1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die: 796-1001 (My Progress: 0)

Submitted by bakinakwa on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 05:56
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  1. 1901-1950 continued:
  2. Francis Poulenc - Organ Concerto (Maurice Duruflé & Georges Prêtre: Concert champêtre)
  3. Béla Bartók - Violin Concerto no. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra: Concerto for Orchestra/Dance Suite)
  4. Herbert Howells - Hymnus paradisi (BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
  5. Bohuslav Martinu - Double Concerto (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 1)
  6. Roy Harris - Symphony no. 3 (New York Philharmonic)
  7. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Serenade for Music (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Wood Conducts Vaughan Williams)
  8. Silvestre Revueltas - Sensemayá (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
  9. Igor Stravinsky - Concerto in E flat, "Dumbarton Oaks" (Ensemble InterContemporain: Berg Kammerkonzert/Chamber Concerto)
  10. Anton Webern - String Quartet, op. 28 (Artis Quartet: Complete Works for String Quartet and String Trio)
  11. Benjamin Britten - Les illuminations (Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten: Serenade/Les Illuminations/Nocturne)
  12. Benjamin Britten - Violin Concerto (Mark Lubotsky & Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto/Violin Concerto)
  13. Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (Carlos Bonell & Steuart Bedford: Concertos for Flute, Guitar)
  14. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 6 (Leningrad Philharmonic: Mravinsky in Moscow 1965)
  15. Michael Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: Concerto for Orchestra/Fanfare for Brass/Byzantium)
  16. Sergei Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky (Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus)
  17. William Walton - Violin Concerto (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Violin Concertos)
  18. Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto (Joshua Bell & David Zinman: Violin Concertos)
  19. Benjamin Britten - Sinfonia da requiem (New Philharmonia Orchestra: Cello Symphony/Sinfonia de Requiem)
  20. Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Quintet (Borodin Quartet)
  21. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata no. 6 (Ivo Pogorelich: Chopin Piano Sonata/Klaviersonate No. 2)
  22. Aram Khachaturian - Violin Concerto (Philharmonia Orchestra)
  23. Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in C (CBC Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky)
  24. Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances (St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 3)
  25. Arthur Honegger - Symphony no. 2 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonien Nos. 2 & 3)
  26. Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time (Jean Pasquier, André Vacellier, Etienne Pasquier & Olivier Messiaen)
  27. Benjamin Britten - String Quartets (Belcea Quartet: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 3)
  28. Manuel Ponce - Concierto del sur (London Symphony Orchestra: The Great Guitar Concertos)
  29. Richard Strauss - Capriccio (Wolfgang Sawallisch)
  30. Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time (Colin Davis)
  31. Alberto Ginastera - Estancia (Odense Symphony Orchestra: Overture to the Creole 'Faust')
  32. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 7 "Leningrad" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 1/Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad")
  33. Maurice Duruflé - Prélude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain (John Scott: The Complete Organ Music of Maurice Duruflé)
  34. Aaron Copland - Rodeo (London Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral & Ballet Works 1936-1948)
  35. Gerald Finzi - Let Us Garlands Bring (Janet Baker & Geoffrey Parsons: Baker)
  36. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata no. 7 (Maurizio Pollini: Stravinsky Pétrouchka/Prokofiev Sonate No. 7)
  37. Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Concerto (SWF Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra)
  38. Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto no. 2 (Philharmonia Orchestra: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
  39. Benjamin Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (Boyd Neel Orchestra)
  40. Sergei Prokofiev - War and Peace (Valery Gergiev)
  41. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 5 (London Symphony Orchestra: The 9 Symphonies)
  42. Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  43. Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (San Francisco Symphony: Orchestral Works)
  44. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 8 (Leningrad Philharmonia Orchestra)
  45. Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (Boston Symphony Orchestra: Composers Conduct)
  46. Sergei Prokofiev - Cinderella (London Symphony Orchestra: Cinderella/'Classical' Symphony)
  47. Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony no. 5 (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 5/Symphony No. 7)
  48. Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Trio no. 2 (Vienna Piano Trio: The Piano Trios)
  49. Leonard Bernstein - On the Town (Michael Tilson Thomas)
  50. Olivier Messiaen - Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Yvonne Loriod: Messiaen Edition)
  51. Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
  52. Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto no. 3 (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: Klavierkonzerte 1-3)
  53. Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Violin Concerto (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Concerto)
  54. Béla Bartók - Viola Concerto (Netherland Radio Chamber Orchestra)
  55. Frank Martin - Petite symphonie concertante (Geneva Chamber Orchestra)
  56. Bohuslav Martinu - Symphony no. 4 (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4)
  57. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 9 (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Symphonies)
  58. Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
  59. Benjamin Britten - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
  60. Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in Three Movements (SWR Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky)
  61. Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras no. 5 (Pleeth Cello Quartet: Bachianas Brasileiras 1 & 5)
  62. Aaron Copland - Symphony no. 3 (New York Philharmonic)
  63. Benjamin Britten - The Rape of Lucretia (Benjamin Britten)
  64. Arthur Honegger - Symphony no. 3, "Symphonie liturgique" (Roayl Concertgebouw Orchestra: Poulenc Gloria)
  65. Xavier Montsalvatge - Canciones negras (Teresa Berganza & Félix Lavilla: Canciones Españolas)
  66. Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Sonata no. 1 (David Oistrakh & Sviatoslav Richter: Brahms Violinsonate A-Dur op. 100)
  67. Franz Waxman - Carmen Fantasy (RCA Victor Orchestra: Korngold Concerto)
  68. Kurt Weill - Street Scene (John Mauceri)
  69. Ned Rorem - Songs (Ensemble Oriol: Songs of Ned Rorem)
  70. Arnold Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw (Male Chorus of the Vienna State Opera: Ein Überlebender aus Warschau)
  71. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 6 (New Philharmonia Orchestra: Symphony No. 4/Symphony No. 6)
  72. Maurice Duruflé - Requiem (George Guest: Fauré Requiem)
  73. Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Orchestra of St. Luke's)
  74. Roberto Gerhard - The Duenna (Antoni Ros-Marbà: La Dueña)
  75. John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes (Nora Skuta)
  76. Aaron Copland - Clarinet Concerto (Columbia Symphony Strings: Orchestral & Ballet Works 1936-1948)
  77. Conlon Nancarrow - Player Piano Studies (Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano)
  78. Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony (Kent Nagano: Turangalîla-Symphonie)
  79. Dmitri Shostakovich - From Jewish Folk Poetry (Tatiana Sharova, Ludmila Kuznetsova & Alexei Martynov: New Babylon Film Music)
  80. Dmitri Shostakovich - Violin Concerto no. 1 (Maxim Vengerov & Mstislav Rostropovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
  81. Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs (Gundula Janowitz & Herbert von Karajan: Vier letzte Lieder/Four Last Songs)
  82. Leonard Bernstein - Symphony no. 2, "The Age of Anxiety" (Ulster Orchestra)
  83. Gerald Finzi - Clarinet Concerto (Northern Sinfonia)
  84. Gian-Carlo Menotti - The Consul (Richard Hickox)
  85. Sergei Prokofiev - Cello Sonata (Mstislav Rostropovich & Sviatoslav Richter: Rostropovich Plays Prokofiev)
  86. Astor Piazzolla - Tangos (Piazzoll, Console, Malvicino, Suarez Paz & Ziegler: Tango/Zero Hour)
  87. Malcolm Arnold - English Dances (Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Dances)
  89. 1951-Present:
  90. Benjamin Britten - Billy Budd (Benjamin Britten)
  91. Dmitri Shostakovich - Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues (Vladimir Ashkenazy: 24 Preludes & Fugues, op. 87)
  92. Francis Poulenc - Stabat mater (City of London Sinfonia: Gloria-Stabat Mater)
  93. Igor Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
  94. Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony-Concerto (Mstislav Rostropovich & Seiji Ozawa: Symphony No. 2)
  95. Heitor Villa-Lobos - Guitar Concerto (London Symphony Orchestra)
  96. Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony no. 7 (London Symphony Orchestra: The Complete Symphonies)
  97. Michael Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage (Colin Davis)
  98. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 10 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonie No. 10)
  99. Michael Tippett - Fantasia concertante (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Ritual Dances)
  100. Leonard Bernstein - Serenade (Philharmonia Orchestra: West Side Story)
  101. Benjamin Britten - The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten)
  102. Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus (Vienna Philharmonic)
  103. Witold Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orchestra (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra)
  104. Joaquin Rodrigo - Fantasia para un gentilhombre (Royal Philharmonic: Concierto de Aranjuez/Fantasia para un Gentilhombre)
  105. Iannis Xenakis - Metastaseis (French Radio National Orchestra)
  106. Alan Hovhaness - Symphony no. 2, "Mysterious Mountain" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  107. Pierre Boulez - Le marteau sans maître (Ensemble InterContemperain: Boulez Conducts Boulez)
  108. Leonard Bernstein - Candide (Leonard Bernstein)
  109. William Walton - Cello Concerto (London Symphony Orchestra: Cello Concertos)
  110. Malcolm Williamson - Piano Works (Antony Gray: Complete Works for Piano)
  111. Francis Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites (Kent Nagano)
  112. Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story (Carol Lawrence, Larry Kent & Chita Rivera)
  113. Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no. 2 (Dmitri Shostakovich & André Cluytens: Piano Concertos)
  114. Samuel Barber - Vanessa (Dimitri Mitropoulos)
  115. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne: Gruppen, Punkte)
  116. Igor Stravinsky - Agon (Southwest German Radio Orchestra: Le Domaine Musical Vol. 2)
  117. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 11, "The Year 1905" (London Symphony Orchestra)
  118. Michael Tippett - Symphony no. 2 (London Symphony Orchestra: Piano Sonatas 1-3/String Quartets 1-3)
  119. Olivier Messiaen - Catalogue d'oiseaux (Peter Hill: The Piano Works)
  120. Luciano Berio - Sequenzas (Nora Shulman, Alain Trudel & Jasper Wood: Sequenzas I-XIV)
  121. Hanns Eisler - Deutsche Sinfonie (Lothar Zagrosek)
  122. Francis Poulenc - La voix humaine (French National Orchestra)
  123. Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Concerto no. 1 (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra)
  124. Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Richard Hickox)
  125. Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 8 (Borodin Quartet: Complete Quartets)
  126. Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (London Symphony Orchestra)
  127. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte (Jonny Axelsson & Fredrik Ullén: Zyklus)
  128. Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Die Soldaten (Bernhard Kontarsky)
  129. Elliott Carter - Double Concerto (Sequitur)
  130. Benjamin Britten - War Requiem (Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Galina Vishnevskaya)
  131. György Ligeti - Aventures & Nouvelles aventures (Ensemble InterContemporain: Clear or Cloudy)
  132. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 13, "Babi Yar" (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Symphonies)
  133. Olivier Messiaen - Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (Domaine Musical Orchestra: Messiaen Edition)
  134. Giacinto Scelsi - String Quartet no. 4 (Quartet of Klangforum Wien: Streichquartett Nr. 4)
  135. Benjamin Britten - Curlew River (Benjamin Britten)
  136. Peter Maxwell Davies - Second Fantasia on John Taverner's In Nomine (SW German Radio Orchestra)
  137. Henri Dutilleux - Métaboles (French National Orchestra)
  138. Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 10 (Borodin Quartet: String Quartets 1-13)
  139. Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms (Vienna Jeunesse Choir: Chichester Psalms/Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2)
  140. Rodion Shchedrin - Carmen Suite (Russian National Orchestra)
  141. Dmitri Shostakovich - Seven Blok Romances (Galine Vishnevskaya, Ulf Hoelscher, Mstislav Rostropovich & Vasso Devetzi: Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok)
  142. György Ligeti - String Quartet no. 2 (LaSalle Quartet: Clear or Cloudy)
  143. Dmitri Shostakovich - Violin Sonata (Oleg Kagan & Sviatoslav Richter: Sonata for Violin op. 134)
  144. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung (Singcircle)
  145. Luciano Berio - Sinfonia (London Voices)
  146. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 14 (Mstislav Rostropovich & Galina Vishnevskaya)
  147. Elliott Carter - Concerto for Orchestra (SW German Radio Orchestra: Piano Concerto)
  148. Peter Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King (Fires of London)
  149. Henri Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain... (Paris Orchestra: Cello Concerto/Tout un monde lointain...)
  150. Elliott Carter - String Quartet no. 3 (Arditti Quartet: String Quartets 1-4)
  151. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 15 (Berlin Philharmonic: Im Takt Der Zeit)
  152. Morton Feldman - Cello and Orchestra (Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra: Piano and Orchestra)
  153. Harrison Birtwistle - The Triumph of Time (Philharmonia Orchestra)
  154. Bruno Maderna - Aura (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Dallapiccola Three Questions with Two Answers)
  155. Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus arcticus (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Garden of Spaces)
  156. Benjamin Britten - Death in Venice (Steuart Bedford)
  157. Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 15 (Borodin Quartet: Complete Quartets)
  158. Pierre Boulez - Rituel: in memorium Bruno Maderna (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
  159. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich & Musicians)
  160. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass Ensemble)
  161. Henryk Górecki - Symphony no. 3 (London Sinfonietta)
  162. György Ligeti - Le grand macabre (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
  163. John Corigliano - Clarinet Concerto (Richard Stoltzman & Lawrence Leighton Smith: The Essential Clarinet)
  164. Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (BBC National Orchestra of Wales)
  165. Arvo Pärt - Fratres (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Tabula Rasa)
  166. Einojuhani Rautavaara - Angels and Visitations (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Violin Concerto)
  167. Pierre Boulez - Notations (Lyons National Orchestra)
  168. Michael Tippett - String Quartet no. 4 (The Lindsays)
  169. John Cage - Roaratorio (John Cage)
  170. George Benjamin - Ringed by the Flat Horizon (BBC Symphony Orchestra: At First Light/A Mind of Winter)
  171. Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium (Gidon Kremer & Charles Dutoit)
  172. Brian Ferneyhough - Funérailles (Arditti Quartet)
  173. Tristan Murail - Gondwana (French National Orchestra: Gondwana/Désintégrations/Time and Again)
  174. Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos plango, vivos voco (Pierre Boulez: Tombeau de Messiaen)
  175. William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and Experience (University of Michigan Musical Society & Symphony Orchestra)
  176. John Tavener - Funeral Ikos (Choir of King's College, Cambridge: Voices of Praise)
  177. Olivier Messiaen - Saint François d'Assise (Kent Nagano)
  178. Oliver Knussen - Where the Wild Things Are (Higglety Pigglety Pop! & Where the Wild Things Are)
  179. Olivier Messiaen - Livre du Saint Sacrement (Jennifer Bate)
  180. Hans Werner Henze - Symphony no. 7 (South West German Radio Orchestra)
  181. Helmut Lachenmann - Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung) (Ensemble Modern: Schwankungen am Rand)
  182. John Adams - Harmonielehre (San Francisco Symphony)
  183. György Ligeti - Études (Pierre-Laurent Aimard: György Ligeti Edition 3)
  184. Witold Lutoslawski - Chain 2 (Anne-Sophie Mutter & Witold Lutoslawski: Partita/Chain 2/Piano Concerto)
  185. Alfred Schnittke - String Trio (Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet & Mstislav Rostropovich: Concerto for Three/String Trio)
  186. Milton Babbitt - Transfigured Notes (Boston Orchestra)
  187. Peter Sculthorpe - Earth Cry (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
  188. Philip Glass - Violin Concerto (Ulster Orchestra)
  189. John Adams - Nixon in China (Edo de Waart)
  190. John Tavener - The Protecting Veil (Steven Isserlis & Gennady Rozhdestvensky)
  191. Louis Andriessen - De Materie (Netherlands Chamber Choir)
  192. Ross Edwards - Maninyas (Sydney Symphony)
  193. Steve Reich - Different Trains (Kronos Quartet)
  194. Mark-Anthony Turnage - Three Screaming Popes (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Drowned Out)
  195. György Kurtág - Officium breve (Keller Quartet: Musik für Streichinstrumente)
  196. James MacMillan - Veni, veni, Emmanuel (Ulster Orchestra)
  197. Olivier Messiaen - Éclairs sur l'Au-delà... (Bastille Opera Orchestra)
  198. Simon Bainbridge - Ad ora incerta (Martyn Brabbins: Ad Ora Incerta/Four Primo Levi Settings)
  199. György Kurtág - Stele (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Stockhausen Gruppen)
  200. Magnus Lindberg - Aura (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Aura/Engine)
  201. Carl Vine - Percussion Symphony (Synergy: Complete Symphonies 1-6)
  202. Mark-Anthony Turnage - Blood on the Floor (Ensemble Modern: Some Days/Your Rockaby/Night Dances/Dispelling the Fears)
  203. Thomas Adès - Asyla (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
  204. Sofia Gubaidulina - Canticle of the Sun (Danish National Radio Choir)
  205. Peteris Vasks - Violin Concerto, "Distant Light" (Swedish Chamber Orchestra)
  206. Gérard Grisey - Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (Catherine Dubosc, Klangforum Wien & Sylvain Cambreling)
  207. Wolfgang Rihm - Deus Passus (Helmuth Rilling)
  208. Wolfgang Rihm - Jagden und Formen (Ensemble Modern)
  209. Julian Anderson - Book of Hours (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group)
lukeprog07/08/2008

Love this. Keep going.

bakinakwa07/08/2008

Thanks, it's nice to get some validation!

jarus klaz02/15/2009

yeah, validation is always good