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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I never thought about it before, but that's so true, our genre chooses us. That's why so many great jazz musicians are from Detroit and Chicago.

I was in Detroit when it was "the" greatest city in this country for the working man. It seemed everybody drove a brand new car, dressed well and lived in a nice home.

Michael Moore, who's from that area, thought they were rich when he was a child; he always got what he wanted for Christmas and his family went on a vacation every year. His father worked on an assembly line, the same as other people in the Detroit area who enjoyed a high standard of living.


Len, I think I'll try to learn about Classical music, but I didn't like Bach.
Just listened to Brahms Variations on Paganini by Cherkassky on idagio. Same recording has beautiful Bach chaconne for piano. 
Beethoven 9, 2nd movement:

I remember when this was the Theme for the NBC nightly news, with David Brinkley and Chet Huntley.  This was before we had channels devoted to either Left-wing liars or right-wing liars.  Back then, they just reported what happened that day.  Seems sort of quaint now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8FnmdNi-Xc

I actually have this performance of the 9th on CD.  Did not realize until this very moment that it's on SACD!

Cheers
How true rok , everyone of us not in the 1% has been the frog in the warming pot for decades .
"Fascism is when you can't tell the difference between the State and the
Corporation."
B. Mussolini

I liked Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, 2nd movement, it had drama and movement.


Rok, everything that speaks the truth gets deleted. The 1% controls it all, they're even trying to control what we think.

I think this is one of the most beautiful things ever written


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY