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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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jim
you say " if you go back in someone’s past that there may be a black gene floating about somewhere "
indeed, you might well find some neanderthals too!
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twoleftears
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I don't think this is particularly well known, it's a youthful Andras Schiff playing Schumann.  Gesange der Fruhe; Nachtstucke; Kreisleriana; Variationen in Es-dur [forgive lack of diacritics].  On Teldec.  This displaces Lupu as my favorite Schumann recital.  The way he handles the dissonances in Gesange no. 1 is extraordinary.
jim204
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Good point RV
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jcazador
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The pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s new album includes dazzling arrangements of Italian opera by Franz Liszt and Sigismond Thalberg.
Story in NYT includes interview and extracts of recordings.
Another superb new release, on Harmonia Mundi, compiles Liszt’s solo transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/arts/music/marc-andre-hamelin-liszt-thalberg.html

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