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Here are some of Peter Shickele's favorite hits.

Maybe Bartok got from Bulgaria.
"Balkanology," a recording by Ivo Papasov, a Bulgarian clarinetist, and his orchestra

Rubber Soul (Capitol)

Fairport Convention's "Full House" (Hannibal),

Oscar Peterson Trio's "At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival" (Verve).

2 real favorites -- "Gerry Mulligan Quartet" (Pacific Jazz, reissued on a Mosaic CD) -- fantastically clear three-part counterpoint

Lennie Tristano's "Jazz Record Series" (Atlantic, reissued on a Rhino CD). deaccentuation of notes can be as important as their accentuation.

Stravinsky's recordings of his Symphony in Three Movements and Symphony of Psalms (Sony Classical, CD)

Jean Ritchie's a cappella recording of "Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah" from her album "Saturday Night and Sunday Too" (Riverside, on LP).

Earl Taylor's "Folk Songs From the Blue Grass" (United Artists, LP)

Rolling Stones' "Beggar's Banquet" (Decca),

Elvis Presley's "Golden Records" (RCA),

Beach Boys' "Smiley Smile" (Capitol)

Bob Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" (Columbia)

Miles Davis classics, "Kind of Blue" and "Porgy and Bess" (Columbia);

Ornette Coleman's "Shape of Jazz to Come" (Atlantic)

Mozart symphonies, 50's recordings by Erich Leinsdorf (Westminster; a CD reissue is out of print), rather than the 40th, or the 41st, the "Jupiter."

the pianist Maurizio Pollini with the Boulez Sonata No. 2 and works by Webern, Prokofiev and Stravinsky (Deutsche Grammophon, CD).

1962 collection of dances by Praetorius, Widmann and Schein, performed by the Collegium Terpsichore (Archiv, reissued on CD by Boston Skyline). the Renaissance big band, avec percussion