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.
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.