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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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schubert
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The Prazak with one of the best of Modern Times.

https://youtu.be/s9YhxA6p2cY


And the Melos  with his second .


https://youtu.be/A5RPvs9DugI
jim204
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Yes I also love the Prazak Quartet in the Haydn Quartets. Wonderful interpretations and a salutary lesson in how a recording should be made. I think it is one of the cleanest recordings I have listened to in a long while.
jim204
881 posts
 
Just listening to Daniil Triffonov's new Bach recording on Qobuz , my his fingers can fly. It's very impressive and thought provoking, but doesn't plumb the depths if you know what i mean . That said it's very enjoyable.
schubert
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Perhaps you might like this 204, she about blew me off my chair !

Sol Gabetta, in the last part of the Saint-Saens Cello # 2 , both it and her
seem little known in US .

This little outing won her the Opus Klassic ,the leading award in Germany for Classical Music .
Hard to believe a rather slim women can play like a powerhouse !

https://youtu.be/6lomOwF-LFs

Well , she can do his totally different 1st as well.

https://youtu.be/gdk7ELY68Ec?t=2


And make known the Greatness of Haydn on his 1st Cello Concerto .

https://youtu.be/gdk7ELY68Ec?t=2

schubert
7,386 posts
 
Whoops ! got 2 Saint-saens 1st.

This is the Haydn Concerto in C , one of my fave’s period.
Sol does improvise , in her case check the cadenza.
She surely is a Great Artist !

https://youtu.be/g99hqqNFvg0?t=5

I’m not sure, but from that church and her name , I’d say she is from the large Italian group in the Argentine
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