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FJDGoose Wrote:

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> Don't know much really - quite fond of Beethoven's

> 7th ... a few other bits and pieces - Gavin Briars

> "Jesus blood never failed me yet" ... Philip

> Glass. I'd love to find out more but I don't

> really know where to start.


You can get 'Greatest Classical blah blah" lists online for popular classical stuff - but for other things I might not otherwise come across I sometimes have R3 on in background and if I like something i make a note - these are a few varied/different pieces that might make a good start ...


Chopin piano concerto no1

Bach Harpsichord concerto no 1

Brahms ? Concerto in A minor

Schubert 4th Symphony

Mahler - 8th Symphony

Beethoven Violin G maj Sonata no 3


opera...

La Cenerentola - Rossini

Damnation of Faust - Berlioz

Don Carlo - Verdi

FJDGoose Wrote:

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> Don't know much really - quite fond of Beethoven's

> 7th ... a few other bits and pieces - Gavin Briars

> "Jesus blood never failed me yet" ... Philip

> Glass. I'd love to find out more but I don't

> really know where to start.


J.S.Bach - he really laid the foundation for all that came after him. I came to him late after being brought up on Beethoven and Mozart, I felt I understood their genius better once I'd found the source, as it were (sorry for sounding a bit precious). The cello suites (the Yo Yo Ma recordings are excellent) and the Goldberg Variations (I like Murray Perahia in those) are a great introduction.


If you like Jesus' Blood have you heard the Tom Waits augmented version? Superb.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06d92q9/episodes/downloads


This is helping me learn some stuff.


Prompted by this thread I went to a free recital in John Wesley's church on City Road at lunchtime, 2 Scarlatti Sonatas and a Beethoven one on piano, and Brahms violin sonata.


Not a way I've ever spent my lunch break before but will go again.

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