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Your top five classical composers

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Impossible to choose, I know, but I'd like to know who you really like.

1. Mozart
2. Beethoven
3. Brahms
4. Bruckner
5. Debussy

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In no particular order 'cause that's impossible.

1. Mozart
2. Scarlatti
3. Chopin
4. Strauss
5. Beethoven
 

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Rachmaninov
Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Brahms
Bach
 

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Originally Posted by Connemara
In no particular order 'cause that's impossible.

1. Mozart
2. Scarlatti
3. Chopin
4. Strauss
5. Beethoven


What Scarlatti and Strauss pieces are favourites?
 

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Pachelbel
Mozart
Agazzari
Beethoven
Bach
 

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Bach (do I really need to say this?), Schubert, Wagner, Brahms, Mahler

Runner up: Dvorak
 

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Originally Posted by audiophilia
What Scarlatti and Strauss pieces are favourites?
For Strauss, nothing exceeds "Vier letzte lieder" IMO. "Morgen!" is another great Strauss lieder. By Scarlatti I mean Domenico. His Sonata in C Major K. 159 is a particular favorite, on both harpsichord and piano.
 

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Originally Posted by Connemara
For Strauss, nothing exceeds "Vier letzte lieder" IMO. "Morgen!" is another great Strauss lieder.

By Scarlatti I mean Domenico. His Sonata in C Major K. 159 is a particular favorite, on both harpsichord and piano.


The Four Last Songs is his masterpiece, I think. Followed by Till. What's your favourite recording?

I love that Scarlatti sonata. The way the line rises in the opening movement.
 

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Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Chopin
 

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Originally Posted by audiophilia
The Four Last Songs is his masterpiece, I think. Followed by Till. What's your favourite recording? I love that Scarlatti sonata. The way the line rises in the opening movement.
Karajan/Janowitz, without question. It leaves everything else in the dust. It is easily the best late Karajan recording...he is restrained, uncharacteristically so. And then Janowitz...that voice, my god. Lyric soprano with a LOUD voice that just soars over the music. "Biem Schlafengehen" on this recording is Gundula Janowitz's magnum opus IMO. The emotion is staggering. Schwarzkopf and Flagstad didn't even come close!
 

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Originally Posted by Connemara
Karajan/Janowitz, without question. It leaves everything else in the dust. It is easily the best late Karajan recording...he is restrained, uncharacteristically so. And then Janowitz...that voice, my god. Lyric soprano with a LOUD voice that just soars over the music.

"Biem Schlafengehen" on this recording is Gundula Janowitz's magnum opus IMO. The emotion is staggering. Schwarzkopf and Flagstad didn't even come close!


It is wonderful. Love Fleming and Norman (especially the Leipzig playing, here). Check out Flagstad on YouTube from the Proms world premiere (with Dennis Brain on horn). Stunning!
 

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Originally Posted by audiophilia
It is wonderful. Love Fleming and Norman (especially the Leipzig playing, here). Check out Flagstad on YouTube from the Proms world premiere (with Dennis Brain on horn). Stunning!
Oh yes, I've heard it. Amazing stuff.
 

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