150 FAVOURITE CLASSICAL WORKS
It’s funny how the choice of classical albums that I listen to is much more affected by where I’m listening to them than the choice of non-classical. When I lived in Ludlow, I listened to much more medieval choral music and loads of opera (always German & Eastern European rather than bloody bel canto - ugh). So I guess that this is more a London, ie volume-restricted, listening collection of current faves, than a Ludlow, let alone a ‘crank it up, I’m alone on a desert island’, one ...
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- Various ‘Jerusalem: City of the Two Peaces’ (Figueras, Hespèrion XXI, Savall)
- Adams ‘Harmonielehre’ (Rattle)
- Mahler ‘Symphony No.2 ‘Resurrection’’ (LPO Live, Jurowski)
- Elias ‘The Prayer Cycle’ (Schwartz)
- Korngold ‘Sinfonietta’ (Bamert)
- Finzi ‘Dies Natalis’ (Brown, C Finzi)
- J S Bach ‘Motets’ (Harnoncourt)
- Elgar ‘Symphony No.2’ (LPO, Boult, 1968 - Lyrita)
- Szymanowski ‘King Roger’ (Rattle)
- Rautavaara ‘Autumn Gardens’
(Ashkenazy) - Tallis ‘Spem in Alium’ (King’s, Willcocks)
- Pärt ‘Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten’ (Russell Davies)
- Reich ‘Different Trains’ (Kronos Quartet)
- Ravel ‘Ma Mère L’Oye’ (Pittsburgh SO, Previn)
- Sheppard/ Tye ‘Sacred Choral Music’
(Clerkes of Oxenford, Wulstan) - Foulds ‘Mantra of Bliss’ (Wordsworth)
- Stanford ‘The Blue Bird’ (Cambridge Singers, Rutter)
- Vine ‘Symphony No. 3’ (Sydney SO, Challender)
- Rutter ‘Suite’ (Lloyd-Jones)
- Jóhannson ‘ibm 1401, a user's manual’ (Jóhannson)
- Delius ‘Brigg Fair (An English Rhapsody) (Beecham, 1958)
- Mompou ‘El Combat Del Somni’ (De Los Angeles, Ros-Marbá)
- Stravinsky ‘The Rite of Spring’ (Stravinsky)
- Debussy ‘Snowflakes Are Dancing’ (Tomita)
- D Matthews ‘The Music of Dawn’ (Gamba)
- Canteloube ‘Chants d’Auvergne’ (De Los Angeles, Jacquillat)
- Shostakovich ‘Symphony No.8’ (Mravinsky)
- Riley ‘A Rainbow in Curved Air’ (Riley)
- Leoninus ‘Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos’ (Red Bird)
- Sibelius ‘Symphony No.2’ (RPO, Barbirolli - Chesky)
- Berlioz ‘Grande Messe Des Morts’ (LSO, C Davis)
- Silvestrov ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ (Latvian Radio Choir, Klava)
- Rautavaara ‘Manhattan Trilogy’ (Segerstam)
- Milhaud 'La Cheminée du Roi René: Madrigal-Nocturne' (Athena Ensemble)
- Mascagni ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ (Scotto, Domingo, Levine)
- Stravinsky ‘The Firebird (Suite - 1945)’ (Stravinsky)
- Rota ‘Music For Film - The Godfather’ (Muti)
- R Strauss ‘Vier Letzte Lieder’ (Della Casa, Bohm)
- Vaughan Williams ‘Symphony No.5’
(Hickox) - Sibelius ‘Symphony No.7’ (BPO, Karajan)
- Chopin ‘Nocturnes’ (Rubinstein - RCA)
- Schreker ‘Prelude to a Drama’ (Gielen)
- Alwyn ‘Lyra Angelica’ (Ellis, Alwyn)
- Poulenc ‘Piano Concerto’ (Ortiz, Frémaux)
- Brahms ‘Vier Gesange, Op. 17’ (Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir, Creed)
- Rózsa ‘Violin Concerto’ (Heifetz, Hendl)
- Duruflé ‘Requiem’ (A Davis)
- Messiaen ‘Turangalila Symphony’ (Previn)
- Mahler ‘Symphony No.8’ (Solti)
- Howells ‘Paradise Rondel’ (Hickox)
- Beethoven ‘Symphony No.9’ (‘Ode An Die Freiheit’ – Bernstein in Berlin)
- Tavener ‘The Veil of the Temple’ (Layton)
- Martynov ‘Come In!’ (Kremer)
- Schubert ‘String Quintet’ (Lindsays, Cummings)
- Bruckner ‘Symphony No.9’ (BPO, Furtwangler)
- Takemitsu ‘Spirit Garden’ (Alsop)
- Bartók ‘Concerto for Orchestra’ (Solti)
- McGuire ‘A Cappella’ (Beth Griffith, John McGuire)
- Rachmaninov ‘Piano Concerto No.4’
(Michelangeli, Gracis) - Vaughan Williams ‘An Oxford Elegy’ (Westbrook, King’s, Willcocks)
- Tchaikovsky ‘Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathétique’’ (Mravinsky)
- Webern ‘Cantata No.2 for soprano, bass, choir & orchestra, Op.31’ (Boulez)
- Respighi ‘The Pines of Rome’ (Ozawa)
- G Jackson ‘Not No Faceless Angel’ (Polyphony)
- Walton ‘Spitfire Prelude & Fugue’ (Daniel)
- Villa-Lobos ‘Choros No.10’ (BBC Singers, New World Symphony, Tilson Thomas)
- Bax ‘November Woods’ (Bryden Thomson)
- J S Bach ‘Easter & Ascension Oratorios’ (Retrospect Ensemble)
- Piazzolla ‘Milonga Del Angel’ (Astor Piazzolla y Su Quinteto Tango Nuevo)
- Bate ‘Symphony No.4’ (Yates)
- Adams ‘Harmonium’ (San Francisco, De Waart)
- Korngold ‘The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex’ (Previn)
- Schubert ‘Der Jungling an der Quelle, D300’ (Fischer-Dieskau, Moore)
- J Marshall ‘Out Of The Darkness’ (Pappenheim, Moody)
- Goebbels ‘Landschaft mit entfernten Vervandten’ (Ensemble Modern, Ollu)
- Tallis, arr Monks ‘The Spirit of Tallis’ (Sandstrom, McCusker, Armonico Consort)
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