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The music list below, compiled in the three year period June 2002 to May 2005, will be updated periodically after that date. It is an attempt to define, to give expression to, list what has become for me a vast sea of pleasureable sounds produced in a number of genres of music. My first memories of listening to music were in about 1948, although I was exposed to music right from the word go in 1944 by two parents who played the piano. You will find below a short list of over 60 years of musical experience, musical pieces I have enjoyed from a longer list of music that gave me pleasure, but is obviously too long to include here.

What appears here is just a start to making a comprehensive list, a brief survey, a dip in the sea, so to speak. There were about 100 items in the initial list that I put together in the winter of 2002. I have added to that list from time to time in the last three years and it is now well over 100 items. If I continued to add to this list systematically and regularly a list too long to be manageable would be produced. But the names of many of my favorites are here and, since it seems impossible for me to remember their names, this list will assist me in bringing to memory these names when and if required. The exercise is interesting to me in its own right without any particular practical value.

Most of the items listed here are in my personal music collection(LPs, 45s, CDs and cassettes) or they are items that I have had access to temporarily on the radio, internet or as part of the collection of the local spiritual assembly of the Baha�is of Launceston. As I began adding items to this list from what I heard on ABC FM Radio in and after 2002, it was obvious that, in the end, the list would become too long if I took the exercise seriously with any sense of making a comprehensive collection. What is found here serves as (a) a list of musical pieces I own/have access to in my collection and (b) a list of additional material I would like to have access to in my study, but do not. As I say, this is a list of musical favorites that I will never bring to an end. The sea is just too full. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, May 8th 2005(22 September 2002).

CATEGORIES OF MUSIC:

A.1 CLASSICAL

1. Joaquin Rodrigo: Ecos de Sefarad-guitar.
2. Joaquin Rodrigo: need to familiarize myself with his repertoire to list items here.
3. Beethoven: Sonata #8 opus 13 and Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61
4. Beethoven: Symphonies: set 1-9. Esp: #5
5. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 23/4
6. Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5
7. Beethoven: Fluer Elise
8. Beethoven: many other pieces-too long a list.
9. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.
10.1 Rachmaninov: Preludes, 10.2 Piano Concerto No.2 D Minor
10.3 Rachmaninov: several pieces to be defined
10.4 Rachmaninov: many other pieces-too long a list.
11.1 Chopin: Scherzo 1,2,3 and 4 ; 11.2 Ballads 1 to 4.
11.3 Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu
11.4 Chopin, 24 Preludes(C#minor,A-Flat-Major)
11.5 Many other pieces of Chopin�too many to list.
10.1 Schubert: Fantasie in F. Minor, D 940.
10.2 Schubert: Ave Maria. Symphony #8 in B-minor
11.Puccini:One Fine Day, Madame Butterfly
12.Bach:Symphony No.2 E-minor
12.1Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F; 12.2 No.6 in Bflat Major; No3, 4 and 5
12.3Bach: see my 20 record collection of Bach--too many to list all the pieces here, but some include: 12.3.1 Orchestral Suite No.3
13. Debussy: Claire de Lune.
13.1 Debussy: Preludes, esp.�Girl With the Flaxen Hair.�
14.Mozart: Sonatas for Piano; 14.2 Divertimenti for strings, Adagio & Fugue in C Minor; 14.3 Piano concertos K488/459; 14.4 Symphony #40 in C minor; 14.5 Nachtmusik
15. Vivaldi: Violin Concerti #3; trumpet concerti for 4 violins
16. Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
17.Liszt: Concerto No.1 in E Flat Major
18. Hayden: Concerto in D. Major
19. Dvorak: New World Symphony; symphony #3; cello concerto in b minor, op.104; symphonic variations.
20. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
21. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto D Major
22. Handel: Water Music
35. Massinet: Meditations
36. Brahms, Symphony No.1 in C-Minor

A.2 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

1. Elgar: Cello Concerto, 1st Movement, J. du Pre
2. Eric Satie, Gymnopedies

That's a fabulous list, and it's given me some great ideas for listening, Ron. But no Mahler? Not even the Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony? Not a Mahler fan?

Sue B. It has taken me 3 months to response to your comment. This was the first list I'd ever made and as I say in my introduction "this list will never end."-Ron

Below is another list of favourite pieces. I've taken these from my website. All the recordings have one thing in common - the conductor in every case is Jascha Horenstein. Horenstein made some other recordings, too; these are the ones I have in my own record collection - mostly on CD but in a few cases on vinyls.

Bach J S Chorale Prelude Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele Berlin Philharmonic Koch 3-70540-2
Bach J S The Six Brandenburg Concerti Vienna Symphony Chamber VoxBox CDX2 5519
Bartok Violin Concerto No.2 (1938) Vienna Symphony Ivry Gitlis Vox CDX2 5505
Beethoven Egmont Overture Op.61 American Symphony Orchestra Music & Arts CD-784(2)
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major Op.61 New Philharmonia Erich Gruenberg Chesky CD52
Berlioz Symphony Fantastique Op.14 Radio Symphonie, Berlin Arkadia CDGI 744
Brahms Symphony No.1 in D London Symphony Chesky CD19
Brahms Symphony No.2 in D Danish Radio Unicorn UNCD2036
Brahms Symphony No.3 in F major Southwest German Radio Vox 7802
Bruch Violin Concerto in G Minor Op.26 Vienna Symphony Ivry Gitlis Vox CDX2 5505
Bruckner Symphony No.5 (Haas Edition) BBC Symphony Phoenix PX 703.1
Bruckner Symphony No.7 in E Major Berlin Philharmonic Koch 3-7022-2
Bruckner Symphony No.8 (Haas Edition) London Symphony Intaglio INCD 7272
Bruckner Symphony No.9 (Haas Edition) BBC Symphony Intaglio INCD 7091
Bruckner Symphony No.9 in D Minor (Original Version) Vienna Symphony Tuxedo Music TUXCD 1059
Bruckner Symphony No.9 in D Minor (Original Version) Vienna Symphony Vox CDX2 5509
Dvorak Symphony No.9 in E Minor (interview with Alan Blyth) Op.95 Royal Philharmonic Chesky CD31
Gluck Ifigenia in Aulide, Ouverture Teatro San Carlo, Napoli Arkadia CDGI 744
Haydn Symphony No.100 in G, "Military" Paris Conservatoire Music & Arts CD-784(2)
Haydn Symphony No.94 in G Major "Surprise" Berlin Philharmonic Koch 3-70540-2
Hindemith Symphonie 'Mathis der Maler' London Symphony Chandos CHAN 6549
Jamacek Taras Bulba Vienna Pro Musica Vox 7803
Liszt A Faust Symphony BBC Northern SO Mitchinson Intaglio INCD 7141
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (with interview) BBC Northern SO Hodgson Mitchinson BBC BBCL 4042-2
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde BBC Northern SO Hodgson Mitchinson Intaglio INCD 7501
Mahler Kindertotenlieder Bamberg Symphony Norman Foster VoxBox CDX2 5509/7
Mahler Kindertotenlieder Paris Conservatoire Marian Anderson Music & Arts CD-784(2)
Mahler Symphonie No.4 en dol majeur London Philharmonic Margaret Price EMI CDM 2-53841-2
Mahler Symphony No.1 in D 'Titan' London Symphony Unicorn UKCD2012
Mahler Symphony No.1 in D 'Titan' Vienna Symphony Vox CDX2 5508
Mahler Symphony No.3 in D Minor London Symphony Procter Unicorn UKCD2006/7
Mahler Symphony No.6 in A Minor Stockholm Philharmonic Unicorn UKCD2024/25
Mahler Symphony No.7 in E Minor New Philharmonia Music & Arts
Mahler Symphony No.8 London Symphony Orchestra Chorus & Solists BBC BBCL 4001-7
Mahler Symphony No.9 Vienna Symphony VoxBox CDX2 5509
Mozart Messe C-mol KV 427 Pro Musica Turnabout
Mozart Messe Nr.14 C-dur KV 317 Pro Musica Lipp Ludwig Dickie Berry Turnabout #0013
Mozart Overture to La Clemenza di Tito K.691 Berlin Philharmonic Koch 3-70540-2
Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Berlin Philharmonic Koch 3-70540-2
Nielsen Saga Drom New Philharmonia Unicorn UKCD2023
Nielsen Symphony No.3 'Sinfonia Espansiva', Op.27 BBC Northern SO Intaglio INCD 7381
Nielsen Symphony No.5 Op.50 New Philharmonia Unicorn UKCD2023
Nielsen Symphony No.6 'Sinfonia Semplice' Hall� Browning Wheatley Music & Arts CD-784(2)
Nielsen Symphony No.6 'Sinfonia Semplice' Hall� Browning Wheatley Intaglio INCD 7381
Panufnik Autumn Music London Symphony Unicorn UKCD2016
Panufnik Heroic Overture London Symphony Unicorn UKCD2016
Panufnik Nocturne London Symphony Unicorn UKCD2016
Panufnik Tragic Overture London Symphony Unicorn UKCD2016
Prokofiev Symphony No.5 Paris Conservatoire Music & Arts CD-784(2)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Royal Philharmonic Wild CHESKY CD2 A
Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead Royal Philharmonic CHESKY CD2 A
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Royal Philharmonic Wild Unicorn UKCD2000
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Concerts Colonne Perlemuter Vox CDX2 5507
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major Concerts Colonne Perlemuter Vox CDX2 5507
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.1 BBC Northern SO Intaglio INCD 7331
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.9 Sudwestfunk Baden Baden Arlecchino ARLA34
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Sudwestfunk Baden Baden Arlecchino ARLA34
Schubert Symphony No.5 in B flat D.485 Berlin Philharmonic Koch 3-70540-2
Schumann Piano Concerto in A Minor Royal Philharmonic Malcolm Frager Chesky CD52
Shostakovich Symphony No.1 in F Minor Op.10 Royal Philharmonic Carlton 1 565 691 542
Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in D minor Op.10 Vienna Pro Musica Vox 7803
Sibelius Symphony No.5 in E flat Op.82 BBC Northern SO Intaglio INCD 7331
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor Op.47 Vienna Symphony Ivry Gitlis Vox CDX2 5505
Simpson Symphony No.3 London Symphony Unicorn UKCD2028
Simpson Symphony No.3 (Rehearsal) Royal Philharmonic Intaglio INCD 7272
Strauss Tod und Verklarung London Symphony Chandos CHAN 6549
Strauss J Annen-Polka Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J Artists' Life Waltzes Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J Emperor Waltzes Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J Overture to Die Fledermaus Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J Perpetuum Mobilie Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltzes Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J The Gipsy Baron Waltz Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Strauss J Wine, Women and Song Waltzes Vienna State Opera Chesky CD77
Stravinsky Firebird South West German Radio VOX PL10.430 (VINYL)
Stravinsky Rite of Spring South West German Radio VOX PL10.430 (VINYL)
Wagner Tannhauser Overture Bamberg SO Vox 7802
Wagner Meistersinger Overture Bamberg SO Vox 7802
Wagner A Faust Overture BBC Northern SO Intaglio INCD 7231
Wagner Bacchanale from Tannhauser Royal Philharmonic Chesky CD19
Wagner Siegfried Idyll Royal Philharmonic Chesky CD31
Wagner The Flying Dutchman Overture Royal Philharmonic Chesky CD31
Walton Symphony No.1 in D 'Titan' BBC Northern SO Intaglio INCD 7231
Weber Oberon, Ouverture Teatro San Carlo, Napoli Arkadia CDGI 744
Webern Funf Orchesterstucke Op.10 Sudwestfunk Baden Baden Arlecchino ARLA34
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Wow! I'm loving this whole thread!

If for no other reason than I didn't start it and have to drag people in kicking and screaming! <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Those are some amazing lists from both parties.

Horenstein was not one of the conductors alreadyt listed by the previous classical music editor, and not one I'm intimately familiar with - so it looks like I've got a research topic, thanks! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> (New material for articles, gotta love it.)

One of these days I'm gonna put together my list. Right now it's so eclectic and jumbled it it wouldn't be pretty, LOL.

I need to organize it like y'all did!
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Horenstein is dead. But, while alive and though less well-known than, say, Furtwangler or Karajan, was certainly one of the very great conductors. Some of the recordings in my list are stunning (Mahler 7, Nielsen 5). He became a great Bruckner and Mahler specialist - though apparently that was more by accident than by design.

Since we're on the subject of classical discography, here's is my list of works that everyone should hear at some point.

Misere
Gregorio Allegri

St. Matthew, St. Luke and St. John Passions
Heinrich Sch�tz

Missa Papae Marcelli
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina

Motets
Roland de Lassus

Madrigals
Orlando Gibbons

Missa Ave regina caelorum
Tomas Luis de Victoria

Variations
Peter Sweelinck

L'incoronazione de Poppea
Claudio Monteverdi

Misere
Jean-Baptiste Lully

Dido and Anneas
Henry Purcell

Humanita e Lucifero
Alessandro Scarlatti

L'art de toucher le clavecin
Francois Couperin

The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi

Der Geduldige Socrates
Georg-Philip Teleman

Castor et Pollux
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Piano Sonatas
Domenico Scarlatti

Orchestral Suite No.4
Johann Sebastian Bach

Concerti Grossi
Georg Friedrich Handel

Symphony
Joseph Haydn

Serenade No.10
Wofgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony No.3 The Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet in C
Franz Schubert

Giovanni Battista Pergolese
Giovanni Battista Pergolese

Symphonies
C.P.E.Bach

Stabat Mater
Luigi Boccherini

Requiem in C minor
Luigi Cherubini

Overture Der Freischutz
Carl Maria von Weber

Overture to Semiramide
Giaccomo Rossini

Les Nuits d'Ete
Hector Berlioz

Overture to Russlan and Ludmila
Mikhail Glinka

Octet
Felix Mendelssohn

Carnaval
Robert Schumann

Mazurkas
Frederick Chopin

Siegfried Idyll
Richard Wagner

Aida
Giuseppe Verdi

Symphony in D
C�sar Franck

Ninth Symphony
Anton Bruckner

Sextet No.2
Johannes Brahms

Islamay
Mily Balakirev

Songs and Dances of Death
Modest Mussorgsky

Suite Mozartiana
Peter Illich Tchaikovsky

Overture Carnival
Antonin Dvorak

Sheherazade
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Taras Bulba
Leos Janacek

Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler

La Mer
Claude Debussy

Ein Heldenleben
Richard Strauss

Tapiola
Jan Sibelius

Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Alexander Scriabin

Isle of the Dead
Serge Rachmaninov

Verkl�rte Nacht
Arnold Schonberg

Ma Mere L'Oye
Maurice Ravel

The Wooden Prince
Bela Bartok

The Firebird
Igor Stravinsky

Orchestral Works
Anton von Webern

Wozzeck
Alban Berg

Sonata No.7
Serge Prokofieff

Christmas Cantata
Arthur Honneger

Symphonic Metamorphoses
Paul Hindemith

Symphony No.10
Dmitri Shostakovitch

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Benjamin Britten

Cello Concerto
Witold Lutoslawski

Metaboles
Henri Dutilleux

Repons
Pierre Boulez

Symphonies
Hans Werner Henze

Mantra
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Die Soldaten
Bernd Alois Zimmermann

St. Luke Passion
Krystof Penderecki

tomaso albinoni's adagio in g minor


give it a listen, if you like! Adagio In G Minor by Albinoni : http://www.napster.com/player/tracks/12927794