@edcyn928 Yes I wholeheartedly agree about these young pianists needing more time to mature but so do all pianists and not just the young. i do think Perahia a much better pianist than Brendel was but that is only me. I spent a life time going to the Edinburgh Festival every year only to get jaded with Brendel with his mannerisms and finger slips and he certainly never ever had the technique that Olaffson has but I have never heard Schubert played live better than Brendel, but I for sure will stick with Olaffson.
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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Johann Strauss WALTZES Wiener Symphoniker Yakov Kreizberg PentaTone 2006 SACD Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437 "Emperor Waltz" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4f-EWGp2iw An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 "The Beautiful Blue Danube" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfDiR2Ie7k Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325 "Tales from the Vienna Woods" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP22qGAZQ4I Cheers |
Jim, I played this Mozart on same record I have today. What do you think of this lady, Jim . I rather like it https://youtu.be/MmX-lVH3XWU |
I love her Len and have done for decades, her hands were tiny but that most certainly never deterred her. None other than Horowitz marvelled at her dexterity, in fact I have somewhere in my house a picture that shows her Horowitz and Arrau backstage at a concert she had given. In fact when they came to congratulate her on her performance she threw her arms around Arrau and then kneeled in front of Horwitz and kissed his hands and he then pulled her to her feet and he then kissed her fingers and said she was a marvel. I think she was a marvel too not only for her Mozart but her Iberian music also especially her Albeniz which can be ferociously difficult but her little hands coped admirably. That soundbite was superb. |
Richard Strauss VIOLIN CONCERTO Pavel Sporcl (violin) Prague Symphony Orchestra Jiri Kout Supraphon 2009 In 1933 Strauss (1864-1949) was appointed to two important positions in the musical life of Nazi Germany: head of the Reichsmusikkammer and principal conductor of the Bayreuth Festival. The latter role he accepted after conductor Arturo Toscanini had resigned from the position in protest of the Nazi Party. These positions have led some to criticize Strauss for his seeming collaboration with the Nazis. However, Strauss's daughter-in-law, Alice Grab Strauss [née von Hermannswörth], was Jewish and much of his apparent acquiescence to the Nazi Party was done in order to save her life and the lives of her children (his Jewish grandchildren)... Further, Strauss insisted on using a Jewish librettist, Stefan Zweig, for his opera Die schweigsame Frau which ultimately led to his firing from the Reichsmusikkammer and Bayreuth. In 1948, a year before his death, he was cleared of any wrongdoing by a denazification tribunal in Munich.---wiki Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 8 Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1leKe9Uy2g Lento ma non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Qwsq7wxyo Rondo. Presto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lOuFMp-9Do Cheers |
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