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| How to go about collecting Classical Music Larryi, Thanks for the list of conductors who specialize in this type of music performance. I'll check out Jordi Savall as well. He sounds interesting, especially if he's conversant with early forms of African and Middle Eastern music, another in... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Larryi, although it appears to me, there is a goodly sized pool of politicians to draw from who appear to meet the basic qualifications for being castrati singers, I do see what you mean. Maybe there are classical labels that specialize in period ... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Larryi, there seem to be so many permutations of classical music it’s going to take a while to sort them out. It doesn’t make sense to me though personally, to at first listen to music played on different, more familiar instruments than it was int... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Telefunkin, I especially like to find records just like you describe. My late wife loved to go antiquing, but hated when I stumbled upon some bins of old records. And from limited looking through the classical records you find that way, you're rig... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thought I’d an share an unexpected experience hearing jazz fusion music for the first time. A girlfriend at the time, wanted to see an upcoming Laura Nyro concert at the Fillmore East. I got tickets for the show, which turned out to be a double bi... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Brubin and rvpiano, thank you for your suggestions. Telefunkin, Iwill add those sets you mention to my list of music to explore purchasing. and will research what they contain if I can find some information on them online.Rbschauman, Archivmusic s... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Rcprince, thank you. I'll track some you recommended down. I would really liked to have seen that organ too. .I've been reading about it since last posting. Form what you say, I might Have been fortunate to have listened to some amazing practition... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Rcprince, yes it was St. Thomas’ church. Youve jarred my memory. Thank you so much. I looked at Google images and that was undoubtedly the place. I was thinking maybe it was on 5th Avenue or thereabouts, but wasn’t at all sure. That church was a m... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Gerryah930, That’s quite an accomplishment for you to have been playing first chair, viola for the Boston Symphony and had have been exciting. As you suggest, I’ll have to see what performers, composers and periods I do enjoy and develop my own ta... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Inna, I'd prefer to stick with what has the best chances of being good anyway, until I can start to differentiate the wheat from the chaff. I'll have to go by reviewers in the meantime. I wouldn't know Karajan from Leonard Bernstein at this point ... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear "Live at the Bill Graham's Fillmore West" featuring Mike Bloomfield, Taj Mahal, Nick Gravenites etc. (One of my all time favorites except skip the song "Oh Mama" because Bloomfield's singing is as bad as his guitar playing was great)Magazine's "Pl... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Sounds like some good advice Mike. Buying classical certainly does have some differences from buying jazz or rock n’ roll, There you might find cover versions of a song, but that’s for the most part irrelevant as you buy primarily on the basis of ... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Larryi, yes it is the 157 CD Brilliant set. I wonder how it compares to the Deutsche Grammophon set There seem to be some slightly small Brilliant Bach sets too, maybe 144 CD's or around there. Had me a bit confused when reading reviews and orderi... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Twoleftears, I just finished watching the Beethoven Eroica film you recommended. It was quite good. Thanks. Label 19, sorry to hear you’re from upstate. I don’t hold that against you much. Thanks for the link to the Classic reviews beginners site.... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Two leftears, I’ll take a look at the youtube video, hopefully tonight. Thank you for the link to it. Just by chance Beethoven’s "Eroica" is one of the dozen or so classical albums I do have, It’s a version recorded by the Berlin Philharmonic, Dir... |