Released in 2008, The 100 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music is a download-only compilation which serves as a solid introduction to any new listener of the genre. Featuring pieces performed by orchestras from all over the world (London, New York, New Zealand), it includes familiar classical works from Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, and Bach, alongside some of the most popular and well-respected concertos, symphonies, requiems, and overtures.
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Rebecca Clarke was a 20th-century British composer, who trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London before crossing the pond and spending the rest of her life in America. Her music is always thrilling, experimental and enormously powerful. Her Viola Sonata is considered one of the greatest pieces ever written for the instrument. And just listen to the power packed into her Piano Trio for piano, cello and violin.
These are the pieces that you have chosen as the most popular here on The Classical Station. You will hear them played throughout the week. Request your favorite work on All Request Friday and the Saturday Evening Request Program.
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The list that follows is not the same thing as the 50 greatest classical pieces ever, like a set of recordings available only in a TV offer, though every piece listed is indubitably great in some way.
Has there been a list compiled somewhere by a respected [2] source listing the 50 or 100 most important classical pieces and/or the best recordings of those pieces?Thanks!-- John Johnson1. As with all lists, there's bound to be disagreement over pieces that were included, and those that were excluded. That's not important to me--what I'm looking for is something that will give me a quick overview of classical music, at which point I'll (hopefully) have enough knowledge to search elsewhere. (I've already been to which is a great resource, but has a bit too much info for me right now.)2. If I wanted a list of the top 100 rock albums, I'd probably turn to Rolling Stone magazine, or some other similar publication. I wouldn't rely on John Doe's list, unless he happened to be a respected rock critic. Likewise, I'd like to look at lists compiled by respected people in the field of classical music.Hope this makes sense.
If you are interested in records as opposed to CDs, there is a set of100 LPs by Franklin Mint called "The 100 Greatest Recordings of allTime". It was put together by Kolodin and is a very good sampling ofall types of classical music in recordings from the teens and 20s allthe way up to the 80s. The records are pressed on audiophile red vinyl,and the sets come with extensive liner notes. They sell on ebay foraround $2 a disk individually or $1 a disk in large batches, so they'rea real bargain. If you are just starting out in classical music andwant to hear a variety before sinking a lot of money into CDs, youcan't go wrong with this series.See yaSteve-- *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* VIP RECORDS: Professional Transfers of Classic 78 rpm RecordingsThe best Jazz you've never heard! 20s Dance Bands - British Swing - OperaFREE MP3s OF COMPLETE SONGS
National Public Radio's Performance Today compiled a list of 50 essentialclassical recordings: 's a pretty safe list -- all good recordings, though of course it's amatter of opinion if they are indeed "essential" or "the best."Gramophone magazine also has a list of recommended recordings -- well over100, however. You can search the list at this case you have to take Gramophone's pro-British bias into account(they OFTEN prefer recordings done by British perfomers/conductors/recordinglabels.) But again it can be somewhat helpful.Tom Wood
In addition to all of the other sensible advice on offer, I might also point outthat the standard of performance today is quite high. It is very unlikely,however passionately we kill each other in this ng, that what you buy will bebad. The fact is that as a beginner you may not even be in a position to knowWHY a recording is generally considered great, and this being the case it's notsomething you really need to worry about too much.Unless it is written in stone that you are going to buy X number of discs and nomore, no matter what, you will probably find that you like certain works morethan others. The ones that you like you will probably want to have in more thanone performance, because you are likely to hear other versions in the normalcourse of your life and some may strike you as desirable. So very quickly youwill find yourself moving away from the '100 Best' to simply 'those that pleaseme most,' and frankly that's where I think you want to be.The other thing to always keep in mind is that full price NEVER means betterquality; often it's just the opposite, as many other have pointed out here withsome regularity. So you really don't need to run a big financial risk. Forexample, for around $30, you can purchase:Mozart: Symphonies 35, 40, 41 (Szell/Cleveland) Sony Essential ClassicsChopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 (Moravec) VoxBrahms: Violin Concerto (Oistrakh/Klemperer) EMIBeethoven: "Eroica" Symphony (Szell/Cleveland) Sony Essential ClassicsAre these "the best?" You won't find any two people who would agree. Are they"among the best," there you could well find consensus from honest people not soobsessed with their own preferences that they have never paid attention to whatanyone else likes, or says.What this means, effectively, is that in addition to the websites and reviews(and I run one, at www.classicstoday.com) you can find a tremendous amount ofgood advice right here. I am a professional music critic, but I find it veryuseful to hand out here because no one knows anything is such a vast realm asthat of classical music, and there are people here whose range of knowledge istruly astonishing. There are also some who are simply crazy, of course.So my suggestion to you, in order to get the most useful information, is not toask for "the best" of anything, but rather to ask for the "top several choices"based on what people know or have observed about recordings of the piece inquestion. Then all you need to do to see if there is a consensus is check outwhich recordings make several lists.It also would help very much if, rather than asking for the top 100 pieces ofmost important pieces, you tell people what it is that YOU like, because theidea is to help you find other pieces that you like. To should you how it works,I will post another thread asking for opinions as to the best version ofsomething, and let's see if we can't arrive at a "consensus" recommendation forone specific work.Anyway, I think the resources available to you are tremendous. All you have todo is use them efficiently.Good luck, and happy listening!Dave Hurwitz
> Being fairly unfamiliar with classical music, I'm looking for a list > [1] of suggested recordings/most essential pieces. My tastes tend to > run towards full symphonies on the one hand, and some of the early > madrigles and other sacred music of the medieval and rennaissance > periods, but I still don't know much about them.> > Has there been a list compiled somewhere by a respected [2] source > listing the 50 or 100 most important classical pieces and/or the best > recordings of those pieces?> > Thanks!
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Yet despite this his music remains beautifully tuneful and distinctly stylish. His First Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.26, remains one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire, but clearly he should not be dismissed as the archetypal one-work composer.
Having allied himself to the conservative musical line from Mendelssohn through Schumann, he also had to live in the shadow of another German titan, namely Brahms. This did not help his growing bitterness, especially as he realised that, even though he outlived Brahms by almost a quarter of a century, it was an uneven contest.
Apart from the piano, which he loathed despite being a good pianist himself, Bruch was comfortable in all sorts of musical forms and instrumental colours. During his lifetime he was renowned for his large-scale oratorios, most of them inspired by the strong undertow of nationalistic, Prussian/Bismarckian political activity which led to the unification of Germany in 1871, and of which Bruch was an eager supporter. 2ff7e9595c
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