These are the top classical albums according to rym. Thoughts?
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>>129066999>all this tourist classicaljesus, only thing missing is satie
>>129067063hurr durr
>>129066999bosh! flimshaw!
>>129066999No bad albums here but Glenn sticks out like a sore thumb.
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>>129066999I don't think that albums are a useful way to categorise classical music.
>>129066999Despite all the non-classical and most of the classical picks being just the most famous pieces (and not particularly good recordings at that), I find the Dvořák overrating the most interesting thing here.
>>129066999>American mememalism>Karajan>Glenn Branca>jazz>Stravinsky conducts>SakamotoYeah, there's a lot of garbage or just stuff that isn't classical.>>129068385>>129068390Interpretations are incredibly important when it comes to classical music. They can make or break a piece. The format is fine, the CD was literally designed hold 74 minutes so it could fit Beethoven's 9th, but what this chart should include is compilations and live albums. Oh, and cut out the crap that has little to do with classical music.>https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album,comp/all-time/g:classical%2dmusic,%2dminimalism,%2dsoundtrack,%2djazz,%2dtotalism,%2dmicrotonal%2dclassical,%2dtape%2dmusic/ge:%2dnew%2dage/incl:live/There, I fixed it.
>>129069392>one Chopin album>one Rachmaninoff album>TWO Scriabin albumsFucking based.
>>129069392>the CD was literally designed hold 74 minutes so it could fit Beethoven's 9thOr, more plausibly, Philips already had a factory set up for 115mm CDs, so Sony changed the size to 120mm at the last minute so Philips wouldn't beat them to market. 74 minutes is the slowest known recording of the 9th and not a particularly good one.
>>129069466Fair enough. I checked and that CD/Beethoven thing is a myth, I'll take that back.My broader point still stands: while classical music is primarily organized by composer, work, genre, opus/catalogue number, key, period, etc., recordings add a crucial interpretive layer of performance, sound engineering and editorial choices. Basically, classical music has been collected, compared, catalogued and evaluated as albums for over a century, long before any of us were around.
