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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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Joseph Haydn

SYMPHONIES 68 & 93-104 "LONDON"

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Teldec Classics / Warner Classics and Jazz 1987-1993 / 2006
5CD Box Set

Notes: "...The last phase of the Turkish wars was two years past, but its horrors must have impressed Haydn deeply, for his choice of "Turkish" instruments was not designed to be exotic and picturesque, but rather to serve as a warning. In this sense it would be permissible to speak of an "anti-military" Symphony."

Symphony No. 100 in G major "Military"

I. Adagio - Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH06_0w7K1g

II. Allegretto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQfT_rOU30

III. Menuet (Moderato)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WewPKUTikGY

IV. Finale (Presto)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XfW42rSBok

Cheers
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Joseph Haydn

HAYDN - SYMPHONIES

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG  1994

Symphony in D major, No.73  "La Chasse"

I. Adagio - Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0z7Ba8s8s0

II. Andante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKYyxHq-bcU

III. Menuetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZwuVlt9uiY

IV. Presto (La chasse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I60_BeG34II

Cheers
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Gustav Holst - Edward Elgar

THE PLANETS - ENIGMA VARIATIONS

London Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Warner Classics   1970  /  2002

Holst:
I. Mars, the Bringer of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCNUEAVXbM

Elgar:
Enigma Variations (Boult LSO 1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QiKkl1BykY

Cheers



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Édouard Lalo  (1823-1892)

SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE

Sarah Chang (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
EMI Classics 1995

Notes: "It was a new virtuosity that required new music, music that demanded of a composer more than a casual awareness of the violin’s newly enhanced technical and expressive potential. The Romantic age was at hand, and the Classical rules needed updating. Gone was the fey intimacy of the aristocratic salon, replaced by the vigorous, heightened atmosphere of the concert hall."

Symphonie Espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21

I. Allegro non troppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6XPuxxGqVk

II. Scherzando (Allegro molto)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aVuA2vGZgc

III. Intermezzo (Allegretto non troppo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdehIWWYxH8

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

V. Rondo (Allegro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VknFp3dmNx4

Cheers

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Franz Liszt 

6 HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIES

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Kurt Masur
Philips Classics   1984

Notes: "Simply, he overestimated the role of the gipsies at the expense of older native Hungarian folk-musics, this later being corrected by  Kodály and Bartók .  Liszt naturally admired the romantic aspects of gipsy style, but failed to realize that a typical Hungarian melody is a distillation of a historical succession of several melodic veins in which the 'fioriture' of the gipsies, who came from Asia, is only one element."


Rhapsody No.1 in F minor, S.359 No.1 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDnGPgU2BD8

Rhapsody No.2 in D minor, S.359 No.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m_X227FKs4

Rhapsody No.3 in D, S.359 No.3
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsILRJhk8A

Rhapsody No.4 in D minor, S.359 No.4
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3HdDu8Jug

Rhapsody No.5 in E minor, S.359 No.5
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yThGKC_jCgg

Rhapsody No.6 in D, S.359 No.6
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRYYcPCtxWs

Cheers




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