All Strings Considered a Subjective List of Classical Works

All Strings Considered A Subjective List of Classical Works & Recordings All Recordings are available from the Lake Oswego Public Library These are my faves, your mileage may vary. Bill Baars, Director <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Composer / Title </li><li style="flex:1">Performer(s) </li><li style="flex:1">Comments </li></ul>Middle Ages and Renaissance Sequentia HILDEGARD OF BINGEN Antiphons We carry a lot of plainsong and chant; recordings by the Anonymous 4 are also highly recommended. Various, Renaissance vocal and instrumental collections. King’s Consort, Folger Consort <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">or </li><li style="flex:1">Baltimore </li></ul>Consort Baroque Era VIVALDI The Four Seasons Biondi/Europa Galante or Loveday/Marriner. Vivaldi wrote several hundred concerti; try the concerti for multiple instruments, and the Mandolin concerti. Also, Corelli's op. 6 and Tartini (my fave is his op.96). HANDEL Messiah Asch/Scholars Baroque Ensemble, Shaw/Atlanta Symphony Orch. or Jacobs/Freiberg Baroque orch. For more Baroque vocal, Bach’s cantatas - start with 80 & 140, and his Bach B Minor Mass with John Gardiner conducting. And for fun, Bach's “Coffee” cantata. HANDEL Water Music Suites Lamon/Tafelmusik For an encore, Handel's “Music for the Royal Fireworks.” <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">J.S. BACH </li><li style="flex:1">Akademie für Alte Musik </li><li style="flex:1">Also, the Suites for Orchestra; the Violin and </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Brandenburg Concertos </li><li style="flex:1">Berlin or Koopman, Pinnock, Harpsicord Concerti are delightful, too. </li></ul>or Tafelmusik J.S. BACH Works for Lute <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Walter Gerwig </li><li style="flex:1">More lute - anything by Paul O'Dette, Ronn </li></ul>McFarlane & Jakob Lindberg. Also interesting, the Lute-Harpsichord. J.S. BACH Cello Suites Bylsma on period cellos, Fournier on a modern <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">instrument; </li><li style="flex:1">Casals' </li></ul>recording was the standard DuPre/Barenboim/ECO & Barbirolli/LSO Classical Era HAYDN Cello Concerti <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">HAYDN </li><li style="flex:1">Fischer, Davis or Kuijiken </li></ul>"London" Symphonies (93-101) <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">HAYDN </li><li style="flex:1">Mosaiques or Kodaly quartets Or start with opus 9, and take it from there. </li></ul>String Quartets op. 20, #2&4 MOZART Clarinet Concerto MOZART Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 20 MOZART Symphonies Nos. 35-41 Romantic Era BEETHOVEN Meyer, Brymer or Shifrin. Serkin/Szell Next, try the Clarinet Quintet & the Sinfonia Concertante. Mozart wrote 27 concertos for piano and 5 for violin; all are worth seeking out. Karl Böhm/Berlin Philharmonic Rudolf Serkin. Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 and 23. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">BEETHOVEN </li><li style="flex:1">Mosaiques, Lindsay quartet. Start with the opus 18s and work your way </li></ul>The String Quartets BEETHOVEN up from there. Hanover Band Symphony No. 3 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">BEETHOVEN </li><li style="flex:1">Perlman/Giulini or </li></ul>Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Heifetz/Reiner Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Symphony No. 5 in c minor, Op. Philharmonic 67 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">BEETHOVEN </li><li style="flex:1">Bruno Walter </li></ul>Symphony No. 6 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto #5 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Arrau/Davis </li><li style="flex:1">All 5 have moments of great beauty, as does </li></ul>the “Triple” concerto, often on cd with Brahms' Double concerto. BEETHOVEN Piano trio op.97, “Archduke” Istomin/Schneider/Casals, Kempf/Szeryng/Fournier or Immerseel/Beths/Bylsma Curzon/Vienna or or SCHUBERT “Trout” Quintet Serkin/Laredo/Naegele/Parna s/Levine SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished” Walter/Columbia Symphony Orch. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 SCHUBERT Walter/Columbia Symphony Orch. Murray Perahia Impromptus <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">SCHUBERT </li><li style="flex:1">Szell/Cleveland </li></ul>Symphony #no. 9, “The Great” <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">BERLIOZ </li><li style="flex:1">Colin Davis/ London </li></ul>Symphony Orchestra Mackerras/Orchestra of the Age of Enlghtenment Timmerman/Davis or Lincer/Bernstein A psychedelic symphony if ever there was one. Also. A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture Op. 21 & Incidental Music Op. 61 Symphonie Fantastique MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 "Italian" BERLIOZ Harold in Italy STRAUSS (Johann II) Waltzes Boskovsky <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">MUSSORGSKY </li><li style="flex:1">Richter, for piano solo </li><li style="flex:1">And who can forget the recording by </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Pictures at an Exhibition </li><li style="flex:1">Solti or Maazel for orchestral Emerson, Lake & Palmer? </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">BRAHMS </li><li style="flex:1">Abbado/Berlin Philharmonic </li><li style="flex:1">And Symphony No. 2. And 3. And 4 </li></ul>Symphony No. 1 BORODIN String quartet No. 2 Borodin quartet Emerson quartet Check out his Polovtsian Dances, too. And his Symphony No. 2 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">BRAHMS </li><li style="flex:1">Jascha Heifetz/Reiner/ChicagoAlso try his version of the Beethoven, </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 </li><li style="flex:1">Symphony </li><li style="flex:1">Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky violin </li></ul>concerti. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">MAHLER </li><li style="flex:1">Fischer-Dieskau </li><li style="flex:1">Songs of a Wayfarer. </li></ul>Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">MAHLER </li><li style="flex:1">Abbado/Berlin Philharmonic </li></ul>Symphony No. 1 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Schererazade Beecham/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">DVORÁK </li><li style="flex:1">Emerson String Quartet </li><li style="flex:1">The Bagatelles are fabulous, too. </li></ul>String Quartet, op. 96, “American” DVORAK Serenade for Strings Marriner/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields While you're at it, Dvorak's Serenade for Winds is wonderful, too; so is Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">DVORAK </li><li style="flex:1">Kertesz/London Symphony </li><li style="flex:1">7 and 8 are great, too. </li></ul>Symphony No. 9, “From the New Orchestra World” DVORÁK Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. Fournier/Szell/Berlin Philharmonic Often combined on cd with Tchaikovsky's splendid Rococo Variations. 104 PUCCINI La Bohème DelosAngeles/Björling/Corena Opera – It's not as bad as it sounds. Really. /Merrill/Tozzi RCA /Beecham RAVEL Introduction and Allegro Martinon/Chicago Symphony Also worth checking out - Ma Mere L'Oye, Tokyo Strinq Quartet/Galway Bolero. et al. Modern Era STRAVINSKY Stravinsky/Columbia Symphony Other great Stravinsky ballets - The Firebird, Apollo. The Rite of Spring VAUGHAM-WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending Ozawa/Boston Symphony Bean/Boult/New Philharmonia And if you like this, try his Fantasia on a <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Orch. </li><li style="flex:1">Theme by Thomas Tallis and his Fantasia on </li></ul>Greensleeves. RESPIGHI Pines of Rome Lane/Atlanta Symphony Orch. And Fountains of Rome, Roman Festivals, DePriest/Oregon Symphony The Birds, Ancient Airs and Dances. Dutoit/Montreal Symphony <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">ELGAR </li><li style="flex:1">Jacqueline DuPre/Barbirolli </li></ul>Elgar's “Enigma” Variations are fascinating. And his violin concerto, too. For the non-vocal Pulcinella Suite, Neville Marriner. Follow with Dumbarton Oaks Cello concerto STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Stravinsky/Columbia Symphony <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">GERSHWIN </li><li style="flex:1">Leonard Bernstein/Columbia </li></ul>Symphony Orch. Tilson Thomas/Los Angeles Philharmonic Rhapsody in Blue PROKOFIEV Lieutenant Kije Suite RODRIGO Symphony #1, “Classical;” and Peter and the Wolf. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Also, Fantasia para un gentilhombre </li><li style="flex:1">Bonnell/Dutoit </li></ul>Concierto de Aranjuez COPLAND Appalachian Spring HEATH Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Rodeo Sym. Warren-Green/London Chamber Orchestra This cd is a good introduction to Glass, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Adams and the minimalist school. </li><li style="flex:1">Frontier </li></ul>

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