Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording

@mikelavigne I guess what you are saying is that you are fine for audiophiles to be general, when in fact I think its imperative to be accurate and precise in matters of import.

I do not agree with the Oxford dictionary definition in this matter, but I do appreciate that you know where I am coming from.

Should the question have been in a general sense, then many movie scores could be considered classical music.  And perhaps cartoons like Looney Tunes (yes, listen, I am sometimes fascinated at the detail).

@noske

i will ask my local friend, Joel-Francois Durand, professor of music composition and acting director the School of Music at the University of Washington, classical (20th Century period😁) composer, and builder of my tonearms, whether he disagrees with the Oxford dictionary definition of Classical music.

https://music.washington.edu/people/joel-francois-durand

he is an expert. and an audiophile.

https://www.durand-tonearms.com/

btw; he also really enjoys the Nojima Plays Liszt recording on Lp and tape.

i have learned much from him.

i know he will tell me to just enjoy the music. and don’t worry too much about it. maybe....if i was in his classroom, he might tell me differently. 

@mikelavigne 

i will ask my local friend, Joel-Francois Durand, professor of music composition and acting director the School of Music at the University of Washington, classical (20th Century period😁) composer, and builder of my tonearms, whether he disagrees with the Oxford dictionary definition of Classical music.

Och, you don't have to do that.  It'd be a bit like asking Robert Plant if Led Zeppelin was a heavy metal band.

There was a thread here a year or so ago and LZ featured as the best HM band of all time.  I took issue.  Oh, and Liszt is Classic.

How about if I duly proclaim some absolute, incontrovertible boundaries for the various periods of what I shall refer to as Serious Music? To be sure, actual historical dates cannot be accurately ascertained but the composers who introduced the various Serious Musical periods are THUS --

Monteverdi shall be the first composer whose music supplants Medieval music for Baroque.

Haydn shall be the composer who supplants Baroque Music with Classical.

Beethoven shall be the composer who supplants Classical Music with Romantic Music.

Stravinsky is entirely, unequivocally responsible for introducing Modern.Classical Music.

And, oh yeah -- Chuck Berry invents Rock & Roll.

Impossible to choose one, but I'll put in a good word for Clifford Curzon's Eroica Variations.