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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Collecting Classical Music Part 2

After listening to the lecture course mentioned below, the first thing I had to do was go out and buy Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. I had a copy somewhere on cassette, but could no longer play cassettes anywhere. I couldn't find a copy at the library or at Half-Price Books and so was forced to go to Barnes and Noble and buy a copy on some cheap label for $6. It's by the Orchestra "New Philharmony" of St. Petersburg by Alexander Titov. It seems decent enough.
Next, at Half-Price Books I found Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Capriccio Italien performed by Vladimir Spivakov and the Berliner Philharmoniker after it was highly recommended by Professor Greenberg on the lecture series. Wow. I'd probably still be listening to it over and over again except that I then found Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 at the library. OMG. I almost can't stop listening to it because it is so good.
But I've got so much more music to listen to. I was forced to empty my iPod of anything but classical music and just a few choice jazz selections (I need a bigger iPod).
In Houston at another Half-Price Books store I found Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique by Vladimir Golschmann and Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Mozart Symphonies 40 and 41 by James Levine and the Wiener Philharmoniker.
Now everytime I go into a library or bookstore I come out with a few more prizes for my collection - 24 Caprices by Paganini performed by Itshak Perlman; Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens; Greig Piano Concerto in A Minor and Peer Gynt Suite; Haydn Symphonies 94, 96, 100, 101, 103 and 104; Mahler Symphonies 1,2 and 6; and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Firebird Suite.

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Blogger Bunkerman said...

I listened to that same Teaching Company course a few months ago. I was mostly ignorant of classical music and didn't own much, except some on LPs that I could no longer play.

After each lecture, I went to Amazon bought CD collections of the music covered in the course that I liked. Which ones of the many offered was the problem I had, so I relied on the reviews on Amazon, which I read to make a selection based on, I hope, some else's knowledge.

Do you have an opinion of those ? I suppose it's "buyer beware" there.

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