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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The Netherlands in many ways are the most progressive nation in the world .
One way is to fund their Bach Orchestra and to make every outing as
clean as a hounds tooth . I’ve head much of their work but not 42.
Thanks , rv .

Truly a Jewel !

P.S . If anyone takes a trip there put a Canadian patch on your jackets , in WW II they were starving to death
and many did because 20 SS Divisions ate all the food and all the allies could could not move them.
Ike and Brits decided to send in the best troops they had, the 3 Canadian Divisions do or die.

16, 000 Canadians did die but in six months the Germans were beaten . Dutch LOVE Canadians !
Send 100,000 Tulips every year free to Ottawa .
Franz Schubert - Franz Liszt

SONATA IN B-FLAT  -  MEPHISTO WALTZ 

Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA Red Seal  2003

Notes: "The Piano Sonata in B-flat major---whether by accident or by design--is artistically the last will and testament of Franz Schubert.  While conceived and written alongside its great companions in C minor and A major in September 1828--the last month in which the dying 31 year old composer was still able to work before his death in November--the B-flat major was the last completed.  It is usually considered the greatest of Schubert's sonatas, but it might more accurately be called the summit."

Schubert:

Sonata in B-Flat, D. 960

I. Molto moderato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqdN-so_8T8&t=144s

II. Andante sostenuto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h1ASx19E7A

III. Scherzo - Allegro vivace con delicatezza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3GfTcinHA

IV. Allegro, ma non troppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prB7NnowqtA

Liszt:

Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYIu_hQ_Ejk

Cheers
Here's a splendid recording: Rebel's "Les elements" coupled with, yes, Vivaldi's 4S.  Performers are Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.

"Program music" at its best.