Classical music on Spotify

Today I selected Bruckners 7th Symphony in a recording from Günter Wand with the Berliner Philharmoniker from Oktober 2000.

This is now followed by Alicia de Larrocha with Albeniz piano music.


The links directly start the album on Spotify if you have the program or app installed on your computer.

I really like Michelangelis Debussy interpretations

Debussy: Préludes Livre I - Michelangeli

1978, Hamburg, Germany

Debussy: Préludes Livre I
Deutsche Grammophon 413 450-2, Deutsche Grammophon 449 438-2, Deutsche Grammophon 469 130-2, Deutsche Grammophon (Japan) POCG 1122

Debussy: Préludes Livre II - Michelangeli

August 1988, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, Kleiner Saal, Bielefeld, Germany

Debussy: Préludes Livre II
Deutsche Grammophon 427 391-2, Deutsche Grammophon 449 438-2

I am now experimenting with creating virtual concert programs as playlists with 90 to 120 minutes of music.

(Kuijken) Haydn Sinfonie Nr. 94, (Rattle) Nielson Symphony No. 4, (Maria Joao Pires) Bach Suite BWV 813 Sarabande, (Fröst) Nielson Klarinettenkonzert op 37, (Güttler) Haydn Trompetenkonzert

Some of the best Debussy piano music available today.

From the RCA living stereo series.

A composition of various Bach music.

Berlioz La Damnation de Faust with Münch and the Boston SO from 1954 is the first commercial Stereo Recording ever made. It still sounds good today thanks to the competence of RCAs sound engineers.

The same Schumann Quintet in a more modern recording.

A playlist on Spotify is a good way to compare several interpretations.

A very good performance and recording of this opera.

My first links again this time with a cover image.

From http://eClassical.co...rio/la-spagna-1.html : On its first release as a double LP, this legendary 1980 recording was described as ‘a rousing sonic spectacular’ in the US audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound (TAS). Setting off on a sonic journey through Europe, Gregorio Paniagua and his legendary ensemble Atrium Musicæ de Madrid took the famous theme known as La Spagna, used widely by composers across Europe for several centuries, as their point of departure. In their quest to bring to life these old scores, they used a huge range of instruments, from clavicytherium (a ‘vertical harpsichord’) to a simple plastic cup, and the vivid performances and no less vivid recording enchanted both early music fans and audiophiles.

Recorded 1966

I particularly like Bachs concerts for 2 or 3 harpsichords.

I really like this particular recording.