[Quinto]

 

Schnittkne..

 
and god knows I tried.

 

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[CanadianMaestro]

 
Schnittkne..

 
and god knows I tried.

never heard his music.
Grotesque? Atonal?

 

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never heard his music.
Grotesque? Atonal?

For some/many people, yes. Try him for yourself: there is a lot of his music online. I suggest his Cello Concerto No.1 as a place to start. It's quite harrowing at times but also very powerful and melodic (for him) at others. My favorite is a live recording with Natalia Gutman.

 

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[icebear]

 
never heard his music.
Grotesque? Atonal?

I have heard Gidon Kremer live playing Schnittke's "A Pagannini" from this disc:

 
Live it was absolutely mesmerizing, solo violin, highly virtuosic, the audience holding their breath for like 10 minutes in awe. You could have heard a needle drop.
I think I have only listened once to the recording because after that live performance, nothing could hold a candle to the experience.

 

[jegnyc]

 
I have heard Gidon Kremer live playing Schnittke's "A Pagannini" from this disc:

 
Live it was absolutely mesmerizing, solo violin, highly virtuosic, the audience holding their breath for like 10 minutes in awe. You could have heard a needle drop.
I think I have only listened once to the recording because after that live performance, nothing could hold a candle to the experience.

After hearing Christian Tetzlaff play the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas in a single afternoon recital, I refuse to buy his recordings for the same reason.

 

[VocaloidDude]

Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps (Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F, Pierre Boulez, 1963)
Ravel/Prokofiev - Klavierkonzert Nr. 3, Klavierkonzert G-Dur, Gaspard De La Nuit (Martha Argerich)
Frederic Chopin - Nocturnes (Rubinstein) 
Gustav Mahler - Das Lied Von Der Erde (Otto Klemperer)
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4 (Karlos Kleiber)
Sir Edward Elgar - Cello Concertos/ Sea pictures (Jacueline Du Pre, Sir Barbirolli)
Bela Bartok - Complete String Quartets (takacs quartet)
Erik Satie - Gymnopedies & other piano works (pascal roge)
Johan Sebastian Bach - 6 Cello Suites (Pierre Fournier)
Schumann, Piano Quartet Op.47/ Brahms, Piano Quartet Op.60 III Andante - Verbier Festival 2008 (Menahem Pressler, Salvatore Accardo, Antoine Tamestit and Gautier Capuçon)
Debussy/Ravel - String Quartets (Alban Berg Quartett)
Ludwig Von Beethoven - Beethoven The Late Quartets (Quartetto Italiano)
Claude Debussy - La Mer; 3 Nocturnes; Jeux; Rhapsodie pour clarinette (The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Art of Fugue (Emerson String Quartet)
Bryn Terfel - The Vagabond 
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein)
Maurice Ravel - Complete Piano Works (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Chorus / Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Pierre Boulez, Wiener Philharmoniker)
 
I like way more than just this. I listen to a lot of classical music, but a lot of the stuff isn't necessarily stuff which I would consider my "go to". The works above are just my tried and true favorites.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps (Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F, Pierre Boulez, 1963)
Ravel/Prokofiev - Klavierkonzert Nr. 3, Klavierkonzert G-Dur, Gaspard De La Nuit (Martha Argerich)
Frederic Chopin - Nocturnes (Rubinstein) 
Gustav Mahler - Das Lied Von Der Erde (Otto Klemperer)
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4 (Karlos Kleiber)
Sir Edward Elgar - Cello Concertos/ Sea pictures (Jacueline Du Pre, Sir Barbirolli)
Bela Bartok - Complete String Quartets (takacs quartet)
Erik Satie - Gymnopedies & other piano works (pascal roge)
Johan Sebastian Bach - 6 Cello Suites (Pierre Fournier)
Schumann, Piano Quartet Op.47/ Brahms, Piano Quartet Op.60 III Andante - Verbier Festival 2008 (Menahem Pressler, Salvatore Accardo, Antoine Tamestit and Gautier Capuçon)
Debussy/Ravel - String Quartets (Alban Berg Quartett)
Ludwig Von Beethoven - Beethoven The Late Quartets (Quartetto Italiano)
Claude Debussy - La Mer; 3 Nocturnes; Jeux; Rhapsodie pour clarinette (The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Art of Fugue (Emerson String Quartet)
Bryn Terfel - The Vagabond 
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein)
Maurice Ravel - Complete Piano Works (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
 
I like way more than just this. I listen to a lot of classical music, but a lot of the stuff isn't necessarily stuff which I would consider my "go to". The works above are just my tried and true favorites.

Actually, pretty good selections of artists/performers.
 
Need to add some Mahler/Beethoven Symphonies!

 

[VocaloidDude]

 
Actually, pretty good selections of artists/performers.
 
Need to add some Mahler/Beethoven Symphonies!

Mahler Symphony No 2 by Otto Klemperer or Zubin Mehta come to think of it. Also Mahler Symphony No. 6 by Pierre Boulez. I like Beethoven but I'm never in the mood for it, Mahler I am always in the mood. Actually I'm sort of stunned I didn't add symphony no. 2 to that list, because it's one that I listen to more than most other recordings. 
 
If I were to choose a Beethoven recording I would probably look to Fricsay, Kleiber, or Karajan. 

 

[CanadianMaestro]

   
 
If I were to choose a Beethoven recording I would probably look to Fricsay, Kleiber, or Karajan. 

Which Karajan Beethoven cycle?
 
I like his 1962 and 1977 (esp. #9) cycles.

 

[VocaloidDude]

 
Which Karajan Beethoven cycle?
 
I like his 1962 and 1977 (esp. #9) cycles.

Dunno. I have his complete beethoven symphonies collection (it says 1963 now that I look at it). Karajan recordings are just consistently good, he's recorded a lot of classic albums and he's a highly reputable (if not legendary) conductor. I know that Beethoven's 9th by Fricksay was used by Stanley Kubrick (I think in the shining?). And Karlos Kleiber, I actually hold his recordings in extremely high regard, especially considering his Brahm's 4th (one of my absolute favorites of all time). If Karlos Kleiber recorded Beethoven's 9th I guarantee you I would have listened to it at least a dozen times by now.

 

[WoodyLuvr]

  Mahler Symphony No 2 by Otto Klemperer or Zubin Mehta come to think of it. Also Mahler Symphony No. 6 by Pierre Boulez. I like Beethoven but I'm never in the mood for it, Mahler I am always in the mood. Actually I'm sort of stunned I didn't add symphony no. 2 to that list, because it's one that I listen to more than most other recordings. 
 
If I were to choose a Beethoven recording I would probably look to Fricsay, Kleiber, or Karajan. 

 
One of the finest live recordings and performances of Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony No. 2 would be Sir Simon Rattle's 2010 performance with the BPO on Warner or EMI Classics.  Amazing... listening to it right now in fact!  Possibly one of the finest recordings/performances of all classical music IMHO.
 
Resurrection: V. Mit Aufschwung aber nicht eilen will blow your socks off when the entire chorus and symphony thunder together during this movement.
 

 

 

[VocaloidDude]

   
One of the finest live recordings and performances of Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony No. 2 would be Sir Simon Rattle's 2010 performance with the BPO on Warner Classics.  Amazing... listening to it right now in fact!  Possibly one of the finest recordings/performances of all classical music IMHO.
 
Resurrection: V. Mit Aufschwung aber nicht eilen will blow your socks off when the entire chorus and symphony thunder together during this movement.

Sounds awesome, I'll be sure to check it out.

 

[WoodyLuvr]

  If I were to choose a Beethoven recording I would probably look to Fricsay, Kleiber, or Karajan. 

Leonard Bernstein has some nice Beethoven performances as well...