Kindly asking for Help,
I have sort of classical, but it is not until lately, that I really dig in it.
so I am kindly asking for help, to discover Beethoven Symphony
any recommandation for stand alone version of the Beethoven Symphony from 1 to 9?
Were they composed from 1 to 9, and is there any particular order you should listen to them?
thanks
ps Brendel and Rattle for the five concerto, is it the best version?
Some thoughtsâŠ
No need to listen in a particular order, but you might consider starting your exploration with two of the more accessible: Symphonies No. 3 (Eroica) and No. 5. As to performances, do you prefer historically informed practice (HIP) performances or mainstream modern performances? That preference will lead to different choices. For mainstream performance style, you might consider:
Sym 3 - Bernstein/NYP, Honeck/Pittsburgh, Steinberg/Pittsburgh, Szell/Cleveland
Sym 5 - Bernstein/NYP, Honeck/Pittsburgh, Solti/CSO,
Sym 6 - Bruno Walter/ColumbiaSymO, Honeck/Pittsburgh
Sym 9 - Bernstein/NYP (1963), Karajan/BerlinPhil (1963), Solti/CSO (1972)
Keep in mind, all conductorsâ performances have particular strengths and interpretive styles. Depending on your tastes, you may prefer one and not another. Sometimes the difference in interpretation/style can make the music sound almost like different compositions. So, sample and consider listening to more than one.
Good Day,
Thanks, for helping, I like when music has a soul, some are to clerical, I prefer when feeling of the interpreter filter to the pieces!
regards
The last of my Perlman âsoloâ albums: two âItzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreislerâ LPs - the first by that title from 1976, and a second, subtitled âAlbum 2,â from 1977. In both cases, accompanied by pianist Samuel Sanders. Both from EMI, the first an actual English import with a paste-on label on the cover indicating âEMI/Angel,â the second a US-issued Angel-labeled release. As enjoyable as they both are, I find I much prefer the program on the second, with Tartiniâs âThe Devilâs Trill,â the Wieniawski âCaprice in A Minor,â âLondonderry Air,â Brahmsâ âHungarian Dance in F Minor,â and Mendelssohnâs âSong without Words, Op. 62, No. 1,â among others. Decent recordings, though my copy of the first suffers from bad surfaces.
Personally, I donât think any of Beethovenâs symphonies are any more or less accessible than the others. I actually enjoy listening to them in order, to witness his growth as a composer. His first, as groundbreaking as it was in its time, still clearly has one foot remaining in the classical period - almost like a âBeethovenizedâ Mozart piece. From there he starts branching out into previously unexplored musical territories. That said, nothing in them is particularly jarring to todayâs listeners, and you can listen in any order you choose.
I have more versions of the symphonies than is probably wise - from standards of the '50s, '60s and '70s (Toscanini, Reiner, MĂŒnch, Karajan, Solti, Bernstein), to the period-instrument craze of the '70s and â80s (Hogwood), to more recent renditions. Not sure you can go wrong with any. My favorite recent versions are by Jordi Savall and Le Concert Des Nations, but my all-time favorite 9th is the one recorded at the University of Illinoisâ Krannert Center Great Hall by Solti and the Chicago. If you stream, just dive in and compare them for yourself and have a great time discovering all there is to hear.
I have this CD, is it good version?
There is no âgoodâ or âbadâ in any of these. They are different. And with the Bernstein, he recording this work several times to very different effect. I prefer his 1963 performance with the NYP to his later performance with the Vienna Philharmonic, but others have different preferences. The Solti has perhaps the best audio sound quality and I like it very much, but others may find it too hard driving.
Agree - great performances of both, particularly the 7th.
Erich Kleiber (Carlosâ father) would probably get my vote for his marvelous Eroica.
No, this is the one I was referring to: Open Qobuz
Found it, in apple music, it is recorded in 1972, but they remaster, but if you sroll down, it is there in others version!
thanks will give a ear to it tonight!
Iâve try to immerse myself in one masterpiece per night!
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Arguably the USâs first genuinely world-class classical guitarist, Christopher Parkening has a good-sized catalog, though heâs represented in my library by only these two albums: Romanza (1970) and Parkening and the Guitar (1976). Segovia described him as âone of the most brilliant guitarists in the world.â So why are so many music lovers, including guitarists, unaware of him today? Perhaps because heâs been absent from the classical music worldâs limelight for many years.
Born in 1947, Parkening was only 19 when he embarked on a career of recording and public performance, and was 22 when he created the guitar department at the University of Southern California, which he chaired at the time of his first retirement at age 30. Tired of the pressures of recording and international performance, he left for his ranch in Montana and spent his time fly fishing (with some limited teaching at Montana State), only returning to âthe worldâ several years later with a focus on âglorifying Godâ with his music. In 2013 he retired again. His career in total included many albums (over 20 for EMI/Angel alone), two Grammy nominations, and countless performances around the world. His focus is now on his family and teaching.
These two albums are typical of his output on Angel. The performances are technically impeccable and masterfully heartfelt, but the sound is muffled, leaving at least this listener feeling as though Iâm hearing the music in a fever dream. The sound is in stark contrast to the recordings of his English contemporary John Williams, on Columbia, which ring with clarity in comparison. It turns out, Iâm told, that Parkening abhorred the sound of the fingers of his fretting hand sliding on the wound strings, something endemic to guitar playing, and had that frequency range EQâd out of the recordings by his engineers. I donât know if he continued the practice in the second phase of his career, as I havenât heard many of those recordings.
Regardless of the EQ issue, heâs an incredible musician and deserves to be heard more today than he is.
I am starting to enjoy classical, a bit more on the live side, I like Rubenstein! but the Vinyl album I had somewhere is not available for streaming, It was one of his famous live? any recommandation for Rubenstein?
now this one:
Sorry, but I am still in the mashmallow side! 
more wife acceptance
and now this one:
oups When listening this one, when I have try to finish my journal, I clic on this one, definitively a keeper!
it seems part of a collection âVerdierâ
So many soul, I could not return to my listening of Argerich
