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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

THE ART OF THE FUGUE

Emerson String Quartet

Philip Setzer (violin)
Eugene Drucker (violin)
Lawrence Dutton (viola)
David Finckel (cello)
DG 2003

Notes: Language that only a Musician would love, or understand.

The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vF9owrxMo

Cheers

Wiki: fugue
Music 
  1. a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
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@frogman 

I like your favorite Berg better than the one I posted.  In any event, Berg does get a little better, to my ear, with repeated listening.

Cheers
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Glad you liked it. It does take some time to “get” serial music. One has to surrender to the different musical language; kind of like post bop Coltrane compared to Prez.  Try his opera “Wozzeck” sometime. Banned by the Nazis as “degenerate art”. Fabulous work.
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Hard to argue with the Grumiaux, mahgister. Wonderful playing and luminous tone indeed. Raises the question: was it one of his Guarnieris, the Strad, or the Guadagnini? I wonder what his insurance bill was? 😊
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Frederic Chopin

AREGRICH PLAYS CHOPIN

Martha Aregrich (piano)
DG  2010

Not one of my favorite composers.  I have just this one by Aregrich, one by Perahia and of course a few by Horowitz.  I think Chopin was all he played.

Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op. 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payc4PKtzQo

Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

I. Allegro maestoso 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5pdq2Rb_jI

II. Scherzo. Molto vivace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsjRye7BvC0

III. Largo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnYcrLH43xE

IV. Finale. Presto non tanto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g5KEXYvm0o

Cheers
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