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CAJames Seasoned Member Offline "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 3339	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1350 - 08/21/26 at 21:19:22 Herbert Blomstedt and the San Francisco Symphony play Sibelius' majestic 5th symphony to something near perfection. Aided as usual by Decca's demonstration quality recording. On CD.
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CAJames Seasoned Member Offline "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 3339	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1351 - 08/22/26 at 21:25:58 If I were a virtuoso pianist, I think I'd want to play Bach like Glenn Gould. Not so much because his Bach is my favorite, although it is certainly a favorite, but because it is constantly changing. On CD I was enjoying some of the English Suites.
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Lon Seasoned Member Offline "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 28684 Munson Township, OH	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1352 - 08/23/26 at 00:23:56 Yes, I'm a Gould fan, though not a Bach fan, still I enjoy having this box set: Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations - The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955
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CAJames Seasoned Member Offline "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 3339	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1353 - 08/24/26 at 03:11:53 Igor Levit's recording of Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte was his response to raising anti-Semitism. And it is deeply moving, with or without the back story. On CD.
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Re: Classical Music Thread
Reply #1354 - 08/24/26 at 20:05:52

Another page, another Beethoven symphony, seven.

If Herbert Kegel and the Dresdner Philharmoniker have a name at all, it is for modern music. However their Beethoven is unapologetically old school and excellent, esp. the 7th. Capriccio does a great job capturing the winds and low strings, and the final movement is exciting as heck.

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Reply #1355 - 08/26/26 at 15:38:08

One of the bits of trivial you might pick up in music class is that the piano is considered a percussion instrument because the strings are hit by a hammer while a harpsichord is a string instrument because the strings are plucked. Then there is the lute-harpsichord where the strings are made of gut rather than metal, and it sounds a lot like...you guessed it... a lute.

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The lute-harpsichord is not my favorite thing on the menu, but I'll order it once in a while when the mood strikes.

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CAJames Seasoned Member Offline "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 3339	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #1356 - 08/28/26 at 22:44:45 Brahms' autumnal late piano pieces, beautifully played by Stephen Hough. 16/44 FLAC download
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Reply #1357 - Yesterday at 22:07:27

In 1947, while Europe was digging out from under the rubble of WWII, the Philadelphia Orchestra was making phenomenal recordings, like the evergreen showpiece Scheherazade. The recording is in excellent mono, and while it isn't in the same league as Reiner's RCA recording a decade or so later, the playing and performance are every bit a match.

On CD from the Ormandy/Philadelphia mono box.

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