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Post by MartinT on Mar 8, 2015 11:09:04 GMT
For me it was almost inevitably...
...although it was preceded by two Readers Digest Beethoven boxed sets that my Dad gave me, but I paid for the above. |
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 8, 2015 11:21:35 GMT
Copland, Fanfare / Rodeo: Dallas Symphony Orch. This one
I bought it after hearing 'fanfare' during a music lesson at school, where we were asked to express a preference between an orchestral one, the ELP version and a jazz rendition. I was the only person in the class who liked the orchestral version! |
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Post by Tim on Mar 8, 2015 11:29:51 GMT
That was tough finding the actual recording artwork, but it was this one;  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 8, 2015 12:37:04 GMT
I was the only person in the class who liked the orchestral version! I love the orchestral version (especially the immense Telarc recording), but I also love the ELP. |
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 8, 2015 12:44:24 GMT
The Woody Herman version was funky in a 'Theme from Shaft' kind of way!
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Post by John on Mar 8, 2015 13:08:10 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 8, 2015 13:19:25 GMT
I'm really not sure but I think it was this ...  |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 8, 2015 14:07:07 GMT
Unsurprisingly I was led to this via the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer version. It's not the best recording, as I've since discovered (the Tchaikovsky is quite good though) but it was a good starting point.  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 8, 2015 14:55:29 GMT
That's a classic, Jules. It was definitely one of my earliest purchases. |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 8, 2015 14:57:38 GMT
Don't think I've ever heard that performance, Tim. |
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Post by Pinch on Mar 8, 2015 15:07:27 GMT
Does this count?  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 8, 2015 15:09:33 GMT
Definitely!
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Post by Barry on Mar 10, 2015 22:46:27 GMT
That was tough finding the actual recording artwork, but it was this one; That was my first classical purchase. Think it cost me 12/6 (62.5p) |
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Post by Guest on Mar 29, 2015 20:35:13 GMT
My first too, in mono, but the storm still rouses. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 21:56:23 GMT
Holst's The Planets, Smetana Ma Vlast (first two movements), then a boxed set of Beethoven symphonies (Karajan/Berlin phil). All of which bizarrely I still have 40-odd years later.
Knowing the Beethoven symphonies was at least partly responsible for getting my wife on the hook. We went to see a Sean Connery film called Zardoz in 1974. I chirped up "ah - that's the slow movement of Beethoven 7". She thought I was talking 18-year-old bollocks until I played her the track.
Craig
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Post by MartinT on Apr 2, 2015 6:24:30 GMT
Not albums that I bought, but what got me started on listening to classical music were two Readers Digest boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies and concertos on the Concert Hall label that my dad bought. They were simulated stereo!! However, I owe them my start in classical listening at the age of 12 or so.
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