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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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newbee
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Gottschalk anyone?

I just purchased a new Gottschalk (and Cuba) for solo piano by Antonio Iturrioz on the Steinway label (I love this label for its solo piano music compilations!) Nice disc but not so much for the Gottschalk unless you want a ’slow and dreamy’ one.

But this disc caused me to get out a pair of Gottschalk’s CD I haven’t listened to in a while, a CD (Vol 1) "The Banjo", dedicated to solo piano music by performed by Eugene List and Vol 2 "A Night in the Tropics" which includes the Grande Tarantelle performed by List, Maurice Abravanel and the Utah State Orchestra and more music for solo piano by List.

Outstanding music! I recommend it, especially if you like lively music more than sleep. FWIW I think List owns this music! This is an old set of recordings re-mastered for CD. Good, but not SOTA by any means. But, truly, it really is about this music.
schubert
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T1arhfVE1oThis is not Classical music per se but it is considered one of the greatest American military march’s and is played world wide as music for musics sake .
I often heard it in Japan and Germany .
The reason I am linking it is this rendition is done by a big band of German
teens . I didn’t think this level was possible by any teens !
P.S. Bernstein and NY Phil . recorded it as well .

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twoleftears
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If you're in the mood for a really stirring, Liszt-ian piano concerto, try Henselt on Hyperion.  Hamelin is also one of my favorite pianists.
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rvpiano OP
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I’ve copied this post of mine from another thread because it might be useful here:

Some observations about the different streaming services for classical music:

The best of course is IDAGIO because it is designed for classical.
In classical works oftentimes there is no gap in between the tracks.
Idagio, Qobuz and Spotify don’t insert any gaps, Tidal does.  That ruins the continuity of the music.  On Tidal, also, it is very difficult  to find specific works by composers.  Their search engine just doesn’t do that job well.   Again, the best is IDAGIO, as it has many search engines.  The other two services do a fair job.
 I, at first thought SQ was the best in Tidal, but in classical music anyway, they all seem pretty equal.
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rvpiano OP
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I have to amend my assessment of pauses between tracks in the various streaming services.
Upon further listening, I found that all the services had the pauses in varying degrees, unfortunately.
More to discover