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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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craigl59
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From the used bin...
Wilhelm Stenhammer: Serenade, Op 31 by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Neeme Jarvi.
Sweden's #1 classical opus written by its #2 ranked composer (Berwald gets the top spot) and played by the orchestra Stenhammer helped establish in 1905 and that still plays and records his work -- sort of an extended "thank you."
The Canzonetta get the "Dives" award for repeated listening appeal.
Stream it on Tidal, order it from Amazon, or get lucky as I did and find it in a used bin.
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twoleftears
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At the risk of going slightly OT, seems like this is best directed at readers of this thread.

Has it occurred to anyone else that Mahler must have heard the Adagietto from Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite no. 1 before he composed his own, utterly sublime, Adagietto in Symphony 5?  The more I listed to the Bizet, the more I hear echoes...

schubert
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I've read  articles that listed  dozens of stuff lifted from Buxtehude by Bach . Not unusual .
craigl59
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TwoLeftEars

Think you're right: the texture and crescendo sound very derivative. Have often thought that Mahler was in the same mood when he composed the slow movements for symphonies 4 and 5. Still go back to the Bernstein recodings for Mahler and Bizet...and think that the flutist in the Carmen Intermezzo should have been given an award.

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twoleftears
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Does anyone have the Oliveira CD of him playing different Stradivarius and Guarneri violins?  Instead of using one's system to hear the more or less subtle differences in the sonorities, I was wondering if one could take those differences for granted, and instead use the CD for testing the resolving power of different systems.
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