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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 Schubert

3 PIANO PIECES

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips   1998

Notes: "The Three Pieces D.946 were composed in May 1828 and were the last piano works Schubert wrote before embarking on his final three sonatas.  Schubert's autograph lacks the finishing touches he gave his music when preparing it for publication; nor do we know if he intended the pieces to form a coherent group, along the lines of his two sets of impromptus. 
At any rate Brahms, who first edited them for publication in 1868, gave them the neutral title of Drei Klavierstücke."

3 Piano Pieces, D.946

No.1 in E flat minor (Allegro assai)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-VLCaP0vQc

No.2 in E flat (Allegretto)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsHbxQE5-I

No.3 in C (Allegro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LCccZqHVI

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frogman
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**** One could imagine Rachmaninoff himself playing. ****

https://youtu.be/sTUxrPJfpqk

https://youtu.be/lRkTOx2WwTU

https://youtu.be/ZcG-DnGdWRw

https://youtu.be/M8RyWFA7PSY
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rok2id
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Franz Schubert

PIANO SONATAS

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips   2000

Notes: "The Sonata in A minor, D784, dates from February 1823.  It was Schubert's first piece of it's kind for several years, though just three months earlier he had composed his greatest and most important piano work to date--the "Wanderer" Fantasy.  The sonata is as different in character from that work as could be imagined, yet the two have an important feature in common: both seem to be conceived without regard for the limitations of the piano."

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 14 in A Minor, D. 784 

1. Allegro giusto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8mVi1pKNaY

2. Andante
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoM4Xs_yN9Y

3. Allegro vivace
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq5TJx2XZpQ

Cheers

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rok2id
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Franz Schubert

PIANO SONATAS

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips  2000

Notes: "Among Schubert's sonatas, D850 is the most brilliant and extrovert.  Its opening movement is unusually quick for a composer whose tempo indications characteristically include the qualification "moderato".  ...It is clear that Schubert intended the piece to be extremely energetic."

Schubert: Piano Sonata No.17 in D, D.850 

1. Allegro vivace
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0bk97FuEo

2. Con moto
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOE8NOgLlj0

 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQg2D6TPJeA

4. Rondo (Allegro moderato)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmG0GxcMuwc

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schubert
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Schubert and Mozart  were the only truly natural genius of all the great composers .

The greatest of them all had but one answer the many times he was asked how he did what he did .   

 " I work hard " .
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