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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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jcazador
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Very nice review of Angela Hewitt recital "Bach Odyssey"
in NYT, behind paywall here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/arts/music/angela-hewitt-bach-review.html?action=click&module...
quote:

As a young woman she studied classical ballet and still remembers dancing in her bedroom to recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.

“I responded to the rhythm in the music,” she said in a 2017 interview with The Guardian. She has always made of point of bringing out the dance rhythms in Bach’s music, she explained. “I don’t have to think about it; it’s just part of me,” she said.

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twoleftears
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@ei001h Currentzis T6 is an adrenalin-rush, the musical equivalent of white-water rafting. I was so carried along/carried away by it, I didn’t really notice those features you mentioned. All that being said, I certainly wouldn’t want it to be the only T6 in my collection...but it’s sure nice to have.
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rvpiano OP
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Currentzis’  Mahler 6th ain't bad either.
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twoleftears
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Rachmaninov: Concerto Elegiaque for Piano and Orchestra, orch. Kogosowski.
Premier recording by Jarvi with Detroit SO.
Quite good and very interesting.  Worth a listen.
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rvpiano OP
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Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata slow movement (3rd movement:)
 music shouldnt be this beautiful.
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