Quote Originally Posted by Rantzien View Post
Arvo Pärt's "Fratres" is divine, as is Henryk Górecki's Symphony no. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs".
Fratres is mindblowing, as is the whole set of recordings on ECM's Tabula Rasa release from 1984.

Still have to hear some Gorecki myself.

My current favorite classical pieces (mind you that I haven't been exploring it for too long) -

Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 5

Claude Debussy - La Mer

Igor Stravinsky - La Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring")

Maurice Ravel - Bolero

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa


I need to get my hands on some Beethoven symphonies. I've been eye-balling a really good deal on Karajan's 1960s cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic on Deutsche Grammophon, but even though it's only $25, something keeps staying my hand. Probably the fact that 9 symphonies would be more than I could digest in a reasonable span of time.