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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
417 posts
 
Wagner died in 1883
Hitler was born in 1889, 6 years later

isochronism
2,893 posts
 
So my friend said "let's stop at that estate sale". Sunday's are the last day so usually slim pickin's. Three boxes of records still. They hadn't sold many all weekend. 90 percent classical. If I had my car (and more room currently) I would have made an offer for all. Instead I only purchased 18 (all of Columbia Masterworks (all they had) and 5 RCA shaded dogs. 50 cents each, close m- + cons. They had over 20 MHS... 
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Wagner was the most known of any German in the world  the day he died
and the huge amount of the vile anti- Jewish hate speech he wrote is not
forgotten to this day .
jcazador
417 posts
 

On a warm September afternoon, a startling sound could be heard in a rehearsal room here: a full-size orchestra, playing the second act of Wagner’s “Die Walküre.”

“I’m not saying we planned this,” Donald Runnicles, who was conducting the rehearsal, said in an interview. “But if you knew you were going to have a six-month hiatus where you didn’t hear any live music, what would you wish to hear after that six months? In my top 10, it would be ‘Die Walküre.’”

When Wagner began work on the text of the “Ring,” he was a young radical fleeing the failed revolutions of 1848. “We are all in a situation like Wagner,” Mr. Herheim said. “All somehow refugees, confronted with the concept of not having a harbor, not feeling safe, and at the same time having to face the destinies of so many people trying to get to us, and face the fact that many of us are not ready to feel empathy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/arts/music/wagner-walkure-opera-berlin.html


Fearing the fate of Louis-Philippe, some monarchs in Germany accepted some of the demands of the revolutionaries, at least temporarily. In the south and west, large popular assemblies and mass demonstrations took place. They demanded freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, written constitutions, arming of the people, and a parliament.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%931849


schubert
7,386 posts
 
None of which stopped Wagner from being , in voice and pen , the greatest Semite in the German lands .

Tonight begins The Jewish High- Holidays and this is normally the first music that usher them in . Played by the great Pierre Fournier.


https://youtu.be/WuC_0W4O_MI?t=25
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