Peter Friedman

Symphony No.2 George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra

Mozart - Symphony No.29, K.201 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.2

Haydn - String Quartet Op.64/6 Mozart - Piano Trio K.502 - Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo, Madeline Foley

I (with limited exceptions) prefer to hear Bach on piano not harpsichord. Gould has been a longtime favorite of mine, especially on Bach. In fact, just acquired his set of the 5 Beethoven Piano Concertos. Thus far, the couple I have heard were better than I had expected.

French Suite No.5 and No.6

Berwald - The two piano quintets

Eybler - String Quartet Op.1, No.2 Mozart - Violin Concerto No1, K. 207

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1

Op.76/3 "Emperor" and Op.76/4 "Sunrise"

Piano Concerto No.3, Op.30

Yo Yo Ma - Haydn - Cello Concerto No.1 Szeryng & Haebler - Mozart - Violin Sonata K.526

If we were to focus our listening and acquiring of jazz recordings to revelatory items, I suspect our shelves would be very very very limited in number of CDs / LPs. It reminds me a bit of a friend who said he only wanted to listen to the jazz giants such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Bird, Monk, Coltrane and maybe a handful of others. I could never buy into that kind of thinking.

Beethoven - Op.18/5 Mozart - Symphony No.25, K.183

Not sure what you mean by document-y?

Symphony No.3

String Quartet No.7, Op.107

Dvorak - Piano Quartet No.2, Op.87

Disc 1

My SACD copy has a different cover.

Eybler - String Quartet Op.1, No.1 Rachmaninoff - Piano Sonata No.2, Op.36 / Moment Musicale Op.16, No.2 / Prelude Op.35, No.2 /

Though I admit to being biased, it strikes me that , with only rare exceptions (none of which come to mind at present), when Barry Harris is on a recording it is a good one.