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D_Gunther Snotpole

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Chopin, Heroic Polonaise. I like Artur Rubenstein's 1964 Carnegie Hall performance.


Rubenstein? Ah, there must be two.
Ha ha, big d!
Artur made several fine recordings of the Heroic, but not on his Carnegie Hall disc, which contains no Chopin (only Debussy, Szymanowski, Prokofiev, Villa-Lobos, Schumann, and Albeniz).
 

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Barber: Adagio for Strings (Bernstein) [not too original, I know]
Brahms: Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118 (Perahia should record the set soon, and he plays them absolutely superbly, as I’ve heard him do only two weeks ago in concert)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rubinstein/Reiner)
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Reiner, though the sound is a bit dated)
Bach: Goldberg Variations (either Gould’s 1981 account or Tureck’s 1958 version)
Horowitz: The Historic Return (his 1965 Carnegie Hall recital, with sound that many believe best captures the pianist’s floating, soulful tone)
Bach: Suites for Unaccompanied Cello (many good versions, but perhaps Tortelier or, if dated sound is okay, Casals)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Carlos Kleiber)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, ‘Leningrad’ (Maxim Shostakovich, the composer’s son)
 

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Good one, Nixxy. The subtitle for that one is "Wheel of Fortune" I love Carmina Burana. I really love the aria "In Trutina" and the Dulcisime that follows... I bet no one knows what was going on there? LOL! :biggrin1:

No fair. We are well and truly in the choral territory here. When are you starting that thread, so we can play by the rules and get in our favorite vocal and choral pieces! :mad:
 

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No fair. We are well and truly in the choral territory here. When are you starting that thread, so we can play by the rules and get in our favorite vocal and choral pieces! :mad:

Im sorry, Sweetie. If we are going to be Kosher there are actually a number of choral works which have been mentioned. YOu know How i love to go off on a tangent... LOL! I will do it now....
 

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Dave Brubeck's " A Light In The Wilderness " I was in the audience when he conducted this masterpiece---which might have been the premiere of this great work. The musicians were really inspired.
 

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Good one, Nixxy. The subtitle for that one is "Wheel of Fortune" I love Carmina Burana. I really love the aria "In Trutina" and the Dulcisime that follows... I bet no one knows what was going on there? LOL! :biggrin1:

You have to love drunken monks writing about their sexual exploits!

My fave is "Cignus ustus cantat" or "Olim lacus colueram" depending on who was writing the liner notes on your recordning. So graphicly written both textually and melodically....really gruesome and appropriate once you know what happening in that one.
 
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Meditation - Massenet.
Canon - Pachelbel.
Concerto for 2 violins - Bach.

Hmm - Seasons/Vivaldi and Planets/Holst are good too.

Also, if ure into a bit of flag waving - Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory, hehe. I like the jingoistic overblown stuff, me ;)