What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

Yes, I just noticed it. Great artist indeed.
unfortunately yet another great musician just passed away, the French organist Marie-Claire Alain. So, time for some Bach:

Link to video.
 
Hey Kullervo, isn't that fourth movement in Finlandia the bomb! It's like some old Disney cartoon with a creepy monster lurking in the wings...
 
I still think this thread needs more Mozart. But more about that later.
Here is the original version of Bruckner's 3rd. Neither creepy nor "da bomb" (whatever that means), but I think it might be of some interest anyway.

Link to video.
 
Glassfan, I see what you're trying to do there, and I'm going to rise to the bait anyway, because it's fun to do.

Finlandia doesn't have movements, and even in terms of sections is generally split up into three.

I am not at all objecting to Mozart being included in this thread, but since we generally at least somewhat share our reactions to this or that piece of music posted, I am keeping to that slight tradition.

Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto, as performed by Rostropovich.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23WjKXDe4w
 
Dudamel deviates from the score far too much for my liking. The only Mahler symphony I liked with his performance was the third, which was genuinely very good.

I'll continue posting... Chopin's Ballade no. 4, best performance available.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5uyd4jYEaw
 
Right now, it's Shostakovich's Symphony #7 in C major -- the one he wrote for and during the Siege of Leningrad. Mariss Jansons conducting. Stunning.
 
Janson's performance is nearly the best that I've heard, but Gergiev's by far takes the cake for me. Still, could you link Janson's version?
 
Kullervo said:
Janson's performance is nearly the best that I've heard, but Gergiev's by far takes the cake for me. Still, could you link Janson's version?
Click to expand...

Sorry, having problems with my tablet. I am listening on an MP3 player to a CD rip.

Here is the link to Amazon for samples: http://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Symphony-No-Hybrid-SACD/dp/B000G2Y652

Here is the link to Clip DJ (which has the Gergiev version, too!):
http://clip.dj/dmitri-shostakovich-playing-symphony-7-leningrad-download-mp3-mp4-Ya79lvGgalU
I will try to listen to it if I can.
 
Don't know if that version of Chopin's ballad is the absolute best one, but I can easily agree that it is indeed one of the top performances. It is, after all, Rubinstein...
I would also like to hear Jansons' Shostakovich. Coming from Norway, I much appreciate him as the one who turned the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra into a top orchestra.
In the meantime I offer something different, Felix Weingartner's 2nd symphony.

Link to video.
 
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