
My first record was a 45 in 1970:
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I don't know what my first cd was, but it would have been something I already had. This is as likely as any:
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First LP on the other hand was probably this piece of marketing:
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First vinyl was bought for me by mother: Mitch Miller plays the 100 Great Composers. And there were actually a hundred individual pieces, mostly short bits of what was then popular in classical music. That was in the early sixties, I was about five or six when she got it for me.
First vinyl I bought for myself: I think was either the Furtwangler Bayreuth Ninth or the Pavarotti/Sutherland/Mehta Turandot. Have both of those on CD now. No longer have the vinyl.
First CD I bought was a two CD set of the music from the film Amadeus.
I was 13 when this was released in America, it was my very first LP all my own!
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edit: Better picture
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First record was this:
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But I never acquired many records, and soon after, my first cd was this:
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Well, not counting the Little Song Sing-a-Long or Smurfs LPs when I was 5 years-old, the first cassette tape that I purchased with my own money, was the soundtrack to the Miami Vice TV series.
;D ;D
These were the first two LPs I bought (I can't remember which was purchased first):
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Surprisingly (or maybe not) I turned out gay.
My first classical LP (if you don't count the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack) was Karajan conducting Tchaikovsky (1812 Overture, Romeo and Juliette, Marche slave).
First two CDs, purchased the day I got my first player, when the format was still fairly new:
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I really wanted to get an opera on CD that first day, but the only ones available in the whole city were Karajan's DG Carmen with Baltsa and Carreras and the Sutherland/Pavarotti/Bonynge Traviata, so I passed, though I did eventually get the Carmen.
My first record was a 45 of Snoopy vs the Red Baron by the Royal Guardsmen. Spent my own allowance on it!
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and first CD
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Quote from: Wendell_E on July 14, 2011, 12:08:36 PM
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Hah, I forgot that album. I had that too, early on, mostly because I was an aspiring trumpeter and Herb was The Man back then. Ah,
Lonely Bull , what a tune! :)
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Quote from: Wendell_E on July 14, 2011, 12:08:36 PM
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Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on July 14, 2011, 12:15:13 PM
Hah, I forgot that album. I had that too, early on, mostly because I was an aspiring trumpeter and Herb was The Man back then. Ah, Lonely Bull , what a tune! :)
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I had that LP, too - actually my parents were huge Alpert fans so we had a number of his records. And really, how can you forget that cover art... ;D
My first record was a gift from my violin teacher, after I heard (and loved)
The Pines of Rome played by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Respighi:
The Fountains of Rome, The Pines of Rome (Sargent / LSO)
--Bruce
I'm going to break the rules because my first album was on tape because as a kid I did not have a cd player and the lp was already out of fashion. :)
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Now my first cd was (I think!)
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And the first mp3 album that I purchased:
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Quote from: Wendell_E on July 14, 2011, 12:08:36 PM(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Wendelle/recordings/cream.jpg)
Surprisingly (or maybe not) I turned out gay.
The record made you gay! ;)
BTW the Sibelius 4 with Ashkenazy: Is it any good?
I bought my first album in the middle of the eighties, it was Ummagumma (tape):
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First classical CDs: a collection of 24 CDs (all of them very cheap) from a sort of classical music encyclopedia, performed by some (often fake) Slavonic orchestras and soloists.
:)
Quote from: toñito on July 14, 2011, 11:44:09 PM
I bought my first album in the middle of the eighties, it was Ummagumma (tape):
(http://img2.mlstatic.com/s_MLC_v_O_f_30165159_7440.jpg)
First classical CDs: a collection of 24 CDs (all of them very cheap) from a sort of classical music encyclopedia, performed by some (often fake) Slavonic orchestras and soloists.
:)
Excellent! One of my favourite Pink Floyd albums! :)
The first Vinyl I owned was this (also my current Avatar) :) :
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First CD I owned was this:
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First Classical Disc:
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Still own the Telescopes & Mozart Discs - Gave away the LP long ago but have a copy of that record on CD now :D
My very first CD I purchased once I got my own CD player (when I was 15), back in 1990 was White Lion - Pride.
;D :D
My first official classical music purchase was Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Naxos).
Quote from: Wendell_E on July 14, 2011, 12:08:36 PM
These were the first two LPs I bought (I can't remember which was purchased first):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Wendelle/recordings/nancy.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Wendelle/recordings/cream.jpg)
Surprisingly (or maybe not) I turned out gay.
;D :D ;D
I don't know, Wendell. I had those records, too, and I'm sure Nancy and the whipped cream woman helped keep me on the
straight and narrow path :D
Sarge
Quote from: Todd on July 14, 2011, 08:54:53 AMWhen I got into classical, I think I bought five or six discs at once to get a broad sample. Can't remember them all.
Kempff, Backhaus, Gulda, Annie Fischer and Schnabel playing Beethoven, no doubt. ;D
For me, on CD it's VH's
5150 and Seger's
Night Moves.
On Cassette it's Run DMC's first album.
Classical was Szell's Beethoven Symphonies 1 and 6 on Sony Essential Classics.
I don't see a way to add attachments, so I'll use words.
My first 45 was "I Will Follow Him," by Little Peggy March, in the spring or summer of 1963.
My first LP was Cloudy, with Occasional Tears, by Skeeter Davis, a Christmas gift to go with my new stereo, also in 1963. This would quickly be followed by Lesley Gore and Meet the Beatles.
My first CD? Maybe Streisand's The Broadway Album? I don't remember. It would have been sometime in 1986. I remember my first classical CDs perfectly, though. In January, 1987, I heard Schubert's last piano sonata while I was at Olsson's in Georgetown, and I had to have it. It was the one on Philips Silver Line, by Alfred Brendel, and it was my introduction to classical music, basically (beyond stuff I heard in movies). They were having a "3 for $25" sale, so I also bought the Brendel/Marriner Mozart PCs 23 and 27 and HvK's Galleria Beethoven 9.
And I was hooked.
Quote from: Leon on July 15, 2011, 07:56:45 AM
You can add images by using the image tagger icon - I've the plugged in the ones I could find but don't know if they are the ones you remember.
:)
Thank you, Leon, for posting those. I must have bought "I Will Follow Him" late in its release, as I didn't get a picture sleeve. But the other two are just as I remember them.
Let's see. These must be the image tagger icons . Oops, they don't show up here. How do I get the image in there? How do I browse through my Pictures files?
Another vote for Technotronic! Can't believe I was listening to that!
"Get your booty on the floor tonight! Make my day!"
Pretty sophisticated, eh?
Quote from: AllegroVivace on July 15, 2011, 06:00:10 PMAnother vote for Technotronic! Can't believe I was listening to that!Quote
You're asking for forgiveness? Granted.
Quote"Get your booty on the floor tonight! Make my day!"
Pretty sophisticated, eh?
Maybe text for our GMG book authors ;)
I started with tapes, copied by my father off the radio, which included the complete Bach Passions, lots of his organ music, and upon request, many Haydn Symphonies. My first vinyl as a kid (without having a player to make use of it) was an LP of bawdy Mozart songs, largely about defecation. ::)
Then my classical desires took a hiatus, into which fell my first sound-medium purchases.
I think my first vinyl purchase (I don't think it was the LP, but only the 12" single) was Alice Cooper's "Poison" (+ "House of Fire"?)
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Alice Cooper - "Poison" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0057Q9GJ8/nectarandambr-20)
My first CD was a stack of five, methinks... but if I remember correctly (I'm too lazy to go into the cellar and check to see) this should have been No.1
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Van Halen - "Van Halen" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Y6O9/nectarandambr-20)
My first five classical CDs were:
m. ravel bolero etc. [unknown label, more an accident]
w.a. mozart requiem + charpentier: te deum [forgot the label, strangely... maybe the Malgoire on Sony - the disc I consider my true first classical CD]
w.a. mozart zauberfloete - WPh, WStOpCh / Boehm / Gueden, Simoneau, Lipp, Boehme, Berry, loose, Hellwig, Ludwig, Roessel-Madjan... [London]
j.s. bach ouvertueren (orchestral suites) - Gardiner [Erato] {Always remember them as Koopman, because of Erato, but it's Gardiner, after all}
j. rheinberger organ concertos op. 149, sechs stuecke op.150 [Capriccio]
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Bach, Orchestral Suites
Gardiner, EBS (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00004S665/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=goodmusicguideuk-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00004S665)
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Quote from: Tapio Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on July 14, 2011, 10:46:47 PM
BTW the Sibelius 4 with Ashkenazy: Is it any good?
I like it a lot. It's a fast account, no movement longer than 10 minutes, but that made it very easy for me when I was just beginning to understand the symphony. I think slow readings like Maazel/Pittsburgh are for those who already know the bizarre, unhappy sound-world of the music and faster readings like Ashkenazy are for those who are still somewhat intimidated. Maybe. The Ashkenazy was really useful for me, though, and I still like it.
Quote from: George on July 15, 2011, 06:08:59 AM
Kempff, Backhaus, Gulda, Annie Fischer and Schnabel playing Beethoven, no doubt. ;D
Reminds me of my first LP, which was Beethoven´s op. 31. no. 2 and 3 with Kempff (mono) - a birthday present from my elder sister..
My first CD(s) was the Brandenburg concertos with Reinhard Goebel.
Quote from: (: premont :) on July 16, 2011, 03:42:12 AM
My first CD(s) was the Brandenburg concertos with Reinhard Goebel.
That may have been my second CD purchase. That or Kunst der Fuge with Goebel/MAK. The Solti recordings of Nozze di Figaro and Meistersinger rounded out the first five, IIRC.
Quote from: jlaurson on July 16, 2011, 01:44:47 AMI started with tapes, copied by my father off the radio
Oh yeah, that's what I did. I had a nice collection of self-recorded tapes. Unfortunately, I don't have them any more :( I remember I wrote a complaint to the radio guy from "WDR 1" because he always started talking before then end of a music piece, which really annoyed me. I received an answer, he felt rather offended and didn't change anything ;) WDR1 Disco Night - Acid House era, tape recording, oh long gone... I must be old (I am, I'm close to 40 and have a dog now). ;D
Quotem. ravel bolero etc. [unknown label, more an accident]
In any case true. "Bolero" and "Accident" are an unrivaled duo.
Quote from: Tapio Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on July 16, 2011, 09:32:49 PM
( I remember I wrote a complaint to the radio guy from "WDR 1" because he always started talking before then end of a music piece, which really annoyed me. I received an answer, he felt rather offended and didn't change anything ;)
I've heard that announcers do that on purpose, for the exact purpose of discouraging people from taping off the air.
A dormmate of mine in college religiously taped every Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinee broadcast (late 70s). Since I lost touch with him as soon as we graduated, I have no idea of what the current status of that collection might be.
Quote from: Tapio Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on July 16, 2011, 12:13:51 AM
You're asking for forgiveness? Granted.
Actually I just went and listened to "Pump Up the Jam" on YouTube after all these years, and I have to admit, there's something there. Its creativity is simply working in a different paradigm. What's more striking is the quality of the music video. It's possible that close to half a million was spent on it, but I am sure a kid could make a better one on an iPhone today.
Quote from: jlaurson on July 16, 2011, 01:44:47 AM
My first CD was a stack of five, methinks... but if I remember correctly (I'm too lazy to go into the cellar and check to see) this should have been No.1
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nd8Sa2fFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Van Halen - "Van Halen" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Y6O9/goodmusicguide-20)
My first five classical CDs were:
m. ravel bolero etc. [unknown label, more an accident]
w.a. mozart requiem + charpentier: te deum [forgot the label, strangely... maybe the Malgoire on Sony - the disc I consider my true first classical CD]
w.a. mozart zauberfloete - WPh, WStOpCh / Boehm / Gueden, Simoneau, Lipp, Boehme, Berry, loose, Hellwig, Ludwig, Roessel-Madjan... [London]
j.s. bach ouvertueren (orchestral suites) - Gardiner [Erato] {Always remember them as Koopman, because of Erato, but it's Gardiner, after all}
j. rheinberger organ concertos op. 149, sechs stuecke op.150 [Capriccio]
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SV58GQAAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Bach, Orchestral Suites
Gardiner, EBS (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00004S665/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=goodmusicguideuk-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00004S665)
HA! I checked. The top-five included "Van Halen" (at No.5), but No.1 was
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Scorpions, Savage Amusement (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Y6O9/goodmusicguide-20)
My first classical CD WAS this one, after all ("CD No. 53")
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Mozart + Charpentier,
Jean-Claude Malgoire
La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy
Sony (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002775/goodmusicguide-20)
The Te Deum is particularly good on it, I find. Better than more famous recordings with more famous singers (i.e. Hotter).
The Bolero was this one, but came quite a bit later. ("CD No.100")
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Mozart + Charpentier,
Anton Nanut / Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana
"World Famous Masterpieces" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000KEA/goodmusicguide-20)
We've come a long way, since.
2 of my first 45 rpm singles bought in 1983...
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;D
First LP of any sort was probably 'Please Please Me (The Beatles)' or 'With the Beatles'. First classical LP was Scheherazade by Rimsky Korsakov (RCA, Reiner Boston SO). First CD (before I had a CD player!) was Tubin Symphony 2 and 6 (BIS, Jarvi).
First LP:
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First cassette:
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First CD:
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First classical CD:
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If there's a recording of anything anywhere that kicks more @$$ than Szell's Tannhauser Overture, I've never heard it. Every time I hear it, I'm 12 again and wondering if my speakers will melt from playing it so loud. ;D
This Thread is a trap!! :o
However, I am proud to say that I have you all beat in the Classical cd category. As I recall, my first classical cd was Suk's Asrael on Virgin. Of course, at the time, I'm sure I wished it sounded more like the Gorecki (which was years off). I tried to like it, but even the minor key couldn't save me,... and so the search began...