(Part 2) Best classical music according to redditors

As it happens, right this minute I am listening to the Brazilian Landscapes CD by recorder master Michala Petri and friends. Fantastic. I often go to her Youtube channel, OUR Recordings, which always has great stuff, often Baroque, often contemporary, all kinds of great music made with recorder.

So I certainly don't think the instrument is irrelevant!

I have listened to Vladamir Askenazy's and Georg Solti's Beethoven: The Piano Concertos a lot. I mean like 200 times or more. I love the whole thing.

I also really enjoy Nelson Freire & Riccardo Chailly with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig playing Brahms Piano Concertos. I realize the hallmark for Brahms 1st Piano Concerto is the Clifford Curzon and George Szell recording but for some reason this recording is the one I go back to. Again I have listened to this Nelson Freire & Riccardo Chailly recording a ton of times.

Another album I have been listening to recently and obsessively is Paul Badura-Skoda's Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas Played on Period Instruments. I really love how Schubert's Sonatas sound on period fortepianos making it so that you have to play it faster since the strings cannot sustain the notes as long as modern pianos. Badura-Skoda also tried to tie fragment pieces into sonatas and extended some of the unfinished fragments like combining the F-sharp Minor D.571 fragment with D. 604 and two movements from D.570 to make "Sonata no. 8" as well as tacking on the C Major Allegretto D.346 onto the end of the C Major D.279 Sonata. While controversial to purists, I have quite enjoyed these additions especially C Major Allegretto D.346 which makes a unique use of the fagotto lever that gives a shocking power to the piece that I have never heard before. I will admit there are times where the playing is muddled which I think is attributed to both the artist and the instrument but for some reason I really like the sonatas like this plus I really love Schubert's piano music. This doesn't mean I love Kempff, Brendel or Richter's playing less but I really appreciate what this album does.

Yes. For example this. I hope it is available in the UK.

Very nice. I found it on Amazon as well: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B07QFSMY66

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Definitely digging this!

Two Hearts.

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Sounds identical (to my ears) to this upload, which lists it as being performed by 'Orquesta Lírica Bellaterra' - which it's sold under. The description/video also lists José Antonio López de Arjona, but there's not much to find for that.

Appreciate the comments! Thanks for listening through - glad it fits the mood in Minnesota. I'm the composer, but all performers are in Sound Icon. Never had someone ask for a purchase link before.

It's available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Waters-Trevor-Kowalski/dp/B073C8CJ38/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1500656866&sr=1-1-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=trevor+kowalski+the+waters

Google Play Store here: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bmkeiz37b26e26qhiyfqeiiu2qu&tid=song-Tu7xqkhaboksstnpi5hfwhrrjrq

Thanks again!

You can either download it from itunes or stream it in addition it is also available on Amazon MP3 - https://www.amazon.com/Lullaby-Woe-Nir-Shor/dp/B07QRH9NNJ/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Nir+Shor&qid=1556331328&s=dmusic&search-type=ss&sr=1-3


Any MP3 downloaded from both of these sites should work on a standard MP3 Player.

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I love the ring cycle, I think that i prefer the Leinsdorf version of Walkure though. Fortunately for you, it has similar singers in the main roles as in solti. However, in supporting roles I was very impressed such as Jon Vickers as an excellent siegmund. https://www.amazon.com/Nilsson-Vickers-Symphony-Orchestra-Leinsdorf/dp/B073JLS1JC/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=walk%C3%BCre+wagner+london&qid=1558730764&s=gateway&sr=8-5

Wintersturme is excellent on this record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVgPxTQ5Zio

A few of his recordings are on YouTube:
Étude no 9: Pour les notes répétées
Étude no 11: Pour les arpèges composés

I also find these two tracks on Amazon:
Étude no 9: Pour les notes répétées
Étude no 10: Pour les sonorités opposées

It's not much, but I do think these are some of Debussy's most brilliant pieces and I really like the performances.

This is about as close to actual Viking music you will find:

https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Longboats-Ensemble-Mare-Balticum/dp/B01GP741OW

> Lol sorry but you cannot tell the difference between 320 kbps mp3s (spotify) and a cd. You cant. Dont kid yourself.

yes, i can. and when you account for other factors, like hardware, yes you can. there's no way for me to actually prove to you whether i can or can't, so i'm not even going to worry about that.

>and its blatantly obvious lossless streaming is coming to all platforms in the near future, anyway

i bit and went and looked around for some evidence of this, and i can't find anything, so i have no idea what you're basing that off, especially as a "blatantly obvious" thing. show me something. i'd be happy to know that this is actually happening. but again:

>Bye bye data and battery. Unless cell phone companies start bringing back unlimited data commonly, your suggestion here is moot in the context of the market share for wireless services.

not every company has unlimited data, but if you're going to use your streaming service to its fullest, you would probably want to have an unlimited data plan because if you're streaming lossless, it's going to eat up data like mad, not to mention your battery.

>I much prefer to click two buttons and listen to any recording ever made

good lord, i can't count the number of times i've spent five minutes looking for a decent recording i know exists, only to find that it's not on any streaming service, much less the ones i subscribe to. not every service has an identical catalog, so you're stuck with what you subscribe to. that aside from the fact that not every recording that's been made has been transferred from analog formats. you want to talk about not kidding yourself? it's with this. that's not even to get started on metadata, which is horrendous for streaming services, generally.

>then continue to have to spend 20 dollars for each recording

not sure i see that many brand new recordings that are $20. here's one that you can get brand new for well under $20. here's another. oh, hey, and that one isn't even on spotify because streaming comes with a boatload of issues you aren't even bringing up. plenty of used record stores out there, too. and the heck with collectors.

look, i'm not saying streaming is valueless. far from it! there's a lot of convenience with it, and a crazy amount available to us as long as we have access to the service (which, that's not guaranteed). but this:

>There is virtually no benefit now to physical media over streaming, and definitely no benefit to buying digital media.

is ignoring the reality we live in, which is that (contrary to what you seem to think) not everything is in a streamable catalog, and not everything will be. and if you look at something like netflix, the catalog of which fluctuates, you realize that licensing doesn't guarantee that everything will be on there forever. that you think "any recording ever made" will be on streaming services shows a limitation to your experience or knowledge or something, which is sort of ironic given the subreddit we're in here. there is a huge amount of historical recordings that are still stuck on vinyl and CD. does that mean that those formats are inherently better? obviously not. my point is that streaming is not the only format we will (or should) use in the future, and there are so many reasons why. if you've ever been to club, that's a prime example scenario against a streaming-only future. or a presentation where you need a clip of something. or a scenario where internet is not readily available. i could go on...

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