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.

rvpiano12-09-2017 3:59pm

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mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,194 posts 04-14-2022 at 07:11pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The ears /brain know not much about music, the heart/body know more... Music is a social integration of all individuals in some rythmic union with Nature... Language comes from music in this sense... Furtwangler know that because his direction infaillibly express this eternal TEMPO flying over all smaller one beat in any musical work he ever directed... Alain Connes Fields medal in mathematics just registered a sequence of the imprevisible beat of the creation manifested through the prime numbers distributions... Time obey music not the reverse...Connes say studying Hilbert spaces that the source of an irrepressible flows of variations and novelty richer than time and at the source of time is this UNIVERSAL potential BEAT related to the prime distribution... Why do you think american Indian and pygmys dance to call for the rain? Superstition or higher consciousness ? Guess what is the right answer... 😁😊 Furtwangler music call for the soul like some call for the rain, it is the same UNIVERSAL beat for the rain and the soul...... «My soul flow with the rain»-Anonymus poet «There is only one beat for love and it is the right one each time »-Anonymus poet «Musical discourse is infallible all around the earth, be it european or a pygmies dance , because music is God speak at the origin of language itself» -Anonymus poet Thanks to the work in non commutative geometry of alain Connes we can guess now how music and numbers can be related to God spoken language... thanks to pygmies or Furtwangler we can feel it without studying mathematics... 😁😊 the relation between these 2 extreme apparent different musical expression is this: TIME OBEY MUSIC not the reverse... In any music feel the universal tempo behind all beats...It is God spoken words... Music is about cosmos secret not about taste... Our various tastes are like the various religions only a road to the same peak experience: love and unity...
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,194 posts 04-14-2022 at 07:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete When the beat circle and progress at the same time it is a SPIRALLING ENCOMPASSING movement... An increasing irrepressible beat and pulse growing which command time itself... Life is this increasing pulse... it is the reason why time obey music and music dont obey time but command it... We can listen to it in one of the most powerful piece of music ever written OR like in the pygmies songs...Or like in the yoruba talking drums under this post... Music is not sound but what is behind sound: Life asciension itself....
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mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,194 posts 04-14-2022 at 08:09pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete This same spiralling moving beat is for me the life of jazz too... Musical genres matter less than the way this flowing oceanic tempo command even time... This is what i listen too...Not mere sound... This beating heart is the origin of music and time and life itself and even of numbers primes distribution...