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Originally Posted by PTL
Satchmo, I must have underestimated the length of time it takes to come up with ten essential works from various composers. On the film message boards I used to visit, it generally took one no longer than two minutes to whip out ten worthwhile films from directors like Fritz Lang or Yasujiro Ozu, prolific as they were. The oeuvres of classical composers are no doubt immensely larger and more diverse, which I guess would make this more of a challenge.
I'd go with your idea, but I don't know what pieces I'm supposed to be exploring from these composers in the first place. A couple suggestions would be helpful, and recommended recordings would be really great. Don't worry yourself about getting ten; 1-3 is perfectly fine, as I mentioned earlier.
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My dear if you had a simple question like films I could have given you 20 films from a great many directors. Without event thinking about it. That's easy. Classical music is a lot different. Remembering all the different film titles is easy. Remebering what I think is the top compositions by 8 different composers some of which have a great many to choose from is another story. As you can see
There are symphonies, piano concertos, piano sonatas, and a good many other variations on instrumentations like string quintet or quartet, cellos, organ, etc....
Some excellent Classical Music sites
http://www.classicalarchives.com/
http://www.classical.net/
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html
http://www.karadar.com/Default.htm
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm
Here is the gramophone forum link. All they talk about is classical music.
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/forum.asp