Classical (non CG) music that everyone should hear!

[ElectricLute]

John Cage 4'33 .

[DaveLloyd]

Starting with some 'B's — some of my favourite LPs / CDs

Bach Cello Suites
Paul Tortellier

Beethoven Piano Trios (especially The Archduke)
Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman & Jacqueline du Pré

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 In E Flat Major, Op.73 (Emperor)
Conductor – Pierino Gamba
Orchestra – The London Symphony Orchestra
Piano – Julius Katchen

ETA. I forgot to mention Bach played by the Jacques Loussier Trio

[razz]

I like Schubert's Fantasie in C for Violin and Piano (D. 934) with Jennifer Koh playing the violin.

[dory]

Anything by Fauré, but especially the Requiem. For lesser known stuff (I am not the most experienced musician here so maybe my idea of lesser known is different from yours) Libby Larsen’s Missa Gaia (I like choral music) and as I mentioned on another thread anything by William Grant Still— my new discovery. Apparently he is new— not just for me but for a lot of classical music lovers.

[dory]

Summerland by William Grant Still

[musicbyandy]

Beethoven, late string quartets. How has this not been mentioned yet?

Luigi Boccherini wrote reams of music, including string quintets with guitar. (I haven't heard a version of these that is memorable to me.) But the string symphonies played by I Solisti Veniti conducted by Claudio Scimone are incredibly alive.

The term "classical" is rather loosely adhered to in these suggestions. So I'll offer up Frank Zappa's Sofa #1.

Have you heard the Decca recording of the Boccherini Guitar Quintets with Pepe Romero and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble?

[musicbyandy]

Handel: Coronation Mass, Recorder Sonatas
Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony, Midsummer Night's Dream, Octet, String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor
Arriaga: 3 String Quartets
Beethoven: Eroica Symphony and like other stuff too
Brahms: German Requiem, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Dvorak: Serenade for Winds in D Minor, Serenade for Strings in E, American Quintet, American Quartet
Poulenc: Winds & Piano Sextet
Bach: Lute Suites
Mozart: Serenade No. 10 for Winds
Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass
Machaut: Mass of Our Lady
Schubert: Wanderer Sonata
Shaw: Partita for 8 Voices

[Marshall Dixon]

Have you heard the Decca recording of the Boccherini Guitar Quintets with Pepe Romero and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble?

I was going to recommend the Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. But speaking of interpretation I have heard the Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor played by Daniel Chorzempa, and by others. Not one of them can touch any rendition by E. Power Biggs.

Ramon

It's been a while since I've heard the Boccherini guitar quartets but I don't think it was the recording you mention. I put it on my 'to hear' list along with E Power Biggs' version of Bach's passacaglia and fugue.

Thank you both for the suggestions.

Marshall

[Erik Zurcher]

Canto Ostinato - Simeon ten Holt (for 4 pianos)