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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jim204 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 881 posts 04-28-2022 at 01:44pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Aye that wee lass has come on famously in the last few years. Alba forever !!
jim5559 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 604 posts 04-28-2022 at 02:44pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Amen !
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 12,961 posts 04-28-2022 at 04:06pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete An english citizen of complicated origin, which music is so orginal it is maddening and enligthening us at the same times.. .
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 12,961 posts 04-28-2022 at 05:05pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Late this night i was dumbfounded by the beauty of this two playings of Liszt , the first by a "playing giant" and the second version by a "singing god"... Pick the one you prefer, but listen attentively to the continuity uniting "pulse" behind all successive passing states and the subsisting constrasts polarities at the same times and read how alternate emotions coming from the unconscious mind of the very conscious Liszt are translated by the two pianists unequaly, one in a more spectacular but beautiful playing, the other with an absolute clarity about the poetical and unified alternative emotionals rumination of Liszt in the same moment sometimes in the piece... The "playing giant" tempo is faster than the "singing god"... It is a lesson in piano playing by two masters...
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 12,961 posts 04-29-2022 at 10:14pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Now i will propose to you a listening experiments with three versions of the same piece of Liszt "the evening bells"... The first version with a good pianist... The second one with a great pianist....The beautiful one... And the third one with a god pianist, one of the supremum few one... The eepest version the more moving one....He is so in love with this piece that he repeat it two times...We dont listen here to a beautiful sound only like in the second case but to a pure emotion emerging with his own time flowing in eternity... Judge by yourself....