watchnerd
Grand Contributor
Having a couple of terabytes of lossless music on Roon and access to Tidal, my classical library is both wide and deep.
But my wife wanted me to help her up her classical education, and I figured I'd start off with some more approachable pieces (I listen to a lot of fairly avant garde, minimalist, modern or Schoenberg school classical these days). She's already spent a lot of time in baroque chamber music and would like some bombastic, dramatic stuff. She just experience Beethoven's 5th in person 2 weeks ago.
What are your recommendations for best recorded performances / sound quality of:
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Holst: The Planets
Dvorak: Symphony 9, "New World"
Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
Orff: Carmina Burana
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Ravel: Bolero
Puccini: Tosca
Bizet: Carmen
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle
ADDED 11/27:
Gershwin: American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, etc.
Elgar: Enigma Variations
But my wife wanted me to help her up her classical education, and I figured I'd start off with some more approachable pieces (I listen to a lot of fairly avant garde, minimalist, modern or Schoenberg school classical these days). She's already spent a lot of time in baroque chamber music and would like some bombastic, dramatic stuff. She just experience Beethoven's 5th in person 2 weeks ago.
What are your recommendations for best recorded performances / sound quality of:
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Holst: The Planets
Dvorak: Symphony 9, "New World"
Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
Orff: Carmina Burana
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Ravel: Bolero
Puccini: Tosca
Bizet: Carmen
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle
ADDED 11/27:
Gershwin: American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, etc.
Elgar: Enigma Variations
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