start off smple and beautiful

Something too bombastic might be overwhelming to someone who has never heard music before. So much as I LOVE the Beethoven 9, I don't think I'd start with that. Some things that come to mind for a "first session":

Something by Eva Cassidy (probably Somewhere Over the Rainbow) - to show her the beauty and emotional power of the human voice
Nessum Dorma (Domingo) - to show the power and emotional power of the human voice
Largo from the New World Symphony - beautiful melody, range of intruments with different timbres (including English Horn, triangle, tympani), great range of dymanics
A Bach Cello Suite - beautiful sonority
Moonlight Sonata
Mozart 39th Symphony
part of Beethoven 6
Early Gordon Lightgoot (If You Could Read My Mind)
Dave Brubeck, Time Out (Take Five)
Miles Davis - Bags Groove

After these, I would graduate to somewhat more "involved" music, depending on how she liked the original set:

Beethoven 7th
Rest of the New World
Four Seasons (Vivaldi, not Frankie)
Brandenburgs
Some early Linda Ronstadt
Miles Davis Kinda Blue
Van Morrisson Moondance
Fleetwood Mac Rumours

Then when she's ready, on to the really emotional stuff

Beethoven 9
Shostakovich 5 (I'd tell her the story behind it first)
Mahler 1
Tchaikovsky violin concerto by Heifetz
Rach 3 piano concerto
Queen of the Nigh Aria by Sumi JO - to show what the human voice is capable of

rlindsa

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Topic - What would your compilation be for this woman who hears for the first time? - amioutaline? 08:31:58 03/29/14 (21)

RE: What would your compilation be for this woman who hears for the first time? - TubeDriver 09:49:08 03/31/14 (1)

RE: What would your compilation be for this woman who hears for the first time? - Raymond Leggs 13:10:34 04/01/14 (0)

start off smple and beautiful - rlindsa 19:32:39 03/30/14 (0)

Beatles White Album - jedrider 09:58:19 03/30/14 (0)

RE: What would your compilation be for this woman who hears for the first time? - fantja 09:56:59 03/30/14 (0)

Clair de Lune - Ozzie 08:07:59 03/30/14 (0)

RE: What would your compilation be for this woman who hears for the first time? - middleground 21:54:17 03/29/14 (0)

A baby cooing - LWR 18:05:34 03/29/14 (0)

Duke Ellington - Piano Reflections - DRam 17:36:46 03/29/14 (0)

RE: What would your compilation be for this woman who hears for the first time? - sunseeker 16:27:39 03/29/14 (1)

RE: What would your compilation be for this woman who hears for the first time? - shutterbob 15:15:57 04/01/14 (0)

Certainly not - tinear 15:22:02 03/29/14 (0)

Why Didn't I Think of the Voyager Golden LP??? - John Marks 11:16:44 03/29/14 (0)

Good list, but first someone should just take her... - musetap 11:06:12 03/29/14 (0)

No Wille Dixon love? 8^) - FenderLover 09:26:48 03/29/14 (0)

Nice, but I think you should have started with Chant... . - John Marks 09:14:40 03/29/14 (4)

RE: It is beautiful - amioutaline? 10:27:15 03/29/14 (3)

I produced three CDs of Christmas Carols for String Quartet - John Marks 10:58:24 03/29/14 (2)

RE: I produced three CDs of Christmas Carols for String Quartet - Bill the K 07:38:20 03/31/14 (0)

I like your taste in X-mas music... - Mark Man 22:06:48 03/29/14 (0)

I think you have it beautifully covered - Craiger56 09:05:41 03/29/14 (0)

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start off smple and beautiful - rlindsa 19:32:39 03/30/14 (0)

start off smple and beautiful

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