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Cd 3 Die Gluckliche Hand * Variations for Orchestra * Verklarte Nacht (string orchestra)

Mp 3 Darius Milhaud's 'Protee' * The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra * William Steinberg

Cd 3 Plein Jeux / Kyldex

Still think this is a gem of some sort of kind.

Cd 4 Liszt's pianoconcerto's 1 & 2 * Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra * Kiril Kondrashin / Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an exhibition' enjoying this also !!!

Cd 2 Études Transcendantes Pour Un Piano Imaginaire / Grande Toccata / Gymkhana

Cd 2 Serenade for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Mandolin, Guitar, Violin, Viola, Cello and a deep male voice * Ensemble Intercontemporain / 5 Pieces for Orchestra * BBC Orchestra / Ode to Napoleon Buonoparte * Ensemble Intercontemporain

From 12 cd-box cd 1 Chroniques Terriennes

cd 3 Robert Schumann's pianoconcerto in A minor * Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra * Stanislav Skrowaczewski & arabesque Pyotr Ilyinch Tchaikovsky's Paino Concerto No. 1 * London Symphony Orchestra * Herbert Menges

Need relaxing time . . .

Another brilliant Brilliant budget box. cd 2, Rachmaninov pianoconcert No. 1, Kondrashin & Moscow Philharmonic orchestra / Prokofiev pianoconcerto No. 3, Kondrashin & The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Nice one !

cd 2, Schumann's 'Novelettes'

Love Ciani - what a brilliant, brilliant pianist! (And also my introduction to these Weber sonatas).

Thank you for the link. Will have a listen for sure. My introduction to this composer.

cd 1, Claude Debussy's Preludes Book 1 & 2 beginning. 'Dino Ciani'. Alfred Cortot called him miraculously gifted. 'Brilliant Classics', budget label that keeps improving. Little booklet included, nice cover also, cd's in seperate covers with information all conceiled in a nice clamshell-box. Found this in thriftshop for only 1.50 euro and i am very happy with it. Did forget to mention that the sound on these Brilliant boxes is really good !

Can you recommend any essential recordings ?

cd 1, Suite op.29, Verklarte Nacht & 3 pieces for Chambre Orchestra

it is...

Phaedra !

long time, long time ....

A classical version is assessted by me by criteria as: technique (dynamique), are the intentions of the composer transferred as accurate and natural as possible ? I am pretty much a purist but . . . sometimes i hear such a natural fluidity in the playing of an artist/artists without changing the intentions of the composer to much that it is forgivable for me. 'Gould' seems to be a hit or a miss for me. P.S. still learning. Listening to classical music grows, needs training. Right about that.