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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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@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.
It is perfectly Ok to perceive some perspective better than other...

I am more attentive to colors and intensity than to virtuoso perfect playing.... "fingers flying"

He seems to be a throwback to the 19th century, with its romantic excesses.
You are partly right but dont be deceived by only 2 or 3 pieces listening....

Perfection is not enough! Anyway i prefer romantic excess to modern dryness....

And wrote to the composer Schoenberg that his divine pianist is under Hamelin for his playing.... Like me he will smile.... 😁


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Well, when the composer calls for hemidemisemiquavers, it's nice to have a pianist who can actually execute them both correctly and artistically.
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mahgister
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Well, when the composer calls for hemidemisemiquavers, it’s nice to have a pianist who can actually execute them both correctly and artistically.
We dont lack of first of their class pianists and contest winner pianists to perfectly translate a partition.... 😁
 their number exceed my 2 hands by a big number...


We need rarest bird able to recreate a partition on the spot, and playing it for the first and last time ever...Living playing is not mostly and only perfect playing.... This is good for pupil in a contest... Their number is less than my fingers or not many more....

Music is "living" playing and by the way N. is not a less virtuoso than Hamelin at all, if you listen many pieces of him....

Some listen to written partition, i listen to emotions only....  I am not a musician Alas!...


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I heard Nyiregyházi recordings many decades ago when he was “rediscovered”
at that time. My opinion hasn’t changed.
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You are perfectly right i just give my impressions....The great Earl Wild think the same than you.... He called his playing "baloney" .... The playing of Earl Wild is to me of the highest order but under N. ...I side with Schoenberg....By the way i have no opinion, only feelings and soul impression about music.... I am not a musician at all... Alas!

And Music was never an object to evaluate and taste for me, more of an abyss to enter into.... Because of that my choices are very exclusive and many known artists fail to impress me not because they are not very good but because of those few that impress me too much ...I am perhaps an obsessive listener more than an exploratory one....

My best to you....
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