Actually these already are my Telarc favorites; I had to make several cuts to get it down to that number. If any further cuts were needed I'd probably stay with discs 2,4,5,6,7 and 8. I didn't include any purely jazz CDs since my own listening is almost entirely classical(together with some of the older Broadway and Hollywood musicals plus some film scores, e.g. Bernard Herrmann for The Day The Earth Stood Still)and my jazz expertise is very limited. Gershwin of course was heavily influenced by the jazz idiom in his music and the suggested disc is a bit jazzier than most since it uses the original jazz band version of Rhapsody in Blue(played by an excellent Canadian pianist, the late William Tritt).
One amendment is that I noticed that just recently Telarc re-packaged its Vaughan Williams material into a 2 CD for the price of one
set . Now, in addition to Symphony 2 and Lark, Symphony 5 and the Fantasias are included, making it an even better buy than the listed disc .
