Thank you

not exact covrs of the ones i have but close enough. hope that's a good start for you.

red x above is carlos montoya Flamenco guitar

I highly recommend this one:

The 1994 soundtrack to "Immortal Beloved", a film about the life of composer par excellence Beethoven.

My guess is that you may get many traditional picks, so i'll try and add something different.
Here are 5 that are included in a book on Modern Classical composers called The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross.


Igor Stravinsky...



...Le Sacre du printemps


Olivier Messiaen/Bela Bartok...



...Quartet for the End of Time/Contrasts


Karlheinz Stockhausen...



...Gesang der Jünglinge


Morton Feldman...



...Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?


Steve Reich...



...Music for 18 Musicians


NPR Feature: http://www.npr.org/templa...d=16130685

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A few others.


Steve Reich...



...Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint


Edgard Varèse...



...The Complete Works


Frank Zappa...



...The Yellow Shark




One traditional pick.

William Grant Still (first Black composer to conduct a major American symphony orchestra)...



...Symphony No.1 (aka Afro-American Symphony)

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Remember that these are "modern" works, most using the "Classical" form.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

My mother have that William Grant Still album back in the Harlem house, great set

Thanx a million for the heads up everybody

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My favorites are usually from the Romantic/Impressionistic/Contemporary vein- Claude Debussy, Ravel, Delius, people like that. Aaron Copland is also one of my favorites....

One interesting album featuring a few of Duke Ellington's rarely performed symphonic pieces...performed by an Italian Orchestra, and Jazz band...




These are my perennial favorites:

Ravel, Orchestral Works, conducted by Andre Previn




Aaron Copland: Orchestral Works, conducted by Leonard Bernstein Fanfare For The Common Man, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo




Delius - Orchestral Works, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham




Branford Marsalis - Romances for Saxophone: Works By Debussy, Ravel Rachmaninoff, Colombier, etc.



Respighi: The Fountains Of Rome/The Pines of Rome/Roman Festivals




Debussy - Works




Gustav Holst: The Planets






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