Classical Music for Aficionados

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 .

Schubert,

 I just did a search on Amazon with the search words “Glazunov Oistrakh” and it came up as the first listing.  If you can’t find it, I’ll be happy to buy it and send it to you gratis if you PM me with your address.
I have the Shaham recording.  Excellent, but not the passion of Oistrakh.
No, I haven’t heard any of that Royal Scottish Glazunov set.  Sounds interesting.
I’ll look for the Steven Coombs set.