classical music for all ages part 2.

there is quite a few pianist in the recording era that has brought out the different composer from the past.

 there also have been violinist, choirs, orchestras, conductors and so on. 

 where do you go to find classical pianist that are or have recorded classical music with so many out there you want to find someone who is good and make the music sound like it should or close to it. 

 you can read reviews check them out on YouTube and the different music streaming apps like Spotify, amazon.com ,Pandora, apple music and others.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_pianists_(recorded) has a list of different pianist where you can start.

 I will give a few names for you to start with. Martha argerich, Zoltan Kocsis, Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy, Lilya Zilberstein, Youri Egorov,  jean-Pierre Armengaud, 

aldo Ciccolini, Michel Beroff, Samson François, Alice ader , Renaud Capucon, Edgar morceau, 

Bertrand Chamayou, Stefan Veselka, Susan tomes, Wilhelm kempff, Van Cliburn, Andrey Gavrilov, 

Mikhail Pletnev, Andras Schiff,  Valentina Lisitsa and so many others. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_principal_conductors_by_orchestra

list of conductors.

don't be discouraged  there is many cds out there for beginners so you can find who you would enjoyed 

listening to and explore.  

classical music for all ages

i want to introduced one pianist Martha Argerich who was born 5 June 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 she is considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the recorded era.

 her debut concert at the age of 8 playing Mozart's piano concerto no.20 in D minor and Beethoven's first piano concerto in C major. 

 Argerich rose to international prominence when she won the seventh international chopin piano competition in Warsaw in 1965,at age 24 and now here in 2020 she is 79 and retired with an great resume.

 she has done works by Chopin, Brahms, ravel , prokofiev and listz and others.

 some of the box sets i own by her is 

 1)Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophone [48 CD Box Set]

 2)The Lugano Recordings (20CD) 

3)The Complete Duo Recordings [13 CD Box Set]

 4)Martha Argerich - The Warner Classics Recordings (20CD)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Argerich 

 another person i want to introduced is Vladimir Ashkenazy born 6 July 1937 Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) 

 he is a recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer and conductor. he has recorded a wide range of piano repertoire, both solo works and concerti.

 Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Bach's French Suites 24 Preludes and Fugues of Shostakovich

complete sonatas by Beethoven 

complete sonatas by Scriabin 

the complete works for piano by Rachmaninoff 

the complete works for solo piano by Chopin

 the (almost) complete works for piano by Schumann to name a few.

 box sets i own by him is

 1)Rachmaninov: Complete Works For Piano [11 CD] 

 2)Chopin: Solo Piano Works

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ashkenazy

 Valentina Lisitsa born 25 march 1973 in Kyiv, Ukrainian ssr. soviet union. 

 she has done works by listz, Chopin, and Rachmaninov.

 cds i own by her is 

 1)Tchaikovsky: The Complete Solo Piano Works [10 CD]

 2)Scriabin - The Complete Works [18 CD] which includes her and others as well.

she is still young and she will still produce more music as she goes and look forward to

what she will put out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Lisitsa

 other box sets i own by others

1)Bach: Concertos (5cds) perform by Trevor pinnock

2)Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Works (8 cds) perform by Zoltan Kocsis

3)Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas(8cds) perform by Maurizio Pollini

4)Johannes Brahms: Complete Symphonies and Concertos(7 cds) perform by Bernard haitink and royal Concertgebouw orchestra

5)Bruckner: Sämtliche Symphonien(12 cds) perform by Stanislaw skrowaczewski  and

rundfunk-sinfonieorchester saarbrucken

6)Sarah Chang: 5 Classic Albums

7)Chopin Complete Edition(17 cds) perform by various people

8)Chopin - Solo Piano Works(13 cds) perform by Vladimir Ashkenazy

17 cds)

9) Debussy-The Complete Works(33 cds)perform by various people

10)Dvorák: Complete Published Orchestral Works(17 cds)perform by various people

11)Dvorak-Complete Solo Piano Music(5 cds)perform by Stefan veselka

12)Dvorak: The 9 Symphonies(6cds)perform by Rafael kubelik and Berliner philharmoniker.

13)ultimate lisz-5 cds)by various people

14)Mahler: The Complete Works - 150th Anniversary Box(16 cds)by various people

15)Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, 7 Overtures(4 cds) perform by Claudio abbado and

the London symphony orchestra.

16)Complete Mozart Symphonies(11 cds)perform by Trevor pinnock

17)Rachmaninov: The Complete Works(32 cds)by various people

18)Royal Philharmonic & London Sym. Orchestra(10cds)

19)Schubert - String Quartets(6cds)perform by Melos quartet

20)Schumann Piano Works(4 cds) perform by Wilhelm kempff

21)Shostakovich The String Quartets(5 cds)perform by Emerson string quartet

22)Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies(12 cds)perform by mstislav Rostropovich 

23)Sibelius: Complete Symphonies & Tone Poems(5 cds) perform by sir Colin Davis 

and the Boston symphony orchestra

24)Ultimate Strauss Family-5 cds)perform by various people

25)R. Strauss: Orchestral Works(9 cds)perform by Rudolf Kempe and skaatskapelle Dresden

26)Pierre Boulez conducts Stravinsky(6cds)perform by Pierre Boulez

basically i like a sample of everything and i will continue to explore classical music.

i do still enjoy other music is that there is a lot of history to classical music when you think of alot of theses composer has been dead 200 years or more and some only been dead less than a hundred. 

i commend alot of orchestras and conductors and pianist and so on for carry on some of theses composer who we would never know. 

Medieval era	(500–1400)
Renaissance era	(1400–1600)
Baroque era	(1600–1760)
Classical era	(1730–1820)
Romantic era	(1815–1910)
Modernist era	(1890–1950)
Postmodernist era	(since 1930)
20th century	(1900–2000)
21st century	(since 2000