Classical Music for Aficionados
Schubert, Thanks for the tip about Julia Fischer playing Bach’s Partita in D Minor. I airplayed it on my home theater system (don’t have streaming on my main stereo rig) and thought it elegantly and beautifully played. I’m going to look for other recordings by her. When that was finished, YouTube began to auto play Itzak Perlman playing the entire Partita in a BBC concert in a church in London, back when he was a young man (20’s?). I had never heard that version, and I sat mesmerized for the entire piece. Art, beauty, emotion...I do not have the words to describe it. Much more than just a listening session, it was a very moving experience. I also listened to Jennifer Koh’s version that you linked to. I am curious as to what others more knowledgeable than I think about it. |
This week's, Greatest 5th in the World, the whole world, since time began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPp3ltH80WU SACD also. Cheers |
There was a guy named Sit Thomas Beecham who made the best recording of a 5th I have ever heard written by a guy named Franz Schubert . It is on the EMI Great Recordings of The Century . Some folk think the best ever 5th was written by one Shostakovich and recorded by a Bernstein with the NYO . Another group think a heavy drinking Swede named Sibelius is the greatest 5ther . I know , fact certain , his 5th is the best sounding and played by the foremost Finn conductor , one Osmo Vanska , at the helm of the Lahti Symphony . Said 5th is found on the BIS label in superb sound . There are many in Moscow that are certain this and that Russian composer wrote THE greatest 5th . I would not know about that . I am sure those in Wien that claim Mahler or Brucker is the best 5er are wrong . LvB is FAR above those . |
For me the greatest 5 is Bruckner.... Some French critic named it the "art of the symphony" like Bach has written the art of the fugue... The final movement is for me the greatest fugue written after Bach... An astonishing powerful fugue resuming all preceding themes like all life is resumed in one singular multidimensional vision after death.... Astonishing when we learned that Bruckner study counterpoint with Schubert old master at the time with complete interdiction to wrote anything save counterpoints for the time of the study... I think Bruckner was pass his thirty years...After the 5 Bruckner wrote master pieces after masterpiece but this 5 was more "modern" in so much aspect paradoxically than the remaing next 4.... The perfect fusion of the past ancient music and the future of music perhaps...For sure this 5 changed my life, 35 five uears ago.... Bruckner is indeed my supreme master symphonist and i think Beethoven spoke and said to me that i was right but immediately he boast about his chamber music to change a tactful delicate subject.... 😁😊😊😊😊 |
