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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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All you Bach lovers, have you heard:
John Ogdon
Busoni Transcriptions
Toccata in C Major
Organ Chorale Preludes
Prelude and Fugue in Eflat Major
Toccata and FUgue in d minor
Chaconne
Fantasia contrappuntistica

alturus cd 9070(2)
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mahgister
13,196 posts
 
Thanks for the suggestion...

Ogdon is the genius who can play the impossible and incredible opus clavicem ballisticum of Sorabji ( more than 4 hours) and he gives us the best version possible...

Then i will look for his Bach.... Thanks...

Dershavina and now Ogdon seems very interesting interpretation...

With Bach, and particularly with Bach  we never had too much interpretations or transcriptions...


schubert
7,386 posts
 
Well Jim , it’s a happy day when I see Strathclyde took London Imperial
down in the BBC Uni challenge .

And a bad one when I see Sturgeon fair in tears as she watches the fools swally their lives away with the pubs opening .
Oh well , as my Gorbels Granny used to say (if memory serves ) ,

"It’s a lang road that’s no goat a turnin "
Cheers
jim204
881 posts
 
@schubert      Gosh Len haven't watched uni challenge in years, I'm glad Strathclyde won though (I always gloat when the Sassenachs get cuffed) 
That quote was a new one on me.

@jcazador    I have a recording of Ogden doing the Fantasia Contraputistica and the Liszt B minor Sonata and although they have their merits I,m afraid Ogden was never the same after his psychotic incarcerations. He just never made any mistakes in his playing before them but after his playing was littered with fudged notes and memory slips. No he was never the same after that.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Granny meant all things come to an end Jim .
More to discover