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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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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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Franz Liszt

PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 - TOTENTANZ

Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa
DG 1988

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in E flat major

1. Allegro maestoso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPLgcrVyEVU

2. Quasi adagio - Allegretto vivace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btiLoxbYYxg

3. Allegro marziale animato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-maX1s5qx0

Cheers


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Franz Liszt

PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 - TOTENTANZ

Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa
DG 1988

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A major

1. Adagio sostenuto assai - Allegro agitato assai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceACxZx2OAI

2. Allegro moderato - Allegro deciso
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iW1bzkwOIU

3. Marziale un poco meno allegro
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaU9Fdupq7k

4. Allegro animato - Stretto (molto accelerando)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJwHgBoMc0

Cheers
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rok2id
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Franz Liszt

PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 - TOTENTANZ

Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa
DG 1988

Totentanz (Dance macabre)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BFT2rlaMIo

Cheers


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Franz Liszt

SONATA IN B MINOR

Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips   1982

Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDv_37vwZ0&t=234s

Cheers
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