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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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Just listening to the force of nature that was Richter, on Idagio.
Playing the slowest and most profound version of the Schubert Bb Sonata, D. 960, and the Wanderer Fantasy.
Awe inspiring doesn't begin to tell the story.
jcazador
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rv
yes Richter was really something!
that documentary about him shows him "at work" doing things that are unimaginable
jcazador
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Valentin Silvestrov
I first heard his composition on a Jenny Lin recording ("Nostalgia") where she plays "The Messenger".
I liked it so much that I downloaded some more, includingВалентин Сильвестров - Диалоги и посвящения, which is translated "Dialogues and Initiations".
And another "Valentin Silvestrov - Hieroglyphen der Nacht - Anja Lechner, Agnès Vesterman (2017) [96-24]"
Silvestrov is Ukrainian, still alive, has composed in many styles and for many orchestrations, from symphony to solo piano. 
I appreciate most his post Soviet compositions for piano, when he no longer had to worry about what the government thought of him.



schubert
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One of the greatest horn players of our time has passed at age 88 .
https://youtu.be/A0zCDa_T1g4?list=RDEMAqymqupoiSMGKg3TJGFgTg


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cleeds
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schubert
One of the greatest horn players of our time has passed at age 88 .
https://youtu.be/A0zCDa_T1g4?list=RDEMAqymqupoiSMGKg3TJGFgTg
I am so sorry to hear this. Barry Tuckwell was a fantastic horn player, and one of my two favorites!
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