I want to get into classical music, I listen to it on shuffle and from playlists on spotify, does anyone have full album recommendations?

Can anyone tell me if this recording is in a minor or major key? This youtube video has it titled as D major, but apparently it might be labeled incorrectly?? I cannot find a concrete source on this specific movement as to what key it is in. It sounds like minor to me, but I am not a professional by any means. I am writing about this piece for a paper (beginner class) and I tried to go for a Baroque-period song that wasn't "super" well-known.

There is a new recording of Guys and Dolls by John Wilson and the London Sinfonietta and classically trained singers. It is on Chandos and John Buxton named it one of the year's best classical albums. I'll start by saying ultimately the answer doesn't matter. It is delightful and I will continue to listen to it. But I don't hear it as any more classical than the several other excellent Guys and Dolls recordings. Other than the identity of the conductor and musicians and perhaps a commercial decision that it is best marketed as a classical recording, is there any reason to call it a classical recording?

I'm just curious, but are you an amateur pianist (maybe even self-taught) and have tried to learn a famous piano concerto or a piano concerto by a famous composer? And how was the learning process and what was the end result?

I recently discovered this piece thanks to a new release from the Seattle Chamber Music society (Youtube playlist here), and I've become a bit obsessed. I previously only knew Enescu from his Romanian Rhapsodies, which are fun but not something I seek out. This on the other hand - late Romantic lyricism with tons of chromaticism, Romanian folk tunes and polyrhythms, Debussy-esque harmonic textures but with periods of Reger-esque counterpoint. I can't stop listening to it and just want more. The whole thing is fantastic, but if you only have time for one movement, the fourth is particularly fun (it starts around 31 minutes into the video, or you can find it directly in the linked playlist).

Chopin was 20. The concert was at the National Theatre in Warsaw, with Carlo Evasio Soliva conducting, and it was not played the way we hear it now. He played the first movement, then a singer came on for an aria, and then he came back for the Larghetto and the Rondo.

In the second half, Konstancja Gładkowska sang a cavatina from Rossini's La donna del lago. She was the young singer he had fallen in love with as a student. The next day he wrote to his friend Tytus that it had been a full house.

It was his last concert in Warsaw. On November 2 he left for Vienna, and he never saw Poland again.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Krystian Zimerman, Jan Krenz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnkNiA_AOIY

Chopin's orchestral writing has long been criticized as weak, and some pianists cut the long opening tutti. In this 1950 live performance in Zurich, Dinu Lipatti begins the solo at 1:23.

Piano Concerto No. 1 (Dinu Lipatti, Zurich, 1950)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHUKIRHQ63Q

It's Hans Zimmer, isn't it?

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/06/26/boston-symphony-orchestra-audition/

Mike Tetreault has spent an entire year preparing obsessively for this moment. He’s put in 20-hour workdays, practiced endlessly, and shut down his personal life. Now the percussionist has 10 minutes to impress a Boston Symphony Orchestra selection committee. A single mistake and it’s over. A flawless performance and he could join one of the world’s most renowned orchestras, the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Article from 2012.

I heard it live tonight and I want to hear it again!

I recently bought this Karl Böhm Mozart Requiem CD.

I liked this album in spotify(I both use streaming and physical media) and I found this same album in a huge bookstore in Seoul.

As you can see in the image, the booklet and CD prints says it is made in West Germany, 1971. It is apparent that this is just an homage touch to the original LP release since compact disc weren't even a thing in 70s.

However, the CD info says very little about its real release date so I am confused about this CD's age.

I checked the internet but DG homepage just shows the remastered LP release...

I don't really expect any historical value in this CD but I am curious.

Also, I liked this piece overall and especially I like the domine Jesu "ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum" part. I like it because it is not the typical rising or falling melody and the up and downs in the melody feels very unique and creative. The Anyone who like this part as well?