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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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mahgister
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From Quebec to Louisiana, french canadians were there living with the Indians all across America in Colorado and Louisiana when american ancestors were coming on the east cost... :)

Spaniards were in California and Texas already and they were not living with the Indians at all...

By the way the first tribe, the Huron-Wendat, that welcome the french in quebec city lives nowadays at the same place....It seems they had survived relatively well....Where are the others in America?
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mahgister
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Most Americans don’t know where Canada is
Who need to know where something is with a cell?

How old are you to use for no reason than memory your precious brain?

Man only need A.I , who gives a dam where the communists of america are?

:)

My cell just told me there are in Quebec  city now.... Health is free, and those who dont work have money even  without pandemic....

Ok back to Bach....

I will listen to Fournier cello  rendition, the only one that is on par with some  Starker version....
schubert
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The Fournier is my favorite .
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The Fournier is my favorite .


Your heart is more sensible if possible than your ears...

My best to you....
melm
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I’m a classical music lover who just found this thread, as I’ve come to the site over the years for hardware info. To get acquainted I went through a bunch of posts randomly. I see that there is a great love of solo piano music in these parts.

My own tastes run more toward orchestral music and I try to find recordings with sound quality good enough to let me fool myself to being back in a concert hall. At least excellent if not the VERY best performance and the same for the sound.

A few of the digital recordings that work for me are:

Shostakovich Symphony 15 Haitink LPO
Berlioz Romeo & Juliet Muti Philadelphia
Bach Brandenburghs Dunedin Consort
Ravel Daphnae & Chloe LSO
Mozart Requiem Savall
Chopin Ballades & Mazurkas Moravec
Mahler Wunderhorn Songs Norman Shirley-Quirk Haitink

I also watch the Berlin Phil’s digital site from time to time. There are some performances there that I think are are unmatched on recordings.

Finally, in my meanderings I saw that someone here was surprised to find himself in a not so good seat at Carnegie Hall. Has there been much talk in this thread about halls? As for Carnegie, I can tell you that there are many, many bad seats. The reasons are easy to figure out. I’ve been there a lot. It’s really overrated.


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