Classical Music for Aficionados


I would like to start a thread, similar to Orpheus’ jazz site, for lovers of classical music.
I will list some of my favorite recordings, CDs as well as LP’s. While good sound is not a prime requisite, it will be a consideration.
  Classical music lovers please feel free to add to my lists.
Discussion of musical and recording issues will be welcome.

I’ll start with a list of CDs.  Records to follow in a later post.

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.  Chesky  — Royal Phil. Orch.  Freccia, conductor.
Mahler:  Des Knaben Wunderhorn.  Vanguard Classics — Vienna Festival Orch. Prohaska, conductor.
Prokofiev:  Scythian Suite et. al.  DG  — Chicago Symphony  Abbado, conductor.
Brahms: Symphony #1.  Chesky — London Symph. Orch.  Horenstein, conductor.
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat. HDTT — Ars Nova.  Mandell, conductor.
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances. Analogue Productions. — Dallas Symph Orch. Johanos, cond.
Respighi: Roman Festivals et. al. Chesky — Royal Phil. Orch. Freccia, conductor.

All of the above happen to be great sounding recordings, but, as I said, sonics is not a prerequisite.


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I used to but few on here were interested .

That Chamber Czech Orchestra is indeed a winner !

 

mahgister , Music in a land with no soul will want Music with no soul.by at least

90 % of the people .

 

In North America Mexico is the exception .

mahgister , Music in a land with no soul will want Music with no soul.by at least

90 % of the people .

Sorry but if i used the same stick as you to judge others there will be a problem...

I will stick to Jesus parable about the Straw and the Beam...

And i dont like to be intimidated in my taste for culture especially if this culture is a great one..

Stay out of politic in a music thread...

 

I will stick to the Russian school of piano anyway...

I will present this extraordinary pianist and composer in a piece i never listen before today amazingly played ....

 

 

«All lands  have soul, only some people sell theirs soul to propaganda on the two sides of the same coin: hate »-Anonymus Journalist

Yes 5559 you stay out of politics because politics is how Russia invaded Ukraine and hardly anybody is interested now. I wonder if the pacifists would be interested if the Russians came up their street and kicked their door down !!!

Would they pick up a gun and start shooting at the invaders like the Afghans didn't do when the Taliban surrounded Kabul ?

Sod it Len Don't let them get you down mate. Best Jim.

 

Listening to Dohnanyi's Symphony no. 1 on the much loved and lamented Telarc label.  Leon Botstein (not Leonard Bernstein!) conducting the LPO.  Lovely music, and the soundstage here is arrayed from speaker to speaker.  This tells me my system is telling me how different recordings are engineered, as some trio sonatas I was listening to recently sounded quite clustered towards the center.

We can defend ourself without hating and without using propaganda...

I dont like hating condemnation of CULTURES...Russian or American one here...

Biden is not America nor Putin is Russia...

I reacted to an insane remark about my musical post...

I like russian school of piano...

And i dont like to be intimidated...

I dont have the intention to ban Russian Samuil Feinberg from here , one of my favorite piano sonatas ... Period ...

Feinberg was a disciple of the great Scriabin and his 12 sonatas are spiritual journey where the piano vertically  spoke and not only sing horizintally  like in poetry...

I was in shock when i listened to him the first time few years ago... I cannot imagine someone composing at the level of Scriabin... I was wrong...

 

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I wonder if the pacifists would be interested if the Russians came up their street and kicked their door down !!!

«True warrior act without hate»- Anonymus gladiator