What are you listening to?

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Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 & 6

Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer conducting


Beethoven
Symphony No. 6

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner conducting
Recorded 1961


Reiner & Klemperer were two wonderful exponents of Beethoven's works.
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I intend on collecting more of Jordi Savall's recordings.

Anyway, for now it's back to Rach:
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Rachmaninov
Second Piano Concerto

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Piano
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conducting
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Seán wrote: Rachmaninov
Second Piano Concerto

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Piano
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conducting
No. 2 would be my favourite Seán.
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John Adams: Violin concerto + Shaker Loops....

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fergus wrote:
Seán wrote: Rachmaninov
Second Piano Concerto

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Piano
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conducting
No. 2 would be my favourite Seán.
Yes, I decided to return to it today so I listened to it a couple of times this evening and I love it. I will have to get the Ashkenazy/Previn/LSO recordings too......oh dear, so much music, so little time and money!
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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Martha Argerich - Piano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado conducting
If you like that then Argerich recorded Prok 3 again with her then husband Charles Dutoit

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along with Prok 1 and Bartók 3. Perhaps not quite as good as the Abbado Prok 3 (and don't she and Abbado look cute together and them so young?), but different and well worth hearing!
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More of Abbado's Pergolesi

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The combination of Sara Mingardo, Orchestra Mozart (Abbado's period orchestra) and Abbado himself is voluptuous ecstacy.
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Rozhdestvensky's 1959 mono recording of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Absolutely magnetic, compelling like no other R & J I've heard.
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