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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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One of mine as well twoleftears . 117,118 ,119 are comfort food .
 Lupe is at his finest  in  Brahms and Schubert IMO buts he's so good on everything  whose to say .
A fabulous LP I used to have was Lupu doing the piano works of one of  my
very favorite modern composers , Leos Janacek, was to die for but its long
gone .

schubert
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One that didn't get lost of Janacek's piano music , some of the most original, charming and lyrical music written by any modern composer,
is Rudolf Firkusny playing his 3 most famous pieces on RCA 60147-2RC .
A CD with very good sound that is truly iconic .

sevs
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@schubert Do not be lazy: once you place another gem onto your TT/CD spinner, just make a post here!!! I am trying to keep up with you, my Amazon shopping cart has never been so good!!! Million Thanks!!!!! 

This week I am rediscovering my Alan Hovhaness collection, keep wondering why did I waste so much time following recent Prog-Rock outfits: the answer was collecting dust in my collection!
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sfseay
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I would really like someone’s opinion here.  Last weekend I picked up a collection of classical CDs from a retired doctor and I don’t know where to start in regards to listening.  I’m a classical music neophyte.  I bought the collection for what I considered to be a good price with hopes of selling the entire collection to make a few bucks.  The collection is listed for sale on Audiogon and consists of over 800 CDs of which 99% are classical.

Now im thinking there may be some diamonds in the collection I should listen to.

Could somebody help a brother out and give me a quick assessment of what I have? I am starting to come to the conclusion  that buying  these as a collection to resell might have been a mistake. 

I took the the time to enter all info on each CD (using barcode scan, catalog number and manual entry) and  have posted a link to the collection in the Audiogon listing.  The collection is listed on Discogs here - https://cloud.collectorz.com/sfseay/music.

Hopefully a kind soul here will give me an honest opinion of this collection.
schubert
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Many/most of the CD’s are excellent recordings of great music . The Doc had VERY good taste !

Given that classical music has many different genres within itself I would think you would make more selling one at a time . Few people like all kinds.
One the other hand the market for classical is small and getting smaller and
that might take a long time .
You can just grab a CD and start listening, there are no rules . Most people I know started with Symphonies and moved to
solo piano, string quartets etc. Some do the opposite .
Religious people are often drawn to choir music of a religious bent . IMO the best composers to start with are Mozart, Schubert, Bach , Beethoven ,Tchaikovsky and Monteverdi . If you like solo piano Chopin and Schumann.
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