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- From: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU ("Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789")
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: Beginning a classical collection
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:05:11 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1992Dec28.091408.16539@leland.Stanford.EDU>, paulxxxx@leland.Stanford.EDU (paulastya gupta) writes:
- >Hello! Questions from an ignormaus:
- >
- >1) How can one "break" into classical music? My current collection
- >includes the grand sum of *2* classical CD's. My current thoughts
- >are to get a book outlining the music of different ages (baroque,
- >romantic etc.), and start with the recommendations made as to great
- >works by the major composers.
- >
- Listen to the local classical radio station (hopefully with live, reasonably-
- coherent announcer ;=) ), and you'll surely hear lots of good stuff.
-
- >2) Last time I was at the local music store, I compared several CDs
- >of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, and noticed that the times differed
- >by as much as 1 minute! Does this mean that it may be slightly cut
- >off in the shorter time performance? This complicates CD buying.
- >
- Almost always not... It's "all in the interpretation". You'd find the
- same thing with "covers" of pop/rock songs also!!!
-
- >3) Should one look only for DDD recordings as opposed to ADD or AAD?
- >This further complicates CD purchasing.
-
- No.
- >
- >4) Should one look for particular condutors/orchestras performing that
- >piece? This really complicates CD selection!
-
- Tough question! Every classical fan has a different answer to this one.
- However, there's *lots* of good stuff on the $3.99-range labels. That's
- so cheap(??), you can almost buy "at random".
-
- >
- >***************************************************
- >
- >Thanks. As a side note, I was recently listening to The Planets by
- >Holst. Strangely enough, as much as I liked "Mars", I thought the
- >remainder of the CD in its entirety was boring. I am in my early
- >20s, and seem to go for involved peices (I also like hard rock and metal).
- >
- >Any recommendations for my tastes?
- >
- >- paulxxxx@leland.stanford.edu
-
-
- Happy listening,
- Bill
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