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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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Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

LATIN

Primarily a Classical group, but they do dabble.

Carmen Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moblmkgUF-Y  --  toreadors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq01l9tnce8  --  gypsy dance
notes:"no one can capture the essence of Spanish culture quite like a foreigner."

Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskxepO39tY  --  La Trampa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK6pRoIO9bM  --  Hasta Alicia Baila

Central America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34DgpjFUMek  --  Danza de Jalisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1HgxeFsMpQ  --  Fragile

Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulP6BL8eY1U  --  Syzygy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1izSUO9tI  --  En Aranjuez con tu amor

Cheers

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Here’s a recording I hadn’t listened to in ages. Beethoven’s late string quartets 131 and 135 done by Bernstein with the massed strings of the Vienna Phil. Achingly beautiful.

Also: is the slow movement of 135 really a significant foreshadowing of Mahler's slow movements... or is it just because Lenny's conducting it?
edcyn
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rok2id -- Yeah. And how 'bout that, too! William Kappel on YouTube. The flipside of the record is even better. A blazing, take-no-prisoners run-through of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto #3. My dad gave me the record as a way to perhaps make me practice the piano more. The thing is, I didn't practice more. I just played the record all day long. How old was I? Eight? In any case, I still regularly play the Kappel Prokofiev Third. RCA reissued it on Victrola in 1970.
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The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic
Till Bronner(flugelhorn & trumpet), Simon Rattle(speaker), Janne Saksala(bass)
EMI Classics 2002

’ROUND MIDNIGHT

Notes: "For their second EMI Classics release, The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic explore the worlds of Jazz, big band, spirituals, film music, and even rap. "It’s a musical celebration of the essential American character", explains principal cellist Georg Faust. "Its sentimental and pragmatic qualities are reflected in the amazing vitality of these pieces, and from many little stones, you make a mosaic!"

Caravan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUfGtDBNC4

Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0aCxGrFg

America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsbAYLJVr0

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDK0fTH8gtU

’Round Midnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBVl8MazlUM

The flower is a key(a rap for Mozart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVnI-VGe5Q

Cheers
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rok2id
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Manuel de Falla

NIGHTS IN THE GARDENS OF SPAIN

Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
Decca 1984

Another one from the dawn of CD.  Hanover, West Germany  DM37

Notes: "After Manuel de Falla and Joaquin Turina had their celebrated encounter with Albeniz at a concert in October 1907, Turina wrote that "Music should be an art and not a diversion for the frivolity of women and the dissipation of men.  We were three Spaniards gathered together in that corner of Paris, and it was our duty to fight bravely for the national music of our country."

Nights in the Gardens of Spain - 1. En el generalife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMvfpNTfHwQ

Nights in the Gardens of Spain - 2. Danza lejana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5WlOfnkOIU

Nights in the Gardens of Spain - 3. En los jardines de la Sierra de Cordoba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hwflllzQU

Cheers
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