Classical Music

[rach3rd]

Thank you for posting this! Rubinstein is my favorite pianist. I have so many of his recordings, and own his two autobiographies as well. I also love his recordings with the Guarneri Quartet. The Brahms Piano Quintet is my favorite.

 

[Kalinychta]

Thank you for posting this! Rubinstein is my favorite pianist. I have so many of his recordings, and own his two autobiographies as well. I also love his recordings with the Guarneri Quartet. The Brahms Piano Quartet is my favorite.

I’d love to read his autobiography. Which one do you like best?

 

[rach3rd]

Happy Friday everyone! Here is some of the greatest chamber music ever recorded, featuring Arthur Rubinstein with the Guarneri Quartet playing Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor. On hearing this recording the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould told Rubinstein in a joint interview, "this is the greatest chamber music performance with piano that I've heard in my life." ("I'm drunk on it," Gould continued. "My notion of what Brahms represents has been changed by your recording."). Arnold Steinhardt on Guarneri’s first rehearsal with Rubinstein.

 

[rach3rd]

I’d love to read his autobiography. Which one do you like best?

His early one entitled My Young Years. The later one I didn’t like that much.

 

[justin_havu]

Durufle's Requiem comes to mind as one of my favorite pieces.

I do have a ton of other favorites, including:
Beethoven's Sonata #14 in C# Minor (Moonlight)
Mozart's Requiem
Lots of Bach, including 3rd Orchestral Suite in D, Art of Fugue, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV 147, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140, and of course, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Handel's Messiah and Water Music
Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor Op. 16
Saint-Seans' Carnival of the Animals (Aquarium in particular)