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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.


rvpiano
jcazador
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gdnrbob
here's an xlnt recording of Argerich and Maisky
includes sonata in A minor you mentioned
Phillips 412 230-2
You can download it free (I did) if you know how.
just google these links and you will find it:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B9105F18519CF9B23980812B624E79AD17F534D7

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8EB7D7C34B3EEE1023E9A327ED451DD632C92038

jcazador
68 posts
 
again, those links for argerich (without the intro)
I cannot be sure they are still live links, but they worked
for me a year ago

B9105F18519CF9B23980812B624E79AD17F534D7

8EB7D7C34B3EEE1023E9A327ED451DD632C92038

 
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rvpiano OP
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kef_lover,

Master classes are fascinating.  You can get into the way a master thinks, and yes, it is impressive the way the pianists can change their interpretation on the fly.
That’s what you have to do when studying with any great teacher. Sometimes it’s a daunting task.
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geoffkait
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schubert
gdnrbob, those who don’t read German have no idea just how evil he was. Wrote more anti-semetic tirades then he did music .
German Historians who I studied with drew a straight line from Wagner to Hitler.

Gosh, those must have been the same historians who drew a straight line from Marilyn Manson to Columbine? Did they also draw a straight line from Furtwangler to Hitler? A straight line from Ozzy Osborne to the fall of the Civilized World?
gdnrbob
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@geoffkait,

Okay, let's not get sidetracked...
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