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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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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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Liszt Ballade no 2


Guess how Liszt playing was? Like Horowitz or N. ?

Feel the continuous wave unity in the emotions whithout hiatus in N.

This unity is not there at the same level in Horowitz....Perfect playing is not living playing...

When Horowitz play it is a " set of successive  perfect objects"  that is delivered, when N. play it is a soul event with a beat unity that is lacking in Horowitz...

Only my impression.... by the way....



Horowitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvCWRcmdFG4

E.N.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XXiIxC73E
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mahgister
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The sound is way, way better here:

E.N.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSmc0pDXlxc
jcazador
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I am a big fan of pianist Laurent Martin.
Just "discovered" his recording (with Claudine Simon) of Mel Bonis'
"Le Songe de Cleopatre"
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I think Martin has recorded more Alkan than any other composer, so in my book that’s a feather in his cap. I noticed a Mompou disk that should be investigated. BTW, any strong Mompou recommendations?

On the strength of her Schubert recital, I got Buniatishvili’s Liszt disc. The lyrical passages are splendid; I wonder if the contrasts between the slow, delicate, pp passages, and the faster, boisterous ff passages are a bit overdone. Jury is still out on that one.
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