Not so essential classics.

[EdgeleyRob]

Vivaldi's four seasons came up in a conversation I was having with a friend the other day.

This got me thinking,I don't have a single recording of this work.
Other so called warhorses or overdone classics that don't feature in my collection are -

Bolero.
Peer Gynt.
Tchaikovsky ballets.
Danse Macabre.

What's missing from your cd collection ?.

[MrGongGong]

What's missing from your cd collection ?.

DOG

[gurnemanz]

There is a thread going on the speed of the Ruslan and Ludmila Overture. I was about to chip in when I realised I didn't have recording of it and had nothing to say.

[Nick Armstrong]

Peer Gynt.
Tchaikovsky ballets.
Danse Macabre.

What's missing from your cd collection ?

All the above.

Anything from Bizet's 'Carmen'

Copland 'Rodeo'

Albinoni's (or rather that other Italian bloke's) 'Adagio'

Mozart 'Eine kleine &c.'

Tchaikovsky '1812' / 'March Slave'

Liszt Piano concerto

u.s.w.

[Pabmusic]

Perhaps we need to have music that we avoid or dismiss. Trouble is, if I'm right, then these all become 'essential', don't they?

[rauschwerk]

Tchaikovsky ballets (used to have, but no longer).

[Roehre]

I do have the Tchaikovsky Ballets, Peer Gynt, Rodeo, but only in complete performances.
I haven't got the suites drawn from these works.

Not in my collection: Handel's Fireworks or Watermusic

[Thropplenoggin]

Plenty. My collection is limited to

1 x Buxtehude (just discovering)
Lots of Bach (adding to all the time)
Lots of Beethoven (ditto)
Lots of Mozart (ditto)
All of Mahler except for the 10th (not for me, at present)
A sprinkling of Vivaldi (Four Seasons, Gloria, Dixit Dominus - Alessandrini, Mingardo and Invernezzi - who could resist?!)

I wonder whether the OP might be tempted by a copy of the 4 Seasons if he heard Il Giardino Armonico...I've never heard 'owt like it:

[Tony Halstead]

I don't understand this.
I thought the thread was all about NOT SO ESSENTIAL classics?

[Pabmusic]

I have all this music - often in multiple performances. It's easy to dismiss music by reputation. I don't often listen to - say - 1812, but (here's the thing) I do sometimes. It's an enjoyable piece if you're in the mood.

[Pabmusic]

I don't understand this.
I thought the thread was all about NOT SO ESSENTIAL classics?

Yes. We've had several threads of 'music we don't like' before.

[amateur51]

I have all this music - often in multiple performances. It's easy to dismiss music by reputation. I don't often listen to - say - 1812, but (here's the thing) I do sometimes. It's an enjoyable piece if you're in the mood.

Especially in the performance conducted by Golovanov with his own additions

To quote Raymond Tuttle from his review in Classical Net Review:

"The 1812 Overture, recorded in 1948, is party material, and I don't mean Communist party! Golovanov's controversial tempos and intensifications of Tchaikovsky's orchestration transform this hackneyed score into a wild beast. When the customary "God Save the Tsar" climax is replaced by a page or two of Glinka (mustn't upset Stalin!), you'll think the rug has been pulled out from beneath you. "

Just once in a while ...

[Pabmusic]

Especially in the performance conducted by Golovanov with his own additions

To quote Raymond Tuttle from his review in Classical Net Review:

"The 1812 Overture, recorded in 1948, is party material, and I don't mean Communist party! Golovanov's controversial tempos and intensifications of Tchaikovsky's orchestration transform this hackneyed score into a wild beast. When the customary "God Save the Tsar" climax is replaced by a page or two of Glinka (mustn't upset Stalin!), you'll think the rug has been pulled out from beneath you. "

Just once in a while ...

You know, Ams, I have it on a 45 rpm EP! I must hunt for it.

[Edit]

Here it is! ARC 21. I've overstamped it with my first cataloguing system - no. 6. I reckon that was about 1962.

[amateur51]

You know, Ams, I have it on a 45 rpm EP! I must hunt for it.

[Edit]

Here it is! ARC 21. I've overstamped it with my first cataloguing system - no. 6. I reckon that was about 1962.

That's very impressive Pabs - a cataloguing system that works, manifestly! Theakstons Best

[Pabmusic]

That's very impressive Pabs - a cataloguing system that works, manifestly! Theakstons Best

Thank you. It's more because I have very few 45s left!