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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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twoleftears
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I don't know if anyone shares my liking for 17C music composed largely prior to the likes of Corelli, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, et al., but here's another excellent disc from an ensemble new to me: Ensemble Clematis, made up apparently of Spanish, Italian and French young players.  Carlo Farina, Capriccio stravagante & Sonata, is delightful.

Also, if you want to hear what an innovative violinist/composer was up to as to 1626, try the somewhat famous Capriccio stravagante--ear and eye opening.
schubert
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I do ,all you mention and many more . People , most of all Americans  , think  things just progress as time goes bye , Not so. .
Try Handel's Airs , sinfonias and instrumental music with Andreas Scholl and the Berlin Akademie Fur Al Alte Musik . Stunning !
Try Josquin Desprez  on anything .
jcazador
417 posts
 
Now listening
Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan, Prokofiev For Two
Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, Hamlet, Queen of Spades, War and Peace
Superb!
Includes great picture of them at their Fabrini/Steinway pianos.
on DG
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twoleftears
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With Uccellini you really begin to get into the "meat and potatoes" of the "stil moderno" / "stylus phantastics" that leads all the way to Biber and beyond.  Romanesca is again fully up to the job on these delighful Sonatas
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phomchick
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Now listening
Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan, Prokofiev For Two
Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, Hamlet, Queen of Spades, War and Peace
Superb!
It’s beyond superb. It’s one of the best recordings I’ve ever heard, and one of very very few that sounds like a piano (or in this case, two pianos).
More to discover