Re: Recommendations for ten Classical CD’s?
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wow...that's jumping in with both feet! Congrats! I'd love to hear what you think of all 12!
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Well the way I figure it, I’m bound to hate some of them, and love others. If I can get a few that I really like, then I can let all you classical music gurus know which ones they are so you can recommend some more. These classical CD’s are pretty cheap, plus, I’ve got another 650 gigs of storage to fill up. LOL
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Moonlight Sonata/Beethoven.
Amazing when you think about it, these classical composers were the 'Rock Stars' of their time.
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Youtube is a great place to audition music before you buy it, I'm starting to like jazz for the first time in my life but not sure where to start...don't know much in the way of jazz musicians.
Half of communication is listening. You can't listen with your mouth.
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I gave each of the CD’s I bought a spin. Some didn’t make it very far before I hit the “skip disk” button on my remote, but I did give each track a listen (some longer than others). I still need to take more time and figure out what it is that I like / dislike about each one, but I figured I’d give my real quick, unorthodox ranking. And I reserve the right to change my order after I listen to them some more… LOL
I bought these:
Holst, Planets Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake Dvorak, Cello Concerto Respighi, Symphonic Poems Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe Brahms, Hungarian Dances Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue Smetana, Ma Vlast Khachaturian, Spartacus Janine Jansen's Four Season's – Vivaldi Beethoven’s 7th
In order of best to worst….
1 - Janine Jansen's Four Season's – Vivaldi 2 - Dvorak, Cello Concerto 3 - Brahms, Hungarian Dances 4 - Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake 5 - Smetana, Ma Vlast 6 - Khachaturian, Spartacus 7 - Beethoven’s 7th 8 - Respighi, Symphonic Poems 9 - Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue 10 - Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe 11 - Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances 12 - Holst, Planets
I like string music, a lot. I didn’t care for the last three because they’re just too, oh I don’t know… sorta movie theme-ish. I don’t like that and I don’t really know why. The Gershwin is too, well dated for me. I doubt I’ll be listening to the any of those four again.
Based on my very initial impressions, is there a particular type of Classical that I should be looking at??
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Youtube is a great place to audition music before you buy it, I'm starting to like jazz for the first time in my life but not sure where to start...don't know much in the way of jazz musicians. Try Chick Korea and Dave Brubek. Both are excellent musicians and are quite accessable. Another place to try before you buy is your local library. I am quite impressed by the range of discs they have.
Fred
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Tks, Fred. I forgot about using the library. That's where they have them things from the last century, they called them 'books' or something like that.
Half of communication is listening. You can't listen with your mouth.
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I picked up this four disc Vivaldi set at Zellers (Canadian Target wannabe) about a week ago for $10. Quite enjoyable. Considering others in the series.
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Yeah Mike, listening to the compositions in their entirety is a minimum requirement for learning about classical music. They'll often grow on you, and you may have accidentally skipped some music that you'd like best. But yes, from those initial impressions and as you specifically commented, you like strings. So, I'll suggest my two favorite CDs featuring string quartets: this one with the beautiful Debussy and Ravel quartets with other attractive items; and this , which has on one disc three of the most famous string quartets, by Borodin, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Then, the other category that comes to mind is violin concertos, so I'll suggest what's probably my overall favorite out of many in that group, with the Sibelius and Korngold concertos . This "Virtuoso Violin" disc containing Spanish-influenced works by Sarasate and others is certainly aptly named, with terrific playing by Perlman.
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bruch violin concerto
and Brahms violin concerto
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