ljan
Responses from ljan
| What's your profession? Age? 21, going on 22 in a month. Chemical Engineer PhD candidate (unofficial, haven't taken quals). Without a stereo system for years and just started building my first system, budgeting around a meager 2K. Classical music nut in love with the old mast... | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA Rcprince: I left my little collection of CDs overseas when I moved back to the states four, five years ago. I've been constantly moving for the past couple years so I guess it's a good idea that they weren't with me. I'm plotting to get them back ... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music ah, Milstein's Goldmark Violin Concerto (what was Sarah Chang thinking!? pardon my bitchiness. ) | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA i'm not familiar with Anner Bylsma but my favourite of the bach cello suites, (gendron, fournier, casals) is still Fournier. I just don't understand Casal's bach Cello Suites. As for the sonatas and partitas, my order of preference are Szeryng or ... | |
| Operas... Any fans? i'm a Britten/Pears fan but they don't seem to be for everyone. Given your list I second Puccini's LaBoheme, with Freni/Pavarotti/Karajan | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA I'm glad someone mentioned the 11th, which seems under-performed and recorded. Shostakovich's music is extremly pictorial to me. His chamber music tops, especially those with piano. Also try the piano concertos, they're extremely sarcastic in part... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Klemperer's Mahler 2Kim Kashkashian's Britten Lachrymae Byron Janis Shostakovich 11 'The Year 1905' Peter Pears singing Britten |