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Hello, I'm attempting to start building a CD collection of classical
greats. I've begun to get educated.
I bought a book, Classical Music for Dummies (one has to start somewhere!),
that I'm finding quite good. In the back of the book they actually try and
walk one through building a classical music collection. They provide 5
lists, the last one is the one I'm zeroing in on. (If any of these are
operas, Please tell me, as I don't care for opera.) It lists the following
artists/works:
Adams: Harmonielehre
Barber: Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Berg: Violin Concerto
Corigliano: Symphony no. 1
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Symphony
Ives: Symphony # 2; The Unanswered Question
Janacek: Taras Bulba
Mahler: Symphony #9
Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
Ravel: La Valse
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Shostakovich: Symphony # 1
(I was advised to get the one done by Rostropovich--Do you concer?)
R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
Stravinsky: The rite of Spring
Webern: Passacaglia, opus 1
As an aside, my favorite instrument is piano. Someone recommended Pollini,
M. But I don't know what would be good by him. If you do, I'd love to
hear what you'd recommend. If I've seen him (Pollini) listed on a title,
"The Great Pianists of the 20th Century" CD, would that be a decent CD to
buy? (You'd probably want to see who the others were......which I cannot
tell now, I don't recall...)
If you are able to comment on this or recommend another book I need to
read, etc. any of your thoughts and help is most appreciated.
With warm regards,
Peggy Lucero
Bethesda, MD
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