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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
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I knew  Pipers and Drummers that did and more ,Jim .

My youngest Aunt was an excellent Highland dancer .
Came in 2nd at the greatest Highland Games in North American , Maxwell. Ontario , damn near deaf .

I would think a Band from Ayr must be a good one.

God Blessed me in all that , hear well as ever and have 20/20 no glasses
well in my eighties , was 20/10 in my youth , came in handy as a Infantryman .

simao, I need to get after that .

I’m clueless why , but I have heard "Peer Gynt" a least a thousand times
and yet every time seems like the first time . Only piece that does .


jim204
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Yes Len we were a good band but could never beat Shotts and Dykehead or Glasgow Police.
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simao
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@schubert I found my copy the other day tucked away in a record store for $6.99. Cleaned it and was impressed by how enfolding the music was, not to mention the organic precision of von Karajan's conducting.

https://www.discogs.com/Edvard-Grieg-Berliner-Philharmoniker-Herbert-von-Karajan-Peer-Gynt-Suiten-1-2-Sigurd-Jorsalfar/release/2537818http://
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rok2id
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This Lady really suffered in the "Worker's Paradise" during the "Cultural Revolution".   They know how to destroy the meaning of words.

Bach:   Goldberg Variations
Zhu Xiao-Mei -- piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqrhGsB80Mk&list=PLr0MsaDpKsY9Rx6Mkk3mGuYnBPFx3UnfW

Cheers
danbyrd
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Lots of good recordings out there:  Toscanini/ Philadelphia in Schubert's 9th Sym; his Brahms 1st Sym with NBC;  all the Pierre Monteux on London/Decca, RCA, and Philips,  especially his Swan Lake excerpts, Elgar/s Enigma Variations, and Brahms Sym 2 and Franck D minor Sym; Rubinstein in the Chopin Scherzos;  Karel Ancerl and the Czech Phil in Dvorak's New World, Sym 9;  Dvorak's Slavonic Dances with Szell and Cleveland;  Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet with Maazel and Cleveland orchestra.  and so forth.......
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