Maybe this is way too broad, but i was trying to figure out what to buy first of Charles Ives' music and couldn't decide, so i figured it might be useful to have a thread with suggestions of the best/your favorite recordings of certain composers' music. So if you're particularly knowledgeable about any 20th century composers, please contribute!

Charles Ives anyone?

I'll try to give you some ideas for stuff to get.

Later on tonight or tomorrow.

Good idea for a thread.

Wow, I'm going to have to stear clear of this one. I'm certainly not so into classical music as to buy multiple recordings of the same work. If I did, I'd be way more in debt than I already am.

Have fun you two, maybe someone from the Satchmo horde would be willing to help as well.

Yeah, Satchmo prolly knows best. I have a few I can vouch for.

Well some, which come to mind for right now.

Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time
Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa
Steve Reich - Drumming
Toru Takemitsu - Requim
Terry Riley - In C
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Music (Études, Preludes, Sonata #5)
Samuel Barber- Adagio for Strings Op. 11/2
Béla Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra Concertos for Piano ( 3-5)
Benjamin Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Op. 31
Maurice Durufle - Requiem
Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3
Paul Hindemith- Mathis der Maler (symphony)
Gustav Holst - The Planets (suite)
Leos JanáÄ?ek - Quartets 1 & 2
Bohuslav Martinu - Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani
Carl Nielsen - Symphonies (1-5)
Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg- Chamber Symphony No. 1
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras #4 & 5
Milton Babbitt - Piano Concerto
Pierre Boulez - Memoriale a Bruno Maderna
John Cage - Music for String Quartet
Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel
Philip Glass - Low Symphony
Lou Harrison - Symphony No. 2
Ernst Krenek - String Quartets


Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 30 (Symphonic Poem)
Four Last Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Till Eulenspiegel Op. 28 (Symphonic Poem)

Igor Stravinsky
Firebird (ballet suite)
Petrouchka (ballet)
Sacre du printemps

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klavierstücke
Kontakte
Mantra
Stimmung

Anton Webern
Music for String Quartet
Five Orchestral Pieces

Yannis Xenakis
Metastasis
Palimpsest

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring (suite or complete ballet)
Concerto for Piano
Fanfare for the Common Man

Georges Enesco
Roumanian Poem
Roumanian Rhapsodies

Charles Ives
Three Places In New England
New England Holidays Symphony

Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Symphonies ( 1-9)

Sergei Prokofieff
Classical Symphony
Peter and the Wolf
Sonatas for Piano (2, 6-8)
Symphony #5

Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Pines of Rome

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Symphony No. 3

György Ligeti
Atmospheres
Horn Trio

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1
String Quartet #8
Symphonies (1, 4-8, 10-12, 14)

Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Violin Op. 47
Finlandia Op. 26
Symphonies (1-7)

I think he wants recordings, Satch.

Like how the Nielsen cycle recorded by Jarvi on BIS f'n rules!

I've had serious difficulty finding a Prokofiev cycle I really like.

No. 6 by Mravinsky is a must have.
No. 5 by Szell

I have the Jarvi and Ozawa cycles. Don't know if I'd call either definitive.


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All Fritz Reiner on RCA Living Stereo right here:
Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 30 (Symphonic Poem)
Four Last Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Till Eulenspiegel Op. 28 (Symphonic Poem)

Charles Ives
Three Places In New England
New England Holidays Symphony


You can get both of these together with David Zinman conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orcestra and Choir. It also adds in They are there! as an extra. It was released by Argo.

I know what he wanted, but Satchmo ever the helping Superior Prick/Dumb Ass/Anti-Christ, etc... went beyond the question.

Jarvi's has excellent sound, but the playing is only ok on some of the performances. Have you heard Blomstedt's Decca set?

Yeah, that's the thing about BIS...I can't tell if I like the composition or perfomance or if it's just the visceral pleasure of the recorded SOUND.

No Blomstedt yet.