Not looking for sentimental value or artistic integrity..just stuff that really
sounds great, from a production standpoint(any genre). now that I am about to get a decent playback system, want to keep my eyes open. Been listening on my B+Ws where I do my audio work..but the office chair sucks.
Mine are
Flying Burrito Brothers--Gilded palace of Sin
AKUS Live
Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
George Jones/Merle Haggard- Taste of Yesterdays Wine
Johnny --American 1-V, Live at San Quentin,
Bonnie Prince Billy- I see a darkness
YHF--Wilco
Being there- Wilco
Heartbreaker--Ryan Adams
Whiskeytown--strangers almanac..
Neil Young- Harvest
Third Sister Lovers, Big Star
Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
AIC Unplugged
Dwight Yoakam--dwightyoakamacoustic.net
Glass Bead Game - JMR-15 - John Marks Records
Test Record 1- Depth of Image - CD7900 Opus 3
Brahms/Mozart Clarinet Quitets, Mitchell Lurie and the Muir Quartet on Eco classics-
Brahms complete trios- Beaux Arts Trio. on Phillips cheap duo label.
Lauridsen- Lux Aeterna, LA Master Chorale. On RCM (what a choir is supposed to sound like)
Barber- Complete Songs - Secrets of the Old w/ Cheryl Studer, Thomas Hampson, John Browning and the Emerson Quartet (DG)
Arvo Part- Te Deum (ECM) another real favorite of mine- very well recorded and sublime music.
Daugherty- Metropolis Symphony (Argo)
Schubert-Lieder w/ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore (DG)
Shostakovich Symphony #1 and #7, Chicago/Bernstein (DG)
Messiaen- Concert a quatre/Les Offrandes oubliees, etc... Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille, Myung-whun Chung (DG)
Smetana- Ma Vlast Levine/Vienna (DG)
Schwantner- Percussion Concerto, Evelyn Glennie/National Symphony/Slatkin (RCA Red Seal) (Velocities has a couple bad edits, though).
Te Deum (ECM)
Rachel Podger - Bach Sonatas & Partitas [solo] on baroque violin, Channel Classics
Shaw conducting Poulenc Mass in G Major, Quatre Petite Prieres de St. Francois, Quatre Motets de Penitence, & Quatre Motets de Noel [his Faure and Dupre Requiems are lovely as well], Telarc
All Baltimore Consort stuff, Dorian Recordings
Chanticleer- Missa pro defunctis, Motets by Palestrina. Teldec
Old Vox recordings of The Fine Arts Quartet playing Haydn, particularly Op. 76
Aaron Rosand playing music of Pablo de Sarasate. Vox
William Primrose and Rudolph Firkusny playing Brahms Sonatas for viola and piano
Old recordings of Rudolph Serkin and George Szell - Brahms Piano Concertos
Richard Goode - Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances etc RR-96, Minnesota Orch, Oue, a Keith Johnson recording that will restore one's faith in what 44/16 can do.
http://classicalcdreview.com/srsd.htmBach, Oster Oratorium, Collegium Vocale Philippe Herreweghe, HM, HMC901513, this is so well recorded and such a superb performance, astonishing.
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=71906http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000066C6K/104-6513726-8245500?v=glance