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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.


128x128rvpiano
schubert
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When Hogwood and Kirby are together even God stops to listen .
Tell wife what a monster you would have been had not classical music made a refined Scottish Gentleman out of you .Down at the local with the lads at all hours etc .Worked for me .
jim204
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@schubert Len you are dead right about the monster bit as I grew up in a rough part of our town and they always thought I was a bit "OFF" with my liking for classical music but I survived that part of my life thank goodness.With classical there are so many variables that there is no time to get bored.

@rvpiano RV I gave the Schubert with Holliger conducting a listen yesterday and enjoyed it greatly. There is a lovely lightness about it all that you only get with reduced forces. Next week I shall make sure I listen to his Schumann.
jcazador
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Jorge Demus died on April 16, 2019, age 90. “I do not have a career,” he said. “I’m a person who had a life to live. I am leaving ‘careers’ to other people. A career is like a racetrack for horses — I’m neither a horse nor am I running on a racetrack.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/arts/jorg-demus-dead.html
Now listening to his Chopin - Debussy,  PIano of Erard Freres
Wonderful recording

jcazador
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pardon me, that should be
Jörg Demus
schubert
7,386 posts
 
As one of my grans was born and raised in the Gorbals I have some idea, Jim
The other one was a "rich" girl from the Florida area .

Since Hollinger is surely one of the greatest artists alive not surprising he is able to produce the lyricism of Schubert
The 3 times I heard him live it was literally hard to believe
he was human . You are spot on with the reduced forces . Heard our World Class St.Paul Chamber Orch . do Schubert’s 1 and 5 two weeks ago , to die for .Schubert is played more today than 50 years ago, thank God .When I first started with classical all the pundits treated his symphonies, as "juvenilia"compared to the mighty Beethoven.
I kept playing both their 3, 5 and 9th and thought I must be an idiot to think Schubert was better .Haven’t got any smarter .

Classical music changed my life 180, never heard a note of it till I was 30and heard the Great Jussi Bjorling sing a song in German on Armed Forces Radio . It was like turning on the light in a dark room and there stood beauty itself .
On a Glazunov note try his 6th with Jose Serebrier and the Royal Scottish
on Warner Classical . superb !Few days ago I heard his Ballet"The Seasons " on FM . A beautiful piece of music.
To me he is like Brahms in that I feel like I’m having an intelligent adult conversation .
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