Looking for listening recommendations

[Norman Perlmutter]

I'm looking for some new classical listening recommendations. Some of
my current favorites are as follows. I'd like some recommendations
based on these preferences, preferably by composers not on this list.

Orff: Carmina Burana
Beethoven: Fifth Symphony
Holst: The Planets, especially Mars and Jupiter
Sibelius: En Saga
Chopin: Preludes, Fantasie Impromptu

[Peter T. Daniels]

Sorry, but that covers just about the entire 19th century! (With a
preference toward loud and rhythmic and martial). How about
Tchaikowsky's 1812 Overture?

[David O.]

Give a listen to Debussy's "Le martyre de Saint Sébastien."

[Norman Perlmutter]

Thanks to everybody for your suggestions. I have picked up the pieces
below after sampling a bunch of stuff on Youtube and Amazon and
checking recommendations on various web sites. Should be enough to
keep me busy for a while, but of course further recommendations are
welcome.

Stravinsky: Firebird, Rite of Spring
Mussorgsky: Bald Mountain,
Mussorgsky orchestrated by Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Dvorak: New World Symphony
Mahler: 9th Symphony

[Tom Del Rosso]

Try Sibelius Symphony #2.


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[Tom Del Rosso]

And of course Scheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol.

And the Bizet Symphony in C.

But you should also get out of the 19th century more.

Even as The Three Tenors popularize concert music to the point where Michael
Bolton does Che Gelida Manina, classical stations continue go out of
business. New York's last remaining commercial classical station - WQXR -
had to become public radio and now has a dinky transmitter so I can barely
get it in the car. This is because the Three Tenors crowd doesn't listen to
classical radio where they might discover something new. You could pick it
up at www.wqxr.org.

[Peter T. Daniels]

On Mar 27, 1:46 pm, "Tom Del Rosso" <td...@verizon.net.invalid> wrote:
> Norman Perlmutter wrote:
> > Thanks to everybody for your suggestions. I have picked up the pieces
> > below after sampling a bunch of stuff on Youtube and Amazon and
> > checking recommendations on various web sites. Should be enough to
> > keep me busy for a while, but of course further recommendations are
> > welcome.
>
> > Stravinsky: Firebird, Rite of Spring
> > Mussorgsky: Bald Mountain,
> > Mussorgsky orchestrated by Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
> > Dvorak: New World Symphony
> > Mahler: 9th Symphony
>
> And of course Scheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol.
>
> And the Bizet Symphony in C.
>
> But you should also get out of the 19th century more.
>
> Even as The Three Tenors popularize concert music to the point where Michael
> Bolton does Che Gelida Manina, classical stations continue go out of
> business.  New York's last remaining commercial classical station - WQXR -
> had to become public radio and now has a dinky transmitter so I can barely
> get it in the car.  This is because the Three Tenors crowd doesn't listen to
> classical radio where they might discover something new.

Not at WQXR, they mightn't.

WNYC's New Music guy is still at WNYC, but he's a man of _extremely_
limited taste. If it isn't either Minimal or Ambient, the chances of
getting on New Sounds are nonexistent.

> You could pick it
> up atwww.wqxr.org.

The only things that draw me to WQXR are the opera series -- after the
Met season, they devote Saturday afternoons to the previous season of
Chicago Lyric, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Houston.

[Joe Roberts]

This may seem far afield ... with some trepidation in even suggesting it
...

Go off to one side, and listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=ixNbqjlOEgc

You're going to get Richard Rodgers in ' Victory at Sea'. A heroic episode.

If you do the whole soundtrack it will take hours. This year is its 60th
anniversary, so it's well worth a review. (The history of war is written by
its victors.)

Heldenleben -- but excellent Rodgers' orchestration.

Good tunes get recycled.


Joe

[Peter T. Daniels]

Er, no, Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations.

> Good tunes get recycled.

wiki claims that Rodgers wrote twelve "basic themes," and Bennett
composed the soundtrack. (And also the suite, by which the music is
principally known.)

[Kip Williams]

Robert Russell Bennett orchestration, isn't it?


Kip W

[Joe Roberts]

Yes, you're right. Wiki has it that Rodgers contributed only some short piano pieces, whereas Bennett orchestrated them and composed the vast amount of original music. Rodgers got the screen credit up front, where most of it probably should have gone to Bennett.

Joe

[John W Kennedy]

That's what the official credits say. The truth is that Rodgers
sketched about a half-hour of thematic material and Bennett did all the
serious composition, including many new themes of his own. Rodgers'
contributions are not to be sneezed at, though; they /are/ good themes.

--
John W Kennedy
A proud member of the reality-based community.

[Curlytop]

Norman Perlmutter set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

My recommendations among pieces I like:
Smetana: Ma Vlast, especially Nos. 3 (Sarka), 5 (Tabor) and 6 (Blanik).
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 "A Sea Symphony"
George Lloyd: Symphony No. 11

My recommendations among pieces I *don't* like:
Busoni: Piano Concerto
Vaughn Williams: Symphonies 4 and 6
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"
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