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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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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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BOLERO - ORCHESTRAL FIREWORKS
Minnesota Orchestra -- Eiji Oue
Reference Recordings HDCD
Recorded 2000

From The Notes: Extremely interesting snippets on the origin of each piece on this disc. "I have written only one masterpiece," Ravel said, toward the end of his life; "that is the bolero. Unfortunately, it contains no music."

Eiji Oue became the ninth music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 1995. A native of Hiroshima, Japan. The Orchestra was founded in 1903. Has had some big time music directors over the years. Including Marriner, Dorati and Ormandy.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: Flight of the Bumblebee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YJDbVJoRJk

Klemperer: Lustiger Walzer (Merry Waltz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWK-MVlNshg

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F Major
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kETy5k6ipiQ

Ravel: Bolero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO_AFmqLbZU

Not my idea of ’Orchestral Fireworks’, but a nice collection.

Cheers






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Bach is so great that we tend to act as if classical started with him .
 Truth is that from the 11th to 15th century there were composers at his level but they wrote things we don't listen to much today, as in religious
music .
You are right...

Obrecht and Tallis and one hundred other geniuses...

Hildegard of  Bingen is older but what a creative mind...


frogman
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Another:

Pre 1600 !!!!! Stunning use of chromaticism and dissonance:

https://youtu.be/mR-ylavYCSI

https://youtu.be/qFXrMrp1o60

https://youtu.be/i3JwLnK6Efw
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mahgister
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Another:

Pre 1600 !!!!! Stunning use of chromaticism and dissonance:
One of my favorite composer...

the Scriabin of the human voices....

He wrote like Scriabin not to move the human heart only  but to make it more vast and livelier...

Monteverdi use his art to express all there is, he create opera, but Gesualdo sometimes tear the human heart in two parts...One who suffers and the other who recreate....

Thanks for the magnificent unknown to me French interpretation...
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