Good Music and Related Links

The following list is divided in two groups:
My favorite CD's - music-related links

Recommended Music

Classical Music

• Bach, Johann Sebastian: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Nathan Milstein)
• Beethoven, Ludwig van: Missa Solemnsis (Neeme Järvi)
• Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 (Glenn Gould)
• Britten, Benjamin: The Suites for Solo Cello (Torleif Thedéen)
• Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 9 in D major (Eugen Jochum)
• Faure, Gabriel: Requiem, Op. 48 (Colin Davis)
• Jirasek, Jan: Missa Propria (Jiri Skopal)
• Pärt, Arvo: Credo for Piano Solo, Mixed Choir and Harp ad libidum (Boris Berman, Neeme Järvi)
• Rossini, Gioacchino: Sonata for Strings No. 6 D Major (Jerzy Maksymiuk)
• Schnittke, Alfred: Piano Sonata (Boris Berman)
• Schubert, Franz: "Die Winterreise", D.911 (Olaf Bär and Geoffrey Parsons)
• Shostakovich, Dmitri: 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87 (Keith Jarrett)
• Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor (Brodsky Quartet)
• Strauss, Richard: Metamorphoses, Study for 23 solo strings (Herbert von Karajan)

Jazz

• Alperin, Mikhail and Shilkloper: Wave Of Sorrow
• Apap, Gilles and the Transylvanian Mountain Boys: Who?
• Davis, Miles: Scetches Of Spain
• Jarrett, Keith: The Köln Concert
• Mertens, Wim: Maximizing The Audience
• Molvær, Nils Petter: Khmer
• Rypdal, Terje: Descendre
• Spyro Gyra: Point Of View
• Steps Ahead: Modern Times
• Torn, David: Tripping Over God

Pop

• Bush, Kate: Lionheart
• Dead Can Dance: Into The Labyrinth
• Eno, Brian and Byrne, David: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
• Hammill, Peter: and close as this
• Jordan, Ronny: The Antidote
• Massive Attack: No Protection
• Portishead: Dummy
• The Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation
• Yello: You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess

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Music

• Many Lyrics

• Music Search

• Global Electronic Music Marketplace

• Music Meta-List , offering links to a lot of interesting sites concerned with classical and contemporary music.

• You may want to search the Music Library or the Music Archive from LEO

• Contemporary Music (mostly in French).

• Windham Hill Records online Occasional.

• JAZZ Online.

• Rare Groove Song Snippets (contains many samples).

• Motown Records . You should know them.

• Negativland . (new stuff, lyrics, general info, ...)

• Internet Underground Music Archive (You can browse the database and download the music in diferent formats ...)

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e-mail to rainer@zwisler.de
Last modified 11-13-98