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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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ei001h
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Listening to a young Russian violinist Daniel Lozakovich playing Tchaikovsky album "None but the lonely heart" and Bach partitia 2 (both on tidal)
He plays like a true Russian, with beautiful melancholy and depth. I think he’s on track to be a superb violinist, full of insight, reflection, technical skill with maturity and sensitivity beyond his age.
His Bach Partita no. 2 was truly sublime. Definitely worth  a listen if you have a streaming service. I'd like to hear your thoughts if you get to hear his music. 
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rvpiano OP
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Jim204,

Yes he was!

Ferocious technique and yet the power to reduce you to tears.
ei001h
275 posts
 
Never heard Rach 2 like this. Ervin Nyiregyhazi farewell concert - Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZVdAs1A5RQ

thoughts? 
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mahgister
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No pianist exceed him in raw power, and it is the reason why the composer Schoenberg wrote about him with the highest praise to the young Klemperer...Remember Schoenberg never give much to interpreter....It was like Einstein praising with admiration an engineer... He praised Tesla.....

This pianist is an Himalaya of emotion....Playing "right" like a pupil make no sense for him....He is not in the same league than Horowitz for example... A god is not a giant..... Schoenberg never praised giants, there is many, he praised a god....

We must listen the music here not the piano....

When you make love with a goddess you dont point to her "mistakes" or her "divergence of interpretation"....

Love is over perfection for a saint and for this pianist....



« Perfection is only the name of a dog walking behind his master....»-Groucho Marx
jim204
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@maghister     I have tried as hard as I can to see something in your "God pianist" but I am sorry to have to admit defeat because all I can hear is massive rubatos and distortions of the melodic line . some of the Liszt pieces he plays are almost unrecognisable with massive agogic hesitations and splashy chords. No I am sorry he is not for me.
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