[bcaie16]

My favourite would have to be Glenn Gould's interpretation of The Goldberg Variations.

[Necharsian]

Since symphonies and orchestras are a large part of the music that I usually listen to, it is just natual that Classical music has a place as well.
My top 3 right now, in no particular order:

1. Prokofiev - Scythian Suite
2. Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
3. Vivaldi - Four Seasons

Newer composers to listen to:

Mike Oldfield
Jeremy Soule

[rilex]

1. JS Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 846–893 1722
2. LV Beethoven - String Quartet No. 14 Cm Op. 131 1826
3. O Messiaen - Quartet For The End of Time 1940-41
4. I Stravinsky - Petrushka 1911
5. L Andriessen - De Staat 1972-76
B Bartok - String Quartet No. 5 1934
A Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No. 2 1982
G Schuller - Octet 1979
P Norgard - Trio 1 Op. 15 1955
D Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 Op. 110 1960
F Schubert - Die Wintereisse Op. 89 1827
S Reich - Music for 18 Musicians 1974-76
A Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21 1912
F Rzewski - 4 North American Ballades 1978
R Crawford-Seeger - String Quartet 1931
T Riley - In C 1964
J Adams - Shaker Loops 1978
A Part - Tabula Rasa 1977
E Varese - Ionisation 1929-1931
D Lang - Child 2003
H Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 Op 36
J Cage - Music for Prepared Piano 1940
A Berg - 3 Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6 1913-1915
JS Bach - Brandenberg Concerti Nos. 1-6 BWV 1046-1051 1721
C Debussy - Pour le Piano L.95 1901
I Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring 1913
G Anthiel - Ballet Mecanique 1923-125
M Gordon - Weather 1999
P Glass - Glassworks 1981
S Reich - Drumming 1970
F Chopin - Nocturnes
LV Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Op. 13, 26, 27, 28, 31, 49, 53, 57, 78, 106, 111
B Bartok - String Quartet No. 3 1927
H Partch - Castor and Pollux 1952
C Debussy - String Quartet Op. 10 1893
John Cage - Aria (w/ Fontana Mix) 1958
L Berio - Visage 1961
JS Bach - The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 1741
C Debussy - Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun L.86 1894
L Andreissen - Worker's Union 1975
A Dreyblatt - The Adding Machine 2002
J Cage - 4'33" 1952
S Reich - Come Out 1966
M Feldman - Triadic Memories 1981
JS Bach - The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 1751
T Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketches 1982,92
B Johnston - String Quartet No. 4 1973
M Babbitt - Philomel 1964
G Ligeti - Lux Aeterna 1966
JS Bach - Solo Cello Suites BWV 1007-1012 1717-1723


honourable/questionable mention:

Laurie Anderson - O Superman 1981
Briano Eno - Music for Airports 1978
Meredith Monk - Do You Be 1987


I may amend this in the future. It was hard to do from memory (w/o my record collection on hand), so I inevitably forgot a few of my favorites. I tried to give Opus numbers or the year of composition/publish at least.

[RFNAPLES]

Abbado, Claudio -Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Abbado, Claudio -Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Leutnant Kijé, Scythische Suite
Abbado, Claudio -Verdi: Falstaff
Almeida, Antonio De-Franck: Symphony In D Minor; Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
Arrau, Claudio -Liszt: Sonata In B Minor; 2 Études En Concert
Bartoli, Cecilia-Vivaldi Album, The
Beecham, Sir Thomas -Puccini: La Bohème
Beecham, Sir Thomas-Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Etc.
Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos, The-Chant
Berglund, Paavo-Sibelius: Finlandia Op26/Tone Poems
Bernstein, Leonard, London Symphony Orchestra-Bernstein: Candide
Bernstein, Leonard, New York Philharmonic-Ives: Symphony No 2 (& Three Short Works)
Bogar, Istvan-Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1-21
Böhm, Karl -Mozart: Symphonien Nr. 35-41
Bonynge, Richard-Donizetti: L'elisir D'amore
Boskovsky, Willi-Strauss, Johann: Waltzes
Boulez, Pierre-Boulez Conducts Varèse
Boulez, Pierre-Boulez: Rituel/Eclat/Multiples
Boulez, Pierre-Stravinsky: Petrushka & Le Sacre Du Printemps
Boulez, Pierre, Cleveland Orchestra-Debussy: La Mer – Nocturnes – Jeux U.A.
Boult, Sir Adrian & Sir John Barbirolli -Elgar: Enigma Variations & Marches
Britten, Benjamin-Britten: The Turn Of The Screw
Carlos, Walter -Switched-On Bach
Carreras, José, Plácido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti with Zubin Mehta-The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994
Casals, Pablo -Bach: Suites For Unaccompanied Cello (6)
Cliburn, Van-Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3, Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3
Cliburn, Van, Pianist; Kiril Kondrashin Cond. -Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 23
Copland, Aaron Cond. The Boston Symphony-Copland: Appalachian Spring
Daniel, Paul-Elgar: Symphony No. 3 (Compl. Payne 1997)
Davis, Sir Colin-Haydn: Six “London” Symphonies
De Sabata, Victor Cond. Maria Callas-Puccini: Tosca
Dorati, Antal -Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture/Capriccio Italien
Du Pre, Jacqueline & Dame Janet Baker-Elgar: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures
Dutoit, Charles -Holst: The Planets
Emerson String Quartet-Bartok: 6 String Quartets
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich & Jorg Demus-Schubert: Winterreise
Furtwängler, Wilhelm-Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’
Furtwängler, Wilhelm -Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde
Gardiner, John Eliot -Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Gilels, Emil-Grieg: Lyrische Stuke
Giulini, Carlo Maria-Mozart: Don Giovanni
Gould, Glenn -Bach: Goldberg Variations
Harnoncourt, Nikolaus-Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
Heifetz, Jascha-Brahms & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
Hilliard Ensemble, The-Pérotin: Pérotin
Hope, Daniel [Violinist]-Berg/Britten: Violin Concertos
Horowitz, Vladimir -Horowitz: The Complete Masterworks Recordings
Horowitz, Vladimir -Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3
Horowitz, Vladimir -The Historic Return - Carnegie Hall 1965 – The 1966 Concerts
Jando, Jeno-Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1: Nos. 59-62
Järvi, Paavo-Sibelius: Cantatas
Karajan, Herbert Von-Beethoven: 9 Symphonien
Karajan, Herbert Von-Puccini: La Bohème
Karajan, Herbert Von-Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Karajan, Herbert Von-Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht & Variations For Orchestra
Kleiber, Carlos-Beethoven: Symphonien Nr. 5 & 7
Kleiber, Carlos -Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Kleiber, Carlos-Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8 “Unfinished”
Kleiber, Carlos -Straus: Die Fledermaus
Kleiber, Carlos-Weber: Der Freischütz
Klemperer, Otto-Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Kodaly Quartet-Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1–3
Kubelik, Rafael-Mahler: Symphonie No. 1 & Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Levi, Yoel-Barber: Music Of Samuel Barber (Knoxville, Adagio For Strings, Etc.)
Mackerras, Sir Charles-Janacek: Jenufa
Manze, Andrew-Handel: Concerti Grossi 9op. 6
Marriner, Neville-Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mattila, Karita-Grieg & Sibelius Songs
Menuhin, Yehudi-Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco-Puccini: Turandot
Mullova, Viktoria-Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Muti, Riccardo-Brahms: Complete Symphonies
Mutter, Anne-Sophie-Berg/Rihm: Violinkonzert
O’Conor, John -Field: 15 Nocturnes
Perahia, Murray-Handel & Scarlatti: Murray Perahia Plays Handel & Scarlatti
Perahia, Murray-Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, K.467 & No. 27, K.595
Perl, Hille & Lee Santana-Marais,Marin: Pour La Violle Et Le Théorbe
Previn, Andre-Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue, Concerto In F, An American In Paris
Previn, Andre-Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
Rattle, Simon -Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
Reich, Steve & Musicians-Reich: Drumming
Reiner, Fritz Cond. Chicago Symphony -Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra
Richter, Sviatoslav-Brahams: Concert No. 2, Beethoven: Sonata No. 23
Richter, Sviatoslav-Liszt: Piano Concertos & Sonata
Rubinstein, Arthur -Chopin: Mazurkas (Complete)
Rubinstein, Arthur -Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes
Rubinstein, Arthur-Chopin: Waltzes, Impromptus
Salonen, Esa-Pekka-Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Ragtime, Renard, Octet
Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth & George Szell-Strauss, Richard: Four Last Songs, Etc.
Thomas, Michael Tilson -Ives: “Holidays” Symphony
Thomas, Michael Tilson -Ives: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Uchida, Mitsuko-Schubert: Piano Sonata D.960
Various -Cinema Classics: Classical Music Made Famous In Films
Various -Harrison, Lou: Drums Along The Pacific
Various-Percussion Music
Various-Prokofiev: Complete Concertos
Various-Shostakovich: Complete Concertos
Various-The A To Z Of Classical Music
Various-The A To Z Of Opera
Wang, Yi-Dong -Copper Idiophones Over The Drums
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