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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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schubert
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A great masterpiece from a great master with about as energy as you could put on a score ! What’s not to like? I seldom listen to him only
because of time , But always great when I do.
Slav means "glory" more or less in Russian not Slavic . Imperial Russian Anthem is in the piece .Slave is one of the many French words brought into English.Still is except in Texas text books where GOP changed every word of Slave to "workers" .

I’ve heard of the Hegel all right, was required doing graduate History at Munster University in Germany .Don’tremember much 50 years later.I I'm sure you would get it with a Google . (If your are not always tried like me).
Hang in there buddy ,Cheers

orpheus10
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As old as this music is to everyone else, it's new to me.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
No crime , I don't know anything about rock.
Lay back and get the pretty Schubert stuff , that'd how I did it .Start with the "Trout"
orpheus10
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Schubert, since you know about all things German, I thought I would ask you about Hegel. It's for sure that's where you would have ran into Hegel. It only took me twenty years to understand what he was talking about, so it's not something we can discuss in a thread, but you answered my question and that's the end of Hegel.
schubert
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Nobody knows all things German O-10 .Much less me .
More to discover