"Olivier Messiaen - Vingt Regard Sur L'Enfant Jesus"

I've seen The Cullberg ballet dance on this.

Guillaume De Machaut - La Messe de Nostre Dame
Shostakovich - Sym. No. 8
Martinu - Sym. no 5
Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No. 1
Webern - Op. 1 (Karajan)
Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No. 1
Dallapiccola - Job
Bruno Maderna - For Strings
Borodin - String Quartet No. 1
Stockhausen - KONTAKTE (electronic music)
Alvin Lucier - Clocker
Jon Leifs - Hekla (BIS)
Vainberg - Sym No. 5 (Olympia)
Vagn Holmboe - Sym. No. 8 (BIS)
Janacek - Vixen (Mackerras)
Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives
Dockstader - Water Music
Hindemith - Harmonie der Welt (Mravinsky)
Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
Brahms - Sym. no 4 (Kleiber)
Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Reiner)
Mahler - Sym. No. 6 (Szell)
Berg - Vln. Concerto

Good topic.

Here are my thoughts. I listen to classical music when i study, and i go through about 3 cd's a study session. So i hope i've heard enough of the classic to put foward my favourites.
Hope the names fit the composition though!


Chopin - Nocturne no 20 in C minor (the one played by Adrian Brody in the begininng of 'the Pianist")

Strauss - The blue Danube (everyones probably heard this one) -When Homers eating the chips on board the NASA shuttle and he crashes into the ant colony

Ravel - Bolero (For all romantics, although most men won't last the entire song!!)

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No ? (for that bit in the middle of the composition)
But overall Etude No 3 'la campanella' for its pure speed and pace

Schubert - German dance in C major Op. 33 ( how can anyone overlook this one as one of the greatest waltzes ever - pardon my ignorance if this isn't a waltz, but it sounds like one)
Also his unfinished pieces are menacing.

Thats all for now, i'll put more in later

Igor Stravinksy - Symphony in C

John Adams - Harmonielehre

Gyorgi Ligeti - Requiem

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint

Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Found me Yet

George Gershwin - An American in Paris

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schoenberg - verklakte nacht
rachmaninoff - piano concerto no. 2 & 3
beethoven - symphony no. 9
ravel - bolero
john cage - daughters of the lonesome isle
phillip glass - einstein on the beach

difficult to choose only one, but i'll try to be a little less obvious in the hope that you haven't yet heard them.
here goes....

LV Beethoven - 7th Symphony (Karajan - 1st cycle)
WA Mozart - Requiem (Marriner)
JS Bach - Cello Suite #1 (Rostropovich)
H Vieuxtemps - Violin Concerto #5 (Keulen)
R Wagner - Parsifal: Prelude (Jochum)
G Mahler - 1st Symphony (Kubelik)
F Chopin - Nocturnes (Moravec)
A Dvorak - Slovanic Dances (Szell)
E Satie - Gnossiennes 1-6 (Roge)
C Debussy - Images For Orchestra (Dutoit)
Z Kodaly - Sonata For Cello & Piano op.4 (Claret)
J Brahms - 4th Symphony (Kleiber)
I Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring (Bernstein - London Symphony version)
C Saint-Saens - Symphony #3 (Murray)
A Vivaldi - Gloria Magnificat (Alessandrini)
G Puccini - Madame Butterfly (Serafin)
A Bruckner - Symphony #4 (Bohm)

alright, i'm getting carried away.... hope you enjoy.

"Gnossienne N°3" is great, I recently got me a compilation of Satie's pianowork, performed by Patrick Cohen and it's really good... My first classical cd, actually...

For LV Beethoven - 7th Symphony, I would stry to get Solti instead, not a big deal for a first time listener I would guess. I tend to prefer Solti for the Symphonic stuff, even though he is not as tight as others. So much heart I also do not like Berstein as a conductor... These are minor personal differences Geroge Szell, also hungarian by the way, is also a super conductor. I like these two a lot... Others don't...

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I like cry of the Valykries, or whatever it is called. By Wagner.

hey, I thought you were spreading the loooovvee man!