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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.
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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Mozart DIVERTIMENTO IN E-FLAT (K.563) CBS Records Masterworks - 1985 *also available on conventional disc & cassette :) Notes: State this work is infrequently played and is astonishingly little known in spite of it being one of Mozart's greatest masterpieces. Perhaps the reasons have to do with it's generally dark, even severe cast...dedicated to the Mason, Michael Puchberg, who so often had helped him in his troubles, i.e. money. Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvM8PvOFrY Adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSaK98LZ6R0 Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZuxADlAqhY Cheers |
Aaron Copland COPLAND 100 Minnesota Orchestra -- Eiji Oue Reference Recordings HDCD Recorded 2000 The Notes: "In 1942 Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony commissioned and premiered eighteen new fanfares over the course of the symphony's 1942-43 season. "It is my idea," explained Goossens, "to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort." Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man' premiered on 12 March, 1943." "The special qualities of Copland's 'Appalachian Spring(1944), one of the composer's most popular works, owed much to choreographer Martha Graham, for whom it was written." ... "there's something prim and restrained, simple yet strong, about her which ones tends to think of as American." Fanfare for the Common Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku3kH7-sUTs Appalachian Spring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3luGMG3PoY The music definitely has that 'American' sound to it. Optimistic, like, everything will be alright. We can do it. Cheers |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D, OP. 35 Julia Fischer -- violin Russian National Orchestra -- Yakov Kreizberg Pentatone Classics SACD 2006 Excellent Booklet. Lots of info on Tchaikovsky, Fischer and Kreizberg. Notes: Talks about the most profound crisis in Tchaikovsky’s personal life, i.e. his marriage to Antonia Milyukova in 1877: "The marriage had only just taken place, and I had been left alone with my wife, realizing that fate had linked us inseparably, when it suddenly came upon me that I did not feel even simple friendship for her- rather, an aversion in the truest sense of the word." Maybe it’s possible to know too much about these guys. Allegro moderato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI6MnhNJedU Finale: Allegro vivacissimo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1NyEV-7ZgA Julia Fischer, born in Munich in1983. has worked with almost every top tier conductor in the world, except Karajan. She was only 6 when he died. Started playing before age 4. Her instrument is of Italian origin made by Jean Baptiste in 1750. Cheers |
Johann Sebastian Bach PARTITA NO.1 IN B-FLAT MAJOR, BWV 825 Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classical 2008-2009 Tidbits from the notes: In Bach's day music was treated as a consumable commodity, here one day, gone the next, so new pieces were required on an almost daily basis. -- Bach's music was rarely performed, but widely studied by academics and composers-including Mozart. -- There is scant evidence that Bach played any of his music in public. -- The set of six Partitas were the first works Bach published with the designation "Opus 1." Praeludium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml4mw0L-0Eg Menuet I & II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMEKW3zF3Q Gigue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vle0Jc7of-E Cheers |
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