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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.

I intend on collecting more of Jordi Savall's recordings.

Anyway, for now it's back to Rach:


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

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

No. 2 would be my favourite Seán.

John Adams: Violin concerto + Shaker Loops....

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!

Seán wrote:

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



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!

Lava Lava Lava! More powerful than Eyjafjallajökull: if she were emitting ash instead of vocal fireworks the planes would have no hope!

More of Abbado's Pergolesi



The combination of Sara Mingardo, Orchestra Mozart (Abbado's period orchestra) and Abbado himself is voluptuous ecstacy.

Rozhdestvensky's 1959 mono recording of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Absolutely magnetic, compelling like no other R & J I've heard.