Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches27 reviews Bela Bartok, Fritz Reiner, ... RCA, 1993 Reiner Is Great In The Music Of Bela Bartok, RCA Deserves Praise For The Sound + My introduction to Bartok + An historic performance! + Essential Recordings + Only Boulez/Chicago gets 5 Stars             The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century49 reviews Alex Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 intellectually exciting + excelent introduction to 20th century music and its context + Good Quality, Timely Delivery + Notes on Tones + True Adventure             Britten: Peter Grimes11 reviews Benjamin Britten, Colin Davis, ... Philips, 1999 Maybe not what Britten imagined, but definitive in its own way + A robust and idiomatic performance of this key opera + Paul Bunyan agonistes + A great performance that rivals the composer's own + WOW             The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - ...11 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Jonathon Nott, ... Teldec, 2002 Stunningly insightful performances of Ligeti's orchestral works + Some major orchestral "micropolyphonic" works and a fun early piece + One of the best CDs of contemporary music. + Excellent, but only for a willing ear + Very Good Intro To Gyorgy Ligeti             Jean Sibelius: Symphonies No. 4-7, Tapiola etc.12 reviews Jean Sibelius, Herbert von Karajan, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1999 "He understands what I meant..." Sibelius and von Karajan + Karajan At His Best + This is the finest ever!!! + Simply             Copland: The Populist:10 reviews Aaron Copland, Michael Tilson Thomas, ... RCA, 2000 Three Aaron Copland Works: The New Gold Standard Recording + A larger-than-life treatment of Copland's cultural icons + Great Performance + Copland the great American composer + Copland Concert             Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time14 reviews Fred Sherry, Richard Stoltzman, ... RCA, 1989 A great work, a Catholic work + Fin + Imagining the end... + Unique Spiritual Expression + Unique and Interesting             Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Petrushka / Le Sacre du Printemps18 reviews Igor Stravinsky, Columbia Symphony Orchestra Sony, 1990 Primal. Astonishing. Humbling + A Must-have recording + A great album except... + the best. + Najinsky who?!             Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians27 reviews Composer: Steve Reich, Performer: Steve Reich Ensemble Ecm Records, 2000 Riveting + Amazing! Just what I thought it would be! + Entertaining, if approached as proto-dance music instead of modern-classical + Great stuff             Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 929 reviews Dmitry Shostakovich, Leonard Bernstein, ... Sony, 1999 A moment in history, but not as riveting as before + Concerning tempos From the mid-Fifties to the mid-Sixties Leonard Bernstein had a complete grip on any "young people"--he didn't call us kids--who wanted to fall in love with classical music. It's hard to turn your back on the influence that shaped your taste, and this Shostakovich 5th was for an entire geneeration ...             Britten: Peter Grimes11 reviews Benjamin Britten, Colin Davis, ... Philips, 1999 Maybe not what Britten imagined, but definitive in its own way + A robust and idiomatic performance of this key opera + Paul Bunyan agonistes + A great performance that rivals the composer's own + WOW             Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Petrushka / Le Sacre du Printemps18 reviews Igor Stravinsky, Columbia Symphony Orchestra Sony, 1990 Primal. Astonishing. Humbling + A Must-have recording + A great album except... + the best. + Najinsky who?!             Jean Sibelius: Symphonies No. 4-7, Tapiola etc.12 reviews Jean Sibelius, Herbert von Karajan, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1999 "He understands what I meant..." Sibelius and von Karajan + Karajan At His Best + This is the finest ever!!! + Simply             Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians27 reviews Composer: Steve Reich, Performer: Steve Reich Ensemble Ecm Records, 2000 Riveting + Amazing! Just what I thought it would be! + Entertaining, if approached as proto-dance music instead of modern-classical + Great stuff             Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 929 reviews Dmitry Shostakovich, Leonard Bernstein, ... Sony, 1999 A moment in history, but not as riveting as before + Concerning tempos From the mid-Fifties to the mid-Sixties Leonard Bernstein had a complete grip on any "young people"--he didn't call us kids--who wanted to fall in love with classical music. It's hard to turn your back on the influence that shaped your taste, and this Shostakovich 5th was for an entire geneeration ...             The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century49 reviews Alex Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 intellectually exciting + excelent introduction to 20th century music and its context + Good Quality, Timely Delivery + Notes on Tones + True Adventure             Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches27 reviews Bela Bartok, Fritz Reiner, ... RCA, 1993 Reiner Is Great In The Music Of Bela Bartok, RCA Deserves Praise For The Sound + My introduction to Bartok + An historic performance! + Essential Recordings + Only Boulez/Chicago gets 5 Stars             The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - ...11 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Jonathon Nott, ... Teldec, 2002 Stunningly insightful performances of Ligeti's orchestral works + Some major orchestral "micropolyphonic" works and a fun early piece + One of the best CDs of contemporary music. + Excellent, but only for a willing ear + Very Good Intro To Gyorgy Ligeti             Copland: The Populist:10 reviews Aaron Copland, Michael Tilson Thomas, ... RCA, 2000 Three Aaron Copland Works: The New Gold Standard Recording + A larger-than-life treatment of Copland's cultural icons + Great Performance + Copland the great American composer + Copland Concert             Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time14 reviews Fred Sherry, Richard Stoltzman, ... RCA, 1989 A great work, a Catholic work + Fin + Imagining the end... + Unique Spiritual Expression + Unique and Interesting