[Ham Radio Nut]

Mussorgsky

 

[vcoheda]

opera - wagner or verdi

symphony - mahler or bruckner

overall - bach, mozart, or beethoven

 

[bigshot]

Wagner, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Stravinsky

See ya
Steve

 

[kwitel]

Shostakovich.
Symphony #5 introduced me to much of what I listen to now.

 

[kenneth]

Bach. My favorite recording in my entire collection ( I have all of Bach's works), is the Hilliary Hahn recording of the Bach Violin Concertos. It is absolutely superb. Sample it yourself -

http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Concertos...535346-8456143

 

[BigSurSpoon]

I'm big on Chopin, Dvorak and Vivaldi and Beethoven.

But my all time favorite is Bach probably because of Glenn Gould's The Goldberg Variations

 

[Thelonious Monk]

Quote:

Originally Posted by kenneth /img/forum/go_quote.gif Bach. My favorite recording in my entire collection ( I have all of Bach's works), is the Hilliary Hahn recording of the Bach Violin Concertos. It is absolutely superb. Sample it yourself - http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Concertos...535346-8456143

by any chance have you heard anner bylsma's performances of his cello suites? especially the second one... gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.

lately, i've had a thing for charles ives.

 

[kenneth]

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anner bylsma's performances of his cello suites?

I may have sampled them on Amazon at some time. My favorite rendition of the Cello Suites, and I have heard many, was done by Lillian Fuchs, a violist many decades ago. They have been reissued on CD not too long ago -

http://www.amazon.com/Bach-6-Suites-...3107768&sr=8-2

Pablo Casals after hearing Fuchs play Suite Six, said that it sounded better on the viola then the cello.