The one recording you believe everyone should own

[Papy Oli]

Actually, two is cheating , so I left the one I know and second the recommendation. A wonderful disc (mine has a different cover though)...

Maciek

I've edited my original post to stay on topic  0:) ...and kept this one too !! 

[Maciek]

Aw, you didn't have to. I was just joking. Many people have committed numerical abuse on earlier pages and got away with it.

Maciek

[Papy Oli]

Aw, you didn't have to. I was just joking. Many people have committed numerical abuse on earlier pages and got away with it.

Maciek

No worries, i'll post more in later pages

[subliminal message]

Buy : Tallis - Spem in Alum / Naxos / Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly


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[Hector]

Celibidache's Bruckner 9 is a waste of space.

No, that's where it should be sent:"Beam me up Scottie."

The 4th is essential, though.

[karlhenning]

Many people have committed numerical abuse on earlier pages and got away with it.

Where's the outrage?

[Endymion]

[karlhenning]

Oh, did Dvořák write a tango? 

[BorisG]

Oh, did Dvořák write a tango? 

Or Appalachian washboard? 

[marvinbrown]

I'm a sinner . . . . . .

     0:)

   marvin

[Brian]

Or Appalachian washboard? 

If we're going to talk world music, there are three CDs everyone should own:

Simon Shaheen and al-Qantara Blue Flame
Finjan Crossing Selkirk Avenue
Chen Jun Erhu Classics



How's that for numerical abuse?

[Solitary Wanderer]

On jazz I like Davis' Kind of Blue but If I were to pick one jazz album I'd go for this:



Its quite different to A Love Supreme which often gets cited as his 'best'. [I find it too busy/exhausting]

I think Ballads is a gorgeous gem with the only criticism being thats its too short.

[Bogey]

On jazz I like Davis' Kind of Blue but If I were to pick one jazz album I'd go for this:

Its quite different to A Love Supreme which often gets cited as his 'best'. [I find it too busy/exhausting]

I think Ballads is a gorgeous gem with the only criticism being thats its too short.

I do not have the Ballads album.....heard snippits here and there.  I am guessing that if I grabbed one 'Trane cd it would be with this line-up, but it would be one of their live recordings.  However, I will check into the Ballads a bit more due to your post.

[ewg_gestalt]

I'm torn between two (both of the same composer's music), but I'll go with:

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, Five Mystical Songs, Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and Flos Campi; Corydon Singers and English Chamber Orchestra (+ many soloists), Matthew Best, on Hyperion.

I pick this only because it contains what has to be the best recording of my favorite musical "moment" of all time: the magical climax at "And draw her home with music" about two-thirds of the way through the piece. I first heard this on a tape of a radio recording--I can't even tell you who was singing. But that moment was so overwhelming and astonishing--who ever dared to write a piece with 16 soloists as a chorus?--that even with that bad recording, that it cemented RVW as my favorite composer. I've strayed here and there, but he's always the composer I turn to when I need to raise flagging spirits.

Plus, it doesn't hurt that it features great recordings of the other three pieces (particularly Flos Campi, a pseudo-concerto for viola in which VW somehow manages to wring more emotion out of a wordless choir in twenty minutes than most composers get out of a chorus in their entire oeuvres).

[Michel]

Also, when did this thread get filled full of Jazz jizz?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Also, when did this thread get filled full of Jazz jizz?

Oh, it started several pages back...

Pretty cool, huh?

[dtwilbanks]

"Jazz is America's classical music."

[George]

"Jazz is America's classical music."

That's what I learned in school. 

[dtwilbanks]

That's what I learned in school. 

Go listen to some hard bop, George.

[George]

Go listen to some hard bop, George.

Instead I shall start a new Rock Thread in the diner: you guessed it: "The one Rock album that you think everyone should own."

AND soon: get outside with my guitar in the park. Last year I could play "Mad World" by Tears for Fears, I hope I still got it.

[Holden]

OK, it's a DVD but it's still a recording. However, if you want a CD then this



or this:



and this is all because someone already recommended ABM/Ravel G major/Rach PC 4!