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With this I am stopping from using this board for this.
Best - Robert
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I think getting hooked on classical is a matter of repeated listenings to some of the more accessible works.
Would suggest good recordings (since bad recordings can be boring) of some of the following:
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Beethoven: Fifth Symphony.
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade
Chopin: 24 Preludes; Polonaise in A-flat Minor, Op.53
Tchaikovsky: 1st Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Toccata, Op.11
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (maybe start with Concerto #2)
Vivaldi: Four Seasons (for example, Trevor Pinnock's recording)
Mozart: Symphony 25, 29, 40, 41
Schumann: Scenes from Childhood
Schubert: 8th Symphony
Mendelssohn: Violin Concert, Symphony 4 (Italian)
Dukas: Sorcerers Apprentice
Debussy: Golliwog's Cakewalk
Joplin: Elite Syncopations, Maple Leaf Rag
Zelenka: Oboe Trio Sonatas (ECM version with Heinz Holliger)
Wagner: Overtures, Ride of the Valkyries
Machaut (London Ambrosian Singers -- other versions vary from exciting to humdrum)
Copland: Billy The Kid, Rodeo
The romantic era (includng late romanticism and nationalism) of classical music is often challenging for beginners, as many quiet passages, so these may be of higher risk:
Mahler: Symphony 1
Brahms: Symphony 1, Symphony 4
Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
Greig: Piano Concerto 1
Dvorak: Symphony1, New World Symphony
Smetana: the Moldau
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Stavinsky: Firebird
Holst: The Planets
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Original Piano version, or ELP version)
More challenging, more modern:
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Debussy: Preludes, Afternoon of a Faun
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Shostakovich: Symphony 5, First movement of 4th Symphony
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Third Piano Concerto
(Have to run -- may add to later.)
You know where my love of classical music developed? Bugs Bunny cartoons. I didn't realize much of it was classical at the time, but recognition kicked in when I really began to listen to classical in late teens/early adulthood.
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I feel slightly guilty. I should have added in my original post that I've been listening to classical music for 25 years, bought & downloaded (which is how I originally discovered eMu in 2005) CDs, read guide books, listened extensively to classical radio stations (via terrestial radio & Internet), have developed a certain sense of what I like and don't like (early music through Baroque, yes; Mozart, eh; most symphonic/Romantic works, no; anything played by "Pops" outfits, absolutely no way). Just haven't found anything that moves me as it should. Yet.
This Glass does sound beautiful, though. Again, many thanks for the suggestion.