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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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jim204
881 posts
 
@schubert         Len I share your views on Julia Fischer She shares a triumvirate I think with Maxim Vengerov and Leonidas Kavakos and I think those three reign supreme at the moment. Kavakos at the moment has a recording on Idagio of him playing and directing the Beethoven Violin Concerto and at times the playing verges on the impossible with tempos and his control of the orchestra . Have you heard his playing of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in the original manuscript and the revised one, no wonder Sibelius revised it, it must have been the very devil to get your fingers round it. And Julia Fischer who as well as beautiful playing is quite a beauty herself , the Bach unacompanied sonatas and partitas will be at the very top of the pile for quite a time. She is also nearly as good a pianist as she is a fiddler.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
A great case for "less is more" from the most popular classical composer alive .Spiegel

It may sound easy but it is very difficult to play .
https://youtu.be/FZe3mXlnfNc?t=4
schubert
7,386 posts
 
No, I haven’t heard him on either Sibelius Jim. Will get after him on that and LvB .
Been on a Part , Byrd and Du Fay binge lately .
I've always liked Part , but never knew he had a piece with a Scottish tinge .
Takes a few  listens to get it  IMO .
https://youtu.be/x3Y77YHGakQ?t=3
mahler123
3,401 posts
 
I hi haven’t heard any Julia Fisher recordings since she left Pentatone, but I have all those recordings and play them in MC constantly.  I also got to see her live at the Aspen Music festival back when she was making those Pentatone records, once playing the Brahms Concerto and once in a Mendelssohn Tirol with Muller-Schott and damned if I can remember Pianist now...anyway, in concert she sounds a lot more electric than in the studio 
jcazador
417 posts
 
Schubert
Wow, thanks.  I am on a search for a flac version of this piece.So beautiful.
Story about music and unwell child:
When my son (now 6.5, 210 lbs) was very young, he had terrible earaches, agony.  We watched.  Finally I got out my stand up bass and played really simple tunes, and the sound penetrated his body, and after awhile he stopped struggling, stopped crying, began listening, and finally fell asleep.  This happened many times until he finally "outgrew" the problem.  Some medication helped too.
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