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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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rok2id
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Aaron Copland

BILLY THE KID: SUITE

Morton Gould and his Orchestra
RCA  SACD     1957-60 / 2006

Introduction: The Open Prairie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRyGaQGif40

Street in a Frontier Town
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExY0fbIYdMM

Mexican Dance and Finale
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjUKjh4xXk

Prairie Night: Card Game
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9rNXxZd8w

Gun Battle
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H13SpKR2wWg

Celebration: After Billy's Capture
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSOnw--0TSg

Billy's Death
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URadQ5QE0qw

The Open Prairie (Reprise)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHpMIUM1Q5I

Cheers
edcyn
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When I sit down at the piano nowadays, it's the book of Chopin manuscripts that I open first. Of course, I go for the easier pieces but that doesn't mean they're easy. In any case, no matter how how easy or difficult a Chopin work may be, they never fail to totally enthrall.  
ei001h
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Mahgister, still enjoying Mozart by Paul badura skoda, can’t get enough 

just got my sofronitsky Vinyl collection from Russia, very excited
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Antonín Dvořák & Max Bruch

VIOLIN CONCERTOS

Julia Fischer (violin)
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich
David Zinman
Decca  2013

Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

1. Allegro ma non troppo - Quasi moderato
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYmM2trDVro

2. Adagio, ma non troppo
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jlFaOXB7Ck

3. Finale (Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUAKS-j-cAk


Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26

1. Vorspiel (Allegro moderato)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYBkAYgh9Y0

2. Adagio
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwD0QC-xHHs

3. Finale (Allegro energico)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeKELatEDVY

Cheers
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rok2id
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Antonín Dvořák  and Max Bruch:

Notes:
"There is one rather sad difference between these marvellous concertos.  Whereas Dvořák was encouraged by his publisher Fritz Simrock to write the A minor concerto  and was decently paid for it, also receiving performance royalties, Bruch unwisely sold the G minor concerto outright to a publisher for a fixed fee.  A royalty contract would have given him a handsome pension at the end of his long life, when he was living in poverty.  As an old man, he was even cheated out of the promised sale of the manuscript score."  Tully Potter


Some things never change.

Cheers
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