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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Mahgister, still enjoying Mozart by Paul badura skoda, can’t get enough 

just got my sofronitsky Vinyl collection from Russia, very excited
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
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
Vlad
now listening to Vladimir Feltsman, "A Tribute to Tchaikovsky"
so wonderful
melody, yes, melody

Antonín Dvořák  

SYMPHONY NO. 9

Berlin Philharmoniker
Ferenc Fricsay
DG   1960 / 2001

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From The New World"

1. Adagio - Allegro...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJL8n6HThnM

2. Largo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrCbRZV252c

3. Scherzo (Molto...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkv85G1I8es

 4. Allegro con fuoco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRC_SFSd7k

Cheers