This work is the wedding present from the husband composer Viktor Kalabis to his pianist harpsichordist wife, Zuzana Ruzickova, she played it here , absolute poetry of the Czech soul...
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.
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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I think you are right...
They never quit because they are and always had been and always will be there.... Like Beethoven deaf was always anyway in music land....
I will add Comenius the genius father of modern pedagogy... It was under the guidance of Comenius disciples in Germany that the world see the emergence of the astounding Henri Christian Heinecken....He dies at 4 years old, a genius so precox that Kant wote a book about him... («It is said that when he was ten months old, he could speak German. He read the Pentateuch at age one,[1] and between the ages of two and three, he read the Old and New Testament in Latin.[1] When he was three years old, he was said to have recited his own History of Denmark when visiting the King of Denmark.[1] Also at three, he testified in court to the murder of his friend, another boy named Reid.[1] He died at age four of celiac disease.[3] He was breastfed until close to his death, which was very likely caused by the ingestion of grain products.[4] While his exploits may seem hard to believe, they are relatively well documented. In 1726, his tutor (a man named Schöneich) published a study of Christian entitled The Life, Deeds, Travels and Death of the Child of Lübeck.[1][5] Immanuel Kant wrote an essay about the child calling him an "ingenium praecox" (someone "prematurely clever").«) Wikipedia
I apologize for this part about Heinecken but i think the importance of Comenius in history is underestimated...Like the goddess Ruzickova for harpsichord and music...
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Yes , I had forgotten that , did a paper about him about 50 years ago. The Czech Republic is Industrial . Things I know ,Skoda auto , best VW gets , I know I had one . I was born a hunter , no longer have Czech hunting rifles, which cost a lot and were the best .Still are .
The Germans pushed the Rifle factory’s night and day , The Czech Mausers were better then they could make . P.S . anything Couperin is OK with me , her job was unreal !
P.P S . Science in last few years thinks someone like the boy genius is autistic .The scale is that, but extreme aka 1 in a million . |
I did not know about the Mauser... 😁😊 Couperin and Scarlatti between Bach pieces...It is a treat.... 😁😊
Comenius insisted on education at young age and a genius without stimuli at young age will shine way less.... The more honest and rational people and interesting people i encountered in my life were often asperger type... I wrote a poem years ago in Rhymes resuming the life of Heinecken... 😁😊
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