Favourite CD

[Guest]

We all have our own favourite composer and favourite works, but do you have a favourite cd which you like for another reason?

I remember trying to get hold of this particularly cd for some time while it wsa out of stock and ended up finding it at Notting Hill Gate.

It is Stravinsky in America with Tilson Thomas conducting. Now happily back in copy on amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stravinsky-A...3490546&sr=1-1 I wnted it originally for Canon on a Russian Popular Tune but because of whats on it i find it a lovely cd to have on alot of the time, theres a great mixture of Stravinsky in the last half of his career, some would regard as the forgotten Stravinsky, some lovely Works such as Ode and Agon, and also a rare recording of Variations, there arent that many around.

I listened to it this afternoon when i came across it for the first time in ages. I imported my entire stravinsky collection into itunes today, it took nearly 13 hours!

I am doing Elgar and Britten tomorrow, still quite a large collection but shouldnt take quite as long!

So do you have an overall favourite cd?

[Roehre]

We all have our own favourite composer and favourite works, but do you have a favourite cd which you like for another reason?

I remember trying to get hold of this particularly cd for some time while it wsa out of stock and ended up finding it at Notting Hill Gate.

It is Stravinsky in America with Tilson Thomas conducting. Now happily back in copy on amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stravinsky-A...3490546&sr=1-1 I wnted it originally for Canon on a Russian Popular Tune but because of whats on it i find it a lovely cd to have on alot of the time, theres a great mixture of Stravinsky in the last half of his career, some would regard as the forgotten Stravinsky, some lovely Works such as Ode and Agon, and also a rare recording of Variations, there arent that many around.

For me that particular CD (with that nice Stravinsky+MTT in a car-picture as art-work) is a very special one. It is the last CD I bought before we moved to our present home in 1999, and therefore the very first I listened here. It was also the Canon which did me buy the CD, and the fact that I heard MTT in 1981 in the Concertgebouw with the Variations, which were played twice without any interval or even a start of an applause between both performances. for me therefore a very special CD indeed.

[Petrushka]

I had that CD as a Christmas present the year it came out! Just love the witty cartoon cover of Stravinsky and MTT driving in Hollywood - worth buying for that alone.

I have far too many CD's to call any one a favourite but if I could rescue only one CD from the flames it would be Tennstedt's Mahler 2 live in 1989 and at which I was present.

[Bryn]

Sorry, but enjoyable as the CD inside the jewel case is, the artwork on the cover of the Stravinsky in America booklet is hopelessly unoriginal: