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[Sokel]

One of the best versions ever performed,both technically perfect and emotional,I save it with my precious.
Jean Sibelius-Finlandia, Op. 26
David Parry & London Philharmonic Orchestra

 

[Sokel]

Guillaume Dufay - Nuper Rosarum Flores

 

[Sokel]

Pure genius translated into music
Mozart: Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397

 

[Turambar]

One mélodie from Reynaldo Hahn, "A Chloris", based on a love poem by Théophile de Vieu and inspired in Bach, sung by the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky:

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[Sokel]

One of the most beautiful plays ever written on this earth.
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18
Arthur Rubinstein, piano-Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by the one and only Fritz Reiner:

The sound of the below is nor the best,but it's rare to listen the composer playing his own play:

 

[PatF]

One of the best performances of Handel's Air - Va tacito. Very good singer and also horn player. Another one is performed by Andreas Sholl (better in my opinion). But I am still waiting for horn performance on truly natural horn with proper technique

 

[PatF]

One of the most beautiful plays ever written on this earth.
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18
Arthur Rubinstein, piano-Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by the one and only Fritz Reiner:

The sound of the below is nor the best,but it's rare to listen the composer playing his own play:

Beautiful Concerto.

 

[Sokel]

Some cure for the soul.
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1

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[PatF]

Great record with arrangements of Buxtehude music for cornett

 

[dualazmak]

Händel "Suites for Keyboard" by Keith JARRETT (piano):

Even I have several LPs and CDs of Händel "Suites for Keyboard" played by various artists with harpsichord and piano, I like best this amazing performance by Keith Jarrett with excellent recording quality;

My prefered track-3, Suite HWV 452 in G Minor "Sarabande", can be heard in this YouTube clip (but the sound quality is considerably better in the purchased original CD);

 

[Andolink]

Some of the most gorgeous music I know.

 

[Sukram]

 

[Robin L]

A fine performance of Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber with visual aids. Performance by Ensemble Pian and Forte.

 

[Andolink]

Oliver Schneller (1966- ): works for ensemble and soloists
Ensemble Court Circuit
EnsembleMosaik
Ensemble Cairn, Heather O’Donnell

Luminous, shimmering, seemingly (but not actually) formless soundscapes. Quite well done.

 

[Andolink]

Charles Koechlin (1867-1950): Violin Sonata, Op. 64
Marie Viaud, violin
Mireille Guillaume, piano

Sonate pour piano et alto, Op. 53
Michel Michalakakos, viola
Martine Gagnepain, piano

 

[MickeyBoy]

It don't matter which medium, and it don't matter a video or an album cover. It's Classical music, and all discussions are open to your heart contentment.
...The recordings, the musicians, the composers, the music.

Here's a recent suggestion, the prize winning performance of Rachmaninoff's Third piano concerto:
Y. Lim's Rachmaninoff 3 at the Cliburn Competition: https://tinyurl.com/yc3aemep (No Youtube commercials from this site.) I suggest listening to this sensational performance a bit and then this commentary, which includes two of the judges: https://tinyurl.com/yc77hd2n
Then go back to the piece. I think the emotion of the piece comes through without the usual virtuosity clouding. Lim does the shorter cadenza from the first movement, about 12 minutes in. The larger, fantastically virtuosic cadenza can be sampled in this link, with 10 entries for the Best in Cadenza award:

So who can play this Rachmaninov cadenza? - Slippedisc

10 top pianists have a go. How’s yours?...

slippedisc.com

 

[Andolink]

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Violin Concertos
Anton Steck, violin
Modo Antiquo – Federico Maria Sardelli

 

[Robin L]

" . . . Petrenko is wonderfully alert to the fact that ambiguity of expression is fundamental to the work’s impact. No other Mahler symphony demands quite such painstaking attention to instrumental and textural detail in music that seems to resist meaning and hovers in ambivalent territory between dream and nightmare, illusion and reality. A sense of impending fragmentation or dissolution underlies it, and it’s no wonder that some – including Schoenberg, who adored it – saw it as marking the beginning of musical modernism. Two nocturnes flanking a spectral scherzo-cum-waltz form the work’s kernel, their sinister magic superbly captured here in playing of great clarity, with a lustre of tone in the strings, astonishing brass and slithering woodwind solos that were utterly beguiling, but beyond which also lurked a sense of disquiet and dread . . . "

Prom 62: Berlin Philharmonic/Petrenko review – sinister magic marks a concert of startling brilliance

Petrenko proved his mastery of Mahler’s Seventh yet again as he brought out its lurking ambiguity in a performance that hovered between dream and nightmare

www.theguardian.com

BBC Proms - 2022 - Prom 62: Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko – Mahler’s Seventh Symphony - BBC Sounds

Live from the BBC Proms: Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Digby]

2nd movement in particular is out of this world.

 

[Andolink]

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): String Quartet No. 4 (1921)
Amar Quartet

A real masterpiece of a string quartet. If you enjoy the chamber music of Shostakovich you’ll have no trouble appreciating Hindemith.