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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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Exactly what I thought .Years ago. I liked those " dynamic ’ moves etc,now I think they just get in the way. I had The Complete Sonatas but
tend to gave a record away to young people just starting to try Classical .

The 2 boxes nobody gets are the Beecham a Last 6 Mozart Symphonies/Royal Phil /odysey/and all Schubert Piano Sonatas /Willhelm Kempff./DG We both know that and most don’t that a German is best with Germanic , etc,
etc.
To my hears the most important case is Czech .Any Czech PO / Supraphone I see, I buy, knowing all is well, if you’ve not been to Prague go,.If ever possible again that is .
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rok2id
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Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op. 71
The Griller String Quartet
Vanguard Classics

Quartet In B-flat Minor, Op. 71, No. 1: III. Menuetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJ3ud6BMHQ

Quartet In B-flat Minor, Op. 71, No. 1: IV. Vivace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nqbAayZpzs

Quartet In D Major, Op. 71, No. 2: III. Menuetto (Allegro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURIF3F4vck

Quartet In D Major, Op. 71, No. 2: IV. Allegretto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEG5fnudsRo

Cheers
schubert
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Vanguard was owned by a group of real music lovers who made nothing but the best out of love. Of course that got them to financial death .

If I see a Vanguard for sale , any Vanguard, my wallet goes into auto no matter what it is or how much they want . Period .

Here is a fine Vanguard with Rameau who seems to me the most neglected Great in USA .

https://youtu.be/Vazk7Ixzz7Y?t=1
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mahgister
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Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op. 71
The Griller String Quartet
Vanguard Classics
This interpretation is out of the race of comparison between less or more...

Heartfelt and moving....
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rok2id
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 101 in D major "The Clock"
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Warner Classics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVTtkArkqo

From the notes:

..."At most he could be called the Father (though not the inventor) of the classical symphony, who paved the way for Mozart and Beethoven. ...We need to remember that Haydn was already twenty seven when George Frideric Handel died in 1759 -- the same year that Haydn composed his first symphony. And when Haydn died in 1809, Mozart had already been in his grave for nearly twenty years. Beethoven completed his sixth symphony in the year of Haydn’s death, and Schubert would compose his first symphony four years later."

I just love the factoids. Remembering the chronological order in classical music is tough.

Cheers

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