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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Normandy:

Yes, I've seen the famous pic of the Brit / Canadian when the ramp went down.   What I have never understood is, why that beach was not a gigantic wall of napalm from end to end.  We not only had Air Superiority, we had Air Dominance!

With all the firepower at hand, no one should have been killed by machine gun fire on that beach.  Our ground attack fighter planes should have been dropping napalm, at tree top level, right up until the ramps dropped.

Canadians:
The British were much more aware of and concerned about British causalities, then they were Canadian losses.   Dieppe  etc...

Cheers

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Lets just say my enthusiasm for Canada and Canadians is not as strong as yours appears to be.

The Germans were masters at the Tactical, unfortunately for them, it was a  strategic war, which was lost by them in the winter of 1941.

Cheers