Thread: excellent recordings

I have searched the forum, and cant find a thread like this...( but I may be blind..) Post your favourite recordings here..criterias is of course that you like the work...sound and performance...nothinge else.,

if there is a thread like this somewhere, let me know...

i have to start with this one ...
Dvorak piano concerto..Schubert "wanderer fantasy" Emi, Carlos Kleiber conducting, Ciatoslav Richter on piano....Very good sound, and strong performance... I was espessially amazed by the dvorak piano concerto

I just joined but I'm sure there are more like this and if there are I'm sure the nice folks here will let you know...I am especially fond of any and all recordings Glenn Gould made as I am of the ones by Earl Wild

hehe, I am a bit caotic some times, so you may be right that there are simular threads... Glenn gold is yet to discover. Thanks for advice

There is one, but I can't remember the title. Other subcategories are Favorite Recordings on the Naxos Label and Stravinsky - Favorite Recordings.

However, for this topic, one excellent recording is Ashkenazy playing the Rachmaninoff concertos, conducted by Andre Previn. To my ears, the solo/ensemble playing is outstanding, and the engineering of the recording is very much alive.

Askenazy & Previn got a chamber orchestra atmosphere from the recording engineers. If you wish to hear both pianoplaying and orchestra in a grand way listen to this one:



I have both recordings, Ashkenazy + Previn & Ashkenazy + Haitink, both are excellent, but the mood is very different.

Originally Posted by TxllxT

Askenazy & Previn got a chamber orchestra atmosphere from the recording engineers. If you wish to hear both pianoplaying and orchestra in a grand way listen to this one:

I'll start chasing down sound clips.

Tchaikovsky suite for orchestra 1-4. I really like this suites, and the recording with ussr state symphony orchestra is in my ears very good. Conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov. It is a DENON ESSENTIALS, so it may be not original cd. Nevertheless; great music, great performance,great sound

Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. The recording quality satisfies me an I like the presence of the strings - not too much.

More than anything, the conductor makes the piece what it is though. Karajan's got nothing on him when it comes to Symphony 5.

I have not a trained ear, but i find this record superb! Tchaikovsky, Medtner - First Piano Concertos. Yevgeny Sudbim, Piano. Sao paulo symphony orchestra. John Nescling, conductor. If you Have Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1NqAiwaM0Yu7JuvbFqIgwd If you need spotify invite, send me a mesage

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Grigory Feyghin. Russian Violin School. Taneyev / Rubinstein / Medtner / Auer. Feyghin plays with wonderful sensitivity. http://open.spotify.com/album/1xEuDMKC9P5ZMAoCqzAc6N

Echoes of paris; Augustin Hadelich, Robert Kulek...Works by Poulenc, Stravinsky, Debussy, and prokofiev. First class!! http://open.spotify.com/album/2zgGEs3g7b1f6sArCnMblF

Piano and violin sonatas by Franck, Saint Saens (no 1) , and ravel. Wonderfully played by Sarah Chang on violin, and Lars Vogt on piano. http://open.spotify.com/album/4JqMFvYnp0Cj2SqdP28Sjp

Bruch an brahms violinconcertos. Sarah Chang, violin , Dresdner philharmonie , Kurt Masur. The works by themself, and the recording (I miss words in english...) Fantastic! http://open.spotify.com/album/7eC5PP49rVA8HAQMCjEACP

Bachbusters and Beethoven or Bust by Don Dorsey - best enjoyed at high levels with hifi system