Not so essential classics.

[Tony Halstead]

I mostly regret losing a wonderful La Valse with Pierre Monteux. Sheer magic.

SEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzU8Fdao0LE

1941,San Francisco S.O.

[Roehre]

I wouldn't call that "missing". Wise discrimination would be a better word.

HS

[Ferretfancy]

I wouldn't call that "missing". Wise discrimination would be a better word.

HS

Now Now ! Hornspieler!

The Tchaikovsky ballets should surely be in any collection. As for Peer Gynt, I shall be using a little wise discrimination to hear the complete incidental music at the Barbican next weekend, conducted by Mark Minkowski.

[salymap]

SEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzU8Fdao0LE

1941,San Francisco S.O.

Thanks a lot for that waldhorn. My record was with a French Radio orchestra but that was just as lovely

[cloughie]

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 ?.

I can understand you avoiding recordings of Bolero but the way it is coupled on CD surely this means you are missing out on some other great and beautiful Ravel orchestral works.

[Barbirollians]

Orff- Carmina Burana ( then again I hate it with a passion )

Nearly all of Brahms's vocal music bar the Requiem . Just never really moved me - Schubert just did lieder so much better .

[Roehre]

Orff- Carmina Burana ( then again I hate it with a passion ) .

That sounds familiar - that makes two of us. I haven't got that one either

[EdgeleyRob]

I can understand you avoiding recordings of Bolero but the way it is coupled on CD surely this means you are missing out on some other great and beautiful Ravel orchestral works.

That's probably true cloughie.
I don't have that many Ravel orchestral cds on my shelves,my loss no doubt.
Love the piano and chamber music though.

[EdgeleyRob]

That sounds familiar - that makes two of us. I haven't got that one either

Nor me.

[Barbirollians]

Nor me.

Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe - Monteux/LSO - a desert island disc - surely you have that one ? If not get it !!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe - Monteux/LSO - a desert island disc - surely you have that one ? If not get it !!!

(BTW I wouldn't touch Carmina Burana with a bargepole either)

[MrGongGong]

(BTW I wouldn't touch Carmina Burana with a bargepole either)

The rice is included and you get a nice veg curry to go with it

[EdgeleyRob]

Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe - Monteux/LSO - a desert island disc - surely you have that one ? If not get it !!!

Yes.

and

That's all I have really.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes.

That's all I have really.

If you love Vaughan Williams, ER, the early Ravel works with orchestra are a must: RVW put his improved sense of orchestral colour after 1908 down to having studied with Ravel. That said, funnily enough, his friend Holst was very sniffy in a letter to him about Ravel's orchestrated Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, after they had been together to the British premiere of the work, describing it as "tawdry".

[EdgeleyRob]

If you love Vaughan Williams, ER, the early Ravel works with orchestra are a must: RVW put his improved sense of orchestral colour after 1908 down to having studied with Ravel. That said, funnily enough, his friend Holst was very sniffy in a letter to him about Ravel's orchestrated Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, after they had been together to the British premiere of the work, describing it as "tawdry".

You're right,I know.
So much music so little time.