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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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Sergei Rachmaninoff / Ludwig van Beethoven

PIANO CONCERTOS

Van Cliburn (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner
RCA Victor Living Stereo   1961, 1962, 1994

Notes:"E-flat major was to Beethoven a heroic key by the evidence of the "Eroica" Symphony which has something of the same proud spirit.  Beethoven seems to have been possessed by this tonality in 1809, the year of the concerto, for the piano sonata, Op. 81a, and the so-called harp quartet (op.74), both in E flat, were also composed in this year.  It was a year of war; French troops occupied Vienna, and the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte made his headquarters in the palace of Schönbrunn.   These outward events had no effect upon the artist Beethoven and his seclusive domain of tones, except to annoy him and impede his work."

Rachmaninoff:  Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

I. Moderato - Allegro
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUrotc3cj-s

II. Adagio sostenuto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3NfWt6LzM

III. Allegro scherzando
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5GbS96-_xw

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat, Op.73  "Emperor"

I. Allegro
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5a2TmzBxuU

II. Adagio un poco mosso
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwXC4H60ZR8

III. Rondo - Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeGBUHYYWTI

Cheers
schubert
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One of the Greatest Artists of the last Century , Wanda Landowski .
Her genius shines through these recordings of the 1930"s ,



https://youtu.be/YV_-OuV2N4U?list=RDYV_-OuV2N4U

Her wonderful rendition of Bach’’s Goldburg on the instrument it was written for .


https://youtu.be/4jS873pDWNs { this 1933 recording had noise taken out ,bit of her as well}
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Sergei Rachmaninoff

PIANOS CONCERTOS

Andre Watts (piano)
New York Philharmonic
Seiji Ozawa
Legacy / Sony     1960, 1970  /  2003

Notes:"An embittered battle for and against Rachmaninoff is raging to this day.  While some defend him as the last pure Romantic composer, others agree only too readily with the verdict of Igor Stravinsky, who rejected his countryman's extensive tableau-like compositions as "grandiose film music."  The truth lies--as so often with art as with life--somewhere in the middle."

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

I. Allegro ma non tanto
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo52-P7TvSg&list=OLAK5uy_kxvGBvq1MS5TnjMcSyXLlcKG75RltQbnM

II. Intermezzo. Adagio
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZsTV7iQI78&list=OLAK5uy_kxvGBvq1MS5TnjMcSyXLlcKG75RltQbnM&i...

III. Finale. Alla breve
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1wKhkLUwgE&list=OLAK5uy_kxvGBvq1MS5TnjMcSyXLlcKG75RltQbnM&i...

Cheers
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rok2id
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Sergei Rachmaninoff

PIANOS CONCERTOS

Philippe Entremont (piano)
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein
Legacy / Sony    1960, 1970 / 2003

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18

I. Moderato
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFo3qZZSSw

II. Adagio Sostenuto
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWaVKQ6rfo

III. Allegro scherzando
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5S7b6R2a98

Cheers

jcazador
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re Bach Goldberg VariationsThis must be one of the most recorded piano compositions.I have recordings by:

gregory sokolov

angela hewitt

helmut walcha

andre gavrilov

keith jarrett

glenn gould

murrary perahia

beatrice rana

tatiana nicolayeva

nicholas angelich

vladmir feltsman

gustav leonhardt

rosalyn tureck

zhu xiao-mei

peter serkin

igor levit

stephen hough

andrei gavrilov

maria yudina

maria tipo

jeremy denk

ekaterina dershavina

I freely admit that if you played one of these recordings, I could not tell you

which pianist was playing.  I cannot name a "favorite".














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