Just put on the "economy" Naxos recording of Saint-Saens #2 and #4 with Idil Biret. SUPERB sonics, and the playing ain't half bad either. Naxos a winner again...
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.
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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I am sorry I haven’t posted for a while but I found I was locked out of the forum for a while ( don’t know why as I havn’t sworn at anyone lately )I am at the moment digitising my CD collection and and storing them on Hard drive, 3000 so it’l take me a while. The problem with it is I am constantly finding something I’ve forgotten I had so I usually start listening and the archiving gets forgotten about fo a while . I am one for recording whatever I find interesting on Radio 3 and I record it also for posterity using Sound Tap, a great wee program that records anything you are playing on your desktop. I then usually edit them in Sound Forge or Magix Sequoia and then at first I made CD’s of them ( hence the 3000 ). Nowadays I only save them on a hard drive so I have a few recordings kicking about. What about everyone else do you digitise new recordings now or do you just keep saving up CD’s and discs. Hope you are all well Jim. |
Jim almost all my music is on hard drive so easy to search, find and select just added a new 8Tb hard drive for security it is normally not connected to anything while another hard drive records new music and occasionally a copy gets transferred to the secure 8Tb another advantage: easier to maintain, no cleaning |
Here is a fascinating article about Pollini preparing and recording in Germany with the help of Angelo Fabbrini. https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/album/pollini-complete-edition/working-with-pollini.html |
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