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In Reply to: List 4 or 5 recordings YOU consider "definitive" posted by pbarach on May 17, 2020 at 15:13:12:
1. Tchaikovsky Ballet Highlights: The Nutcracker / Sleeping Beauty / Swan Lake
Adrian Leaper / The London Philharmonia Orchestra
2. J.S. Bach : Orchestral Suites 1-4
Neville Marriner / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
3. Beethoven : Symphony No. 6 Pastoral
Pierre Monteux / Wiener Philharmoniker
4. Morten Lauridsen / Lux Aeterna
Paul Salamunovich / Los Angeles Master Chorale and Sinfonia Orchestra
5. Gershwin / Bernstein : Rhapsody In Blue / West Side Story Symphonic Dances
Leonard Bernstein / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
6. Ravel Orchestral Works: Rapsodie Espagnole / Mother Goose Suite / Alborada Del Gracioso
Introduction and Allegro / Daphnis Et Chloe, Suite No. 2
Jean Martinon / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Rachmaninov : Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini
Julius Katchen : Piano / Georg Solti / London Symphony Orchestra
8. Rachmaninov : Symphony No. 2
David Zinman / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
9. Holst / The Planets / St. Paul's Suite
Roy Goodman / New Queens Hall Orchestra
10. Vaughn Williams : Symphony No. 2 - A London Symphony
Richard Hickox / London Symphony Orchestra
*** Normally I would choose Solti's The Planets, but because the Goodman recording is done on period instruments keeping the same tempos recorded by Holst himself and the inclusion of the wonderful St. Paul's Suite also by Holst that one got the nod....
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- Sorry... I can't limit myself to 4-5....but these in no particular order... - TWB 17:18:14 05/17/20 (0)