Music Chat: The 10 BEST Orchestras--An (Obviously) Personal Selection
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Enjoy more than 5,000 videos featuring critic David Hurwitz, founder and Executive Editor of ClassicsToday.com, covering the best and worst classical music recordings, as well as commentary and discussion of all things classical. This is classical music for pleasure, without the usual snobbery and "high culture" BS. Check out conveniently organized playlists for beginners and aficionados alike, grouping videos by composer, work type, ideal recording lists, historical period--everything you need to enrich your knowledge, satisfy your curiosity and have a great time listening. A music critic for more than three decades, David Hurwitz holds MA degrees from Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities. Hurwitz is the author of more than a dozen books on composers such as Mozart, Mahler, Sibelius, Haydn, Dvorák, Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich, R. Strauss Bernstein, Handel, C.P.E. Bach, and Mendelssohn. His musicological articles have been published in noted scholarly journals as well.
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Some of you have asked me for a list of the world's best orchestras, but this really is an impossible task. Instead, I offer my own selection of the ten orchestras that have given me the most pleasure on disc over the decades, together with a representative recording of each. And I challenge you to give me your own personal list (plus recording). I have a feeling we will all learn something new, and have the opportunity to sample some marvelous, hitherto unfamiliar performances. Let 'er rip, friends!
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