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The results of previous (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
and a loser's edition) totally random polls have all greatly interested, surprised, educated, and assisted, me, so I now begin a totally new totally random poll. As always, the question is:

Of the recordings listed, which do you think should be the highest priorities for me as a listener?

You can vote for things based on your personal experience, what you've heard about them, what look most interesting to you, what you think would be most educational for me, whatever.

I will confess that these polls are nothing like "totally random" and that there is a measure of method mixed into a great deal of madness. Also, I think some recordings may have appeared on previous polls.

By voting sincerely, you really are helping me prioritize my listening.

And, truly, y'all have surprised me in one way or another on every single poll. It has been enlightening for me.

So, thank you very much!

The cover art is an iffy thing. If it doesn't show up, sorry!

 

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[starthrower]

The Starker, most definitely! He's a very passionate player. A great artist! I'm thinking of getting his EMI Icon box. I recently listened to the Schumann piano piece, and it's beautiful stuff. The Boulez/Schoenberg Serenade; Five Pieces; Ode To Napoleon is a great album! I love me some French harpsichord music too!

 

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I'm sorry about the size of that image... I can't find a good one smaller!

 

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[Weston]

I voted in this order:

The Boulez / Schoenberg, suite Op. 29 because that work astounds me. I never thought I'd like Schoenberg!
The Uchida / Schubert because I love this woman. She is amazing.

And finally the Claude Bolling. That's a wonderful album and quite a "hoot" as we say in these parts.

 

[GioCar]

Wow, great picks! It'easier to list what I left out...and I'd have added a couple more...
Possibly the only one I would leave as the last one is the Brahms/Mendelssohn. I don't know it, and I am so fond of the Rostropovich/Serkin one - at least for Brahms.

 

[Mahlerian]

I love the Schoenberg Serenade, and prefer the programming on that disc to the other. I'm afraid I made too many choices this time, so I only selected one of the Schoenberg/Boulez discs, though both are excellent, and I even still managed to miss the Nancarrow somehow!

 

[Ukko]

I have come to enjoy your General Purpose Polls, science; most of them have at least one 'takes me back' hook. In this poll it's the Bolling; I probably still have a few of his LPs. The jazz element is too formal to suit me now, but there was a time when it worked.

I find that I have complete trust in Savall to make recordings that please me.

Machaut, far as I know, is unique for his time in having so many non-church compositions preserved. I hope that's not because his music was so superior to the other compositions in his time.

 

[Nereffid]

Machaut, far as I know, is unique for his time in having so many non-church compositions preserved. I hope that's not because his music was so superior to the other compositions in his time.

My understanding is that Machaut himself took pains to preserve his works in lavish collections. It might not be a coincidence that this attempt at immortality came not long after he'd lived through the Black Death.

 

[Giordano]

I agree with Ukko about Bolling. I don't listen to him anymore, but I used to listen regularly but not too frequently, for a while in the past.

Savall's La Folia is wonderful.

 

[Haydn man]

I have to add a vote for Schubert here. As already noted she is at her best here.
Don't delay get listening to it

 

[ArtMusic]

Definitely the Couperin and Rameau for some French Baroque flavor this round.

 

[SimonNZ]

A strong list, but I'd be recommending the Machaut and Fernyhough discs first.

Might have been the Ligeti, if it was a different volume in that series.

 

[science]

All the polls surprise me in one way or another; this is the most surprising one yet. I expected Ferneyhough and Nancarrow to win, and they lost. I'd've lost my house if there was betting.

 

[Ukko]

All the polls surprise me in one way or another; this is the most surprising one yet. I expected Ferneyhough and Nancarrow to win, and they lost. I'd've lost my house if there was betting.

If the Rameau had been by Sokolov...