More of My Enthusiasms
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Yes, another overly long list
I once asked the great Oliver Knussen whether he thought of himself as primarily a conductor or a composer. Primarily I’m a record collector,
he said. I just do the other stuff to pay for my addiction.
Here’s some classical music that I listen to on headphones so my addiction doesn’t drive everyone else crazy.
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Dance Music of the High Renaissance,
Collegium Terpischore
- ♦ Palestrina,
Lamentations of Jeremiah,
Pro Cantione Antiqua
- ♦ Palestrina,
Masses,
The Tallis Scholars
- ♦ Monteverdi,
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin,
William Christie/Les Arts Florissants
- ♦ Monteverdi,
Madrigali,
Rinaldo Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
- ♦ Monteverdi,
Orfeo,
John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir
- ♦ Scarlatti,
Sonates pour Clavecin,
Pierre Hantai
- ♦ Beethoven,
The Late Quartets,
Busch Quartet
- ♦ Wagner,
Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg,
Rafael Kubelik/Bavarian RSO
- ♦ Wagner,
Parsifal,
Hans Knappertsbusch/Bayreuther Festspiele
- ♦ Bruckner,
Symphonies 5, 7, & 8,
Wilhelm Furtwangler/Berlin PSO
- ♦ Bruckner,
Mass in F Minor,
Sergiu Celibidache/Munich SO
- ♦ Bruckner,
Motets,
Matthew Best/Corydon Singers
- ♦ Bruckner,
String Quartet,
L’Archibudelli
- ♦ Faure,
Requiem,
Carlo Maria Guilini, Kathleen Battle/London Philharmonia
- ♦ Chausson,
Symphony,
Charles Munch/Boston SO
- ♦ Mahler,
Das Lied von der Erde,
Jascha Horenstein/BBC Northern SO
- ♦ Ives,
Symphony 4,
Michael Tilson Thomas/Chicago SO
- ♦ Sibelius,
Symphonies 4-7,
Herbert van Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic
- ♦ Sibelius,
String Quartet ‘Voces Intimae’,
Voces Intimae Quartet
- ♦ Nielsen,
Hymnus Amoris,
Leif Segerstam/Danish National RSO
- ♦ Debussy,
Preludes, Images, Children’s Corner,
Arturo Michelangeli
- ♦ Debussy - Ravel - Webern,
String Quartets,
Hagen Quartet
- ♦ Szymanowski,
Symphony 3 ‘Song of the Night’,
Simon Rattle/Birmingham SO
- ♦ Schmidt,
String Quartets,
Moyzes Quartet
- ♦ Pfitzner,
Palestrina,
Rafael Kubelik/Gedda, Fischer-Dieskau, Bavarian RSO
- ♦ Vaughan Williams,
Symphony 5,
John Barbirolli/London SO
- ♦ Messaien,
Turangalila-Symphonie,
Myung-Whun Chung, Bastille SO
- ♦ Messaien,
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus,
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- ♦ Messaien,
Des Canyons aux Etoiles,
Salonen/London Sinfonietta
- ♦ Messaien,
Coleurs de la Citie Celeste,
Pierre Boulez, NY Philharmonic
- ♦ Dutilleux,
Timbre, Espace, Mouvement,
Yan Pascal Tortelier/BBC Philharmonic
- ♦ Reich,
Tehillim,
Alarm Will Sound
- ♦ Gubaidulina,
Stimmen Vorstummen: Symphony in 12 Movements
Royal Stockholm Orch
- ♦ Takemitsu,
From Me Flows What You Call Time,
Nexus/Pacific SO
- ♦ Satoh,
Toward the Night,
String Ensemble ENDLESS
- ♦ Schnittke,
Psalms of Repentance,
Tonu Kaljuste/Swedish Radio Choir
