Build your CD collection. Name a must own recording.

WoodSheddin · Post by **WoodSheddin** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:58 pm

Name a record which is a must have that you find yourself listening to over and over again. Anything goes, but I am hoping to keep the recommendations legit. Thought this would be a good way to help expand our listening horizons.

Here's mine:

Ella Fitzgerald - The First Lady of Song
Polygram Records
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Absolute perfection. Her only peer is Frank Sinatra as far as I am concerned. For phrasing, beauty of sound, and even precision she is where I go when I need inspiration.

BVD Press · Post by **BVD Press** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:13 pm

Make Believe Brass Quintet (at least the last week or so):

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Legit, I guess that is debatable!!

ArnoldGottlieb · Post by **ArnoldGottlieb** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:19 pm

Bob Stewart "Then and Now" http://www.bobstewartuba.com
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For non tuba stuff Oregon "The essential Oregon" http://www.oregonband.com
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jtuba · Post by **jtuba** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:42 pm

Swedish Brass Quintet, great group and great recordings of the standards. I keep going back to the Holmboe quintet as an underrated classic.

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Louis · Post by **Louis** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:51 pm

Brass Splendour by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (but good luck finding it).
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I think The World of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble is a recent digital re-release of some of the same stuff.

Louis

tubacdk · Post by **tubacdk** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:43 pm

Burning River Brass: Of Knights and Castles

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A study in musicality, tone, pitch, everything.

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:44 pm

Quite literally anything by Robert Shaw and the ASO Chorus. His recording of "Carmina burana" is astounding.

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manatee · Post by **manatee** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:47 pm

Sinatra at the Sands, with Count Basie and his Orchestra, Live, released in '66.
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The British had a foothold at the beach, but it wasn't the summer of love yet. Johnny Walker, a nice suit, and cigarettes. A young fellow named Quincy Jones conducted and arranged this. A classic.
Anything Fennell did on the Mercury series of recordings.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:37 pm

Thunder and Lightning - Georg Solti at the helm of the Chicago Symphony and a couple of other orchestras while they shake the rafters:

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Biggs · Post by **Biggs** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:57 pm

Who's Next - The Who
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The Last Waltz - The Band
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
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The Wall - Pink Floyd
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Benefit - Jethro Tull
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Jonathan Fowler · Post by **Jonathan Fowler** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:25 pm

Solti CSO Mahler 8
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Celibidache Munich Bruckner 9
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Beach Boys Pet Sounds
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Which one of these is not like the others?

The Bruckner

JB · Post by JB » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:30 pm

Glenn Gould: Goldberg Variations
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Glenn Gould: THe Well-Tempered Clavier (2 discs)
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Chicago/Philly/Cleveland: The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
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Dennis Brain: Mozart Concerti and also Strauss 1 concerto
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Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:35 pm

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
One Size Fits All
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Second Hand Smoke Man

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:46 pm

TubeNet wrote:Name a record which is a must have that you find yourself listening to over and over again.

The first requirement is different from the second. And it's nothing like "what is most important" or "what did you learn the most from." But taking both requirements as stated, it would be Vaughan Williams Symphony in F Minor (No. 4), Adrian Boult conducting the LSO on EMI. The specific recording isn't as important as the work itself. I even have it with the composer conducting (in 1937), but I prefer the clean clarity of the Boult approach. It's the last recording I would part with.
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Rick "who listens again after a year and is astounded all over again" Denney

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:11 pm

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7 - CSO; Leonard Bernstein
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Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
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Balalaika Favorites -
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Mahler Symphony #2 - CSO - Solti
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Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
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Kenton in Hi-Fi
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Stefan

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:06 pm

TubeNet wrote:Name a record which is a must have that you find yourself listening to over and over again.

I'm feeling kind of syrupy tonight. With that in mind . . . .

-Mahler's Symphony No.1 in D 'Titan'
-Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: Canon in D

I'm a sucker for film scores:

-How the West was Won
-The Magnificent Seven
-Last of the Mohicans
-Chariots of Fire
-the operatic version of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story

Jazz:
-Sing, Sing, Sing-Swing, Swing, Swing-Concert at Carnegie Hall with Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James, et ali. (1938)
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-Take Five--Dave Brubeck Quartet with Joe Morello, Gene Wright, and Paul Desmond
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Billy M. · Post by **Billy M.** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:42 pm

Must ... remember... to .... not ... list ... entire... classical collection...

Ok, I admit it, I am a self-proclaimed audiophile.

I could think of literally HUNDREDS of recordings I could recommend for the classics. (Anything basically after the classical period... don't care at all for Mozart).

One I can recommend w/o a doubt has to be Canadian Brass - Red, White & Brass. The playing of all players in that recording is top notch (Can Brass, Boston Symphony Brass, and New York Phil brass).
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Another is Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra - Organ Symphony (E. Power Biggs, organ) Camille Saint-Saens. I LOVE THIS RECORDING.
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Robert Spano and Atlanta Symphony - Scheherezade
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AndrÃ© Previn and London Symphony - Belshazzar's Feast, William Walton
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" " - Symphony 5 and Tuba Concerto, (John Fletcher, soloist) Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Charles Dutoit - Montreal Symphony - Roman Cycle, Ottorino Respighi
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Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia - Church Windows, Ottorino Respighi
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Thomas Schippers and New York Phil - Orchestral Works, Samuel Barber
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...

I think I'll take a break now.

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:48 am

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:07 am

montre8 wrote:Shostakovich 'cello concerto #1 - Rostropovich/Ormandy (1951?)

Wagner - Siegfried (Solti/Vienna)

Wow! Siegfried and Shostakovich on the same CD--who'd have thunk it?

Rick "who thought naming only one was both the requirement and the challenge" Denney

Hiram · Post by **Hiram** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:05 am

Pat Metheny, Bright Size Life

Good for relaxing.

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The great Jaco Pastorius plays bass on that album.

TubeNet

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