Today's classical playlist

[billinkansas]

Sorry - Corrected. I was conversing with a Pete in another forum.

Where in PA?

 

[billinkansas]

WOW!! An old analog recording of the NY Phil/Bernstein with Ravel's Rhapsodie Espanol on KPR. So clear and rich this recording. Not my favorite piece, up until now.

 

[RichPA]

Where in PA?

State College, aka Happy Valley, home of Penn State.

Starting this morning with Berwald - Tone Poems - Gavle Symphony/Sakari

 

[RichPA]

John Williams - In Australia - interesting collection of contemporary classical music for guitar and orchestra, by Australian composers

 

[Fishstink]

The Artistry of Arthur Rubenstein

Played 3 albums from the Readers Digest 6 album box set. Rubenstein was a master of piano. This set contains Rachmaninoff's concerto no. 2 of which I think is the best. These recordings are RCA Living Stereo lps made for readers digest and the sonic quality is fantanstic.

 

[gkarelitsky]

Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition - great instrumentation and range from bells to booming. I'm listening to Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic.

 

[Drybasement]

Bruckner - Symphony no. 3

(1873 Original Version, ed. Nowak)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra Georg Tintner conducting.

Naxos 8.553454

Thanks for the lead Rich. I got Bruckner's Symphonies 3, 4, 5 and 7 on the Naxos label for cheap. They were only $6 a piece. Fantastic sound.

 

[juncers]

Bartok
Romanian Dances
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415 668-2

Ray

 

[hoahao]

Handel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music

 

[RichPA]

Decompressing after a day of travel with Bach, Brandenburg Concertos 1, 3, and 5 - Akademie fuer Alte Musick Berlin

 

[juncers]

Woke up - felt like some Mozart.

MOZART
Horn Quintet in E flat major (K.407)
Andrew Clark (horn) Ensemble Galant
EMI 572822-2

Ray

 

[RichPA]

Stravinsky - Symphony in C, Symphony in 3 Movements
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Dutoit

 

[kevinkilbane]

Nice thread.
I have these lined up for some after-dinner listening.

Beethoven 9, Furtwangler, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Choir

Beethoven 5 & 7, Furtwangler, Vienna

Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade, Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy, Svetlanov, London and USSR State

Beethoven 5 & 7, Carlos Kleiber, Vienna

Found a nice site talking about classical music:
http://www.classicalnotes.net/contents.html

 

[maxsmart]

This is a great thread! I have very little knowledge but great appreciation of classical music, but thanks to "the collective" I learning! Thanks :yes:

 

[RichPA]

Found a nice site talking about classical music:
http://www.classicalnotes.net/contents.html

Great link, Kevin, thanks!

Listening now to a nice disc of Walter Piston compositions - Symphony No. 4, Serenata for Orchestra, and Three New England Sketches - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz

 

[gkarelitsky]

Bach

Rostropovich Plays Bach
Unaccompanied cello on Vanguard Classics label.

 

[RichPA]

Villa-Lobos - String Quartets Volume 1 (Nos. 6, 1, 17) - Cuarteto Latinamericano

 

[RichPA]

Beethoven - Music for Cello and Piano - Richter/Rostropovich - great music to start the day!

 

[RichPA]

Looks like I'm the only one who both listens to classical music and gets on AK first thing every morning

This morning: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition followed by Prokofiev - Classical Symphony - National Philharmonic/Slatkin

 

[juncers]

SHOSTAKOVICH
PianoTrio No. 1 (Op.8)
Vienna PianoTrio
Nimbus NI5572

Somewhat dissonant for first thing in the morning, but it sprung to hand!
Ray