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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2019 5:59:51 GMT
Shamelessly pilfering petea 's excellent idea for Core Albums, I've slightly modified it for classical music. Since many recordings exist of each work, let's make it 'Core Music' to eliminate the recording itself from the decision making. Rules: "what do you consider to be your core classical music? And, to focus the mind a bit, you are not allowed more than 11! Yes, that is effectively a randomly chosen number, but to accommodate taste-drift (I'm either on a conceptual roll or have had too much wine too early in the evening) I'll permit a 2 album change every 23 days! And, to make it trickier let's make the list ranked based on how long the album has been on the list - longest to shortest!" - petea Here's mine... Beethoven - Symphony No 5 Mahler - Symphony No 2 Shostakovich - Symphony No 13 Durufle - Requiem Poulenc - Stabat Mater Vivaldi - Gloria Bach - St Matthew's Passion Respighi - Roman Trilogy R Strauss - Four Last Songs Stravinsky - Rite of Spring Glass - Violin Concerto No 1 |
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 25, 2019 6:54:15 GMT
Interesting.
And a few years ago, before internet streaming entered my life and my music was on my shelves, this would have made total sense.
But I now find myself much more in exploratory mode, and particular works seldom stay on my playlist for long simply because there is so much more music instantly available to have a try with.
But, looking at my current playlist and pondering, I guess I might come up with these.
Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue BWV 582
Bach - Keyboard partita #2
Beethoven - string quartet op 131
Brahms - 2nd symphony
Shostakovich - 10th symphony
Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel
Weiss - solo lute sonata #11
Beethoven - piano sonata #30 op 109
Mahler - 9th symphony
Mozart - string quartet #15 - the only minor key Mozart quartet out of 23!
Langgaard - 7th symphony
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2019 7:31:44 GMT
Shostakovich - 10th symphony . . Mahler - 9th symphony Yowzer - I could easily have chosen these two. At least we have some overlap, Jerry! |
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2019 14:49:27 GMT
So, that's Mahler's symphonies, and I've still got one choice left. Result.  |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2019 16:54:54 GMT
Not if you include Das Lied von der Erde  |
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2019 17:44:35 GMT
...or that nice cheerful one, Kindertotenlieder.  |
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 25, 2019 17:57:55 GMT
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme
Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Violin Concerto
Faure - Requiem
Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
Rachmaninov - Symphony 3
Allegri - Miserere
Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade
Grieg - Piano Concerto
Stravinsky - The Firebird
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Post by petea on Apr 25, 2019 22:12:19 GMT
Elgar - Symphony No 1 in A Flat Minor (Barbirolli / Halle)
Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (Yepes / English Chamber)
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 2
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Rachmaninov - Symphony No 2 (Boult / London)
Dvorak - Symphony No 9
Dvorak - Symphony No 7
Vivaldi - Four Seasons (Nigel Kennedy original recording)
Gerswin - Rhapsody in Blue
Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76, No. 52. (Maria Wiegenlied / Oscar Church, Stockholm)
I'm not 100% certain of the order of numbers 4 - 8 in terms of either preference or when they impacted on me. The first 3 are correct though and I can still recall when I first heard them (although it was a different version of the Rodrigo). The last is a recent addition and is from the Naxos recording of the choir in the Oscar Church, but I really only ever play that track.
Overall this was much harder for me as I play much less classical music than either Jazz or other types these days it seems and so I had to think quite hard about this as there are many pieces I really like, but play fairly infrequently.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2019 22:50:03 GMT
I found this much harder than selecting my non-classical choices. I only whittled it down to eleven by restricting myself to one piece by any one composer when, in truth, I could probably named eleven by almost any one of them alone. Let's face it, I could even have picked eleven versions of The Four Seasons, or the Lark. Mahler - 8th Symphony
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Bach C.P.E. - The Three Cello Concertos
Bach J.S. - Unacompanied Cello Suites
Bantock - Hamabdil for Cello & Harp
Beethoven - 6th Symphony
Gesualdo - 6 Books of Madrigals
Holst - The Planets
Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Pärt - The Deer's Cry
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending |
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 25, 2019 23:31:36 GMT
I actually found the classical selection much easier!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 26, 2019 5:05:19 GMT
Must find a way of pushing that into my list next time. My favourite piano concerto. |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 26, 2019 5:06:49 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 26, 2019 5:16:12 GMT
Guys, this is great. It's given me a lot of classical pieces to reacquaint myself with and some new ones to listen to.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2019 9:00:12 GMT
Whilst I do like Classical music, I find myself listening to it rarely and when I do, I have to be in the right mood. I think with Classical music it is an attention thing for me.
Jules introduced me to some interesting stuff and now I am using Spotify I am find more and more that I like.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 26, 2019 12:31:08 GMT
My spotify is backed up with new releases Paul - it's fantastic!
Remember that there are plenty of shorter of works to enjoy if you just want to dip your toe in now and again.
16 mins is all it takes to listen to one of my favourite works. Here is an astonishingly good recent recording - play it loud, very loud.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 26, 2019 12:31:45 GMT
Must find a way of pushing that into my list next time. My favourite piano concerto. Yes, surprised that didn't make the cut Martin! |
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 26, 2019 12:40:33 GMT
Interesting. And a few years ago, before internet streaming entered my life and my music was on my shelves, this would have made total sense. But I now find myself much more in exploratory mode, and particular works seldom stay on my playlist for long simply because there is so much more music instantly available to have a try with. But, looking at my current playlist and pondering, I guess I might come up with these. Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue BWV 582 Bach - Keyboard partita #2 Beethoven - string quartet op 131 Brahms - 2nd symphony Shostakovich - 10th symphony Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel Weiss - solo lute sonata #11 Beethoven - piano sonata #30 op 109 Mahler - 9th symphony Mozart - string quartet #15 - the only minor key Mozart quartet out of 23! Langgaard Pettersson - 7th symphony EDIT - not that anyone cares, I am sure, but for the record, I have no idea why I typed Langgaard when I meant Pettersson on my final entry.  |
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 26, 2019 12:43:50 GMT
Three of us have the 4 Seasons in our list, surprised Jerry didn't as well ... Looks like we need to revisit this very soon.  |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 26, 2019 13:23:52 GMT
I went for the Gloria as I thought there would be a 'group groan'!
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