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Lots of suggestions already, so I will only comment on your own post

Posted by docw (A) on April 23, 2007 at 12:01:14

In Reply to: Good Classical Music posted by qazaq on April 21, 2007 at 20:44:45:

Regarding,
"Samuel barber - Adagio for Strings - really the kind of thing I am looking for
Pachelbel - Canon - this too
>These 2 works are sometimes mated on the same LP/CD. They are considered standard works, and heard to often at funerals and weddings, respectively. The point is that Tallis and Bach selections are mated on the discs. Oft cited good versions are the Stuttgart chamber or Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields/Marriner renditions.

Faure - Pavane
>Amongst older performances, Munch BSO is very good

Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
>SACD or CD of Maazel/Cleveland and Reiner/Chicago

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - although it is a bit...too stately. Not really into the chamber music thing. Maybe a more...epic piece.

>Hmmm, I don't know what you mean. What more epic a piece than this symphony, with it's Herculean intro, vigorous scherzo, mysterious and deep profound adagio 3rd and the huge last movement??? This isn't chamber music, unless you own the HIP type with pseudo historical instrument performances (Goodmans or Norrington's, for example). I don't know what you own, but there are plenty of good ones discussed here in the recent past even.

Try the 3rd symphony Eroica, or the 7th symphony and the 6th symphony Pastoral of Beethoven. Try large scaled Brahms works like 1st and 2nd symphonies and his Tragic and Academic Festival Overtures. Schumann's Rhenish symphony #3. Schubert 8th symphony and 9th symphony. Wagner Overtures and for intimate string work, Siegfried Idyll. Grieg Holberg suite and Dvorak's stuff Serenades and symphonies 6 to 9. Do you have Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique or Tchaikovsky's 4-6th symphonies? Or Richard Strauss' Don Juan and other tone poems? Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Petrouchka are accessible, as his Pulcinella for chamber orchestra.

Lotsa stuff.

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