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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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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.
jcazador
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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
jcazador
417 posts
 
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
jim204
881 posts
 
Hi JC That was a very interesting article on Pollini ,he is very fastidious, a complete opposite to Claudio Arrau who would arrive at the studio take off his jacket and sit down and play what he had to record and then go . some of the recording staff were frightened to ask him to play something for a mike check because they knew that he couldn't just play he had to REALLY play and that would mean the whole piece not just a few bars. I think in later years he relented a bit because his technique had softened a bit with age.
jcazador
417 posts
 
reminds me of a story . . .
In 1955 Yehudi Menuhin got Ali Akbar Khan to leave India and play in the "West".
They went to recording studio, director said "OK start" and AAK played his sarod for an hour, accompanied by Chatur Lal on tabla.  Then the director said
"OK that's a good sound check, now play it again."
They did not realize AAK never "played it again".
The recording, unedited, was released on Angel.
https://www.discogs.com/Ustad-Ali-Akbar-Khan-Pandit-Chatur-Lal-Music-Of-India/release/2977633
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