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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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This is my idea of can not be better , totally different and I weep when I hear this adagio !

https://youtu.be/GbtCChVk0lA?t=3

P.S. Whenever I see Ormandy I think, now there is a honest man .
WOW! i will go look for all Celidache set Barber +Shostakovtich...

Staggering difference between these 2 marvellous interpretation...

In one, Ormandy, my heart is feeling embedded in time, the tragedy is out there again filling me completely like water filled a cup...It is like re-living the event in this life, a living memory which accompanies me...

In the other, Celibidache, the tragedy is there, but completely transcended, and the feeling is now a participating wave in eternity.... It is like living the event after our death revealing all truth about it....

These 2 are the best interpretation i listen to for this Barber masterpiece....Impossible to chose between these 2....

Thanks schubert for the discovery....


schubert
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Frogman; PLEASE look at the Celibidache Op 11.

The Munchner was always a decent orchestra .
What he has done to them is unreal.

Few Days ago I got a glance over the back of Bloomstead  on a DVD .
The players looked like dogs waiting for a bone .
Well into his 90’s and still in demand !

I sat into a rehearsal about 30 years ago with him and the Radio Orch. in
Berlin (one step behind the Phil) .He stood there and asked THEM what they thought for a half-hour !
schubert
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You are spot-on mahgister !

When I hear the Celibdache Op 11, I am both leaving the earth in peace
and crying for going .

Over 80 I know that to be and I do cry .
And go to a Bach Cantata to dry my tears .
Bach has a in with God . A BIG one !
frogman
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Celibidache “Adagio”:  Very fine indeed and different, as you say.  I can’t add to mahgister’s excellent comments.  Thank you, had not heard that.
schubert
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Speaking of Bach , this is rather good for young students .

https://youtu.be/PrIQbadXX74?t=1
Can't say which soloist is the best, both are great and it's a lot easier to get a excellent oboe than a strad .
But I will anyway , that little oboe queen has the soul of a GREAT musician ! She already is one .
Little known in US but Polish schools from k to Medical School are as good as any in Europe . And other places.
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