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Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Favorite chamber music
on: August 20, 2012, 05:02:16 AM
Okay so...  I just discovered Rachmaninoff's Cello sonata in G minor!  Well not really, I knew of it a long time ago, but kinda blew it off.

But ANYWAYS, I just came across it again and...  

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OH MY FREAKING GOD!

It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!!!  I can't tell whether or not I like the Rach 3 better than this!  That's how freaking awesome it is!  I was listening to it and I was like, 'Dude what the heck is going on here?!  Is this better than the Rach 3?!  I'm losing my mind here!  I'm going freaking crazy what the heck?!?!?!  This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!!!'

No but seriously though, I never had so much enthusiasm for a piece since I first listened to the Rach 3!


So what's yours?

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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #1 on: August 20, 2012, 05:22:20 AM
I knew of it a long time ago, but kinda blew it off.

Because it was a chamber work?

My favourites are the late quartets by Beethoven.
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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #2 on: August 20, 2012, 05:25:43 AM
Because it was a chamber work?


Not really.  I only listened to the third movement and I was pretty infatuated with it.  So I put it on my iPod.  But I don't like listening to incomplete works so I blew it off.
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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #3 on: August 20, 2012, 05:34:52 AM
Not really.  I only listened to the third movement and I was pretty infatuated with it.  So I put it on my iPod.  But I don't like listening to incomplete works so I blew it off.

Stephen Hough has a recording of it, incidentally.
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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #4 on: August 20, 2012, 05:36:47 AM
Stephen Hough has a recording of it, incidentally.

Well yeah, but there's a YouTube recording of the third movement by...


HOROWITZ and ROSTOPOVICH!!!

And I love Horowitz!!!  

But not in the same way I love Valentina Lisitsa...
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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #5 on: August 20, 2012, 05:50:18 AM
Well yeah, but there's a YouTube recording of the third movement by...

HOROWITZ and ROSTOPOVICH!!!

And I love Horowitz!!!  


That's from the 85th Birthday Concert for Carnegie Hall, and is the only bit of it they did. Only time Horowitz played it too, as far as I can tell. Rostropovich has a full version, but with Alexander Dedyukhin.

If you really want to expand your horizons, the Schubert Dichterliebe Horowitz did at the same concert with Deitrich Fisher-Diskau should be worth a listen.  I'm guessing you don't have many lieder on you iPod.

But not in the same way I love Valentina Lisitsa...

Since he's dead, one would certainly hope not. Ewww!
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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #6 on: August 20, 2012, 05:59:09 AM
Rostropovich has a full version, but with Alexander Dedyukhin.

If you really want to expand your horizons, the Schubert Dichterliebe Horowitz did at the same concert with Deitrich Fisher-Diskau should be worth a listen.  I'm guessing you don't have many lieder on you iPod.




Well I have movements 1, 2, and 4 with that Alexander kid.  

But uuuuh, yeah I'll give those a listen.  

So far I have 364 songs on my iPod.  If that's considered a lot...? 

Not really, because I know people with thousands of songs on their iPods. 

But they don't listen to them all!
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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #7 on: August 21, 2012, 12:02:16 AM
Well I have movements 1, 2, and 4 with that Alexander kid.  

But uuuuh, yeah I'll give those a listen.  

So far I have 364 songs on my iPod.  If that's considered a lot...? 

Not really, because I know people with thousands of songs on their iPods. 

But they don't listen to them all!

I hope by "songs" you haven't committed the cardinal sin around here.  :P

I have about three weeks worth on my iPod, but since I just cycle through it, I do listen to the lot.

Lieder, incidentally, are generally a specific form of "classical" song. Schubert's are the one's that have survived best, but lots of composers wrote them, even Chopin.
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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #8 on: August 21, 2012, 02:01:25 AM
mozart quartet k 465 also known as the 'dissonance' quartet is pretty freakin sweet.

brahm piano quintet is amazing

Kapustin: Burlesque, op 97 dear sweet mercy, it's freakin awesome.

there's more i love i'm sure but i ve got a huge headache (been traveling all weekend after my performace) so i'm pretty beat and not thinking super straight. prolly can post more later

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Re: Favorite chamber music
Reply #9 on: August 26, 2012, 02:46:47 AM
Brahms Piano Quartet Op.60. 3rd movement is TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful.
Bach Prelude and Fugue BWV848
Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.13
Chopin Etude Op.10 No.4
Chopin Scherzo Op.31
Mussorgsky "The Great Gate of Kiev" from Pictures at an Exhibition
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