Ratri's Music List

This is the super-duper all-inclusive list of my classical music collection. It's really not much of a collection (yet!) but I am working on it. If you came here from my wish list, scroll down to the "Most Wanted" section at the bottom!

Music I already have

This is a listing of the classical music I already have on CD. It is broken down by piece rather than CD. I don't object to having duplicates of some pieces (by different artists) if there are other things on the CD, so I have included which artists as well where possible.

• Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin (Arthur Grumiaux)
• Beethoven: Choral Fantasy (Zubin Mehta, New York Philharmonic)
• Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata (Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 (Emanuel Ax, Andre Previn, Royal Philharmonic)
• Beethoven: Spring Sonata (Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 (Ricardo Muti, Philadelphia Orchestra)
• Chopin: Ballades No. 1-4 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Chopin: Etudes Op. 25 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Chopin: Nocturnes (all) (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Chopin: Polonaises (all) (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Durufle: Requiem, Op. 9 (Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
• Faure: Requiem, Op. 48 (Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
• Holst: The planets (Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Orchestre de Paris)
• Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat, Op. 20 (Academy Chamber Ensemble)
• Mendelssohn: Quintet in B flat, Op. 87 (Academy Chamber Ensemble)
• Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Itzhak Perlman, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy)
• Mozart: Amadeus soundtrack
• Mozart: Concerto for two violins (Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Sir Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker, Uwe Heilmann, Ruth Ziesak, Michael Kraus, Sumi Jo, Kurt Moll)
• Mozart: Don Giovanni (Rene Jacobs, Johannes Weisser, Lorenzo Regazzo, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Olga Pasichnyk)
• Mozart: String Quartets K387, K421, K458, K428, K464, K465 (Quatuor Ysaye)
• Mozart: Symphonie Concertante (Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Mozart: Violin Concertos 1-5 (Itzhak Perlman, James Levine, Wiener Philharmoniker)
• Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Leonard Bernstein, New Yor Philharmonic)
• Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (Leonard Bernstein, New Yor Philharmonic)
• Prokofiev: Scythian Suite, Op. 20 (Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic)
• Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 and 2. (Krystian Zimerman, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra)
• Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1-4. (Rafael Orozco, Edo de Waart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini (Rafael Orozco, Edo de Waart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3 (Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Orchestre de Paris)
• Shostakovitch: String quartets 1-15 (The Manhattan String Quartet)
• Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Leonidas Kavakos, Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra)
• Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Leonard Bernstein, London Symphony Orchestra)
• Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (1919 version) (Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic)
• Varese: Arcana (Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Itzhak Perlman, London Symphony, Andre Previn)
• Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Itzhak Perlman, London Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Vivaldi: Violin Concertos in Cm, Am, A (Itzhak Perlman, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra)

Most Wanted

This is the list of my current most-coveted additions to the above collection. You may generally notice a pattern of style and instrumentation. My dad would also have good suggestions.

• Beethoven - piano sonatas
• Mozart - string quartets (whatever I don't already have)
• Tchaikovsky - symphonies
• Wagner - The Ring Cycle (all four full operas. I have a recording picked out on my amazon list...but these are expensive...)
• piano trios - particularly Mendelssohn and Beethoven. I'm greatly enjoying the few I bought on iTunes by the Florestan Trio.

I have some preferred artists. Reading the list of what I have, above, will give some idea. In general I have a soft spot for:

• Philadelphia Orchestra
• Itzhak Perlman (violin)
• Joshua Bell (violin)
• Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
• Emanuel Ax (piano)

Hard to go wrong with those folks.