Sarah
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So my dad pretty much listens exclusively to classical music. I don't know much about classical (and our tastes are drastically different anyway), but I do know that he doesn't have a very big collection. Maybe 30-40 CDs. I'd like to expand his collection because he mentioned recently how he was always listening to the same stuff again and again on his iPod when he travels.
The problem is that I don't know exactly what he has (they live in another state so all I have to go on is memory of what I put on his iPod over the last couple of years). So I was thinking I could try to find some somewhat lesser-known, but excellent classical music that he would be unlikely to already have in his collection. I was hoping some of the classical music lovers here with some depth to their collections might have some great suggestions.
This is what I remember seeing in his collection: Three copies of Magnificat. The Messiah (which he goes to see almost every year). A lot of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi. I saw a few piano and violin concertos. Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations. And there was a double-CD of Yo Yo Ma, which was the only thing I saw that was not strictly classical. With my cluelessness I'm not sure if that really gives any idea of his taste or not, but I figured it was worth throwing out there.
The problem is that I don't know exactly what he has (they live in another state so all I have to go on is memory of what I put on his iPod over the last couple of years). So I was thinking I could try to find some somewhat lesser-known, but excellent classical music that he would be unlikely to already have in his collection. I was hoping some of the classical music lovers here with some depth to their collections might have some great suggestions.
This is what I remember seeing in his collection: Three copies of Magnificat. The Messiah (which he goes to see almost every year). A lot of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi. I saw a few piano and violin concertos. Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations. And there was a double-CD of Yo Yo Ma, which was the only thing I saw that was not strictly classical. With my cluelessness I'm not sure if that really gives any idea of his taste or not, but I figured it was worth throwing out there.