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| Classical Music for Aficionados Indeed, I love Brahms. Wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on him.Also, Haydn. Master symphonist. I even love some of his earlier symphonies.Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony is, to me, a masterpiece of symphonic writing as well as his Rhapsody on a Theme ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados pryso:Welcome to the forum.Good, solid recommendations. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados To me, Mahler is the greatest symphonist since Beethoven. It took me a long time to come to that conclusion. I, for a long time, considered him to be disjointed and arbitrary. But, once I found him, there was no turning back.Now Bruckner, I stil... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert,I got the beginning of your post regarding Mahler’s 7th Symphony in my email but it seems the full text was removed from the forum. What’s up with that?It seemed you were beginning to say you liked the symphony, although I know you’re no... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados kef_lover,Just got the Monteux set.Gorgeous performance of the Nocturnes!One question though. It’s probably my system acting up again, but I heard most of the audio coming from the right channel. I don’t notice that with the next selection (Tchaik... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes, Victrola, with “Lieutenant Kije “ on the flip side.Label is black and gold.l really love the Haitink performance of the Nocturnes, with the atmospheric Concertgebouw sound, on Philips. I have the LP and CD. CD sounds great. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes, the Victrolas and the London Treasurys are often from the original master.A great example is Stravinsky’s “Song of the Nightingale” by Reiner. It’s demonstration quality and rivals the expensive Analog Productions reissue.Similarly, the Peter... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados kef_lover,Do you have the LP’s of the recordings in your last post?I’ll list my favorites of your selections in my next post. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The Dorati “Rite” is also my favorite of the dozen or so recordings of it I own.Has been for many years. I had the digital LP before the CD was released.Wonderful sound for early digital, I believe recorded on a sound stage. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have LP’s of a lot of the older recordings you mention (e.g Hanson, Mercury, Maag, London, Munch,RCA)They still sound wonderful. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Kef_lover,Many wonderful recordings in that list! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hindemith is certainly underplayed. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Let’s get this forum rolling again!Who are some of your favorite pianists, violinists, cellists?What about your favorite composers, concertos, sonatas, symphonies, tone poems, etc.?Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Pletnev and Glenn Gould top my list of pia... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I also like Barbirolli in 5, Leinsdorf as well. It’s hard to find a bad performance of 5.The 7th is a tough nut to crack. I hated it for years, but now love it.Abbado recording finally did the trick. Maazel also has a delicious 4th with Kathleen... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have both the Sony and DG Bernstein/Mahler sets. I have to listen to them more often. I like Abbado for Mahler and in general. George Szell has wonderful recordings of the 4th and the 6th, and of, course, I like him for everything else. Von Kar... |