I know nothing about classical music. I've picked up the following albums over the last few years at local record sales thinking I would try to get into classical. I've been listening to the local classical station and I'm trying to get into it but it's a bit overwhelming. Anyway, I'm curious if what I have is good in terms of whether those of you that are into classical would say, that's a great, good, bad, whatever version. I hope that makes sense.
Mozart Symphony No.40/Hayden Symphony No.45 "Farewell" London Symphony - Antal Dorati
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields' Chamber Ensemble - Mendelssohn: Octet Op.20 String Quintet Op.87
Bruch Violin Concerto No.3, Op.58 Adagio Appassionato, Op.57/romance, Op.42
Salvatore Accoardo Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig - Kurt Masur
Dvorak Syphony No.2 Moteux/London Symphony Orchestra
Mozart Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 "Jupiter"
Symphony No.39 in E-Flat Major K.543
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
London Symphony Orchestra
Tschaikowsky - Violin Concerto Heifetz Reiner - Chicago Symphony
Tchaikovsky - Symphony no.5 Antal Dorati - London Symphony
The Vienna of Johann Strauss - Vienna Philharmonic Herbert Von Karajan
Tchaikovsky - Serenade For String Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov
Suite From Le Coq D'or
Phihamonica Hungarica - London Symphony Antal Dorati
Sibelius - Symphony No.2 Monteux - London Symphony
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 Boston Symphony/Charles Munch
Beethoven Symphony No.4 in B-flat Op.60 - Symphony no.8 in F Major Op.93
Antal Dorati - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninoff Concerto No.2 Van Cliburn Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony
Ravel Bolero and a bunch of other stuff - Paul Paray Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Horowitz Fritz Reiner Beethoven/"Emperor" Concerto
Moussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition/A Night On Bald Mountain Prokofiev Suite from The Love for Three Oranges
Antal Dorati Minneapolis Symphony-London Symphony
Mendelssohn Scotch Symphony Scherzo from Octet in E-Flat
Munch/Boston Symphony
Tchaikovsky 1812 Festival Overture, Op.49
(Original Scoring)
Capriccio Italien
Antal Dorati Minneapolis Symphony
Brass Bronze Canon, Douay, France 1775
Bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial The Riverside Church
A lot of it is Mercury Living Presence, RCA Living Stereo
If I am going to try to get into this, is this stuff any good. The more I write this the more I realize I should just shut up and listen to it.