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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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Johannes Brahms

VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D OP. 77

Nigel Kennedy (violin)
The London Philharmonic
Klaus Tennstedt
EMI 1991

Notes: "For the most part, composers can be divided into two groups: those who copy other composers, and those that totally disrespect the past, reject it, and write something 'totally new'.  Brahms was too rare to come from either of these categories.  He correctly saw himself as being responsible for the development and evolution of the mainstream of classical music.  Instead of copying or rejecting the work of his great predecessor, Beethoven, he developed and expanded Beethoven's music into a kind of music we can only call Brahms."

allegro non troppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_iRiq0bzoY

adagio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAnbMxdW0zk

allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0oNfOrI0ng

Cheers


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Johannes Brahms

DOUBLE CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN & CELLO

Isaac Stern (violin)
Leonard Rose (cello)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
Sony    1960 / 2002

Brahms's last orchestral work, the concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 102, composed on Lake Thun in the summer of 1887.

Double Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor, Op. 102

I. Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NflEjrWuY

II. Andante
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1DJVzbigPM

III. Vivace ma non troppo
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXtAtdvk-h0

Cheers
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Johannes Brahms

PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN G MINOR

Martha Argerich (piano)
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
DG  2002

Notes: "Johannes Brahms's three piano quartets, on which he worked in the late 1850s, have differing characters.  The C minor is impassioned and concise, while the A major is equable and balanced.  The G minor, everyone's favorite, is the most varied in content.  Brahms selected it for the all-important concert on 16 November 1862 at which he appeared before the Viennese public for the first time as pianist and composer."

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

I. Allegro
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsioqZ9hCEA

II. Intermezzo (Allegro ma non troppo)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F22zrRwiRc

III. Andante con moto
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCDo_f2KeQ

IV. Rondo alla Zingarese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klc5KkM8fg

Cheers
     
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Robert Schumann

FANTASY PIECES

Martha Argerich (piano)
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
DG  2002


From the Notes: Speaking Of Clara Schumann, " She was one of the foremost pianists of the romantic era--the trio here was written for her by her husband Robert, and she also owned the quartet by Brahms, in the sense that she presided at the keyboard in the first performance.  To have this music played by a dynamic woman pianist of our own time, Martha Argerich, is therefore doubly appropriate."

Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Violin and Cello  Op. 88

I. Romanze (Nicht schnell, mit innigem Ausdruck)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKqXcZJdPQ

II. Humoreske (Lebhaft)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBg5aXkOIlQ

III. Duett (Langsam und mit Ausdruck)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVZltb1LPs

IV. Finale (Im Marsch-Tempo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FlJ6I180k

Cheers

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Johannes Brahms

DOUBLE CONCERTO IN A MINOR

Julia Fischer (violin)
Daniel MüllerSchott  (cello)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam
Yakov Kreizberg
PentaTone Classics  SACD  2005

Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102

Excellent & Informative Booklet.  "Julia Fischer plays on an Italian violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, dating from 1750."

Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-uLInT8zcI

Andante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRi43khcU4

Vivace non troppo
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljdX6MgBLSc

Cheers

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