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	*'''Bach, JS '''- ''English Suites Nos 2, 4 & 5'' - Perahia  (έ)		*'''Bach, JS '''- ''English Suites Nos 2, 4 & 5'' - Perahia  (έ)
	*'''Bach, JS '''- ''Goldberg Variations'' - Perahia  (έ)		*'''Bach, JS '''- ''Goldberg Variations'' - Perahia  (έ)
-	*'''Bach, JS '''- ''Goldberg Variations'' - Jacques Loussier Trio  (έ)	+	*'''Bach, JS '''- ''Goldberg Variations'' - Jacques Loussier Trio  (έ) <font color="red"> <small>(3/5; heard 7-Sep-08; not Loussier's best; merely adding a Latin beat does not make a version inspired.)</small> </font>
	*'''Bach, JS''' - ''Goldberg Variations'' - Chen Pi-hsien (1985)  (έ)		*'''Bach, JS''' - ''Goldberg Variations'' - Chen Pi-hsien (1985)  (έ)
	*'''Bach, JS''' - ''Goldberg Variations'' - Hewitt, Angela (1999) (έ)		*'''Bach, JS''' - ''Goldberg Variations'' - Hewitt, Angela (1999) (έ)
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	*'''Bach, JS''' - ''The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1'' - Jeno Jando (1995) (έ)		*'''Bach, JS''' - ''The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1'' - Jeno Jando (1995) (έ)
	*'''Bach, JS''' - ''Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1'' - Keith Jarrett (1988) (έ)		*'''Bach, JS''' - ''Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1'' - Keith Jarrett (1988) (έ)
		+	*'''Bach, JS''' - ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'' - Angela Hewitt (4CDs: 1998 and 1999) (έ)
	*'''Bach, JS''' - ''St John Passion'' - Lehel (έ)		*'''Bach, JS''' - ''St John Passion'' - Lehel (έ)
	*'''Bach, JS''' - ''The Best of Bach'' - Loussier, Jacques (έ)		*'''Bach, JS''' - ''The Best of Bach'' - Loussier, Jacques (έ)
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	==Bryars==		==Bryars==
	* '''Bryars, Gavin''' - ''Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet'' - Waits, Tom (έ)		* '''Bryars, Gavin''' - ''Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet'' - Waits, Tom (έ)
-	* '''Bryars, Gavin''' - ''The Sinking of the Titanic'' - Alter Ego (έ)	+	* '''Bryars, Gavin''' - ''The Sinking of the Titanic'' - Alter Ego (έ) <font color="red"> <small>(3/5; heard 3-Apr-08; Intriguing, starts with four minutes of radio static, musicians have freedom to weave in and out of the mix.)</small> </font>
	==Campion==		==Campion==
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	==Reich==		==Reich==
	* '''Reich''' - ''Early Works'' (έ)		* '''Reich''' - ''Early Works'' (έ)
-	* '''Reich''' - ''Music for 18 Musicians'' (ECM) (έ)	+	* '''Reich''' - ''Music for 18 Musicians'' (ECM) (έ) <font color="red">  <small>(5/5; heard Jun-08; A completely hypnotic masterpiece.  One CD track, but in what other order can you listen to it?  Distortion possibly at high volumes, or was that my car CD player?)</small> </font>
-	* '''Reich''' - ''Music for 18 Musicians'' (Nonsuch) (έ)	+	* '''Reich''' - ''Music for 18 Musicians'' (Nonsuch) (έ) <font color="red">  <small>(5/5; heard Jun-08; nicely tracked, and nicely recorded, by many of the same musicians, such as Nurit Tilles.)</small> </font>
		+	* '''Reich''' - ''Music for 18 Musicians'' (innova) (έ)  <font color="red">  <small>(4/5; heard Jun-08; an SACD version by some Grand Valley State University students.  Seems to lack the confidence of the other two versions.)</small> </font>
	* '''Reich''' - ''Sextet and Six Marimbas'' (έ)		* '''Reich''' - ''Sextet and Six Marimbas'' (έ)
	* '''Reich''' - ''Tehillim'' (1981) (έ)		* '''Reich''' - ''Tehillim'' (1981) (έ)

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Current revision as of 09:47, 29 October 2009

Contents 1 Adams 2 Albinoni 3 Bach, JS 4 Barber 5 Bartok 6 Beethoven 7 Berlioz 8 Brahms 9 Britten 10 Bruckner 11 Bryars 12 Campion 13 Chopin 14 Copland 15 Corelli 16 Debussy 17 Dowland 18 Dvorak 19 Elgar 20 Faure 21 Franck 22 Gershwin 23 Glass 24 Goodall 25 Gorecki 26 Handel 27 Haydn 28 Holst 29 Jenkins 30 Kalinnikov 31 Liszt 32 Mahler 33 Mendelssohn 34 Mozart 35 Nyman 36 Orff 37 Part 38 Perotin 39 Puccini 40 Rachmaninov 41 Ravel 42 Reich 43 Rimsky-Korsakov 44 Rossini 45 Rypdal 46 Saint-Saens 47 Satie 48 Schoenberg 49 Schubert 50 Schumann 51 Shostakovich 52 Sibelius 53 Tallis 54 Tavener 55 Tchaikovsky 56 Various 57 Vaughan Williams 58 Verdi 59 Vivaldi 60 Wagner

Adams

• Adams - Nixon in China (έ)

Albinoni

• Albinoni, Pachelbel - Adagio, Canon - von Karajan (έ)

Bach, JS

• Bach, JS - Motetten - The Hilliard Ensemble (έ)
• Bach, JS - The Genius of the Baroque - Various (έ)
• Bach, JS - Cantatas 1 - Gardiner (έ)
• Bach, JS - Cantatas 8 - Gardiner (έ)
• Bach, JS - Cantatas 15 - Gardiner (έ)
• Bach, JS - Cantatas 24 - Gardiner (έ)
• Bach, JS - 3 Sonatas for Viola and Cembalo - Jarrett, Kashkashian (έ)
• Bach, JS - Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo - Kremer (έ)
• Bach, JS - Keyboard Concertos Nos 3, 5, 6, 7 - Perahia (έ)
• Bach, JS - English Suites - Perahia (έ)
• Bach, JS - Keyboard Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 4 - Perahia (έ)
• Bach, JS - English Suites Nos 2, 4 & 5 - Perahia (έ)
• Bach, JS - Goldberg Variations - Perahia (έ)
• Bach, JS - Goldberg Variations - Jacques Loussier Trio (έ) (3/5; heard 7-Sep-08; not Loussier's best; merely adding a Latin beat does not make a version inspired.)
• Bach, JS - Goldberg Variations - Chen Pi-hsien (1985) (έ)
• Bach, JS - Goldberg Variations - Hewitt, Angela (1999) (έ)
• Bach, JS - A State of Wonder (Goldberg Variations) - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - Goldberg Variations - Schiff, Andras (2001) (έ)
• Bach, JS - Goldberg Variations - Jarrett, Keith (1989) (έ)
• Bach, JS - Goldberg Variations - Lifschitz (έ)
• Bach, JS - Mass in B Minor - Gardiner, John Eliot (έ)
• Bach, JS - Inventions & Sinfonias - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - Keyboard Concertos - Vol I - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - Keyboard Concertos - Vol II - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - Partitas BWV 825 - 827 - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - Partitas BWV 828 - 830 - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - The Art of Fugue - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - The English Suites - Vol I - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - The English Suites - Vol II - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - The French Suites - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - The Italian Album - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - The Well-Tempered Clavier II - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - Toccatas BWV 910 - 913 - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Bach, JS - Cantatas BWV 140 and 147 - Harnoncourt (έ)
• Bach, JS - Brandenburg Concertos - I Musici (έ)
• Bach, JS - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 - Jeno Jando (1995) (έ)
• Bach, JS - Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1 - Keith Jarrett (1988) (έ)
• Bach, JS - The Well-Tempered Clavier - Angela Hewitt (4CDs: 1998 and 1999) (έ)
• Bach, JS - St John Passion - Lehel (έ)
• Bach, JS - The Best of Bach - Loussier, Jacques (έ)
• Bach, JS - 6 Suites for Unaccompanied Cello - Ma, Yo-yo (έ)
• Bach, JS - Great Organ Works - Hurford, Peter (έ)
• Bach, JS - St Matthew Passion - Schreier, Peter (έ)

Barber

• Barber - Music for Solo Piano - McCawley (έ)

Bartok

• Bartok, Janacek - Concerto / Sinfonietta - Previn (έ)
• Bartok, Lutoslawski - Concertos for Orchestra - Von Dohnanyi (έ)

Beethoven

• Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 <<Choral>> (έ)
• Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 (έ)
• Beethoven - String Quartets Op. 130 & Op. 133 - Bartok Quartet (έ)
• Beethoven - String Quartets Op. 59 & Op. 74 - Bartok Quartet (έ)
• Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 <<Eroica>> / Egmont Op. 84 - Bernstein (έ)
• Beethoven - Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23 - Glenn Gould (έ)
• Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 & 6 <<Pastorale>> - Karajan (έ)
• Beethoven - Piano Sonatas opp. 10 and 13 - Schiff (έ)
• Beethoven - Piano Sonatas opp. 109, 110 and 111 - Uchida (έ)
• Beethoven - Complete Piano Sonatas - Barenboim (έ)
• Beethoven - Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello - Schiff and Perenyi (έ)
• Beethoven - Complete String Quartets - Alban Berg Quartet (έ)

Berlioz

• Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Williams, Richard (έ)

Brahms

• Brahms - Symphony No. 4 - Halasz (έ)
• Brahms - Haydn-Variations Symphony No. 1 - Nemeth & Lehel (1988) (έ)
• Brahms - Symphony No. 2, Serenade No. 2 - Rahbari (έ)

Britten

• Britten - Curlew River (1966) (έ)

Bruckner

• Bruckner - Mass in E minor, Libera me, Zwei Aequale - Corydon Singers (έ)
• Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 - Klee (έ)
• Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 'Romantic' - Neuhold (έ)
• Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 - Solti (έ)
• Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 - von Dohnanyi (έ)
• Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 - von Karajan (έ)

Bryars

• Bryars, Gavin - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Waits, Tom (έ)
• Bryars, Gavin - The Sinking of the Titanic - Alter Ego (έ) (3/5; heard 3-Apr-08; Intriguing, starts with four minutes of radio static, musicians have freedom to weave in and out of the mix.)

Campion

• Campion - Lute Songs - Rickards & Linell (1996) (έ)

Chopin

• Chopin, Frederic - Master Portrait (έ)

Copland

• Copland - Rodeo, Billy the Kid, Appalachian Sprint, Fanfare - Gunzenhauser (1989) (έ)

Corelli

• Corelli, Torelli - Christmas Concertos - Hogwood (έ)

Debussy

• Debussy - Recital - Roge (1980) (έ)
• Debussy & Ravel - String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet in F - Kodaly (έ)

Dowland

• Dowland Project, The - Care-charming Sleep - Surman, Potter, Stubbs (2001) (έ)
• Dowland, John - In Darkness Let me Dwell - Potter, Surman, Stubbs (έ)
• Dowland, John - Consort Music and Songs - Rose Consort of Viols (1995) (έ)

Dvorak

• Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 <<New World>> - Royal Philharmonic (έ)

Elgar

• Elgar - Enigma Variations, Serenade, Introduction & Allegro - Armstrong (έ)
• Elgar - Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures - Du Pre, Barbirolli, Baker (1965) (έ)
• Elgar - Violin Concerto - Kennedy, Nigel (έ)
• Elgar, Holst - The Dream of Gerontius & The Hymn of Jesus (1972) (έ)

Faure

• Faure - Requiem, Messe Basse, Eight Motets - Lole et al (έ)

Franck

• Franck - Symphony in D Minor, Prelude, Choral and Fugue - Neuhold (1988) (έ)

Gershwin

• Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto in F, An American in Paris - Blumenthal (έ)
• Gershwin - Girl Crazy - Mauceri (έ)

Glass

• Glass, Philip - Low Symphony - Bowie and Eno (έ)
• Glass, Philip - Songs from Liquid Days (έ)

Goodall

• Goodall, Howard & Various - Big Bangs (έ)

Gorecki

• Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 - Upshaw, Dawn (έ)

Handel

• Handel - Concerti Grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-5 (έ)
• Handel - Water Music / Fireworks Music - Hogwood (1978) (έ)
• Handel - Suites for Keyboard - Jarrett, Keith (έ)
• Handel - Six Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 - Rolla (1984) (έ)
• Handel - Messiah - Solti (έ)
• Handel, Bach, Scarlatti etc - Baroque Duet - Battle, Marsalis (έ)
• Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter - Marsalis, Wynton and Gruberova, Leppard (έ)

Haydn

• Haydn - Symphonies 104 and 100 - Hogwood (έ)
• Haydn - Three Favorite Concertos - Ma, Marsalis, Lin (έ)

Holst

• Holst - The Planets - von Karajan (έ)

Jenkins

• Jenkins, Karl - Adiemus—Songs of Sanctuary (έ)

Kalinnikov

• Kalinnikov - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (1994) (έ)

Liszt

• Liszt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 - Banowetz (1988) (έ)

Mahler

• Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde - Giulini (έ)
• Mahler - Symphony No. 2 <<The Resurrection>> Neumann (1982) (έ)
• Mahler - Symphony No. 5 - Sinopoli (έ)
• Mahler - Symphony No. 4 - Solti (έ)
• Mahler - Symphony No. 1 - Urbanek (έ)

Mendelssohn

• Mendelssohn, Bruch - Violin Concertos - Sandor, Joo (έ)

Mozart

• Mozart - Don Giovanni (1973) (έ)
• Mozart - Great Choral Works (1967) (έ)
• Mozart - Introducing the Complete Mozart Edition (έ)
• Mozart - Introducing the Complete Mozart Edition (έ)
• Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro (1971) (έ)
• Mozart - Symphony Nos. 39 and 40 - Bernstein (έ)
• Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte - Davis, Sir Colin (1974) (έ)
• Mozart - Piano Sonatas - Zacharias, Christian (1985) (έ)

Nyman

• Nyman, Michael - The Piano Concerto, MGV (έ)

Orff

• Orff - Carmina Burana - Levine (έ)

Part

• Part, Arvo - Arbos (1986) (έ)
• Part, Arvo - Miserere (έ)
• Part, Arvo - Passio (έ)
• Part, Arvo - Symphonies Nos. 1 to 3 etc - Jarvi, Neeme (έ)
• Part, Arvo - Tabula Rasa - Kremer, Jarrett, Schnittke (έ)
• Part, Maxwell Davies, Glass - Trivium - Bowers-Broadbent (έ)

Perotin

• Perotin - Perotin - Hilliard Ensemble (έ)

Puccini

• Puccini - La Boheme and Tosca highlights - 1990 (έ)
• Puccini - Madame Butterfly (έ)
• Puccini - Madame Butterfly and Turandot highlights (έ)
• Puccini - Tosca - Davis, Sir Colin (1976) (έ)

Rachmaninov

• Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27, and The Rock, Op. 7 - Gunzenhauser (έ)
• Rachmaninov - All Night Vigil Op. 37 << Vespers >> - Polevtsova (έ)
• Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Tirimo (έ)

Ravel

• Ravel - Mother Goose (1989) (έ)
• Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit - Ashkenazy (1982) (έ)
• Ravel, Gershwin - Piano Concertos - Grimaud (1997) (έ)

Reich

• Reich - Early Works (έ)
• Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (ECM) (έ) (5/5; heard Jun-08; A completely hypnotic masterpiece. One CD track, but in what other order can you listen to it? Distortion possibly at high volumes, or was that my car CD player?)
• Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (Nonsuch) (έ) (5/5; heard Jun-08; nicely tracked, and nicely recorded, by many of the same musicians, such as Nurit Tilles.)
• Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (innova) (έ) (4/5; heard Jun-08; an SACD version by some Grand Valley State University students. Seems to lack the confidence of the other two versions.)
• Reich - Sextet and Six Marimbas (έ)
• Reich - Tehillim (1981) (έ)
• Reich - The Four Sections / Music for Mallet Instruments (έ)
• Reich - Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint - Kronos Quartet / Metheny, Pat (έ)
• Reich - The Desert Music - Tilson Thomas, Michael (έ)
• Reich - Remixed - Various (έ)
• Reich, Steve with Beryl Korot - Three Tales (έ)

Rimsky-Korsakov

• Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin - Scheherazade, Polovstian - Karajan (1967) (έ)

Rossini

• Rossini - Overtures, including William Tell - Gamba (1961) (έ)

Rypdal

• Rypdal, Terje - Undisonus and Ineo - Eggen (έ)

Saint-Saens

• Saint-Saens & Berlioz - Symphony No. 3, Carnaval Romain (1986) (έ)

Satie

• Satie - Piano Works - Kormendi (έ)

Schoenberg

• Schoenberg - Piano Music - Pollini (1974)(έ)
• Schoenberg and Berg - Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto (1971) (έ)

Schubert

• Schubert - Symphony Nos. 8 and 5 - Halasz (1988) (έ)
• Schubert - Piano Trios - Stuttgart Piano Trio (1988) (έ)
• Schubert & Haydn - Trout Quintet in A Major, Quartet in G Major (έ)

Schumann

• Schumann - Piano Works - Jando (1992) (έ)

Shostakovich

• Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 - BRT Philharmonic (1989) (έ)
• Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 - Scherbakov (1999) (έ)
• Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 - Jarrett (1992) (έ)

Sibelius

• Sibelius - Finlandia - Schermerhorn (έ)

Tallis

• Tallis, Thomas - The Lamentations of Jeremiah - Hilliard Ensemble (έ)

Tavener

• Tavener and Britten - The Protecting Veil and Cello Suite No. 3 - Isserlis, Steven (1992) (έ)

Tchaikovsky

• Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1, Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake (έ)
• Tomasi, Jolivet - Marsalis & Salonen (έ)

Various

• Various - An Introduction to Early Music (έ)
• Various - Children's Weekend, including Peter and the Wolf (έ)
• Various - Christmas Music (έ)
• Various - Cinema Weekend—Classics in Films (έ)
• Various - Classic CD 18 (έ)
• Various - Classic Chillout 2 (έ)
• Various - EMI Autumn Releases 1989 (έ)
• Various - EMI Classics 1991 (έ)
• Various - Inspirations (έ)
• Various - Proms 98 (έ)
• Various - Officium - Garbarek and Hilliard Ensemble (έ)
• Various - Mnemosyne - Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble (έ)
• Various - Portrait of Wynton Marsalis - Marsalis (έ)
• Various - Opera - Norman, Kanawa etc (έ)
• Various - Essential Opera - Pavarotti, Kanawa etc (έ)
• Various - Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music - Rose Consort of Viols (1997) (έ)
• Various - Music for Christmas - The BBC Singers (έ)
• Various - Carols from Trinity - Trinity College, Cambridge (έ)
• Various - Karajan Conducts - von Karajan (έ)
• Various - Early Venetian Lute Music - Wilson & Rumsey (1995) (έ)

Vaughan Williams

• Vaughan Williams - Fantasia etc - Marriner (1972) (έ)

Verdi

• Verdi - Rigoletto - Sinopoli (έ)

Vivaldi

• Vivaldi - Four Seasons etc (έ)

Wagner

• Wagner - Das Rheingold - Solti (έ)
• Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen exceprts - Solti (έ)
• Wagner - Die Walkure - Solti (1965) (έ)
• Wagner - Gotterdammerung - Solti (1964) (έ)
• Wagner - Siegfried - Solti (1963) (έ)
• Wagner, Richard - Tristan und Isolde (1966) (έ)
• Wagner, Richard - Hohepunkte Highlights - Various (έ)
• Walton - Facade - Ashcroft, Irons (έ)
• Weber, Carl Maria von - Der Freischutz - Davis, Sir Colin (έ)