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| 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... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Interesting post label19. At this point I’m needing simply to understand and sample what’s out there and understand where various works fit in the Classical canon. That’s good advice to seek out variety once I get an idea of what’s what, And resea... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Audioguy, you got a good start collecting Classical as teenager. That demonstrates excellent musical taste at quite an early age by a current youngster such as yourself. I’ll check out the Better Records site you suggest. Sounds like a good place,... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Bluemooddriver, appreciate your input , but I’m maintaining a streaming -free lifestyle for now for the reasons expressed explained up- thread. Jonathanje, I would like to try some SACD’s if I can find some reasonably priced, possibly used, ones. ... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Frogman and Inna, your correct that understanding the history of any art form should enhance your understanding and appreciation of it. There are other forms of classical music such as (east) Indian or Persian, as Inna mentioned, so that is anothe... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Lowrider, the DG Beethoven box set I was referring to is the boxed set they put out in 2019 containing 123 CD’s and ostensibly all of his works, The Naxos and Warners sets do have some oddities the DG set doesn’t include from what I read last nigh... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Lowrider, that really is unfortunate. After reading about the poorer quality 1980s Deutsche Grammophon material, I was wondering if any of that lesser material is in the massive DG Beethoven "complete works" boxed set they sell. I happened to stum... |