Classical Music for Aficionados

@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.

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

pardon me, that should be
Jörg Demus

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 .

rvpiano, went through Amazon and my mess of CD’s for an Oistrakh . no luck. I have heard Gil Shaham play the Glazunov live here with the SPCO , its one of his standards, and he is superb with it .

Ordered him and Julia Fisher on Telarc , Fisher is my favorite living violinist
and Oistrakh my #1 not with us .Fisher does remind me of him at times .
Did find an 8 CD set of all of his symphonies and concertos with Serebrier and the Royal Scottish , ordered those . One has Rachel Barton-Pine with the Russian National Orch . Have you heard any of those ?
What I did find in my treasure was two CD’s of Glazunov’s solo piano
on helios with Stephen Coombs(never opened).Very interesting and very complicated with counterpoint on a Bachian scale. .To my hears he does everything to a piano that can be done to it , lyrical over the rolling thunder always there in his music, pushing emotion to the top but never going over it ! I imagine most players just stay away from it .In any event I was simply enveloped by it .His Sonata No 1 in B flat minor ,Op 74 is breathtaking .