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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We’ve had it for a thousand years and little or nothing good has come from the 90% . Just because you or I love it means nothing to our rulers , always has, always will. One word is supreme , GREED .

Nobody is trying to bully you . 

 

 

I am glad that you agree with me about peace and reason which are the most necessary things we must wish for...

I will agree totally with your observation about GREED and will add thirst for power to the mix ...

I accept what you say with your words that nobody tried to bully me...

I cannot apologize for Russian music links though because i love Russian music and culture like i love Charles Ives the contemporary of Scriabin...

This was my first post above, about these two contemporary geniuses which are expression of pure freedom in their two musical journey, before this "malentendu".... Charles Ives the american and Scriabin the Russian were brothers who dont know oner another separated by an ocean, but their art exploring the frontier between tonal/atonal among other common factors was their common endeavour...

I wish you the best....

We’ve had it for a thousand years and little or nothing good has come from the 90% . Just because you or I love it means nothing to our rulers , always has, always will. One word is supreme , GREED . Nobody is trying to bully you .

 

 

I love Russian music but most of it was written in terrible times and made little to

the culture of  Russia .  Out  of 350 millions in US  perhaps 2 % even know Ives's  name .

I like music because it lifts  me  , Bach made me a different man but did nothing

to stop Hitler even though he got only 28% vote  in Berlin .

The same is close to here , very close . 

 

You are right about that, because geniuses are the one that pointed to the direction of love and freedom...it takes time but i am optimist even now in desesperate times...

my best to you....

I love Russian music but most of it was written in terrible times and made little to

the culture of Russia . Out of 350 millions in US perhaps 2 % even know Ives’s name .

I like music because it lifts me , Bach made me a different man but did nothing

to stop Hitler even though he got only 28% vote in Berlin .

The same is close to here , very close .

 

 

The ears /brain know not much about music, the heart/body know more...

Music is a social integration of all individuals in some rythmic union with Nature... Language comes from music in this sense...

Furtwangler know that because his direction infaillibly express this eternal TEMPO flying over all smaller one beat in any musical work he ever directed...

Alain Connes Fields medal in mathematics just registered a sequence of the imprevisible beat of the creation manifested through the prime numbers distributions...

Time obey music not the reverse...Connes say studying Hilbert spaces that the source of an irrepressible flows of variations and novelty richer than time and at the source of time is this  UNIVERSAL potential BEAT related to the prime distribution...

Why do you think american Indian and pygmys dance to call for the rain?

Superstition or higher consciousness ?

Guess what is the right answer... 😁😊

Furtwangler music call for the soul like some call for the rain, it is the same UNIVERSAL beat for the rain and the soul......

 

«My soul flow with the rain»-Anonymus poet

«There is only one beat for love and it is the right one each time »-Anonymus poet

«Musical discourse is infallible all around the earth, be it european or a pygmies dance , because music is God speak at the origin of language itself» -Anonymus poet

 

Thanks to the work in non commutative geometry of alain Connes we can guess now how music and numbers can be related to God spoken language...

thanks to pygmies or Furtwangler we can feel it without studying mathematics... 😁😊

 

 

the relation between these 2 extreme apparent different musical expression is this:

TIME OBEY MUSIC not the reverse...

In any music feel the universal tempo behind all beats...It is God spoken words...

Music is about cosmos secret not about taste...

Our various tastes are like the various religions only a road to the same peak experience: love and unity...