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BlackSwan:
I don't want to slide too much into my usual drunken long posts, but since you were so kind to claim in public, I'd look better than Richard's picture shows, I'll try to give you the very best advice I possible can:
1. (solo piano)
If there's only ONE
solo-instrument-piece one should know, it is
GLENN GOULD plays BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (recorded
1955!
- after that, you might like to surprise yourself by listening to Gould's interpretation of it in 1981!)
2. (solo piano)
If you like the interpreter after the previous:
GLENN GOULD plays BACH: 'Art of the Fugue' - CONTRAPUNCTUS XIV (unfinished). Try it while taking a hot bath after a hard day.
(not sure on which record this is available in Canada.)
3. (piano-concerto - which means: a smaller orchestra than with a symphony, playing together with a solo-instrument, in this case a piano)
This one is Very 'romantic' but I like it a lot and am not alone:
SERGEJ RACHMANINOW (spelling?):
Piano-concerto #2.
Very Best interpretation I know of: Vladimir Ashkenazy: Piano; André Previn: Conductor.
4. (violin-concerto - which means as above: a smaller orchestra together with a solo-instrument, in this case a violin)
JOHANNES BRAHMS and
PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (sp?) - both have only composed One violin-concerto, so there's no number. (There are a lot of good interpretations around. My favorite is
DAVID OISTRACH (or
OISTRAKH) on the violin.)
All these been chosen for your love of solo-instruments.
Yet, there is
One piece of classical music, of which I think it will Always GET somebody, if he/she's able to enjoy classical music At All.
And if it does Not get one - classical music might not be their thing or ever become.
5. (symphony)
BEETHOVEN #9.
The killer, the blast, the musical piece to have on the island.
BUT be aware: NEVER listen to a Bad version of it! I mean it! This is MOST IMPORTANT!
Even if it sounds strange: the interpretation does matter - a Big lot!
In this case, I clearly vote for:
HERBERT von KARAJAN - 1963.
DO NOT go for Karajan's
other recordings! (
esp. after his version of 1984, you would be so much dissappointed and curse me! Watch out for the right versions!)
next Best:
Wilhelm Furtwängler 1951.
I can also imagine
Georg Solti doing it Great! But have never heared a version of his.
Leo Bernstein did okay too, 1989 in Berlin (on occation of the fall of the wall). As did
Kurt Masur 1975.
(yes, I do have all these and some others of the same symphony.)
But go for the BEST: Karajan 1963! It's the thing!
P.S.:
from My experience - it is always a good idea to read a bit
(or listen on the radio) about the piece you are going to hear and the composer before you do. You can much easier slide into his world if you did. (and if you do not despite of that: you'll know even more, that this particular guy isn't your.)