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Post by MartinT on Jul 12, 2018 6:05:21 GMT
What was your first classical listen that you can remember?
What was the first classical album you bought?
My first listen was in primary school when my class teacher used to play us a classical record every week. I have no recollection of any others she played, but hearing Holst's The Planets for the first time was mesmerising at the age of 10 or so. Mars had a lasting effect on me, which is just as well as my name is derived from the god of war. It remains to this day as one of my favourite classical compositions.
My first album was Vivaldi's The Four Seasons by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martins-in-the-Fields on the Argo label. I bought it around the age of 16.
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 12, 2018 8:04:56 GMT
Classical music was always around the house when I was young but none really made an impression upon me until at the age of eleven, in a music class, we were asked to state our preference for, and give the reasons for that choice, one of three versions of Fanfare for the Common Man. I think I actually preferred the jazz version, but I asked for a copy of it performed by an orchestra for Christmas that year.
I was probably the only one in the class who didn't go for the ELP version!
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Post by MartinT on Jul 12, 2018 8:08:10 GMT
I have a fantastic recording of it on the Telarc label, it has tremendous impact.
The ELP version has its place, too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 10:06:05 GMT
This is the first classical album (boxset) I heard and is now in my own collection after Dad gave me all of his Vinyl.  |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 12, 2018 10:07:21 GMT
Nice, Paul. You could do a lot worse than the Klemperer Beethovens.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 12, 2018 12:12:11 GMT
I reckon it must have been Peter and the Wolf & Young Person's Guide ... I remember playing it at home in the 70's ... This is the one. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8071960-1486066057-8576.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by Slinger on Jul 12, 2018 13:12:19 GMT
A story I've told many times, so I'll only bore you with the quick version. I bought a MFP vinyl album of Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition" because I wanted to see where the ELP version 'came from' so-to-speak. It seems ELP and The Nice have a lot to answer for.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 12, 2018 13:23:58 GMT
So many of the greats like Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman were highly classical influenced and all the better for it.
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Post by andya on Jul 12, 2018 15:09:07 GMT
I recall that one of my aunts bought me a copy of Swan Lake as a Christmas present, I believe I was about 10 years old - really enjoyed it and still have it somewhere in the LP collection. I also remember a copy of Beethoven's 5th that our Basset Hound would howl along with which was great fun and would end up with my mother telling me to switch it off.
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Post by dsjr on Jul 12, 2018 15:21:52 GMT
I toddled to one or two 'classical' ep's my Dad had (Swan lake highlights was one and a early 50's ep by The Glasgow Hebridean Choir another - I have The Faerie Chorus whirling round in my head as I type this) and as Dad was a keen Choral Society member, there was never a shortage of 'sacred' choral works in the record cabinet, but the first orchestral album I ever bought for myself was from a late 60's set on 10" vinyl - 'The Great Musicians' series and it was Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. Time on a 10" was short, so the tempo was far more brisk than other performances I subsequently heard. I believe later again, research showed the more brisk tempo on this disc was probably nearer to what Beethoven wanted, but I'm no student here so may well be incorrect. Lovely piece of music though  |
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 12, 2018 18:46:39 GMT
I reckon it must have been Peter and the Wolf & Young Person's Guide ... I remember playing it at home in the 70's ... This is the one. We had that one too! |
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Post by John on Jul 12, 2018 18:50:25 GMT
When I was unemployed I would go to my library and explore classical music.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 12, 2018 19:36:59 GMT
I remember Igor Markevitch cornering the market on conducting for CfP back then.
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