Must Listen To Music: Classical, Rock and Jazz
(Most impressive or accessible works/albums in bold)
Machaut
Messe de Notre Dame
Dufay
Missa se la face ay pale
Ockeghem
Missa mi mi
Monteverdi
Orfeo
Bach
Mass in b minor
St. Matthew Passion
The six Brandenburg Concertos
Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor for Organ
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Well Tempered Clavier
Goldberg Variations
2 part inventions
Beethoven
String Quartets, all
Symphonies, all (3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th Symphonies)
Piano Sonatas, all (Sonatas #14, #21, #29, #32)
Missa Solemnis
Diabelli Variations
Variations in c minor for Piano
4th and 5th Piano Concertos
Chopin
24 Preludes, Op. 28 (particularly, #2, #4 and #15)
Polonaise in A Major, Opus 40, no.1
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Opus 53
Ballade #1 in G minor, Op. 23
Ballade #3 in A flat Major, Op. 47
Ballade #4 in F minor, Op. 52
Études, Op. 10 (Etude No. 3)
Scherzo #2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Gershwin
Porgy and Bess
Gentle Giant
1971 Acquiring the Taste
1972 Three Friends
1972 Octopus
1973 In a Glass House
1974 Power and the Glory
1975 Free Hand
1976 Interview
Peter Hammill
1974 The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
1975 Nadir’s Big Chance
1977 Over
Van Der Graaf Generator
1971 Pawn Hearts
1975 Godbluff
1976 Still Life
1976 World Record
1977 The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
Area
1973 Arbeit Macht Frei
1974 Caution Radiation Area
1975 Crac!
1976 Maledetti
1978 Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano
Jethro Tull
1968 This Was
1969 Stand Up
1970 Benefit
1971 Aqualung
1972 Thick As A Brick
1972 Living In The Past
1973 A Passion Play
1975 Minstrel In The Gallery
King Crimson
1969 In the Court of the Crimson King
1970 In the Wake of Poseidon
1970 Lizard
1973 Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
1974 Starless and Bible Black
1974 Red EG Records
1995 THRAK
Yes
1971 The Yes Album
1972 Fragile
1973 Close to the Edge
1974 Tales from Topographic Oceans
Genesis
1972 Foxtrot
1973 Live
1973 Selling England by the Pound
1974 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
1976 A Trick of the Tail
1976 Wind and Wuthering
Cannonball Adderly
1958 Something Else
Louis Armstrong
Hot Fives, Volume 1
Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, Volume 2 and 3
Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown Memorial Album
Best Coast Jazz
John Coltrane
1957 Blue Trane
1959 Giant Steps
1961 My Favorite Things
1961 Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
1963 Live at Birdland
1964 A Love Supreme
Additional Links
Top Progressive Rock Albums: http://tinyurl.com/mknchn
Top Classical Albums: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3670355/100-classical-albums-you-must-hear.html
Top Jazz Albums: http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/jazz100/top100.html
Comments on: "Must Listen To Music" (2)
Have you listened to Maurizio Pollini’s renditions of the Chopin Polonaises, Preludes, and Études? They are simply magnificent. His dynamic control and emotion are so exquisite that I imagine that with the way Pollini plays Chopin’s pieces, Chopin himself would be happy.
I have some Pollini, but it was great when I could access more of his recording at college. I love Pollini — amazing delicacy and control and most importantly musicality. Just magic!