My first three classical CD's

[otterhouse]

Hello all,

These were my first three classical CD's, bought somewhere in the mid '80, when I was still in college

http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/2016/04/my-first-classical-cds.html

What were yours?

Rolf, Netherlands

[vinteuil]

... curiously I ca'n't remember my first CDs.

I remember vividly the first LPs purchased with my own money -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hamburg-Chamber-Orchestra-Brandenburg-Concertos/dp/B005XC0Z9G?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J-S-BACH-FOUR-CONCERTOS-FOR-HARPSICHORD-AND-ORCHESTRA-NONESUCH-3-IPS-/201514808720

[Beef Oven!]

I've been racking my brains, but I can't remember the actual first classical CDs I bought.

[umslopogaas]

Neither can I, but I suspect that is because I made a gradual transition into CDs from LPs and for a time I was buying both. I remember the first LPs back in the mid 1960s: the two disc recording of Mahler symphony 2 with the LSO conducted by Solti. Two full price LPs, which I then promptly ruined on my parents' Dansette player, which was completely unable to track the loud bits.

[Conchis]

Liszt - Les Preludes/Symphonic Poems Rotterdam PO/Conlon

Beethoven - Symphony 9/WP - Bohm

Carmina Burana - Deutschen Oper Orchester/Jochum


Purchased with record tokens in early 1991: I still have all three.

[Beef Oven!]

Neither can I, but I suspect that is because I made a gradual transition into CDs from LPs and for a time I was buying both. I remember the first LPs back in the mid 1960s: the two disc recording of Mahler symphony 2 with the LSO conducted by Solti. Two full price LPs, which I then promptly ruined on my parents' Dansette player, which was completely unable to track the loud bits.

I know the feeling, did that a few times myself.

[pastoralguy]

Easy!

Mitsuko Uchida playing Mozart's 20th and 21st piano concertos with Jeffrey Tait and the ECO.

Elgar. Enigma Variations and Falstaff (with its 44 access points and explanations of the the works progress). The LPO under Sir Charles Mackerras.

Lorraine McCauslan playing Beethoven's Spring and Kreutzer sonatas.

I still have all three and they sound terrific!

[Conchis]

Easy!

Mitsuko Uchida playing Mozart's 20th and 21st piano concertos with Jeffrey Tait and the ECO.

Elgar. Enigma Variations and Falstaff (with its 44 access points and explanations of the the works progress). The LPO under Sir Charles Mackerras.

Lorraine McCauslan playing Beethoven's Spring and Kreutzer sonatas.

I still have all three and they sound terrific!

I had that one, too. The first time I'd consciously heard either work.

[cloughie]

I think these were - they were certainly amongst the first few:

Tchaik 4 CSO/Solti
Rach 2 RPO/Previn
Ravel Complete Daphnis OSM/Dutoit (with no track divisions)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Back in February 1985, I bought my first ten CDs from Charing Cross Records (£9.99 each), ready for the postal delivery of my first CD player (which arrived at my then London address on the day I was successfully interviewed for a job in East Sussex early in March).

The CDs:

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde; Patzak/Ferrier/VPO/Walter
Mahler: Symphony #9; BPO/Karajan
Beethoven: Eroica Symphony; BPO/Karajan
Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 7; BPO/Karajan
Elgar: Enigma Variations; BBCSO/Bernstein
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe; MSO & Choir/Dutoit
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; CSO/Abbado
Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ete, Cleopatra; Te Kanawa/Norman/OdP/Barenboim
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; DSO/Dorati
Bruckner: Symphony #4; CSO/Solti

Thirty-one years ago? Surely some mistake?!

[MickyD]

I remember only the first two - Mozart Piano Concertos 12 & 14 with Malcolm Bilson/JEG and Couperin's Leçon de Ténèbres from Concerto Vocale.

I bought them before getting my first CD player - rather ridiculously, I remember just gazing and marvelling at those strange silver discs for a few weeks beforehand!

[Petrushka]

I bought my first CD player in November 1985 and on that very afternoon went off to purchase £100 worth of CDs. Bearing in mind that full price CDs were £14.99 at that time I didn't get as much as I'd hoped. However, interesting to see some are the same as other forumites.

Holst: The Planets LPO/Solti
Mahler: Symphony No 2 Chicago SO/Solti
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 Chicago SO/Solti
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Montreal SO/Dutoit

I think I also got:
Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 Concertgebouw/Haitink
Bruckner: Symphony No 8 Concertgebouw/Haitink

If didn't get the last two on that occasion then they were very early purchases. I still have them all.

Incidentally, I've never played an LP since that day!

[antongould]

Trying hard for the bore of the year (2001?) award

Glenn Gould - the 2 Goldbergs
Glenn Gould - Serenity
Cortot, Casals & Thibaud - Archduke & Schubert Piano Trio 1 .....

[Beef Oven!]

I bought my first CD player in November 1985 and on that very afternoon went off to purchase £100 worth of CDs. Bearing in mind that full price CDs were £14.99 at that time I didn't get as much as I'd hoped. However, interesting to see some are the same as other forumites.

Holst: The Planets LPO/Solti
Mahler: Symphony No 2 Chicago SO/Solti
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 Chicago SO/Solti
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Montreal SO/Dutoit

I think I also got:
Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 Concertgebouw/Haitink
Bruckner: Symphony No 8 Concertgebouw/Haitink

If didn't get the last two on that occasion then they were very early purchases. I still have them all.

Incidentally, I've never played an LP since that day!

Don't forget to put the receipts back in the draw

[Barbirollians]

Joan Sutherland :Prima Donna Assoluta
Brahms Violin Concerto Menuhin Kempe
Beethoven Symphony No 6 VPObohm