What Are You Listening To?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Alexander Borodin - Symphony No. 2

[Swatopluk]

The Egyptian - movie score

I should dust off the old Borodin CD some time too, Zono

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I wish I had more, the disc also has the Polovotsian dances in it's sung version.

[Swatopluk]

His symphonies fit on a single CD (Naxos). I have a complete recording of Prince Igor (Bulgarian, with Ghiaurov as Khan Konchak) and a DVD of the Mariinsky Theatre production (conducted  by Gergiev). The Dances (orchestral) and the Steppe sketch from Central Asia are on another Naxos CD. It's actually difficult to get more from him.
Borodin was a wonderful composer but he also fell in the baroque trap with his opera (very long but almost nothing happening plotwise). He inherited that from Glinka obviously.
It's the same with Dvorak (but Antonin was also too good-natured to be a good dramatist).

I am a bit of a completeness freak and I still lack 2 operas by Rimsky-Kosakov (Servilia and Pan Voyevoda)
My Mussorgsky collection still lacks a version of Sorochinzy Fair (I could acquire Salammbo some time ago)
Good ol' Modest was a born dramatist!

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

The 69 Eyes - Perfect Skin

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Regina spektor - we should make her official president of the toadfish. she is fabulous!

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

U.N.K.L.E. - Reign

[Griffin NoName]

Evil Thoughts 

[Swatopluk]

JSBach, Suite for solo cello #6 (radio)

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candie payne

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Brahms - Symphony No 3.

Swato, I wanna be a completeness freak, but... so far I can only say that I have complete sets of symphonies (Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev and Shostakovich). I have a lot of Bach's music but even while I can fill a DVD with mp3s, it is just a fraction of his work.

[Swatopluk]

There were some "complete editions" in the Bach year.
I would not spent that much money on that and the choice of artists was not always the best anyway.
Going through the Naxos/Marco Polo catalogue brought me in contact with many interesting obscurities.
Did you know that traditional Chinese music was essentially saved by a Siberian Jew and that there would be no Peking Opera without him?
It's interesting that Naxos was born essentially because a sales manager and music lover got angry about the price policies of the major labels (and their endless recycling of the same works).

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I saw the Bach cases while in Europe this past spring. I am very picky with versions and choose original instruments for baroque and classic periods, so I refrained.

The Naxos thing makes complete sense. BTW you can get some classical music for legal download on magnatune (I like those guys).

[Swatopluk]

In general: no buying before listening in first.
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Bantock, Hebridean Symphony (I love that piece)

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Bijelo Dugme - Ne spavaj mala moja muzika dok svira