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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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jim204
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Yes Len she is a really good fiddler now since her days as a new generation artist at the Beeb. I think I told you before that she was educated in the same town I live in and I used to see her and her mum shopping on a Saturday morning in the High Street. A couple of years ago James McMillan (the composer) opened a music festival in Cumnock his birth place about 10 miles from me and Nichola was there and I heard her play the Bach Chaconne and very impressive it was. It sure was great being about ten feet from a very beautiful Strad.
re. Annie Fisher's Beethoven ,very exciting on a par with Richter, just a pity about recording quality which could be variable.
schubert
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God vacations in the Adirondacks , his best creation !

https://youtu.be/qa9IBbNMooU

Jim , The Highlands would be like this if they had not been raped .
State of New York ruled the Adirondacks would be Forever Wild ,
over a century ago . A 6 million acre park .

https://youtu.be/YeY4h0lGGeU

I spend much of my youth about 50 miles North in the Park , just a wild and about 50 miles from Montreal as the crow flies. Many Canadians hike here or did before the virus .


Lake George is 40 miles long and 600 feet deep. I once caught a 30 lb Pike . A favorite place of rich Swiss who say it's the most beautiful lake in the world .


https://youtu.be/C3TAXkd39rw
jim204
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Absolutely stunning Len, I love those colours. 
schubert
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Thanks , 204 ! ,It looks better in life and there are hundreds of lakes , all
beautiful . They are the most ancient mountains on the Planet , thousands of miles higher than ANY
others on the world at present .

There is a hiking trail of 125 miles cut in a 45 % manner south to north , I have hiked it over 50 times ,
My doc says she has never seen such rock-hard legs in a man my age in her 30 years on the job .

I didn't tell her the Adirondacks are , according to many American Native tribes , the power center of the earth .
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