Another site I found interesting...

[LeRoy]

The ‘A’ List

I am looking to begin adding/building a collection of
orchestral music, especially chamber music, so my search
for guidance led me to this site. You guys probably already
know about this site but it's new to me.

[frenchmon]

Wow..thanks LeRoy...I need that.

I've already found one I like. Piano...Murray Perahia Plays Franck & Liszt

[JoeE SP9]

Thanks for the heads up. It will be useful.

[Feanor]

The ‘A’ List

I am looking to begin adding/building a collection of
orchestral music, especially chamber music, so my search
for guidance led me to this site. You guys probably already
know about this site but it's new to me.

Thanks, looks like mostly very sound recommendations though I don't have many of the suggested recordings. I hadn't seen the site before.

If you are looking for chamber music recommendations have a look at my own selection; the suggested recordings are in my collection are very good if not necessarily the best available in every case -- HERE.

I think this list of orchestral works by Prof. Robert Greenberg is really excellent:

Bach, J.S. * Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Bach, J.S. * Violin Concerto in E Major
Bedrich Smetana * Má Vlast
Beethoven * Piano Concerto No. 4
Beethoven * Symphony No. 3
Beethoven * Symphony No. 9
Brahms * Symphony No. 4
Brahms * Violin Concerto
Copland * Appalachian Spring
Debussy * La Mer
Dvorák * Concerto for ’Cello
Dvorák * Symphony No. 8
Haydn * Symphony No. 104
Holst * The Planets
Ives * Three Places in New England
Mahler * Symphony No. 5
Mendelssohn * ”Italian” Symphony
Mozart * Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor
Mozart * Symphony in C Major, “Jupiter”
Rachmaninoff * Symphony No. 2
Richard Strauss * Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Rimsky-Korsakov * Scheherazade
Schubert * Symphony No. 9
Schumann * Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich * Symphony No. 10
Shostakovich * Symphony No. 5
Stravinsky * The Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky * Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky * Violin Concerto
Vivaldi * The Four Seasons

If you're looking for sound recommendations for specific recordings, check out ArkivMusic.com; drill down to a specific composition and they often provide a specific recommendation. I have found these quite reliable.

[bobsticks]

Thanks for the link.

I was going to suggest looking through Feanor's profile but I see he's already tooted his own French Horn...actually Bill's got a lot of great suggestions too so I suggest you spend some time exploring both lists.

Have fun.

[LeRoy]

Your welcome guys.

Wow Bill, thanks for the excellent recommendations and for Arkivmusic direction too!! Looks like I am going to be busy ordering new music of the chamber variety today. I will post on what I wound up ordering.....thanks again.

[LeRoy]

Bill, I just placed an order for a couple of CD's from you recommended chamber music spreadsheet.
Shubert,Franz Quintets for Strings D 956 and also Beethoven, Ludwig Sonata for Violin & Piano No.9 "Kruetzer".

[JohnMichael]

Thanks LeRoy, love the link and liked that I had a number of the recordings. I wonder if we should create a sticky for these good links on recordings. Would anyone else like a sticky thread for musical links?

[Feanor]

Bill, I just placed an order for a couple of CD's from you recommended chamber music spreadsheet.
Shubert,Franz Quintets for Strings D 956 and also Beethoven, Ludwig Sonata for Violin & Piano No.9 "Kruetzer".

These are beautiful pieces and both are excellent performances. You'll enjoy them no doubt.

[LeRoy]

@ Feanor, I can't get em in soon enough...I've been on the fence for so long as to how to approach learning about chamber music but you made it easy for me.

I got a tad of music ordering frenzy right now....I have also ordered:
Yuja Wang
Sonatas And Etudes (Chopin/Ligeti/Scriabin/Liszt)

Vassilis Tsabropoulos/Anja Lechner/Ut Gandhi
Melos (Ocrd)

@JM, your welcome.

[audio2]

I have a short list of artists for the ones interested in this genre or feeling like to explore "new sounds":

• Bugge Wesseltoft 'Snowing on my piano'
• Lisa Lynne 'Hopes and dreams' & 'Weaving worlds'
• Maria João Pires 'Le Voyage Magnifique. Schubert - Impromptus'
• Maurizio Pollini 'Chopin: Nocturnes'

Cheers