Suggested Classical Music Listening Lists from a Few of Jonathan's
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Suggested classical music listening lists from a few of Jonathan’s friends David Horowitz-Composer 1. Stravinsky: "Le Sacre" ("Petrushka" also) 2. Debussey: "La Mer" (ditto "Nocturnes", the Piano Preludes & Etudes} 3. Shostakovitch: the Symphonies (I'm partial to 5,7,10,12,15); the String Quartets (esp. 5, 8, 10 &12); the Preludes & Fugues for Piano; the Violin and Cello Concertos; Piano Concerto #2. 4. Bartok: Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste, Concerto for Orchestra, Violin Concerto #2, the String Quartets (yes, all 6 of them) 5. Berg: Violin Concerto, "Wozzeck", "Lulu" 6. Webern: almost anything 7. Almost anything by Arvo Part 8. Reich: "Closely Watched Trains", Terhillum", 9: Vasks: lots of music for string orchestra; Rautavarra: ditto. 10. Gorecky: Symphony # 2 As far as recordings go, Bernstein, Reiner, Herr Ubermensch von Karajan, Borodin Quartet for Shostakovich, Emerson or Tokyo for the Bartok. Christopher Vath-Musician and Composer 1. Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite. Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic Orchestra 2. Eric Whitacre: Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine from Eric Whitacre: The Complete A Cappella Works; Ronald Staheli and the Brigham Young University Chorus 3. Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata. Vladimir Horowitz, pianist 4. Les Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Volumes 1-3. The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir 5. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis 6. Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony #10 Dreams of His Flying Machine from Eric Whitacre: The Complete A Cappella Works Andrew Block-Composer 1. Brahms - Nanie Opus 82. 2. Beethoven's symphonies - 3rd, 6th, 9th, late quartets, late piano sonatas opus 101, 106, 109, 110, 111. 3. Mozart symphonies - late. Operas - Figaro, Piano quintet for winds in E flat K 452 4. Wagner - Tristan 5. Bach - Goldberg Variations Peter Nashel-Composer 1. Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa. "Fratres" is a great performance by Ketih Jarret and Gidon Kremer. 2. John Adams Earbox - "A Short Ride in a Fast Machine" 3. Anything from the album "Herrmann: The Film Scores" Esa Pekka Solnen and the Los Angeles Phil. 4. The Ravel String Quartet by Maurice Ravel...and String Quartet by Claude Debussy 5. Thomas Newman’s score to "Shawhank Redemption" 6. Lalo Schifrin--"Cool Hand Luke" (its where the ABCnews theme came from) 7. Ennio Morricone any spaghetti western. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” classic also, the score to "Burn" is awesome. (great movie too) 8. Nino Rota... "La Doce Vita" is particularly great. Phillip Nuzzo-Conductor 1. Verklerte Nacht- Schoenberg 2. Rite of Spring- Stravinski 3. La Mer - Debussy 4. Turandot- Puccini 5. Alexander Nevsky- Prokofiev 6. The Little Drummer Boy- Harry Simeone Sebastain Modarelli-Composer Serge Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano in D n.2. op. 94 – Shlomo Mintz (Vln.) and Yefim Bronfman – Deutsche Grammophon & Concert n.3 for piano and orchestra in C, op. 26 – Alexander Toradze (pno.) & Valery Gergiev (conductor) – Philips Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms – Berliner Philharmoniker – Pierre Boulez conducting – Deutsche Gyorgy Ligeti: Studies for piano – Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Lux aeterna for 16 voices choir – London Sinfonietta Voices (both recorded by Sony) .