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Build your CD collection. Name a must own recording.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:58 pm
by WoodSheddin
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:13 pm
by BVD Press
Make Believe Brass Quintet (at least the last week or so):
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Legit, I guess that is debatable!!
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:19 pm
by ArnoldGottlieb
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:42 pm
by jtuba
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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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:51 pm
by Louis
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
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:43 pm
by tubacdk
Burning River Brass: Of Knights and Castles
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A study in musicality, tone, pitch, everything.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:44 pm
by Doug@GT
Quite literally anything by Robert Shaw and the ASO Chorus. His recording of "Carmina burana" is astounding.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:47 pm
by manatee
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:37 pm
by Mark
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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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:57 pm
by Biggs
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:25 pm
by Jonathan Fowler
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:30 pm
by JB
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:35 pm
by Dylan King
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
One Size Fits All
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Second Hand Smoke Man
Re: Build your CD collection. Name a must own recording.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:46 pm
by Rick Denney
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
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:11 pm
by Stefan
Re: Build your CD collection. Name a must own recording.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:06 pm
by Dean E
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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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:42 pm
by Billy M.
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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André 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.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:48 am
by dtemp
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:07 am
by Rick Denney
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
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:05 am
by Hiram
Pat Metheny, Bright Size Life
Good for relaxing.
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The great Jaco Pastorius plays bass on that album.