User:Missa Solemnis/Music

This page contains a list of music that continues to draw me back in, even after many years in some cases, as well as my recordings of choice. These recordings reflect some of my favourite composers and performers: Janine Jansen, Johan Dalene, the Emerson String Quartet, the Artemis String Quartet, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninov, Felix Mendelssohn, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, to name a few. This list is entirely classical, so if that's not your cup of tea, it might be best to look elsewhere.

Music

Composer	Piece	Year	Genre	Recording	Notes
Barber, Samuel	Agnus Dei	1967	Choral	Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill (Warner, 2018) •	Arranged by the composer from his Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936), which is also worth a listen.
Barber, Samuel	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14	1939	Concerto/solo work	Johan Dalene/Nörrkoping Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Blendulf (BIS, 2019) •
Beethoven, Ludvig van	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61	1806	Concerto/solo work	Janine Jansen/Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Paavo Järvi (Decca, 2009) •
Beethoven, Ludvig van	Fantasia in C Minor "Choral Fantasy", Op. 80	1808	Concerto/solo work	Leif Ove Andsnes/Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Sony, 2014) •
Beethoven, Ludvig van	Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a	1806	Orchestral	Philadelphia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti (EMI Classics, 2000) •
Beethoven, Ludvig van	String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4	1801	Chamber music	Tokyo Quartet (harmonia mundi usa, 2010) •	The YouTube link is an older recording by the Tokyo Quartet, but with a slightly different membership.
Berlioz, Hector	Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14	1830	Orchestral	London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn (Warner Classics, 2021) •
Bizet, Georges	Carmen	1875	Opera	Gheorghiu Alagna/Mula Hampson/Choeur "Les Elements"/Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse/Michel Plasson (EMI, 2003) •
Brahms, Johannes	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77	1878	Concerto/Solo work	Emanuel Ax/Isaac Stern/Jaime Laredo/Yo-Yo Ma (Warner Classics, 2010) •
Brahms, Johannes	Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60	1875	Chamber music	Itzhak Perlman/Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini (Sony, 1990) •	I particularly love the slow (third) movement of this quartet. The YouTube link contains all three of Brahms's Piano Quartets, which are all amazing.
Brahms, Johannes	String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1	1873	Chamber music	Tokyo String Quartet (Ameritz, 2014) •	The YouTube link is an older recording by the Tokyo Quartet, but with a slightly different membership.
Brahms, Johannes	String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2	1873	Chamber music	Tokyo String Quartet (Ameritz, 2014) •	The YouTube link is an older recording by the Tokyo Quartet, but with a slightly different membership.
Brahms, Johannes	String Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 67	1875	Chamber music	Tokyo String Quartet (Ameritz, 2014) •	The YouTube link is an older recording by the Tokyo Quartet, but with a slightly different membership.
Brahms, Johannes	String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18	1860	Chamber music	Nash Ensemble (PM Classics, 2007) •	The YouTube link features a performance by a different set of performers, but is nonetheless an incredibly solid interpretation.
Brahms, Johannes	String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36	1865	Chamber music	Nash Ensemble (PM Classics, 2007) •	The YouTube link features a performance by a different set of performers, but is nonetheless an incredibly solid interpretation.
Brahms, Johannes	Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68	1876	Orchestral	Berliner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon, 1992) •	The YouTube link features a different recording by the same orchestra and conductor.
Brahms, Johannes	Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73	1877	Orchestral	Berliner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon, 1992) •	The YouTube link features a different recording by the same orchestra and conductor.
Brahms, Johannes	Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90	1883	Orchestral	Berliner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon, 1992) •	The YouTube link features a different recording by the same orchestra and conductor.
Brahms, Johannes	Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98	1885	Orchestral	Berliner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon, 1992) •	The YouTube link features a different recording by the same orchestra and conductor.
Brahms, Johannes	Viola Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1	1894	Concerto/Solo work	Kim Kashkashian/Robert Levin (ECM, 1997) •	The YouTube link is an excellent recording of the first movement by Anthea Kreston and Asya Gulua.
Brahms, Johannes	Viola Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2	1894	Concerto/Solo work	Kim Kashkashian/Robert Levin (ECM, 1997) •	The YouTube link is a recording by preeminent violist Tabea Zimmermann with Andrea Nemecz.
Bruch, Max	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 26	1866	Concerto/Solo work	Janine Jansen/Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca, 2006) •
Bruch, Max	Romance for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 85	1911	Concerto/Solo work	Janine Jansen/Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca, 2006) •
Clarke, Rebecca	Viola Sonata	1919	Concerto/Solo work	Tabea Zimmermann/Kirill Gerstein (Myrios, 2015) •	The YouTube link only contains the first movement. The other two movements are also on YouTube.
Dvorak, Antonin	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 53	1879	Concerto/Solo work	Itzhak Perlman/Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini (Sony, 1990) •	The YouTube video linked contains another recording by Itzhak Perlman, but with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Dvorak, Antonin	Legend for Orchestra, Op. 59, B. 122, No. 6	1881	Orchestral	San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (San Francisco Symphony, 2014) •
Dvorak, Antonin	Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81, B. 155	1887	Chamber music	Menahem Pressler/Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon, 1994) •	The YouTube link only contains the first movement. The other three movements are also on YouTube.
Elgar, Edward	Salut d'Amour (Liebesgruß), Op. 12	1888	Concerto/Solo work	Yo-Yo Ma/Kathryn Stott (Sound Postings, 2015) •	This piece has been scored for many instruments, but the scoring for cello is arguably the most popular.
Faure, Gabriel	Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11	1865	Choral	Laurence Equilbey/Accentus/Orchestre National de France (naive, 2008) •
Mahler, Gustav	Symphony No. 3 in D Minor	1896	Orchestral	Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (Sony, 2018) •	The YouTube link points to a different recording by Bernstein and the New York Phil. In the Spotify recording, you can hear an odd extraneous swishing sound at around 12:01 that could have come from a swiped mic, an errantly brushed cymbal, or something along those lines.
Mendelssohn, Felix	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64	1844	Concerto/Solo work	Janine Jansen/Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca, 2006) •	The YouTube link leads to a video of Janine Jansen playing this piece, but with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms.
Mendelssohn, Felix	String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20	1825	Chamber music	Janine Jansen/Ludvig Gudim/Johan Dalene/Sonoko Miriam Welde/Amihai Grosz/Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/Jens Peter Maintz/Alexander Warenberg (live recording on YouTube, 2019) •	My absolute favourite recording of this piece is the linked YouTube video. The Spotify recording is by the Emerson Quartet.
Mendelssohn, Felix	String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13	1827	Chamber music	Artemis Quartet (Warner Classics/Erato, 2014) •	This piece holds a special place for me as the first piece of chamber music I ever learned in its entirety.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, "Haffner"	1782	Orchestral	Wiener Philharmoniker/Leonard Bernstein (Deutsche Grammophon, 1985) •
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550	1788	Orchestral	Berliner Philharmoniker/Simon Rattle (Berlin Phil Media, 2017) •	Berlin is very stringent about its more recent recordings appearing on platforms other than its Digital Concert Hall, so the YouTube link points to an older Berlin recording, but with the great Herbert von Karajan.
Part, Arvo	Fur Alina	1976	Concerto/Solo work	Alexander Malter (ECM/Deutsche Grammophon, 2015) •
Rachmaninov, Sergei	Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 18	1901	Concerto/Solo work	Lang Lang/Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev (Deutsche Grammophon, 2005) •	Only the first movement is linked on YouTube, but the other two movements are also uploaded there.
Rachmaninov, Sergei	Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27	1907	Orchestral	London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn (EMI, 1999) •
Ravel, Maurice	Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess)	1910	Orchestral	Berliner Symphoniker/Gunther Herbig (Edel Classics, 2008) •	This orchestral version was arranged from the original piano version (1899) by the composer.
Schubert, Franz	String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"	1824	Chamber music	Artemis Quartet (Warner Classics/Erato, 2012) •	The YouTube link only points to the first movement, but the other three are on YouTube as well.
Schubert, Franz	String Quintet in C Major, D. 956	1828	Chamber music	Janine Jansen/Boris Brovtsyn/Amihai Grosz/Torleif Thedéen/Jens-Peter Maintz (Decca, 2012) •	This is one of my all-time favourite pieces. The YouTube link only points to the first movement, but the other three are on YouTube as well.
Schumann, Robert	Märchenbilder, Op. 113	1851	Concerto/Solo work	Tabea Zimmermann/Hartmut Höll (Capriccio, 2004) •	This is one of my favourite pieces for viola. The YouTube link only points to the first movement, but the other three are on YouTube as well.
Schumann, Robert	Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44	1842	Chamber music	Emerson String Quartet/Menahem Pressler (Deutsche Grammophon, 1995) •	This is one of my all-time favourite pieces.
Schumann, Robert	Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120	1841	Orchestral	WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln/Joseph Keilberth (Profil, 2018) •	The version performed today is Schumann's revision from 1851. The YouTube recording is of the Vienna Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
Shostakovich, Dmitri	Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano	1970	Chamber music	Janine Jansen/Julian Rachlin/Itamar Golan (Onyx Classics, 2007) •	I absolutely love the first piece of this set of pieces. These were arranged and compiled from their original source material by Shostakovich's friend Levon Atovmyan. The YouTube link points to the first piece. The other four pieces are on YouTube as well.
Shostakovich, Dmitri	Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67	1944	Chamber music	Ilya Gringolts/Daniel Haefliger/Gilles Vonsattel (Claves, 2017) •
Shostakovich, Dmitri	Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103	1957	Orchestral	Philadelphia Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (Warner Classics, 1997) •
Sibelius, Jean	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47	1904	Concerto/Solo work	Johan Dalene/Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/John Storgårds •
Strauss, Richard	Metamorphosen: study for 23 solo strings	1945	Chamber music	Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (live recording on YouTube, 2016) •	My favourite recording is the linked YouTube video, but the Berlin Philharmonic recording on Spotify with Herbert von Karajan is excellent as well.
Stravinsky, Igor	Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)	1913	Ballet	London Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein (Sony, 1958) •	The YouTube recording is of the same orchestra and conductor performing this piece live.
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich	Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat Minor, Op. 23	1875	Concerto/Solo work	Beatrice Rana/Orchestra dell'Academia nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano •
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35	1878	Concerto/Solo work	Johan Dalene/Norrköping Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Blendulf •
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich	String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70, "Souvenir de Florence"	1890	Chamber music	Janine Jansen/Vilde Frang/Lawrence Power/Julian Rachlin/Nicolas Altstaedt/Jens-Peter Maintz (live recording on YouTube, 2014) •	My absolute favourite recording of this piece is the linked YouTube video. The Spotify recording is by the Emerson Quartet with Paul Neubauer and Colin Carr.
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich	Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36	1878	Orchestral	Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim (Warner Classics, 2003) •	This was the first symphony with which I truly fell in love.
Tchiakovsky, Pyotr Ilyich	Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64	1888	Orchestral	New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Deutsche Grammophon, 2000) •	The YouTube link leads to a recording by the same orchestra and conductor.
Vaughan-Williams, Ralph	A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)	1909	Orchestral	Katherine Broderick/Roderick Williams/The Hallé/Mark Elder (Hallé Concert Society, 2015) •
Walton, William	Concerto for Viola and Orchestra	1929	Concerto/Solo work	Yuri Bashmet/London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn (BMG Entertainment, 1998) •

Playlists and links

Relaxing music:

• Spotify Playlist

My namesake:

• Album on Spotify