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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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77jovian
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Here are my favorite classical guitar albums:

Carlos Barbosa-Lina and Sharon Isbin, Rhapsody in Blue/West Side Story. (concord ConcertoCCD 42012)

Christopher Parkening, Parkening Plays Bach.  (Angel CDC 7 47191 2).  Well, any Early Christopher Parkening album.

And some great piano:

The Art of Martha Argerich (DG).

Brahms Piano Works, Op. 116, 117, and 119, Stephen Bishop Kovacevich.

A little different, but amazing, mandolin:

Chris Tille, Bach:  Sonatas and Paritas, Vol. 1.

great choral/vocal selections:

Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Gesang der Parkening, and Schicksalslied, Robert Shaw and Atlanta Symphony.

Schubert Songs for a Male Chorus, Robert Shaw 

Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer, Songs on the Death of Children and Ruckert-Lieder, Thomas Hampson and Leonard Bernstein

77jovian
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Sorry, one more, and it’s a classical singer crossing to classical-pop:

Anne Sofie von Otter, I Let the Music Speak.


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dweller:

Thanks for mentioning the Living Stereo of Reiner’s Mahler 4.
I’m listening to it now on the XRCD version. Forgot how wonderful it is.
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Mahler 5th Lorin Maazel and Cleveland Symph. Telarc
Racmaninov 2 and 3 Horacio Guitierrez Telarc
Anything Academy of ancient music Sir Chris Hogwood
Naxos and Chandos and Mercury living presence labels
Don Giovanni Ricardo Muti EMI
Anything from Neville Mariner or Benjamin Zander
+1 Fritz Reiner 


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