My Essential Classical Albums.

[jhwalker]

27 minutes ago, Musicophile said:

At the risk of getting some haters here, I haven't heard any Gould beyond Bach I'd still find relevant today. 

 

Agreed.  At the time, his Bach was pretty revolutionary, but there are many modern recordings that are as good (or, heresy, *better*) than Gould's interpretation, and he was no great shakes with any other composer.

I have a pretty extensive Glenn Gould collection (the Complete Columbia Recordings, 78 discs + the Goldberg Variations in several releases), and most of it is just "meh".

[jhwalker]

Like many of you, I have a large classical collection (some 1,700 albums, with some truly amazing recordings among them), but one I keep coming back to is actually a film soundtrack:  Tous les matins du monde, a 1991 French film.  It has some lovely early French Baroque music featuring Jordi Savall.  Well worth a listen.

 

 

 

[jhwalker]

1 hour ago, Musicophile said:

Here are mine:

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2015/06/21/schuberts-amazing-chamber-music-1-the-string-quintet-played-by-the-pavel-haas-quartet/

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2016/04/27/quatuor-ebene-gautier-capucon-play-schuberts-string-quartet-cant-get-enough-of-it/

 

Both are outstanding.

 

 

 

Either you and I have extremely similar taste or I got these suggestions from you originally Probably both LOL.