My very first CD
Aug. 4th, 2010 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylDiscussing musical firsts this morning — ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doctor_squale has just made his first purchase from iTunes — we got to talking about the first CDs we ever bought.
My first CD was Karajan's 1981 Berlin Phil recording of Holst's The Planets, which I didn't exactly buy — I was seven — but rather cajoled my parents in to buying. It may seem like a slightly odd choice, but I can still remember exactly why I wanted it. I'd heard part of Mars at school and been utterly astonished by it. I asked my parents about it was amazed to discover that Mars was just the first part of a suite and there were six other planets still to be discovered.
Sadly I don't seem to have it my current iTunes library. I do have a recording of The Planets, but it's Simon Rattle's Berlin Phil set from 2006 which has the distinction of including both Colin Matthews' Pluto and some themed companion pieces by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Matthias Pinscher, Kaija Saariaho and Brett Dean. I think the Karajan must still be the shelves in Coventry, waiting for me to import it. Next time I'm back there, I'm going to make it a priority.
doctor_squale has just made his first purchase from iTunes — we got to talking about the first CDs we ever bought.My first CD was Karajan's 1981 Berlin Phil recording of Holst's The Planets, which I didn't exactly buy — I was seven — but rather cajoled my parents in to buying. It may seem like a slightly odd choice, but I can still remember exactly why I wanted it. I'd heard part of Mars at school and been utterly astonished by it. I asked my parents about it was amazed to discover that Mars was just the first part of a suite and there were six other planets still to be discovered.
Sadly I don't seem to have it my current iTunes library. I do have a recording of The Planets, but it's Simon Rattle's Berlin Phil set from 2006 which has the distinction of including both Colin Matthews' Pluto and some themed companion pieces by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Matthias Pinscher, Kaija Saariaho and Brett Dean. I think the Karajan must still be the shelves in Coventry, waiting for me to import it. Next time I'm back there, I'm going to make it a priority.
