Re: music recommendation

Moosebumps wrote:
> "Simon Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > You will need to set out some criteria for your CD collection.  You say
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> you
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> > prefer a capella to accompanied, but do you want to include (or exclude)
> > early music, modern music or ethnic music?  Religious or secular?  Early,
> > Classical, Romantic or avant garde and atonal?
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>
> Thanks for your response.  I don't want to exclude too much, because I am
> new to this area and want to hear as much as possible.  I'd like some sort
> of introductory anthology if such a thing exists, or perhaps several of them
> which cover different genres.  Though I would deemphasize Classical, since I
> have heard a lot of that.  I like early music, modern, and Romantic
> definitely.  As far as "classical" music, I like Debussy, Bartok,
> Villa-Lobos, Rachmaninov, some Wagner -- I guess it stops a bit short of
> avante-garde or atonal.  If there is vocal music with harmony along those
> lines, I would love to hear it.  Though I have heard some choral pieces some
> of those composers and for some reason nothing totally caught my ear -- I
> guess that is why I wanted to hear some a capella stuff.

I thoroughly reccommend Rachmaninoff's Vespers if you're not already 
familiar with it.  I can't think of a more powerful piece of music.

There's a good budget recording by the Swedish Radio choir, or of course 
there are many excellent Russian recordings.

Jon