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Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

NickVolos — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:20:52 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 02/24/2014 15:20

Here are my top 5 right off my My Favorite Classical CDs Collection chart:

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Beethoven The Late String Quartets by Tokyo String Quartet

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Bach 6 Brandenburg Concertos / 4 Orchestral Suites by Trevor Pinnock / The English Concert

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Vivaldi Concertos by Trevor Pinnock / The English Concert

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Beethoven The Complete Piano Sonatas by Wilhelm Kempff

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Mozart The Piano Sonatas by Maria Joao Pires

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

SingingPeasant96 — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:18:59 GMT

Author: SingingPeasant96

Posted: 02/24/2014 11:18

According to my chart:

1 - Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No.1
2 - Arvo Pärt: Fratres
3 - Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphonie
4 - Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps
5 - Béla Bartók: 6 String Quartets

HM :
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht / Variationen Für Orchester
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps
Béla Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra / Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta / Hungarian Sketches
Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

davidhuret — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:26:49 GMT

Author: davidhuret

Posted: 02/24/2014 08:26

Just for the 20th century, long symphonic pieces only:

1. The Planets (Gustav Holzt)
2. Symphony "Antarctica" (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
3. The Roman Trilogy (Ottorino Respighi)
4. Standing Stone (Paul McCartney)
5. the Alpine Symphony (Richard Strauss)

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:58:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2014 20:58

Lord knows I've only scratched the surface of things, but here's what I've been listening to most often lately:

Chopin - Nocturnes (Arthur Rubinstein)
Liszt - The Liszt Album (Arthur Rubinstein)
Scriabin - Poem of Ecstasy/Piano Concerto/Prometheus (Anatol Ugorski, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez)
Hildegard Von Bingen - A Feather on the Breath of God
Guillaume de Machaut - Masse De Notre Dame (Ensemble Gilles Binchois)
Debussy - Orchestral Music (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Eduard van Beinum)

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:24:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2014 20:24

sp4cetiger wrote:

I've been meaning to make a chart for this. Anyway, I'm into early music

Please do. I've been working on a classical chart for awhile now but I know very little about anything per-baroque. (I'll make a point to check out everything you've posted)

Anyway, my top 5, (all of which are on my chart, one of which is my #1)

#1

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Olivier Messiaen Quatuor Pour La Fin Du... Barenboim

#2

Edgard Varese The Complete Works by Ric...o Ensemble

#3

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Sofia Gubaidulina Silenzio / De Profund...n Ensemble

#4

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Liszt Annees De Pelerinage Complete Recording by Lazar Berman

#5

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Bela Bartok Concerto For Orchestra; Mus... Orchestra

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

samistake2ice — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:27:22 GMT

Author: samistake2ice

Posted: 02/22/2014 17:27

sp4cetiger wrote:

I've been meaning to make a chart for this.

please do, im interested

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:55:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2014 16:55

I've been meaning to make a chart for this. Anyway, I'm into early music.

My top 5:

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1. En Seumeillant by Trio Subtilior

Easily my favorite classical album of all time, the Trio Subtilior performs a set of pieces from the French Ars Subtilior (14th century). These are not songs you can hum along to after one listen... or perhaps even ten listenings. They explore the musical space in a way that's both exciting and new (to my ears). At first, they may sound as if the composers randomly chose notes to splotch together, like a child fingerpainting for an exhibit of abstract art. Eventually, however, the tunes will come together, and begin to sound energizing, somber, or perhaps even catchy.

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2. Guillaume Dufay Quadrivium by Cantica Symphonia

I could go on for pages about my adventures with this album. As a person who spent most of his life listening to rock and pop, the initial experience of listening to these recordings was bewildering, to say the least. What could this music possibly have to offer me? The rhythms were simple, and the voices predominantly sang in intervals of fourths, fifths, and octaves. For the few weeks after I downloaded the recording (and intermittently during the following months), I played it to myself while I was working, before I went to sleep at night, and even while I was in the bath. Every now and then, when my focus was fixed on other minutiae of my life, the music would grab me, as if some transcendant sequence of notes had been struck... but as soon as my focus returned, the feeling faded.

Eventually, I began to understand... but that understanding is best left for others to discover for themselves.

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3. Leonin, Perotin Sacred Music From The Notre Dame Cathedral by Tonus Peregrinus

Some of the very earliest music put to paper, these works were actually influential on modern minimalist composers. The collection features performances of pieces composed by Léonin and Pérotin, as well as by a number of anonymous (that is, unknown) composers, all products of the Notre Dame School of Music between the years 1160 and 1250. Named after the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, this collection of composers was renowned for its role in the development of early polyphony.

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4. The Saracen And The Dove by Orlando Consort

A collection of music from the late Trecento period, especially highlighting the work of Johannes Ciconia and Antonia Zachara da Teramo. Included in the collection are motets, madrigals, ballata, and even a short canon.

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5. De Machaut La Messe De Nostr Dame Le Voir Dit by Jeremy Summerly & Oxford Camerata

Includes the world's first cyclic mass, composed by Guillaume de Machaut. One of the best works of one of history's greatest composers.

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

samistake2ice — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:01:33 GMT

Author: samistake2ice

Posted: 02/22/2014 16:01

Huge novice when it comes to classical, but Im working on it.

Some of my favorites are

- Handel's Water Music Suite
- Bach's 3rd Orchestral
- Shubert's Ave Maria
- The Opera "Dank Sei Dir Herr" (dunno who its by)
- Brahms Symphony No. 1

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:31:33 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2014 15:31

1. Requiem - (Fauré)
2. Finlandia - (Jean Sibelius)
3. Messiah - (Handel)
4. Concert Fantasia - (Tchaikovsky)
5. The Planets - (Gustav Holst)

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

karbutt — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:19:21 GMT

Author: karbutt

Posted: 02/22/2014 15:19

Concerto in D minor- Vivaldi
Holberg Suite- Grieg
Battalia- Biber

i've played all of these. i'm going to add to this soon since i'm tired and can't think.

Re: Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

Hammy — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 02:56:30 GMT

Author: Hammy

Posted: 02/22/2014 07:56

Listening to this right now, I'm a novice when it comes to Classical though so I can't name the best u_u.

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Rank the Top 5 greatest Classical albums/recordings

cinephilebrady — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:58:46 GMT

Author: cinephilebrady

Posted: 02/22/2014 05:58

For me:

1. Vltava (Smetana)
2. Symphony of Psalms (Stravinsky)
3. St Mathew Passion (Bach)
4. La Broheme (Puccini)
5. Tabula Rasa (Arvo Part)

Just missing:
- Chopin Nocturnes (Maria Joao Pires)
- Glassworks (Philip Glass)
- 6th Symphony (Beethoven)
- 5th Symohony (Mahler)
- Atys (Lully)