Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #14)

I have had trouble ripping CDs as of late, but if things improve, sure.

 

Very good point, Stuart.

 

+1

 

Between the concertos, symphonies and keyboard works alone, I think there's much to enjoy. Still, I don't love him nearly as much as Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Beethoven or Schubert.

How about a discussion question:

"What's your top ten composers, everybody?" (if you can, put the list in order)

1. Chopin
2. Beethoven
3. Schubert
4. Rachmaninoff
5. Mozart
6. Bach
7. Debussy
8. Shostakovich
9. Ligeti
10. Poulenc

 

Do you have the concertos? I'd say that's his most accessible stuff.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320560977788&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

And here I thought you bought it off the back of a truck.

 

1. Mahler
2. (tie) Bach
2. (tie) Schubert
4. Mozart
5. Bach
6. everybody else

 

Fixed.

Is that second Bach entry one of the sons of JS Bach?

Thanks for responding, Jay!

 

Now playing:



with Joseph Szigeti, violin;
Pierre Fournier, cello
Artur Schnabel, piano.

Brahms: Piano Trio in B, op.8
Violin Sonata in G, op.78
Violin Sonata in A, op.100
recorded 1947-48

 

More or less in line

Johann Sebastian Bach
Beethoven
Xenakis
Josquin
Dowland
Bruckner
Marais
Schubert
Brahms
Mahler
François Couperin

 

Don't own a thing by those blokes. Guess I'll have someone to turn to when the time comes to try them out.

 

Playing this beautiful rendition of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky’s 6th for coop.

 

LOL!

 

These are all the works on Prokofiev I have on CD's. Not sure what I have on LP. It looks like I do not have Prokofiev's concertos ...

Romeo & Juliet, Sym. No. 1 Chicago Sym./Solti
Peter and the Wolf BBC Phil./Tirtekuer/Attenborough
Peter and the Wolf Royal Phil. Orch/Previn
Romeo & Juliet London Symphony Orch/Previn
7 Symp/Lieutenant Kije Berlin Phil./Ozawa

 

Play it loud, I'm bleak and ploughed

John Dowland is to the lute what Chopin is to the Piano, a great composer of shorter instrumental works. The Nigel North series of Dowland's works for solo lute is essential. There's four Naxos CDs in the series and that covers nearly everything for solo lute, give or take an authentication or two. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares takes Dowland's popular "Flow My Tears" and expands the song into seven variations for viol consort, one of the great works in the realm of chamber music. There are many fine recordings, Fretwork's on Virgin Veritas is a favorite, along with Savall and Hesperion XX on Astree.

Watch and listen to Tous les matins du monde, a surreal, fictionalized film account of Marin Marais' years of study with the great Monsieur de Sainte Colombe. The soundtrack, directed and performed by Jordi Savall, is both a great introduction to the music of Marin Marais and one of the great Early Music CDs. And it's on SACD to boot. After Tous les matins du monde explore Jordi Savall's other Marin Marais CDs and SACDs.

In the same general time frame and vicinity, François Couperin wrote the lovely Les Nations, a collection of four suites in four national styles. Jordi Savall's realization raises this music to the level of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti by virtue of rich sonorities and vivid recording. This is not lo-cal, hairshrt HIPP. François Couperin was a precursor of Debussy, with many beautiful keyboard miniatures depicting the emotional lives of friends and others the composer might have bumped up against. I love Blandine Verlet's quirky set of the complete keyboard works on Astree, good luck finding that. Christophe Rousset's set on French Harmonia Mundi is more straightforward, there's a good two-cd selection available:

http://www.amazon.com/Couperin-Pièces-clavecin-Francois/dp/B00099FVBU

Here's a representative snippet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsMSVI6ykLg

As for Xenakis, start here, play loud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ZKpISpF2U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJdkkgJTbvM&feature=related

 

Looks like you can at least put up with Tchaikovsky's very dark 6th ...

 

Beethoven
Bach
Mahler
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Chopin

 

It was $15.99 + $2.99 Sh OBO
I offered $10 + $2.99 Sh and He went for it....can't even get it for that used on Amazon!!
Pretty good deal for a $30.00 Set

 

You're too modest.

You got it for less than half the current best price over at amazon, which is itself a decent price.

 

Hah. I meant Beethoven for #5.

1. Mahler
2. Bach
2. Schubert
4. Mozart
5. Beethoven

And you're welcome.

 

Oh, cool. I thought he was missing.

He was previously my favorite, but this year Chopin pulled into the lead.

 

As for Prokofiev.....not a lot is really composed by Him so it's easy for everyone to forget about Him.
I have lesser known Composers that are really quite good.
Holmboe.....Alfvén....Gade....Hovhaness and Langlais to name a few I have.
It's really hard to find any Composer that all of His/Her works are not appealing.
But then I'm pretty open minded to about all aspects of Classical and New Age. <<SHRUG>>

 

I agree.

Now playing:



Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto 1
Rubinstein/Barbirolli

 

Hummmmm wonder if the quality of this is any good??



http://www.amazon.com/Prokofiev-Sho...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1281304795&sr=8-1