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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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schubert
7,386 posts
 
 WhaGot my Currentzis today.
Shows me one thing , it is done from an Eastern Christianity perspective where life is always hard and we do not deserve
anything else as sinners .

In Western Christianity we are still sinners but joy still stops by now and then . In American " born again " quarters it seldom leaves.

As an Anglican I’m somewhere in between .

In3, the Allegro molto vivace sounds like that band could play any thing . Going to look for more them and him.

4- is very good as well,

IMO all in all this is a legit rendition .

Jim , I should have thought of Scot’s wha hae . My uncles took me to Burn's Night where I sung in in my
           McDonald of the Isles kilt .




jim204
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Len I'm glad you like Currenzis as I hate recommending something and you don't like it,  I consider it a pure waste of money then whether a little or a lot of money.
Snap I am a McDonald also !!
schubert
7,386 posts
 
With your class jim I thought as much .

Bought the only 2 others in Amazon yesterday.
The violin con,.and my short elderly forget at the moment .


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rvpiano OP
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For you Mahler fans, I just rediscovered an incredible performance and sound spectacular in SACD form of Mahler’s 6th Symphony on Telarc, conducted by Benjamin Zander with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
To me, it’s an overwhelmingly beautiful rendering in maybe the best recorded orchestral sound I’ve ever heard. It’s a three SACD set on which the conductor also shrewdly analyzes the work.
Truly an extraordinary disc set.
More to discover