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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
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@jcazador     J, Thanks so much for the link for Berman's video it was a revelation to me. Have you seen the virtuosity he exhibits in works like the Mephisto Waltz the fingers were flying on those double octaves and chords.  It is a crying shame that he never got a chance to really shine.
Catalogue No: 4145752
Label: Decca
That is the catalogue no of the Jorge Bolet recording from Presto Downloads so as anyone can listen to Bolet  with his renderings of the Schubert / Liszt Songs. Definitely worth a listen
jcazador
417 posts
 
glad you liked it Jim
yes, Berman got taken out of international circulation for years
i read that it was because he married a french woman
Eventually he was allowed to move to Italy

I think it was Ashkenazy that first broke out of USSR control, gradually, by first moving to Greenland with permission
jcazador
417 posts
 
Jim
re Bolet, Schubert Song Transcriptions
I have a collection of 9cds by Bolet, on Decca
"Liszt, The Piano Works"
and cd2 includes the Schubert Song Transcriptions + Wanderer Fantasie
I have no idea if this is the same recording you mention
but I love it
jim204
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@jc     Hi JC, Yes the Decca recording you have is the one I was talking about and you can tell from his playing that he had a rare pedigree with
beautiful filigree playing of those transcriptions. He knew so many of the old school players like Rachmaninov and Hoffman and picked up a lot of things on the way.  
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twoleftears
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Scharwenka #1.  Some really extraordinary pianism from Hamelin, especially in the third movement.  I'm really surprised that these 4 are not more popular.
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