Classical Music for Aficionados
Franz Schubert PIANO CONCERTO Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Carlos Kleiber EMI 1963 / 1998 Fantasy, D.760 "Wanderer" in C major https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0b7gybf6-Y&t=112s Cheers |
Antonín Dvořák PIANO CONCERTO Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Carlos Kleiber EMI 1977 / 1998 Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33 I. Allegro agitato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3x79Ci4qMA II. Andante sostenuto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKFwM7gGrI III. Allegro con fuoco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKZINtoBXs Cheers |
Antonín Dvořák
SYMPHONY NO. 9 Berlin Philharmoniker Ferenc Fricsay DG 1960 / 2001 Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From The New World" 1. Adagio - Allegro... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJL8n6HThnM 2. Largo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrCbRZV252c 3. Scherzo (Molto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkv85G1I8es 4. Allegro con fuoco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRC_SFSd7k Cheers |
Antonín Dvořák
and Max Bruch: Notes: "There is one rather sad difference between these marvellous concertos. Whereas Dvořák was encouraged by his publisher Fritz Simrock to write the A minor concerto and was decently paid for it, also receiving performance royalties, Bruch unwisely sold the G minor concerto outright to a publisher for a fixed fee. A royalty contract would have given him a handsome pension at the end of his long life, when he was living in poverty. As an old man, he was even cheated out of the promised sale of the manuscript score." Tully Potter Some things never change. Cheers |
Antonín Dvořák & Max Bruch VIOLIN CONCERTOS Julia Fischer (violin) Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich David Zinman Decca 2013 Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 1. Allegro ma non troppo - Quasi moderato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYmM2trDVro 2. Adagio, ma non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jlFaOXB7Ck 3. Finale (Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUAKS-j-cAk Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 1. Vorspiel (Allegro moderato) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYBkAYgh9Y0 2. Adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwD0QC-xHHs 3. Finale (Allegro energico) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeKELatEDVY Cheers |
Aaron Copland BILLY THE KID: SUITE Morton Gould and his Orchestra RCA SACD 1957-60 / 2006 Introduction: The Open Prairie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRyGaQGif40 Street in a Frontier Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExY0fbIYdMM Mexican Dance and Finale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjUKjh4xXk Prairie Night: Card Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9rNXxZd8w Gun Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H13SpKR2wWg Celebration: After Billy's Capture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSOnw--0TSg Billy's Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URadQ5QE0qw The Open Prairie (Reprise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHpMIUM1Q5I Cheers |
Aaron Copland COPLAND 100 Minnesota Orchestra Eiji Oue Reference Recordings 2000 HDCD Notes: "The special qualities of Copland's Appalachian Spring(1944), one of the composer's most popular works, owed much to choreographer Martha Graham, for whom it was written. Copland stated, "....Nobody else seems quite like Martha: she's so proud, so very much herself. And she's unquestionably very American: there's something prim and restrained, simple yet strong, about her which one tends to think of as American." Appalachian Spring Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3luGMG3PoY&t=131s Cheers |
Aaron Copland A COPLAND CELEBRATION VOL 1 London Symphony Orchestra Aaron Copland Sony 1968 / 2000 Fanfare for the Common Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHTCtgccIM&list=OLAK5uy_myv21RiHnCm8wx-r3Ay11AeybZ1K4ujWM&i... 4 Dance Episodes from Rodeo I. Buckaroo Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j1OMT5CYTY&list=OLAK5uy_myv21RiHnCm8wx-r3Ay11AeybZ1K4ujWM&i... II. Corral Nocturne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQJ8zwyrck&list=OLAK5uy_myv21RiHnCm8wx-r3Ay11AeybZ1K4ujWM&i... III. Saturday Night Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHgjU5efzg&list=OLAK5uy_myv21RiHnCm8wx-r3Ay11AeybZ1K4ujWM&i... IV. Hoe Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiMbZuRiO8&list=OLAK5uy_myv21RiHnCm8wx-r3Ay11AeybZ1K4ujWM&i... Cheers |
John O'Conor recorded Field's Nocturnes many moons ago with Telarc (I can't find an original issue date); I remember getting the CD as soon as it came out. He also did a complete survey of the Beethoven sonatas (also Telarc) which is often overlooked. Contradicting J Gordon Holt's dictum, it's a very good performance of great music in excellent sound. |
Frédéric Chopin
CHOPIN Études Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classical 2001 Notes: "The word "etude" means "study" - and every one of these studies addresses a specific technical concern, the mastery of which can only benefit a pianist in any other works he or she plays. And yet the etudes are much more than mere exercises, for their Herculean physical demands are nothing compared to their musical ones. Even Artur Rubinstein, who played Chopin all over the world for three-quarters of a century, was daunted by the etudes, admitting frankly that he was "scared to death" of them. "To do the justice is a most difficult task, which I haven't yet had the courage to attempt," he wrote to an admirer in 1962." --Tim Page A sampling of Op. 10 & Op. 25. 12 Etudes, opus 10 No. 3 in E Major "Tristesse" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7bY13EcCk No. 5 in G-Flat Major "Black Keys" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Fm-1tvSY 12 Etudes, opus 25 No. 10 in B Minor "Octave" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmihKi-A59s No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0doWiXaPfhI No. 12 in C Minor "Ocean" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDc4UpspuKQ Cheers |
Does anyone know the work of American / Dutch pianist Andrew von Oeyen. He is quite well represented on Idagio at the moment with his latest recording on their front pages. It is a recording of Bach and Beethoven with the star being the Appassionata sonata. he has a stunning technique which is put to good use here. He takes the tempo at a fair lick and the result is spellbinding. He also has other recordings on Idagio with a favourite for me of Liszt , with the B Minor Sonata being for me the star again with fast tempos favoured but with due care taken to the slow intervals. On said slow sections he has a beautiful tender side and lovely limpid touch. On the same recording he does the Rigoletto Paraphrase with gorgeous octave glissandos and stunning Chordal playing. I just wish he had room for the Three Petrarch Sonnets as his technique is really suited them. |
"and and of course a few by Horowitz. I think Chopin was all he played." A thousand pardons o' watchful one.. Apparently I typed Horowitz, but was thinking Rubinstein. If you have a problem with Rubinstein, too bad. We can all be thankful that there is always an "Audiophile" ready and willing to correct all 'errors' made on this Forum. To answer your question directly: Earth. You? Cheers |
Chopin loved and played and made his students play the works of JS Bach.This predestined fate of each chord in Chopin comes from rigorous meditation of Bach written script.... Chopin is greater than what the beauty of his melodies speak about : the human heart... He is a mathematical musical brain genius like Bach... We feel Bach all along listening Chopin.... Chopin listened the marvellous nocturnes of the great pianist Field with the Bach tutoring, and the rest is history.... Before Chopin there is Field.... Nobody ever written so heartful melodies balancing heart and breathing in this way , Field did this the first... Chopin listened and with the great tools inherited from Bach transform what the genius playing of Field on the new piano instrument created to more developed strongly written works and not only marvellous inspired almost improvised melodies and chords... But we must listen to Field to know where Chopin begin using Bach track and to understand what was Chopin debt to Bach... Whatever the genius is, the greatest geniuses stand on the shoulders of other geniuses back in time....Field is a genius but Chopin is almost a god standing of the shoulders of these two.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEUGj9mPg2w |
Frederic Chopin AREGRICH PLAYS CHOPIN Martha Aregrich (piano) DG 2010 Not one of my favorite composers. I have just this one by Aregrich, one by Perahia and of course a few by Horowitz. I think Chopin was all he played. Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op. 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payc4PKtzQo Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 I. Allegro maestoso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5pdq2Rb_jI II. Scherzo. Molto vivace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsjRye7BvC0 III. Largo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnYcrLH43xE IV. Finale. Presto non tanto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g5KEXYvm0o Cheers |
Johann Sebastian Bach THE ART OF THE FUGUE Emerson String Quartet Philip Setzer (violin) Eugene Drucker (violin) Lawrence Dutton (viola) David Finckel (cello) DG 2003 Notes: Language that only a Musician would love, or understand. The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vF9owrxMo Cheers Wiki: fugue Music
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Grumiaux is one of my idol with Suk here....Suk is more singing but Grumiaux is not way behind in his own non bohemian way with his usual luminous but very incarnated and colored tone .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsHwmee4Vik&t=25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxRLgWYcW70 |
Fabulous work! One of my very favorite modern works and arguably the most popular composition out of the Second Viennese School. A twelve tone row with strong elements of late Romanticism making the paring with the Beethoven not quite as odd as it may seem at first glance. The chorale in the Adagio is a thing of beauty. Of note is the use of alto saxophone in the score for a very interesting color. Very good performance. Thanks. My favorite: https://youtu.be/j-4hIAYwW4k |
Alban Berg / Ludwig van Beethoven VIOLIN CONCERTOS Isabelle Faust (violin) Orchestra Mozart Claudio Abbado Harmonia Mundi 2012 Very odd pairing. Alban Berg: Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' I. Andante - Allegretto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqL-6uCl13s II. Allegro - Adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huZjbMQkW6I Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61 I. Allegro ma non troppo - Adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLzkzC0GJU II. Larghetto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OvWwjQyDbc III. Rondo allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUMUZaoCgo4 Cheers |
Max Bruch VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 Jascha heifetz (violin) New Symphony Orchestra of London Sir Malcolm Sargent RCA Red Seal / Sony 1962 / 2006 SACD Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 I. Vorspiel: Allegro moderato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRD0mrIfKHk II. Adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFQnq3z4FA III. Finale: Allegro energico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJohucp0WZY Cheers |
Brahms / Tchaikovsky
VIOLIN CONCERTOS Jascha Heifetz (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fritz Reiner RCA / Sony 1955 -1957 / 2005 SACD Notes:"When in the spring of 1878 Tchaikovsky completed his violin concerto, he dedicated it and presented it to Leopold Auer, who was perhaps the most noted virtuoso and certainly the greatest teacher of his time. The composer must have been bitterly disappointed when the master would not undertake the concerto, declaring it unplayable --- so terrifying were its difficulties." Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D, op. 77 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJFJgVYFQh4&t=700s Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxGp1Ii4r8M&t=59s Cheers |
Badura-Skoda in Mozart is my first choice, in spite of all others pianists interpretation... The reason is simple,Mozart wrote his pieces on this instrument and it is evident by the hard contrasts this instrument made possible to express... The Schubert is very interesting .... I will recommend the Mozart like an absolute must..... Anyway a very great instrumennt well served by a musician of the first order.... Peace to his soul..... |
Paul badura-skoda playing pianoforte (period instrument) complete Schubert and Beethoven sonatas. Absolute magic, piano forte sounds so sweet and warm, it transforms the music and you hear it the way great masters did when they composed it. Bedura- skoda was one of the few to record all Schubert and Beethoven sonatas On both piano and pianoforte. Truly sublime sound and exquisite virtuosity |
Johannes Brahms DOUBLE CONCERTO IN A MINOR Julia Fischer (violin) Daniel MüllerSchott (cello) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam Yakov Kreizberg PentaTone Classics SACD 2005 Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102 Excellent & Informative Booklet. "Julia Fischer plays on an Italian violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, dating from 1750." Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-uLInT8zcI Andante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRi43khcU4 Vivace non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljdX6MgBLSc Cheers |
Robert Schumann FANTASY PIECES Martha Argerich (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) Mischa Maisky (cello) DG 2002 From the Notes: Speaking Of Clara Schumann, " She was one of the foremost pianists of the romantic era--the trio here was written for her by her husband Robert, and she also owned the quartet by Brahms, in the sense that she presided at the keyboard in the first performance. To have this music played by a dynamic woman pianist of our own time, Martha Argerich, is therefore doubly appropriate." Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 88 I. Romanze (Nicht schnell, mit innigem Ausdruck) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKqXcZJdPQ II. Humoreske (Lebhaft) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBg5aXkOIlQ III. Duett (Langsam und mit Ausdruck) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVZltb1LPs IV. Finale (Im Marsch-Tempo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FlJ6I180k Cheers |
Johannes Brahms PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN G MINOR Martha Argerich (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) Yuri Bashmet (viola) Mischa Maisky (cello) DG 2002 Notes: "Johannes Brahms's three piano quartets, on which he worked in the late 1850s, have differing characters. The C minor is impassioned and concise, while the A major is equable and balanced. The G minor, everyone's favorite, is the most varied in content. Brahms selected it for the all-important concert on 16 November 1862 at which he appeared before the Viennese public for the first time as pianist and composer." Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 I. Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsioqZ9hCEA II. Intermezzo (Allegro ma non troppo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F22zrRwiRc III. Andante con moto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCDo_f2KeQ IV. Rondo alla Zingarese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klc5KkM8fg Cheers |
Johannes Brahms DOUBLE CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN & CELLO Isaac Stern (violin) Leonard Rose (cello) The Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy Sony 1960 / 2002 Brahms's last orchestral work, the concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 102, composed on Lake Thun in the summer of 1887. Double Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor, Op. 102 I. Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NflEjrWuY II. Andante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1DJVzbigPM III. Vivace ma non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXtAtdvk-h0 Cheers |
Johannes Brahms VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D OP. 77 Nigel Kennedy (violin) The London Philharmonic Klaus Tennstedt EMI 1991 Notes: "For the most part, composers can be divided into two groups: those who copy other composers, and those that totally disrespect the past, reject it, and write something 'totally new'. Brahms was too rare to come from either of these categories. He correctly saw himself as being responsible for the development and evolution of the mainstream of classical music. Instead of copying or rejecting the work of his great predecessor, Beethoven, he developed and expanded Beethoven's music into a kind of music we can only call Brahms." allegro non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_iRiq0bzoY adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAnbMxdW0zk allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0oNfOrI0ng Cheers |
Johannes Brahms THE PIANO CONCERTOS Emil Gilels (piano) Berliner Philharmoniker Eugen Jochum DG 1972 / 1976 / 1996 2CD Set Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 1. Allegro non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWl_G-UkGw 2. Allegro appassionato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Akdu6SC8EQ 3. Andante - Più adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VAReVXAnYQ 4. Allegretto grazioso - Un poco più presto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbtvjvmNis Cheers |
Johannes Brahms THE PIANO CONCERTOS Emil Gilels (piano) Berliner Philharmoniker Eugen Jochum DG 1972 / 1976 / 1996 2CD Set Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 I. Maestoso - Poco più moderato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKhAt-b80mo II. Adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i11ZJ1J3_w III. Rondo (Allegro non troppo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTGHC7xZjfU Cheers |
Johannes Brahms STRING SEXTETS NOS. 1 & 2 Yehudi menuhin, Robert Masters (violin) Cecil Aronowitz, Ernst Wallfisch (viola) Mauurice Gendron, Derek Simpson (cello) Recorded 1963 & 1964 No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London EMI 1963 / 1964 / 1990 / 2001 String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18 I. Allegro ma non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVbE4L7qTkg II. Andante ma moderato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kouJrvlvZA III. Scherzo - Allegro molto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlToByqDvEs IV. Rondo - Poco allegretto e grazioso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UvGVA-PhBM Cheers |
Johannes Brahms SONATA FOR PIANO NO. 3 IN F MINOR, OP. 5 Hélène Grimaud (Piano) Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden, Netherlands Denon 1991 I. Allegro maetoso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o81xzRjwMI II. Andante espressivo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNHryDXNjZY III. Scherzo: Allegro energico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6obAq2M7xls IV. Intermezzo: Andante molto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xCYlVhZpw V. Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxk9G-j6Uyw Cheers |
One of my favorite violonist of all time is Arthur Grumiaux... I am drugged by his tone and light... When you listen to him you dont hear a virtuoso at all.... You see colors....And colors sings.... I cannot even recommend one album , perhaps Bach violin concertos the best ever....Or anything by this illuminated master.... Superlative artistry beyond most.... Try Mozart and dont listen to the sound look for the colors and light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrM9l4AsXE Same light with different colors here in Handel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHBstDPPOs |
